October 31, 2012
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
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- Environmental Health, Management, Teaching Practices
October 24, 2012
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.
- Topics :
- Agreements, Business, Legal, Management
October 17, 2012
This session is sponsored by The TEC Center at Erikson Institute. Warren Buckleitner, Editor of Children’s Technology Review, and Chip Donohue, Director of the TEC Center at Erikson Institute, will talk about technology trends, issues, and opportunities for early childhood educators and young children in 2012, and gaze into a virtual crystal ball to predict the most important and influential trends and technology innovations for[...] Full Description
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- Teaching Practices, Technology, Trends
October 3, 2012
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.
- Topics :
- Project Approach, Teaching Practices
September 12, 2012
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
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- Resources, Teaching Practices
August 22, 2012
Future Leaders in Early Childhood Rock! So who are our future leaders in the field of Early Childhood Education? College and university students, ECE clubs and organizations, faculty sponsors and advisers have been building collaborative, cooperative relationships with the affiliates of the National Association for the Education of Young Children. Just this past year over 100 colleges and universities were represented by students and faulty[...] Full Description
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- Career Development, Management, Staffing
August 15, 2012
A child care center director/administrator is an advocate for the children, the staff and the center. When there is a child with challenging behavior at the center, this becomes an even more difficult task. Learn strategies that will help you support your staff through what can be a very difficult time. Help your staff to understand how their own attitudes and beliefs about children’s behavior[...] Full Description
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- Challenging Behavior, Management, Supervision, Teaching Practices
July 11, 2012
BB Discover how surprisingly small changes in your marketing practices can lead to having parents lined up around the block to enroll their children in your center. In this session, Jeff Holden and Ben Morris will offer tips to simplify your enrollment management including: Setting up a simple process to follow up with families and drive enrollment Email marketing – from simple to sophisticated using[...] Full Description
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- Business, Enrollment, Family Engagement, Growth Mindset, Management
June 27, 2012
This session is sponsored by the National Black Child Development Institute. It’s a fact that strong early social-emotional development underlies future academic success, but how often do you, as the administrator, examine the impact family culture has on your program’s social-emotional ecosystem? Join this free webinar to learn more about the relationship between culture, program administration and social-emotional development. The session, presented by Felicia DeHaney, Chief[...] Full Description
June 20, 2012
One of the biggest challenges early childhood educators face is how to help children develop social-emotional skills and resiliency. This unique session will show teachers and administrators how to combine common sense and systematic methods to create a community environment where children, parents, teachers and administrators thrive. It will provide an action strategy, including simple planning tools, that helps families, teachers and administrators become engaged,[...] Full Description
