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Pre-K Prep Club for Teachers

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Preschool & Pre-K Teacher Hub

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The teachers in the Club are already planning August. Are you? 🍎
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.
The teachers in the Club are already planning August. Are you? 🍎
@Susan Y Small group insturction is all the assessment you will need. The Intentional teaching cards and the mighty minutes cover everything. I has some push back from teachers at first, but once we learned to use the curriculum with all its resources, we eliminated the worksheets. I suggest focusing some time (maybe 2-3 months) on using the ITEs. If you have gold with CC, use the reports to show how the data they collect really helps to drive instructions and what activities they can plan for.
🎉 Introduce Yourself to the Preschool & Pre-K Teacher Hub!
Welcome to the Teacher Hub! 🍎 I'm so glad you found your way here. This community is built by teachers, for teachers, and it truly gets better with every new voice in the room. So before you do anything else, let's get to know each other! Drop a comment and share: 🚸 Who you teach and their age group 🎯 One goal you're working toward this year, in your classroom or in your life ⚡ Something you love outside of teaching The best part of this Hub is the teachers in it, and that now includes you. 🎉
🎉 Introduce Yourself to the Preschool & Pre-K Teacher Hub!
@Sammantha Gilbert CC is a good curriculum. I worked with my teachers one thing at a time. We worked on doing small groups first and doing them well, then moved on to read alouds and using the book discussion cards. Next was Mighty Minutes. Focusing on learning one thing at a time made it less stressful starting a new curriculum. The first year they used the lessons just as CC wrote them. The following year they were able to customize them. This worked really well.
@Sammantha Gilbert Let me know how it goes. Always willing to help out if I can ☺️
How long have you been teaching?
Hey teachers! 🙌🏽 Quick poll for you We have such a diverse group of amazing educators here, and some of you are just starting your journey in preschool or pre-K (woohoo!), and some are a few years in and we have some veteran teachers as well.🍎 In the comments drop your best advice or words of encouragement for new teachers about to start on their teaching journey. 🚌 Here's to our best year yet! ✨
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How long have you been teaching?
@Cathy Quintero
@Cheryl Bowles This is so very true. Some of our kids only get affection in school. It's so sad. Also, We never deny a meal, even when they are late. And our teachers don't throw away fruits, cheese, cereal or juices. We get lots of kids in shelters.
We need to know...
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
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@Jennifer Patuto one of the things I worked on with my teachers last year (and continueing this year) is planning for data collection. I had them chose the objectives that they needed data on and the time of day they wanted to observe those objectives and just focus on that. If they picked up on other things, great, but their main focus was those objectives. We use Creative curriculum so they can see in their reports, what they are missing and what they seem to have too much of. This closed the gap in areas like science and social studies where they tended to lack documentation.
@Stella Wideman Organization is always tricky. When I was in the classroom, I had large ziplock bags with all the materials I had prepped for each unit. It worked, but storing the bags was another story.
You're catching us right at the beginning 🌱
Hey teacher friends! 👋 Whether you found me through an ad this week or you've walked alongside me for years, I am so glad you're here. A little about what I do, in case we're just meeting. For a little over two years now, I've had the honor of supporting more than 2,000 teachers inside the Pre-K Prep Club. It started small and it has never stopped growing, because I build it around one thing: your feedback. Every resource and every update comes from listening to the educators actually living this work, the real days with real children. That is who I create for, and it's why the Club keeps evolving. Now, if you're new here and thinking "she says over 2,000 teachers, but I only see a handful," let me explain, because I never want anything about this to feel unclear. Our established community has lived on a different platform for the last couple of years, and that's where those teachers have been growing right alongside me. Recently, so many of my members have told me how much they love the Skool experience in this free community, so I'm building the Club's new home here on Skool. My founding members are coming over first to help me shape the space, which means you're catching us at the very beginning. 🌱 If you're one of those founding members, I just sent everyone a special invitation to join 🔑 Everything happening this month is already yours when you accept the invitation. Don't see it? Please message me! And if you're new? This is the moment to jump in! Right now, everyone inside the Pre-K Prep Club for Teachers gets both of our July challenges completely free, a $100 value, built to support you as you set up your classrooms for the year ahead: 🌱 Jumpstart for Play-Based Learning 📚 Jumpstart for The Creative Curriculum Pick the path that fits your classroom and follow along with real support in the Pre-K Prep Club community. And it's so much more than the challenges. Your membership also opens up a library of done-for-you resources, because that prep work is exactly what pulls our time and energy away from the parts of this calling we love most. I want to hand that time back to you.
You're catching us right at the beginning 🌱
I'm doing both. While we are a CC school, our 3 year olds are more play based for much of the year as they get used to being in school.
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Jessica Gonzalez-Baez
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I'm a preschool director always ready and willing to learn more about how to create developmentally appropriate and fun learning environments for all.

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