2025-02-21 Meeting notes

5 mins

Visitors Next Week

Amy

• YMCA educators will be visiting next week to observe early childhood best practices

  • They will be hands on like Thinkery educators were

• Texas teach up on Wednesday - Small tour

10 mins

Self Care

Everyone

• Take care of yourself during these wacky times

  • Find things that are good for you

  • What have you been doing for self care?

10 mins

Classroom Adults

Amy

• Give adults leadership opportunities so that they have the tools to lead your class when necessary

• No undergrads alone with kids

• Must have written permission from parents to send kids home with an adult

  • Check emergency contact sheet. If you still aren’t sure check Jovial. Otherwise, send them to the front office so we can check that they are authorized and check their ID.

5 mins

Bevo Bravo

Amy

• Congratulations to Zexi for getting this week’s Bevo Bravo! She has stepped up in Sarah’s absence and has made tremendous strides in her teaching and leadership.

1 hr

Positive Discipline

Kelli Kirk, LMSW

Positive Discipline

• Roleplaying adult-child expectations (The Competent Giant). One person stands up or gets on a chair and scolds another person kneeling on the ground

  • Reflection on how that made us feel as the “child”

• Activity: Now challenges, what do they need from us, and future characteristics and life skills

  • Reflection on the challenges we are seeing day to day and how we can meet them with a goal in mind

• Curiosity questions

  • Asking instead of telling allows children to think and choose - solution focused

    • What were you trying to accomplish?

    • How do you feel about what happened?


    • What did you learn from this?

    • How can you use what you learned in the future?

    • What ideas do you have for solutions now?