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Pyramid Model Practice-Based Workshop - Becoming Super Friends: Where Friendship Skills Begin

Becoming Super Friends: Where Friendship Skills Begin

A Pyramid Model Workshop for Early Childhood Educators

• Focuses on teaching foundational friendship skills: sharing, turn-taking, inviting others, problem-solving, expressing feelings, and giving compliments.

• Follows a 3-part structure:
o 45-Minute Interactive Presentation — Evidence-based strategies for teaching friendship skills.
o 15-Minute Video Reflection — Real classroom examples with guided discussion.
o 55-Minute Tinker and Take — Make-and-take session to create friendship skill tools for immediate use.

• Highlights peer-mediated strategies and everyday teaching opportunities.
• Provides child-friendly vocabulary cards, family engagement resources, and peer-coaching ideas.
• Includes ready-to-use classroom activities for any early learning setting.
• Designed for all educators—center-based, family child care, Head Start, and FFN providers.