When I founded Together We Grow, I wanted to give educators and caregivers the resources they need to create responsive and joyful classrooms. While there is no doubt that early childhood educators across the country work tirelessly to make their classrooms safe and engaging environments, overstimulation or stress can sometimes lead to overlooking the individual emotional and sensory needs of children; and that is something I want to change.Recently, I was invited to speak at the Catherine Hershey Schools for Early Learning Early Childhood Education (ECE) Leaders Summit, where I led a Sensory Processing Integration and Strategies session designed to help ECE staff understand how children receive and respond to sensory information and help build ways to support sensory processing development.ECE is experiencing a number of challenges related to sensory processing for both children and professionals.Research shows that, every year, as many as 8,710 three- and four-year-old children may be expelled from or pushed out of their state-funded preschool or prekindergarten classroom. In childcare centers, expulsion rates are 13 times what they are in K–12 classrooms, with as many as 39 percent of childcare providers reporting at least one expulsion in the past year.