Kindergarten Archives - Page 25 of 35 - Early Childhood Webinars

March 23, 2016

Anti-Bias Approach to Early Childhood Leadership: Beyond Books and Pictures, by Lindsey Allard Agnamba and Je’Kendria Trahan

Sponsored by the soon-to-be launched ECE Expert Consultant Directory. As the staff, children and families in our early learning programs grow more diverse, it’s essential to move beyond just having materials in the programs that reflect the various backgrounds as a way create high quality learning programs. It’s important to begin working in deeper ways to build more welcoming communities with more meaningful relationships and[...] Full Description

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Anti-bias, Leadership, Management, Supervision

March 16, 2016

Using Books for Social-Emotional Development: Literature that helps children explore feelings, by Jacky Howell and Kimberly Reinhard

Sponsored by Free Spirit Publishing Being a little one can be an emotional roller coaster! There are lots of big feelings and relationships with highs, and lows, twists and turns. Early educators need all of the tools and strategies they can get to help children manage the ride! Books are the perfect tools to engage and inspire children with stories that include social-emotional concepts. Books with[...] Full Description

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Kimberly Reinhard

Jacky Howell

Topics :
Books, Social-Emotional Development, Storytime, Teaching Practices

February 17, 2016

Build a Workplace Early Educators Love – Just add Joy, by Rich Sheridan

This session is sponsored by the McCormick Center for Early Childhood Leadership. In this powerful and innovative webinar, Richard Sheridan, Author of Joy Inc., will help you learn to create an intentional team culture focused on the business value of joy and unleash the human energy and the results you always knew were possible. The webinar will explore what an intentionally joyful culture must choose as[...] Full Description

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Richard Sheridan

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Leadership, Management, Staffing

February 10, 2016

Bridging the Birth to 3rd Grade Workforce: Early Care and Education at the Crossroads of Transformation, by Jacqueline Jones

This session is sponsored by Nemours Bright Start! We’ve done it! We’ve raised awareness about the importance of high quality early care and education. But, there is continued discussion regarding who should be implementing programs for children from birth through 3rd grade. Who is an early childhood professional? What entity should decide individual and institutional certification? Who owns the profession? This session, presented by[...] Full Description

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Jacqueline Jones

Topics :
Child Care Policy, Leadership, Management

January 27, 2016

Leading for ECE Program Quality: Using Self-Awareness and Intention to Effect Positive Change, by Judy Jablon

This session is sponsored by the McCormick Center for Early Childhood Leadership. In this webinar, Judy Jablon will help you explore how you can use self-awareness and intentionality to enhance program quality. As the primary leader in your program, how you are and what you say and do each day influences what happens in your program: how people relate to one another and their openness to continuous[...] Full Description

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Judy Jablon

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Leadership, Management, Quality Improvement

January 20, 2016

Managing Legal Risks in Early Childhood Programs, by Tom Copeland

This session is sponsored by Rasmussen College. Managing Legal Risks in Early Childhood Programs: How child care centers and family child care homes can deal with custody issues, parents showing up drunk or without a car seat, lawsuits, illegal discrimination, privacy, and defending your program from attacks on the Internet. All sessions are 1.5 hours long, and include a brief announcement from our sponsor. 2:oo[...] Full Description

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Tom Copeland

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Contracts, Family Child Care, Legal, Management

December 16, 2015

Social-Emotional Learning & ECE Program Culture: How to facilitate resilience and inclusive culture, By Dr. Maurice Elias

This webinar is sponsored by Bright Horizons Family Solutions. This presentation will focus on how early childhood education programs can systematically build social-emotional learning/emotional intelligence skills in young children and enhance program culture and climate. While many nations, and states in the U.S., include social-emotional skills among their standards, there has been less emphasis on how to build those skills in sustained ways. That includes[...] Full Description

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Maurice Elias

Topics :
Inclusion, Program Culture, Social-Emotional Development, Teaching Practices

December 9, 2015

Managing Mild Autism in Early Childhood Classrooms: Top Teaching Strategies Children with Mild, by Mike A. Assel and Libby Hall

This session is sponsored by Robert-Leslie Publishing, the publisher of The InvestiGator Club Pre-Kindergarten system. Your program is proud to be an inclusive environment. Children of all abilities are welcome, and your teachers work hard to facilitate learning that meets every child’s needs, but they are frequently challenged when it comes to engaging children who have been diagnosed with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD). Without specialized[...] Full Description

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Libby Hall

Michael Assel

Topics :
Neurodiversity, Teaching Practices

December 2, 2015

Come on In! How Directors and Teachers Can Use Rituals and Traditions to Create Community! by Jacky Howell and Kimberly Reinhard

This session is sponsored by Kodo Kids The co-authors of the new book Rituals and Traditions: Fostering a Sense of Community in Preschool, will look at ways that administrators and lead teachers can create community and develop relationships with children, families and staff by rituals and traditions. Tangible ideas on how to start creating rituals and traditions that are daily, monthly, annual events, special days[...] Full Description

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Kimberly Reinhard

Jacky Howell

Topics :
Community Building, Diversity, Teaching Practices

November 11, 2015

The Great Disconnect: What We Know vs. What We Do in Early Education, by Michael Gramling

This session is sponsored by the McCormick Center for Early Childhood Leadership. Why has publicly funded early childhood education failed so miserably in its efforts to prepare children for school? Why does the achievement gap not only persist but continue to grow wider? It’s not a mystery really. We continue to act as if what separates children from low income families from their more affluent peers is[...] Full Description

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Michael Gramling

Topics :
Child Care Policy, Leadership

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