Coach's
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Welcome back to another incredible beginning to the school year. To help you ease back to school, join us for our upcoming Conscious Discipline workshop on Saturday August 24th. We will be discussing tools such as visual schedule and routines and what the structure looks like in a classroom. With these take home tools and strategies, you will be able to implement them immediately with your students.

These routines are essential as they provide us with a felt sense of safety and the opportunity to access the higher centers of our brain. Routines are the skeleton that supports the School Family and provides the structure for its success. Our job as early educators is to understand the complexity of our classrooms, break that down into regular routines and teach these routines to our students. Visuals never get tired of telling us what to do.

Routines are the foundation for creating safe, organized classrooms where optimal learning can occur. The more children use visuals and visual cues, the more they become internalized images for the brain to govern future behaviors.

Wishing you all the best,

Amanda & Todd