Sprout Sessions

Start with understanding. Grow with intention.
Sprout Sessions  are 10-15 minute videos designed to guide educators and caregivers in supporting children’s social emotional growth, curiosity, and problem-solving skills. ​Dive into each video, reflect on your practice, and let these ideas come to life in your own world.
Watch. Reflect. Grow.
Grow your practice with intention + heart.

Why Watch Sprout Sessions?

Each Sprout Session is short enough to fit your busy day, yet rich enough to plant new ideas and approaches you can bring into your classroom or home.
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These mini learning sessions help you:
  • Reframe everyday moments into opportunities for deeper connection
  • Support social-emotional growth with intentional practice
  • Inspire curiosity, wonder, and empathy in everyday interactions
  • Honor diverse experiences and backgrounds, making every child feel seen and valued

What You'll Discover

  • Connection before correction – nurture emotional awareness and trust
  • Curiosity as compass – see how questions and wonder shape learning
  • Learning within context – ​
Growth starts here. 
Ready to deepen connections with the children in your care?

The Foundations Series

Know before you grow: build s strong foundation with connection and curiosity.​​
1. Foundations: Making Connections
2. Foundations: Sparking Curiosity
3. Foundations: Solving Problems​

1. Foundations: Making Connections

For children to learn how to care for the world, they have to learn what it means to be cared for, what it means to care, and how to care for something outside themselves. This is done by adults caring for children, actively and intentionally. In this session, viewers will gain new ideas for connecting with children and see the neuroscience that guides these ideas. 

2. Foundations: Sparking Curiosity

Reflect on their ability to slow down to notice the world around them, to ask thought-provoking questions and to draw children’s attention to similar examples to spark children’s curiosity. The need to start with what young children know and are interested in will be explored as catalysts for future curiosity.

3. Foundations: Solving Problems

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Connections Self-Assessment Tool

The Connections Self-Assessment is a reflective tool designed to help educators strengthen meaningful relationships with children. By focusing on areas like empathy, trust, responsiveness, deep knowing, and shared experiences, it helps you notice how children experience their time in your care.

Why Use This Tool?
  • See your strengths: Understand the areas where you already connect deeply with children.
  • Set intentional goals: Identify opportunities to grow your relationships.
  • Plan practical strategies: Implement approaches that foster supportive, joyful, and meaningful connections.

How It Works
  • Reflect: Rate yourself on key areas of connection.
  • Notice: Observe how your actions impact children’s experiences.
  • Act: Create a plan to strengthen relationships and support each child’s learning and growth.

Who It’s For
This tool is perfect for individual reflection or team collaboration, helping educators create classrooms where every child feels seen, valued, and empowered to explore and learn.

Need More Help? Let's Stick Together 

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Whether you’ve got questions, ideas, or just need a human to talk to about worms, weather, or what to put in a nature kit, we’re here for it. Supporting educators and families is what we do, and we’re in it for the long haul.
 We promise we reply faster than compost breaks down.​

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