Lunch & Learn Resources from the May 11 Session

Supporting Social Emotional Development Throughout the School Year

A focus on social emotional development is especially vital during these changing times. During our May 11 event we discussed specific ways for integrating social and emotional learning in early childhood classrooms and where to access free, research-based lessons.

Presentation Resources

If you joined us, thank you for being a part of our first in-person event. If you couldn't be there, we have a lot of information to share with you. We did not end up recording this session as we had originally planned. However, we have attached the presentation slides for your review as well as the event handout and helpful buttons to link to resources.

Presentation PDF Slides

Interactive Notes Handout

To access the below sample lessons, featured during the presentation, you will need to login to your CLI Engage account.

Hand-Off: Hot Potato Activity

Use the Clues Activity

Curriculum Resources

The CIRCLE Pre-K Curriculum supports comprehensive skill development across all prekindergarten learning domains, while uniquely providing essential instruction in the critical area of children’s social and emotional growth. When children learn in an environment of high stress or unpredictability, they can struggle to develop a strong foundation of social and emotional skills. To address this issue, CLI offers a collection of sequenced social emotional lessons that can be used throughout the year, as a supplement to your school’s programming, and to engage your families.

Digital access to the CIRCLE Pre-K Curriculum is available on CLI Engage at no cost to all pre-K programs.

Access the CIRCLE Pre-K Curriculum

Print versions of curricula components and supplemental materials are available for purchase through the CLI Solutions Group.

The Social and Emotional component of the CIRCLE Pre-K Curriculum is available as a supplemental booklet for use with other curricula.

Supplemental Social & Emotional Development booklet

This bound resource includes:

Introduction to Social and Emotional development
Welcome to Pre-K rules, routines, and procedures
35 weeks of softly-scripted lessons
Family Engagement information, and sample parent letters in English and Spanish

TECPDS Resources

We will be using the certificate generation tool on the Texas Early Childhood Professional Development System (TECPDS) to award certificates when you attend our in-person Lunch & Learn events. If you haven't created a TECPDS account yet, or are not very familar with your personal TECPDS account features, these resources can assist you.

TECPDS accounts are available at no cost for early childhood professionals.

How to Create a Free TECPDS Account

Getting Started with Your TECPDS Account

How to Locate Your TECPDS ID Number

How to Use a QR Code to Register Event Attendance

Thank you to CLI Solutions Group for their time and expertise,

and to Lakeshore Learning for their generous sponsorship.