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We're hosting a FREE webinar and you're invited! 💛

Join Kind Mind on Thursday, June 11 at 10 a.m. ET for a 45-minute conversation Behavior, Burnout, and Building Teacher Confidence designed for early learning leaders navigating challenging behaviors, teacher stress, and the daily realities of supporting young children.

Hosted by Jessica Padilla, with Kind Mind founder Lee Sowles joining for a live Q&A, this webinar will explore practical ways to build teacher confidence, strengthen classroom regulation, and create calmer, more connected learning environments where teachers stay and children are ready to learn.

The results speak for themselves—and we'll be sharing the approaches behind them.

Save your seat here: kindmindeducation.com/registration-page-webinar

Humility is the ability to recognize the fundamental goodness within ourselves while also seeing how we can continue to evolve and grow. It means we can acknowledge our own mastery and still embrace being a beginner. For educators, this balance is both a personal practice and a powerful teaching tool.

Read blog here: kindmindeducation.com/blog/teaching-humility

Picture this: it’s ten minutes before circle time. One child is melting down by the cubbies. Another is hiding under the table. Someone else is pulling at your sleeve asking when the snack is. And you have about thirty seconds to decide what to do next.
Those moments are the work.

But most professional development doesn’t prepare teachers for the real-time pressure of supporting young children while staying regulated themselves.

On Thursday, June 11 at 10 a.m. ET, join Kind Mind for a free 45-minute conversation on Behavior, Burnout, and Building Teacher Confidence.

We’ll share practical ways programs are helping teachers feel more supported, more confident, and more equipped to respond to challenging behaviors with calm and connection.

You’ll leave with real examples, practical language, and ideas you can bring back to your team right away.

Save your seat here: kindmindeducation.com/registration-page-webinar

Children thrive when the adults in their world are using the same supportive language, tools, and practices.

From classrooms to homes to summer routines, connection and regulation grow stronger when children feel safe, seen, and supported across every environment.

That’s one of the reasons we’re hosting our free webinar, Behavior, Burnout, and Building Teacher Confidence, on Thursday, June 11 at 10 a.m. ET.

Join us for a conversation on supporting teachers through challenging behaviors while creating calmer, more connected spaces where children are ready to learn and grow.

Save your seat here: kindmindeducation.com/registration-page-webinar

May Weekly Resilience Tip #4: Build Confidence through Reflection on Past Courage

This week, we invite you to help students recall previous times they felt nervous but still tried, building a narrative of capability rather than limitation. This reflective practice can have a profound impact on their confidence. Here are some practical steps you can take:

1. Ask About Past Nervous Moments - When individual students express nervousness about upcoming challenges, help them remember a previous time they felt nervous but participated anyway. Ask: "Can you think of a time you were really nervous but did it anyway? What happened?"

2. Highlight the Outcome - Guide them to recognize that they discovered they were more capable than they believed. Often, the thing they feared didn't happen, or they handled it better than expected. This reflection builds confidence rooted in real experience, not just positive thinking.

3. Normalize Your Own Nervousness - Share your own experiences when appropriate. Let students know that all humans feel nervous, you included. The difference between people who pursue their goals and those who don't isn't the absence of nervousness; it's the willingness to feel nervous and move forward anyway.

We're hosting a FREE webinar and you're invited!

Join Kind Mind on Thursday, June 11 at 10 a.m. for a 45-minute conversation — Behavior, Burnout, and Building Teacher Confidence — designed for early learning leaders navigating challenging behaviors, teacher stress, and the daily realities of supporting young children.

Hosted by Jessica Padilla, with Kind Mind founder Lee Sowles joining for live Q&A, this webinar will explore practical ways to build teacher confidence, strengthen classroom regulation, and create more calm, connected learning environments where teachers stay and children are ready to learn.

Save your seat here: https://www.kindmindeducation.com/registration-page-webinar

A peek inside the Resiliency Toolkit. 👀💜

Inside, you’ll find simple, hands-on tools children can see, touch, hold, hear, and use — from weighted breathing buddies — hello, frog — and a musical heart chime to emotion posters and affirmation cards.

Each piece supports small but meaningful moments: helping a child notice what they’re feeling, giving a teacher a simple way to reset the room, and creating calmer classroom routines with fewer behavioral disruptions throughout the day.

Because when children have tools to understand their emotions and educators have tools to support them, small moments can make a big difference. 💛

To learn more about the Resiliency Toolkit and how Kind Mind is supporting classrooms and communities, schedule a demo with Lee Sowles, founder of Kind Mind:
https://www.kindmindeducation.com/request

Hand-packed and headed to classrooms. 📦💜

We love packing up our Kind Mind Resiliency Toolkits because we know what’s inside is so much more than meets the eye.

A rain stick that helps a classroom pause.
A breathing buddy that makes a child feel safe and snuggly.
A colorful poster that gives teachers language for big feelings.

Simple tools that can help create calmer moments, stronger connections, and classrooms where children are more ready to learn.

Paired with Kind Mind’s digital resources, each Toolkit gives teachers practical ways to support emotional awareness, resilience, and co-regulation in the everyday moments that matter most.

Small tools. Big impact.
That’s what we’re sending out into the world. 💛

Learn more about the Toolkit and schedule a demo:
https://www.kindmindeducation.com/request