Hey teachers! 🤗 What are your weekend plans? Relaxing, prepping, a combo? Let us know in the comments!

Hey teacher friends! 🙌🏽 Yesterday we hit 500 members. I didn't even get a chance to post about it, because by the time I sat down to write this, we're almost at 600. That's how fast this space is growing, and honestly, it's because of the energy YOU bring. And I have to say it: this isn't just teachers anymore. We have teacher assistants, directors, student teachers, instructional coaches, admins. A whole community of early childhood educators who want to do better for themselves and for their students. I love reading your goals. You are so intentional, so motivating, and we all speak the same language here: play, and learning through play. 💛 Before writing this, I opened the Map tab. And I'm not exaggerating, I got choked up. The US and Canada, Ireland, Germany, Spain, Puerto Rico, the Philippines, Australia, New Zealand... we are literally all over the world. 🌎🥳 And it hit me: play is the universal language of children. Different countries, different curricula, different classrooms, and every single one of us is here for the same reason. 🫶🏼 Here's the thing you should know about me: I treat this community the same way I treated my classroom. I believe in building classroom community, and that doesn't stop at the classroom door. It's how I run this Hub, and it's how I run the Pre-K Prep Club. If you're in the Club, you already know how I work. 🍎 So thank you. Truly. For showing up, for answering each other's questions, for making this a space where educators feel less alone. Let's celebrate the only way that makes sense: if you have a teacher friend who would benefit from this energy, invite them in. Send them to the Preschool & Pre-K Teacher Hub and tell them to come say hi. Drop a gif below if you're celebrating with me, and tell us where you're joining from. Let's see this map come alive in the comments! 🌎 - Cathy

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! ✨

Okay I just have to take a second 🫶🏼 Last week, this was a brand new, quiet little space. And today? We're 240+ teachers strong and growing by the hour. 🤯 But honestly the number isn't even the part that's got me emotional. It's each of YOU. It's the questions you're asking out loud that other teachers were (maybe) too nervous to ask. It's the challenges you're naming honestly instead of pretending you've got it all figured out. It's the way you're already showing up for each other in the comments, cheering, answering, relating. THAT is the whole reason I built this room. 🍎 And to everyone who's invited a teacher friend in, or upgraded to the Pre-K Prep Club... thank you! You're the reason this space already feels like home. You made it what it is. What an unreal week, and we are just getting started! 🥳 I'm so excited to actually get to know you and your classrooms more. Drop a quick hello below👇🏽what program you teach in, and the age group you work with. Excited to put faces and classrooms to all these names. 🤗 - Cathy

Excitied to be part of this group