The Resource Library
Materials for tomorrow morning
Original, classroom-tested materials — circle-time chants, monthly themes, small real lessons, and printable checklists. Where a resource teaches a skill you can rehearse, it links straight to the simulation.
State Licensing Guide
Staff-child ratios, training hours, and teacher & director requirements for all 50 states + DC — sourced and dated.
The weekly lesson planner
Type straight into a five-day grid — autosaves in your browser, prints on one page.
Circle time & transitions
Original chants, rituals, and movement breaks that make the room run itself.
A welcome circle that starts itself
A four-step arrival ritual — same order every day — that turns circle time from a round-up into a landing place.
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Five transition chants that do the work for you
Original call-and-response chants for cleanup, lining up, hand-washing, sitting down, and goodbye — because a chant never nags.
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The calm-down circle: a co-regulation script
A two-minute whole-group reset for the afternoon the room comes apart — breathing games children actually do.
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Ten two-minute movement breaks
No-prep, no-equipment resets for the wiggly stretch between activities — because a body that has moved can sit.
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Monthly themes
A year of curriculum themes with ready activity ideas for each month.
A year of monthly themes
Twelve classroom themes — one per month — each with three ready activity ideas and the words to grow.
Plan a theme week without burning out
The five-day frame — hook, explore, create, share, reflect — that turns any topic into a week of learning with one prep session.
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Lesson ideas
Small, real lessons you can run tomorrow — each tied to a skill you can rehearse in a simulation.
The feelings check-in board
A fifteen-minute build that gives you thirty seconds of emotional weather data every single morning.
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The STEM invitation table
One small table, three objects, one question card — inquiry science with zero worksheets.
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Four family notes worth stealing
Fill-in-the-blank templates for the notes teachers rewrite ten times: the good news, the gentle concern, the incident, the conference invite.
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Write it like a camera: the two-sentence observation
A self-training drill that turns 'he was aggressive today' into documentation you can stand behind.
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Teacher worksheets
Printable one-pagers for the educator — reflect, plan, observe. (For children we believe in play, not worksheets.)
The guidance reset
One page for one recurring behavior: what a camera would see, what it's telling you, and the exact words you'll try tomorrow.
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Transition tune-up
Map every transition in your day, find the one that's costing you, and rebuild it in three lines.
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Supervision zone plan
Sketch your room and yard into named zones, assign them out loud, and plan the two moments supervision usually breaks.
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The 5-to-1 family contact plan
Plan five specific positive contacts this week — so when a hard conversation comes, it isn't the first one.
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Camera-language drill sheet
Three observations a day, written like a lens would see them — the portfolio habit that survives any licensing visit.
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From interest to invitation
Turn one thing your children are obsessed with this week into a plannable, standards-aware learning invitation.
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The arrival health-check routine
A 20-second look at every child, every morning — what to observe, what to note, and when to follow your program's protocol.
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Milestone watch, one child at a time
Pick one child a week: strengths across four domains, one wondering, and the play you'll offer next — development watching without checklist panic.
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The participation plan
One child who isn't joining one activity: find the barrier, redesign the doorway — a UDL move on a single page.
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The read-aloud rehearsal sheet
Plan one book like a performance: three stopping points, real questions, and the five words you'll bring to life.
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The question ladder
Catch the questions children actually asked this week and climb one of them into a real investigation.
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The ethics pause
When two right things collide — confidentiality vs. safety, family wishes vs. best practice — walk the dilemma through the Code before you act.
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The one-conversation prep
For leaders: prepare the staff conversation you've been postponing — the observable facts, the ask, and the support you'll offer.
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State licensing
Could you answer a licensing visitor today? One page of the questions every educator should be able to answer about their own state — look each one up in the Edfable licensing guide, then write it in your own hand.
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The NAEYC teacher Q&A
Thirty questions across eight parts — DAP, inclusion, equity, curriculum, observation, families, supervision, professionalism — written to be answered in your own words and discussed with your team.
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The CLASS interaction self-check
Reflect on the interactions the CLASS® tool actually measures — emotional support, classroom organization, instructional support — and leave with one goal for the week. A self-reflection tool, not an official score sheet.
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Educational theories
A training and reflection workbook on the major theories — match the theorists, answer in your own words, and end with your own classroom philosophy. Pairs with the theory pages in the Study library.
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Professional references
The field's foundational documents, summarized in plain language and linked at the source.
Classroom checklists
Printable step-by-step checklists for the moments that go better with a plan.
The drop-off script & checklist
The morning-separation routine that turns three weeks of tears into four predictable steps.
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When a child bites: the response checklist
The in-the-moment sequence, the follow-up, and the prevention notes — so the worst two minutes of the day run on rails.
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The daily safety sweep
Opening and closing walk-throughs — five minutes each — that catch the hazard before the licensing visitor (or the toddler) does.
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Parent-conference prep checklist
Twenty minutes of prep that turns a dreaded conversation into a partnership meeting — including the hard ones.
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The 5-to-1 family contact plan
Connect before you correct: for every one difficult conversation with a family, aim for roughly five positive contacts first — so the hard conversation lands as partnership, not criticism.
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Director forms
The binder forms a licensing visit expects — check off on screen or on paper, in any of the 50 states, paired with your state's cited rules in the licensing guide.
Records to be posted in the facility
The wall a licensing visitor reads first. Check off what's posted, note what your state adds, and date the walk-through.
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The teacher's file checklist
One page per staff member: everything their file must hold before an inspector asks for it — with renewal dates where they belong, on your calendar.
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The children's file checklist
One page per child: enrollment, health, consents, and contacts — complete, current, and confidential, in any state.
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The health & safety checklist
The daily sweep: sanitation, medications, drills, playground, and counts — done every day, provable on any day.
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The building check form
The monthly walk of the building itself — exits, detectors, water, anchors, fencing, surfacing — with a fix date for everything that fails.
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All Edfable originals. Idea starters and practice materials — not state curricula or licensing advice.