Sally Sparks
🎤Professional Development & Speaking

Sessions teachers actually remember.

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Pre-K's Favorite Bad Example

Teaching Behavior Through Puppets

Meet Billy Bully and learn the puppet-based method that helps tiny humans practice kindness, ignoring, and problem-solving before conflict happens.

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Conflict Resolution for Tiny Humans

Real strategies for 3–6 year olds

Scripts, visuals, and routines that help young children solve problems with words instead of fists, tears, or sneaky pinches.

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SEL That Actually Sticks

Beyond posters and feelings charts

Embed social-emotional learning into routines, transitions, and play so kids actually use it on the playground.

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Classroom Routines That Save Your Sanity

Practical systems for early childhood

From arrival to dismissal — routines that lower behavior issues, increase independence, and let you actually drink your coffee.

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Supporting Early Bilingual Learners

Multilingual learners in Pre-K & K

Concrete strategies for honoring home languages, scaffolding English, and building belonging from day one.

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Behavior Coaching Without Constant Correction

Coach. Don't police.

Shift from constantly redirecting to coaching kids through the skill — with language and tools the whole team can use.

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Pre-K & Kinder: Playful, Purposeful, Practical

Learning that looks like play (and works)

Make early learning joyful and rigorous — without worksheets — using centers, play invitations, and intentional teacher moves.

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📣 The Room

Teachers showing up — and actually staying engaged.

Real Head Start and district PD audiences mid-session. Leaning in, laughing, taking notes — the receipts are right here.

📸 On Stage

Real rooms. Real teachers. Real shenanigans.

From Head Start trainings to parent nights, conference keynotes to district PD — here's what it actually looks like when Sally takes the mic.

Sally and children's music legend Jack Hartmann smiling together and holding paper puppet cutouts of each other
Jack Hartmann & Sally!
Early childhood legends unite with mini-me puppets! 🤩

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