July 16, 2014
This session is part of the Follett Growing Readers Series Imagine walking into a new restaurant without knowing what the restaurant served. How would you know if the restaurant was appropriate for you and your family and how to plan your meal? Walking into a new early learning setting can be a similar experience for families and teachers. You may assume teachers know how to[...] Full Description
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- Family Engagement, Management, Teaching Practices
June 18, 2014
This session is part of the Follett Growing Readers Series Yale Professor Ed Zeigler wrote that “play is under siege.” In 1981 40% of a child’s discretionary time was spent in play. By 1997 that time had already decreased to 25%. In the last two decades children have lost 8 hours of free play per week and thousands of schools in the United States have[...] Full Description
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- Guided Play, Play, Teacher Interactions, Teaching Practices
May 28, 2014
The marketing landscape has changed drastically for early childhood programs. Parents of young children are searching for child care online first, and what they find (and learn from others’ reviews) determines who they choose. Unfortunately, many child care programs are using outdated marketing methods and they simply don’t know how to optimize their online presence. In this brand new webinar, Kris Murray will help leaders[...] Full Description
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- Business, Growth Mindset, Management, Marketing
May 14, 2014
This session is part of the Follett Growing Readers Series What are the mathematical and educational building blocks of early mathematics? What role should these building blocks play in early education, and why? Julie Sarama and Douglas H. Clements will discuss these questions, including information on three recent publications that they helped write: (a) the report of President Bush’s National Math Advisory[...] Full Description
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- Math, Teaching Practices
April 30, 2014
A large and growing number of children from culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds have the potential to develop dual language and literacy skills if supported in their immediate environment. Scientific studies suggest that young children can benefit cognitively, linguistically, and culturally from learning more than one language in early childhood. Yet, the phenomenon of childhood bilingualism is poorly understood by many and regarded with skepticism by others. Whether[...] Full Description
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- Dual Language Learning, Teaching Practices
April 9, 2014
This session is part of the Follett Growing Readers Series “Every kid starts out as a natural-born scientist.” -Carl Sagan Children have a natural curiosity about the world, and their everyday play and learning allows them to engage in the world as scientists do–by fiddling and experimenting, testing and repeating and processing everything that they experience. How can ECE professionals help to satisfy children’s curiosity[...] Full Description
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- STEM, Teaching Practices
April 2, 2014
Early childhood education it is a shared responsibility with all those who support children’s learning. As an administrator, you and your program are in a unique position to promote children’s well-being – in your school and beyond the boundaries of your school – by engaging families and the community at large Successful engagement starts when program administrators are committed to meaningful engagement and[...] Full Description
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- Family Engagement, Teaching Practices
March 19, 2014
This session is part of the Follett Growing Readers Series From babyhood through school age, books play important roles in children’s lives. They support language and concept development, provide information and entertainment, deepen adult-child relationships, support creativity and the arts, foster social-emotional growth and the development of resiliences, and prime children for later school and life success. For a young child, a book can be[...] Full Description
March 5, 2014
Communicating with parents of children in your program is more important than ever – and the options to support that communication are growing at a rapid pace. This webinar will describe recent research on the impact of parent engagement on preschool student outcomes and discuss strategies of improving that engagement. New options for using various kinds of technology to facilitate communication with parents will be[...] Full Description
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- Family Engagement, Teaching Practices, Technology
February 26, 2014
This session is part of the Follett Growing Readers Series “Play is often talked about as if it were a relief from serious learning. But for children play is serious learning. Play is really the work of childhood.” –Fred Rogers Children are non-stop learners, and are constantly growing their awareness of language and building the skills they will need to become good readers, not just[...] Full Description
