How Preschool Teachers Do It

During hard times, we can learn the most. Cindy and Alison talk about what they will always do as early childhood professionals. What will you pledge to always do?

Cindy and Alison have questions. The first question from the vault: How will additional needs for school staff sick days be handled?

Worried about "catching them up?"Memorization is the lowest rung on the ladder of learning. Cindy and Alison talk about how to teach your children in more meaningful ways so they can reach higher.

Some children are learning and thriving at home. Should we ignore that and just make them go back to our educational systems? Should we consider a different partnership with their families? Cindy and Alison discuss the possibilities.

What do children see when they look at others? Cindy and Alison share the facts and what we need to do to raise children to build a better world. Thanks to The Children's Community School of Philadelphia for permission to share their work. Find it here: http://www.childrenscommunityschool.org/justice/

Put aside the social distancing, masks and other new requirements - how will they make education budgets work in a COVID and post-COVID world? Money is tight and expenses will be high. Cindy and Alison ponder the budget with some real talk.

Once upon a time, we outgrew one-room schoolhouses. Have we outgrown the current system, too? Cindy and Alison talk about an entirely new approach to education from early childhood through school-age programs.

Is there an expectation that 6 months of school closures will be erased like they never happened? Will the kids actually catch up? Cindy and Alison discuss their take on what to expect and what educational systems need to do.

Is this time an opportunity to teach children about accepting what they cannot control and making good decisions? Alison and Cindy discuss the important lessons that can be learned if we are aware and model them.

Do you see anyone discussing safety for teachers, admins, or support staff in all the social media posts? Cindy and Alison discuss the questions that seem to be missing.

Will COVID-19 teach us a lesson about listening to our inner voice and not the opinions of others? Alison and Cindy talk about some of the tough decisions we will need to make as individuals.

There are many decisions about education looming and who makes those decisions will impact children for years. Cindy and Alison discuss who should be involved. Listen and submit ideas for the challenge they put out to their Preschool Peeps!

Cindy and Alison talk about the illness in children, its connection to COVID-19, and how decisions about schools might be impacted.

Having preschoolers adhere to social distancing, making class sizes smaller and other directives seem so impossible to achieve. Perhaps, we need to restart differently while Covid-19 is still among us. Check out the discussion on this episode of the podcast.

Should we provide closure to the school year and what does that even mean? How do we conclude the school year in a time of distance learning? Cindy and Alison have some ideas for you to think about in this episode.