March 20, 2013
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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- Blogging, Business, Management
March 6, 2013
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
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- Management, Resources
February 27, 2013
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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- Coaching, Management, Program Quality, QRIS, Supervision
February 20, 2013
This session is part of the TEC Track Series of webinars offered by the TEC Center at Erikson Institute. Digital tools are playing an increasingly important role in classroom learning. In order to design quality learning experiences for their students, educators must be informed and insightful in the manner in which they integrate these technologies. Mark Bailey, PhD, Director of the Child Learning and Development[...] Full Description
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- DAP, Teaching Practices, Technology
February 6, 2013
This session is part of the Follett Growing Readers Series The research is clear: rich language experience gives babies and toddlers an ongoing and increasing advantage. Children who hear more words and more encouraging words as babies and who get more opportunities to hear and use interesting words as toddlers develop vocabularies, communication skills, and social-emotional and intellectual strengths that prime them for ongoing success. Early education[...] Full Description
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- Language Development, Literacy, Teaching Practices
January 16, 2013
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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- Diversity, Management, Resources
January 9, 2013
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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- Coaching, Management, Staff Development, Supervision
December 12, 2012
Now that we are deep into the 21st century, there's no escaping technology. Whether you think tech is good, bad, or ugly, its inevitable that tech will impact your work, and the work of the teachers you lead. It is time to embrace the fact that as an administrator, teacher educator, or trainer, you will have to address technology and its relationship to learning and developmentally appropriate practice.
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- DAP, Management, Supervision, Teaching Practices, Technology
December 5, 2012
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.
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- Business, Family Engagement, Management, Social Media
November 14, 2012
This session is sponsored by The TEC Center at Erikson Institute. Increasingly young children have access to a broad range of engaging technologies including educational software, web based resources, interactive multimedia and Apps. While many of these resources have the opportunity to positively enhance learning and play, teachers also need to consider the pedagogic approaches afforded by these tools. Further, we need to reflect on[...] Full Description
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- Software, Teaching Practices, Technology
