Engage in discussion, exploration, and implementation of strategies that empower you to be the best advocates for your children with a Mind in the Making Workshop.

Each workshop is led by a trained facilitator. Most sessions start with a short video which leads to "safe space" discussions and hands-on activities. Our goal is that you walk away with resources that are relevant to the holistic growth of children.

FACILITATOR TRAINING will be December 5, 2023 at 10:30 a.m. 

DOWNLOADABLE FACILITATOR GUIDE COMING SOON!

FOCUS & SELF CONTROL SKILLS

Infant / Toddler

• Goodnight Moon by Margaret Wise Brown
• Noisy Nora by Rosemarry Wells
• Elmo Says by Sarah Albee
• Head Shoulders Knees and Toes by Annie Kubler

Preschool

• Whistle for Willie by Ezra Jack Keats
• A Chair for My Mother by Vera B. Williams
• The Carrot Seed by Ruth Krauss

School Age

• Joey Pigza Swallowed the Key by Jack Gantos
• Wilma Unlimited by Kathleen Krull
• The Best Seat in Second Grade by Katharine Kenah
• The Little Red Hen Makes a Pizza by Philemon Sturges
• The Art Lesson by Tomie dePaola
• A Crooked Kind of Perfect by Linda Urban

PERSPECTIVE TAKING SKILLS

Infant / Toddler

• Five Little Ducks by Raffi
• Polar Bear, Polar Bear What Do You Hear? by Bill Martin & Eric Carle
• Glass Slipper Gold Sandal by Paul Fleischman

Preschool

• Whoever You Are by Mem Fox
• Corduroy by Don Freeman
• Fish is Fish by Leo Lionni
• Are You Ready to Play Outside? by Mo Willems

School Age

• Lowji Discovers America by Steve Jenkins
• Button Up! by Alice Schertle
• Freedom Summer by Deborah Wiles
• The Whipping Boy by Sid Fleischman
• Wonder by R.J. Palacio

COMMUNICATING SKILLS

Infant / Toddler

• Bark, George by Jules Feiffer
• Baby Talk by Penny Gentieu
• Penguin by Polly Dunbar
• Moo, Baa, La, La, La by Sandra Boynton

Preschool

• Dear Mr. Blueberry by Simon James
• Not Norman by Kelly Bennett
• The Lion and the Mouse by Jerry Pinkney
• The Cow That Went Oink by Bernard Most

School Age

• Emma's Poem by Linda Glaser
• No Talking by Andrew Clements
• Martin's Big Words by Doreen Rappaport
• Liar & Spy by Rebecca Stead
• At the Beach by Anne Rockwell
• The Storyteller's Candle by Lucia Gonzalez

MAKING CONNECTIONS

Infant / Toddler

• It Looked Like Spilled Milk by Charles G. Shaw
• The Very Hungry Caterpillar by Eric Carle
• Ten Little Fingers and Ten Little Toes by Mem Fox & Helen Oxenbury
• Not a Box by Antoinette Portis

Preschool

• Caps for Sale by Esphyr Slobodkina
• Alphabet City by Stephen T. Johnson
• Same, Same but Different by Jenny Sue Kostecki-Shaw

School Age

• On the Same Day in March by Marilyn Singer
• The Pot that Juan Built by Nancy Andrew-Goebel
• When You Reach Me by Rebecca Stead
• Harold and the Purple Crayon by Crockett Johnson
• What Do You Do with a Tale Like This? by Steve Jenkins
• I Am Different! Can You Find Me? by Manjula Padmanabhan

CRITICAL THINKING

Infant / Toddler

• Where's My Teddy? by Jez Alborough
• The Runaway Bunny by Margaret Wise Brown
• Blue Hat, Green Hat by Sandra Boynton

Preschool

• Are You My Mother? by P.D. Eastman
• Seven Blind Mice by Ed Young
• What Can You Do with a Paleta? by Carmen Tofolla
• If You Give a Mouse a Cookie by Laura Numeroff

School Age

• Edgar Allen's Official Crime Investigation Notebook by Mary Amato
• Grace for President by Kelly DiPucchio
• Hannah's Suitcase by Karen Levine
• Nate the Great by Marjorie Weinman

TAKING ON CHALLENGES

Infant / Toddler

• Llama Llama Red Pajama by Anna Dewdney
• My Truck is Stuck by Kevin Lewis & Daniel Kirk

Preschool

• Owen by Keven Henkes
• The Little Engine that Could by Watty Piper
• Brontorina by James Howe

School Age

• Knuffle Bunny by Mo Willems
• Horton Hears a Who by Dr. Seuss
• Jingle Dancer by Cynthia Leitich Smith
• The Empty Pot by Demi
• Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH by Robert C. O'Brien
• Stone Fox by John Reynolds Gardiner

SELF-DIRECTED ENGAGED LEARNING

Infant / Toddler

• From Head to Toe by Eric Carle
• Where's Spot? by Eric Hill
• I Can Do It Too! by Karen Baicker

Preschool

• The Snowy Day by Ezra Jack Keats
• Miss. Rumphias by Barbara Cooney
• Press Here by Herve Tullet
• My Five Senses by Aliki

School Age

• Rickshaw Girl by Mitali Perkins
• Mr. George Baker by Amy Hest
• Home at Last by Susan Middleton Elya
• The View from Saturday by E.L. Konigsburg
• Lemonade in Winter by Emily Jenkins
• Dinosaurs Before Dark by Mary Pope Osborn

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