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SELF-REG
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CHILDHOOD
We help Early Childhood Educators (ECEs) and early years teams learn to reframe the signs of dysregulated stress states while developing the co-regulation skills and strategies that make a difference for all children in their care — especially those with the most challenging behaviours.
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EARLY CHILDHOOD FEATURES
Self-Reg in the Early Years
The early years are a time of extraordinary growth and development. Children’s capacity for self-regulation—how they manage energy expenditure in response to stressors and then recover from the effort—is wired during these critical years.
Self-Regulation: The Five Domains
Explore the five Domains of the Shanker Self-Reg® Framework – biological, emotion, cognitive, social & prosocial. Self-regulation refers to the way an individual deals with stress, in all its many forms, and then recovers from the energy expended.
Embracing A New School Reality For The Early Years
A Changing Vision: For years, I believed that self-regulation — like the other Learning Skills — were always secondary to academics. I was so concerned about meeting benchmarks. Then last year, I had a class that challenged my beliefs.
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MOST RECENT EARLY YEARS BLOGS
You Do Not Have to Figure This Out Alone
There is something that happens in the first hour of the Self-Reg Summer Symposium that is hard to describe if you have not been there. You walk into a room, or you open your laptop if you are joining online, and you realize very quickly that the people around you...
Four Days Designed for the People Who Are Holding Everyone Else Together
Let's be honest about something. The people most likely to attend a symposium like this are the ones who care the most. The educators who are still thinking about a child on the drive home. The early childhood professionals who lie awake wondering if they handled...
A Case of the June’s: Reframing Behaviour In The Final Days of School
I recently finished writing my report cards. While it felt good to be done this big, year-end task, I then went into school the next day and was surprised by what happened. Why Did Every Child Change? I like to think that I know my students well, and that their report...
What Does Self-Reg Look Like When It Starts to Change a Whole System?
One educator learns Self-Reg. They start seeing things differently. They share what they are noticing with a colleague. The colleague reads something. Attends a workshop. Tries it with a student. Brings it back to a team meeting. And slowly, almost without anyone...
For the Educational Assistants Who Hold Everything Together
There is a role in schools and early childhood settings that is often invisible in professional development conversations. The person who is frequently right there when everything escalates. Who is sitting beside the child who cannot hold it together in the large...
What Happens When “Soft Eyes” Are Not Enough
There is a phrase that circulates in Self-Reg communities: "soft eyes." It is a reminder to look at a child's behaviour with compassion and curiosity rather than judgment. It is a good reminder. An important one. And it is never the whole answer. At some point, most...