The
Regulated Room
Be Regulated · Be Ready · Be Prepared
You can hold it together for 20 preschoolers, but fall apart the moment you get home.
♡ A 5-Week Guided Audio Experience
Be Regulated · Be Ready · Be Prepared
You can hold it together for 20 preschoolers, but fall apart the moment you get home.
♡ A 5-Week Guided Audio Experience
This isn't a you problem.
It's a gap problem.
The Evolution
The Jumpstart Challenge gave teachers a powerful beginning. This is what comes next, a program built for the whole year, not just the first week. The shift isn't outward into the classroom. It's inward, into you.
The Jumpstart Challenge
A strong framework built around classroom readiness and the first weeks of school. It worked, and teachers came back asking for what was missing.
The shift: outward → inward
The Regulated Room Program
Everything that made the Jumpstart work, the deep dives, the tools, the reflection, now centered on your inner life. Not the classroom. You.
There's a space between what happens to you and what you do next. Right now, that space might feel invisible. But it's there, and it only needs to be one millimeter wider to change everything.
This program won't ask you to become a different person. It will help you become the person who pauses before the storm hits, the person whose calm becomes the most powerful tool in the room.
"Every millimeter is monumental."
Your 5-Week Audio Experience
You can't widen what you can't see.
"Why You Lose It (and the Teacher Next Door Doesn't)"
The words you use about yourself change your brain.
"Why Knowing Better Still Doesn't Help You Do Better"
Your body knew before your brain did.
"Your Body Voted Before Your Brain Got to the Booth"
Every millimeter you widen the gap is monumental.
"The Millimeter Between Reacting and Responding"
You are their blueprint.
"You Might Be the Only Stable Adult in a Child's Life"
Every Week Includes
Audio Deep Dive
Podcast-style audio each week
Workbook
Reflection prompts & tracking pages
Week Summary
Portrait visual recap of each week
Tools
Print-ready tool for your space
Slides
Visual companion to follow along
References & Influences
The research behind each week
30 beautifully designed cards you can keep on your desk, in your bag, or on your classroom wall. Pull one when you need a reset. Each card has a prompt, a reframe, or a practice rooted in The Millimeter Method™, small enough to hold, powerful enough to shift your whole day.
Meet the Creator
Cathy is the creator of The Regulated Room and The Millimeter Method™, and the founder of Pre-K Prep Club, a membership community supporting preschool teachers. She built this program from everything she has lived, learned, and carried, as an educator, as a founder, and as a mother.
A regulated adult truly does create a regulated child.
Her work is deeply rooted in the child development tradition of the Erikson Institute, an ecosystem of professors, perspectives, and purpose, all aimed at one goal: to give our very best to our youngest learners.
Barbara Bowman taught her how adults learn. Jie-Qi Chen and Gillian McNamee shaped her understanding of child development. Tonya Bibbs' Family & Culture permanently shifted her perspective. Robert Halpern mentored her during her internship serving low-income preschool families in urban public schools.
Every ounce of energy we give children goes somewhere. The return on that investment may not show up right away, but as children grow into adults, the fruit of that labor flourishes throughout our society.
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Regular price $49, save $30
The Regulated Room
You don't need another classroom management strategy. You need to understand what's happening in YOUR body, and learn to widen the gap between the moment something happens and what you do next.
"Widen the gap. Change the room."
Enroll Now · $19 Special Price →Got Questions?
When you enroll, you get immediate access to all 5 weeks. Work through it at your own pace.
Lifetime access. Once you're in, you're in. No deadlines, no expiration, no subscriptions. Work through it at your own pace and return to any week whenever you need it.
The Millimeter Method™ is the framework at the heart of this program. It's built around one idea: there is a space between what happens to you and what you do next. That space, even one millimeter wider, is where everything changes. The program teaches you how to find it, widen it, and use it.
Most professional development focuses on what to do in the classroom. This program focuses on you, your nervous system, your patterns, your body's response before your brain catches up. It's not about more strategies. It's about becoming the regulated presence your students need.
Each weekly audio deep dive varies in length, designed to be listened to during a commute, a walk, or a quiet moment before your day starts. No sitting at a desk required.
It's for any grown-up in the room with young children: teachers, childcare providers, homeschooling parents, anyone. Especially if you find yourself feeling dysregulated or triggered more often than you'd like to admit. The language and examples are rooted in early childhood, but the framework is about you, not the setting.
Everything. All 5 weeks of audio deep dives, workbooks, summaries, tools, slides, references, one original song per week, and the exclusive 30-card Regulated Teacher Deck. The special price is $19 through July 31. The regular price is $49.
Because this is a digital audio program, all sales are final and non-refundable. That said, I want you to feel completely confident before you enroll. If you have any questions about whether this program is the right fit for you, reach out before purchasing at hello@madeforprek.com, I'm happy to help you make the most informed decision.
No downloads required. Everything is accessible from any device, phone, tablet, or computer. Listen on the go, read on your lunch break, print what you want. It's built to fit into your real life.