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Spring break has passed. For classroom teachers, testing is over. For TOT teachers, Shine Time is just around the corner (next couple of weeks!). The days are longer and warmer, and now you can see the light at the end of the tunnel. School is almost over, but you’re feeling drained. We get it! It’sRead more

Doctors recommend that children should be getting 60 minutes of aerobic exercise every day. With so many screen distractions these days, it can be hard to get children motivated to move. We’ve come up with ten great ways to get your kids moving!   1. Limit Screen Time Maybe one of the most difficult firstRead more

Teams of Tomorrow Director Debra Wood has a love for working with children. Starting as a home economics teacher, and then as a kindergarten teacher, she has had her share of teaching and sharing moments when a student understands a concept or accomplishes a feat for the first time.       Debra’s other sideRead more

We’re only a third of the way through the year, but for those who operate more on a school-calendar, the days are ticking away and summer will be here soon. As excited as it is to realize summer is almost here, many people begin to experience fatigue.   For many of us, fatigue comes from workingRead more

Parenting is hard. Possibly the most underrated sentence of the century – but it’s true. Parents have the task of raising children – teaching them right from wrong, how to tie their shoes, how to be a good sport, how to deal with heartbreak and everything in between. We also all know that children areRead more

We’ve all seen it: the parent trying to keep their family’s lives organized in some color-coded fashion. Whether it’s the tried and true monthly paper calendar or the increasingly popular shared calendar on our phones, parents need these to keep up with the growing list of activities their kids are involved in.   Kids ofRead more

If you observe a preschool classroom, you will see children interacting in a variety of ways. Maybe it’s giving a classmate a compliment, asking to use a toy or just carrying a conversation with others. No matter what the discussion might be, these toddlers are building critical social and emotional intelligence that will be aRead more

Sometimes when people are looking for change, it comes in a very obvious way. For others, like TOT franchisee Hayley Bumgarner, it comes in a more subtle way…like a postcard. Bumgarner, a teacher for 10 years, was getting ready to go back to school after having her first son, when she received a postcard fromRead more

If you Google “United States preschools” the third item that appears is an article from 2013 titled “The United States is Far Behind Other Countries on Pre-K.” It’s a frightening, albeit enlightening, notion. As of 2013, we were 26th in preschool participation in 4-year-olds and 24th in participation in 3-year-olds. Our teacher-to-child ratio came inRead more

Sheryl Sandberg writes in her book “Lean In,” “The time is long overdue to encourage more women to dream the possible dream.”   Now more than ever, women are dreaming that possible dream. The past few years have seen an incredible surge of female empowerment- from Jen Welter becoming the National Football League’s (NFL) firstRead more