centering

What is significant to Um about this specific Southeast Asian curriculum is the conscious centering of community voices.

But some of the key touchstones — a mix of music and stories, a centering of children with candles — are present.

“It’s a calming centering way to focus at the beginning or end of the day.”

“I’m still not sure Ryan cared, or got it, and that’s okay because he was just centering his business, which isn’t a problem to me,” she writes in the book.

A new teaching credential is centering social and emotional development and playful learning in transitional kindergarten as it prepares the next wave of teachers.