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What's the #1 thing making your days feel harder than they should right now? The planning? The prep work? Never feeling caught up? Drop your answer below 👇 You might help another teacher who's feeling the exact same way. Once you've commented below... 🆓 Grab my free teacher planner to make this week a little easier

Happy Monday, and welcome to the newest members in the Hub! 👋🏽 @Rita Daons @Natasha Dowdell @Joann Morrison @Cheryl Wion @Maribel Compagnone @Maura Cullop @M Stibritz @Jamie Downs @Marissa Papamarkos @Nancy Lee @Kathy Powell @Amy Doucette @Meriska Brown @Jeanne Buchanan @Heather D'Angeli @Lori Baim @Missy McLean @Trina Peters @Kelly Mcadams @Sarah Miller @Amanda Owens We’re so glad you’re here. Say hi below and tell us: 💬 What’s one thing you’re working on this week? Everyone else, help me give our new friends a warm welcome. 🫶🏽 Cathy

If you work in a bilingual, dual language or multilingual setting, you probably have set colors for each language, like black for english and red for Spanish for example. And maybe you set up your classroom to match, then move to a new school with a whole new set of color rules. I've been there! 🫠 That's why I added a variety of color coded options to this freebie set of basket and bin labels. Honoring the language, staying consistent in how we display it, and including children in the process will help students organize it visually, and also be meaningful when they reference it. For example, you can also use a red marker to write down a child's dictation spoken in Spanish, and a black marker for a dictation in English. So when children (or anyone) see the web of ideas, language is clearly and immediately identified. Having worked in only bilingual and dual language settings, this was my default way of approaching language, so you'll see me offer various color options for that reason, I know how important it is and I also know, we don't always have time to do it. How are you using the labels, show us your setups! 📸

Hey teachers! 😊 Real talk for a second. The first six weeks of school are the hardest weeks of the whole year. Routines that fall apart, big feelings at drop-off, a schedule that exists only in your head. Every year we say we'll get ahead of it, and every year August eats us alive. So tell me: what's the ONE thing about the beginning of the year that stresses you out most? Drop it in the comments. Your answers are shaping what I build next. 👇🏽 And here's what's happening one level up, because I'd feel bad if you found out later. Inside the Pre-K Prep Club for Teachers ($7 a month), members get: 🎉 300+ done-for-you resources, ready to print and use + monthly drops 🎉 The Jumpstart Challenge for play-based learning 🎉 The Jumpstart Challenge for The Creative Curriculum 🎉 With done-for-you resources and video guides for both challenges 🎉 This August: a LIVE workshop, Your First Six Weeks Playbook, so you walk into the new year with a plan instead of a panic. This workshop is for you no matter what curriculum you use. You'll walk away knowing what developmentally appropriate practice looks like in those first weeks, so you can bring it into YOUR room no matter what your program hands you. We'll use the 2026 Creative Curriculum preschool guide as our example because it's one of the most well-rounded versions out there. Club members are voting on the workshop date right now. Join this month and you get a say in when it happens, a live seat with Q&A, and the replay forever. The resources will always be there. Being in the room while this gets built happens once. 🙌🏽 If August-you deserves a calmer start, come join us here. Already a Club member on our other platform? You're covered. Stay tuned for your invite, appreciate your patience! And even if the Club isn't for you right now, tell me your biggest beginning-of-year struggle below. This community is exactly where those conversations belong. 🤗 Thanks for being a part of it.