Early Childhood Wellbeing and Learning Online Program

Since the first edition of the YCDI! Education Program Achieve Early Childhood

300,000+ children have participated in this program.

Research shows program benefits wellbeing, achievement.

Program Achieve Early Childhood

A Social-Emotional Learning Curriculum

(ages 3 - 6+)

Now includes PD
Course
  • 5th edition includes SEL brain-based activities.
  • Suggestions for teaching younger children (ages 3-4) in each lesson.
  • New role-play activities that have children practising their social-emotional skills.
  • Booklist provides books with characters who do/do not portray each of the 5 social-emotional skills. A total of 215 books are listed.
  • Downloadable YCDI! Quick Reference Cards: Teaching Social-Emotional Skills in Early Childhood.
  • Complimentary downloadable classroom poster.
Read more about brain-based activities and how they help children learn SEL skills. The first-year purchase includes a complimentary set of character hand puppets.

YCDI! Education Character Hand Puppets

Young children learn social-emotional skills from messages communicated through the five hand puppets: Connie Confidence, Gabby Get Along, Oscar Organisation, Pete Persistence, and Ricky Resilience.

The first year’s purchase of an annual subscription to Program Achieve Early Childhood includes a complimentary set of hand puppets.

Additional hand puppets are available for purchase so that all teachers can have the five characters present throughout the day to join as permanent class members.

We LOVE YCDI!... we are huge Raving Fans at Kindercare.... particularly in times like these Ricky Resilience has definitely been in the spotlight for our children, team and families.
Victoria Farquhar-Ayson
Curriculum Manager / Area Manager Kindercare Learning Centres, New Zealand

Teaching
Social-Emotional Skills

This video demonstrates a teacher
explaining social-emotional learning
skills to students.

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