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March 20, 2013

Blogging for Community Building in Early Childhood Programs and Organizations by Dawn Braa

Blogging has benefits… Blogging can assist with building community, networking professionally, communicating with parents, marketing, and much more! Blogs are important vehicles to connect all of the stakeholders in the early childhood community. Direct service programs, national, state, and local organizations, colleges and companies are finding that their blogs not only attract new visitors, they become the glue that binds the community. This webinar will[...] Full Description

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Dawn Braa

Topics :
Blogging, Business, Management

March 6, 2013

Resources for Supporting Early Childhood Administrators: A Smorgasbord of Options and Opportunities by Sue Offutt

As the director or administrator of an early childhood program facing the unique challenges 21st century program management, it is important to be able to gather informal and formal information you can use to measure, monitor, and improve your program’s quality. The options are vast and dispersed, so locating the best resources can be overwhelming. This webinar will help you learn how to locate and[...] Full Description

Presenter(s):

Susan Offutt

Topics :
Management, Resources

February 27, 2013

ECE Program Accreditation & QRIS- Proven Strategies to Survive, Thrive, and Achieve Your Quality Goals, By Rachel Robertson and Miriam Dressler

Measuring your ECE program's current quality and working toward standards to improve quality are critical practices for early care and education programs, but the process can be down right grueling. Using our years of experience working in an education department to support almost two thousand centers across the country combined with our personal experience as accreditation validators and QRIS consultants, we have gathered strategies, best practices, and resources that can help all program administrators successfully achieve their quality measurement goals.

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Miriam Dressler

Rachel Robertson

Topics :
Coaching, Management, Program Quality, QRIS, Supervision

January 16, 2013

Support Diversity in Your ECE Program With a A Treasure Trove of Free Resources: Libraries and Librarians by Lisa Guernsey, Karen Nemeth, Cen Campbell

Do you find yourself searching for great resources to enrich your multicultural or multilingual program? It is a challenge for preschool administrators to find the right materials for the languages and cultures they serve. The solution may be more accessible and affordable than you think: Partner with your local library. There are so many ways this kind of partnership can help both parties because librarians need to connect with families in your community to provide appropriate activities for ALL of the parents and children. Librarians have the skills and special tools to help your staff discover and use materials and resources they might never have considered before.This just might be the perfect match!

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Cen Campbell

Lisa Guernsey

Karen Nemeth

Topics :
Diversity, Management, Resources

January 9, 2013

Empowering Staff to Lead from Within in Early Childhood Settings – No Director Is An Island, by Dr. Bisa Lewis

As the Director in your program, you have a lot of responsibility. It sometimes seems it’s all on your shoulders because you wear so many hats and play so many critical roles. Wouldn’t it be great to harness the leadership potential and skills in your key staff members so you can focus on the most important work? In this practical and advice-packed session, Dr. Bisa Lewis, the author of the Wings Curriculum, will help you learn effective management strategies for empowering staff members and parents to actively support implementation of program policies, goals and objectives. You will learn how to bring out the emerging leader in key staff members and give them the nudge they need to develop their leadership potential, share important responsibilities, and lead from within. Join us to learn innovative approaches to shared governance. Let go and let staff grow! Isn’t it time to watch your program blossom?

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Bisa Lewis

Topics :
Coaching, Management, Staff Development, Supervision

December 5, 2012

Increasing Enrollment and Parent Engagement Through Social Media and Online Communication Tools, by Fran Simon, M.Ed.

Early childhood learning programs thrive when they communicate well. Effective communication drives your program's brand in your community and on the web. In this webinar, the CEO of MemberHub.com, Matt Harrell, will explore the different levels on which a program needs to communicate in order to effectively market itself, drive enrollment and keep parents engaged.

Presenter(s):

Fran Simon

Topics :
Business, Family Engagement, Management, Social Media

October 31, 2012

Small Steps to Improve Children’s Environmental Health in your Early Childhood Program

PLEASE NOTE NEW DATE! OCTOBER 31, 2012! Children spend a significant time in child care settings. Early care and education programs should be safe and healthy and provide a learning environment free from exposures to lead, pesticides, plastics, harsh cleaning products and other hazards. Have you ever wondered how the environment or the chemicals used in your program impact the children and staff? Is there[...] Full Description

Presenter(s):

Margo Young

Jacque Sell

Paul, M.S. Hester

Topics :
Environmental Health, Management, Teaching Practices

October 24, 2012

The Director’s Role in Developing LEGAL Enrollment Agreements – So Much More Than an Enrollment Form, by Michelle McGinnis

What is your process when you enroll new families in your preschool program? Many schools and child care facilities use a standard enrollment form instead of an Admission Agreement. Regardless of whether you require parents to complete a basic enrollment form or have them enter into an agreement with you, it’s critical that your documentation protects your program and outlines the details of the relationship. Even the most minimal of agreements provide for the basics, such as days and time of operation and the fees charged, but an agreement can and should be a comprehensive document that governs the relationship between the school and parents in a number of common scenarios.

Presenter(s):

Michelle McGinnis

Topics :
Agreements, Business, Legal, Management

October 3, 2012

Engaging Children’s Hearts and Minds: Teaching and Learning with the Project Approach, by Sylvia Chard

This webinar presents an overview of the Project Approach to teaching and learning. Illustrated with photographs of project work in action Sylvia Chard offers a practical account of how teachers can develop in-depth projects with young children. Through their studies of the local environment many opportunities arise for children to apply math and language skills. Progress made by individual children in this context can be very rewarding to them and impressive to teachers and parents.

Presenter(s):

Sylvia C. Chard

Topics :
Project Approach, Teaching Practices

September 12, 2012

Using Ele™, a Free Online Tool, to Incorporate Principles from NAEYC and the Fred Rogers Center into Your Program

This webinar is sponsored by the TEC Center at Erikson Institute. The NAEYC/Fred Rogers Center joint position statement on technology and media in ECE is great…. but now what? Join Michael Robb and Chip Donohue for a discussion of how free online tools can be used in ways that support the recommendations of the position statement. In this session you will[...] Full Description

Presenter(s):

Michael Robb, Ph.D.

Topics :
Resources, Teaching Practices

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