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Teacher Tip of the Week: Getting all your parents registered before the holidays

Now is a great time to go back to the classrooms you have created and make sure all of your families are registered for ReadyRosie. This week’s tip shows you how you can edit their contact information and resend invitations in order to get and keep your families engaged.

Self-Management—So Important for School Success!

Do any of these instructions sound familiar? "Finish your work before you choose a center." "Stop talking." "Walk on the blue line." "Wait, it’s not your turn." "Keep your hands to yourself." Many of our instructions are about self-control.

No smartphone? No problem!

According to the Pew Research Center, 90% of Americans between the ages of 18 and 49 own a smartphone. An article on LinkedIn recently backed up the claim that there are more smartphones than toothbrushes worldwide. Though this may be the case, ReadyRosie users have posed the question of what to do when the opposite is true – when families have toothbrushes, but not a device....

Teacher Tip of the Week: Connecting Multiple Teachers to Classrooms

We've made it easy to connect multiple teachers and other educational professionals to a single classroom. This helps you collaborate as a team and get creative with your ReadyRosie strategy for the students and families you serve.

The Importance of Teachers in Family Engagement

Think YOU aren't important when it comes to family engagement? Think again! Listen to Emily Roden explain why YOU are important! You make the difference.

Family Recipes Build Social Awareness

What better way to appreciate family and increase social awareness at the same time than learning about family traditions? Social awareness is the ability to take the perspective of and empathize with others, including those from diverse backgrounds and cultures. The ability to understand social and ethical norms for behavior and to recognize family, school, and community resources and supports....

Teachers & Parents Working Together

Schools and families work better together when families understand exactly how they can support their child. We designed the ReadyRosie to demonstrate how to find learning moments in everyday activities.

Ideas for Getting All Your Families Using ReadyRosie

Kilgore Primary School Head Start and Pre-K in Kilgore, Texas, included the ReadyRosie letter, under Resources, in their report card sleeve to get the last few parents to accept the ReadyRosie invitation.

Teacher Tip of the Week: Explore our Research and Answer Videos

In addition to the hundreds of modeled moment videos in our video library, we recently added a large series of Research and Answer videos featuring early childhood experts from around the country. Check out this video to learn more about what this is about and where to find them.

Feelings Charades and Self-Awareness

Identifying emotions is a characteristic of someone who is self-aware. Self- awareness is one of the 5 competencies of social and emotional learning. It is the ability to recognize one's own emotions, thoughts, and values and how they influence behavior (CASEL). ReadyRosie's Feelings Charades is a great game to play to help children, young and older, learn to recognize and name emotions....