August 15, 2019
This session is sponsored by The InvestiGator Club. In the field of early childhood education, the focus has often been on planning an activity FOR children that is focused on coming up with a product. This session, presented by author, consultant, and DAP expert, Jacky Howell, will help you and your staff members experience a shift in thinking about classroom experiences. You will learn: The[...] Full Description
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- Teaching Practices
August 7, 2019
Sponsored by Exchange Press. Young boys, as a group, generally struggle more than girls in early childhood and elementary programs. This is not due primarily to bad behavior, but to a “fundamental mismatch between how most young boys develop, grow, and learn, and the kinds of expectations, outcomes, activities, and discipline approaches used in programs during the early years.” (Oh Boy! F Wardle, 2018) This[...] Full Description
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- Gender, Social-Emotional Development, Teaching Practices
June 26, 2019
Sponsored by Child Care Biz Help. Learn innovative solutions to solve common struggles all early education leaders experience in the areas of enrollment, recruitment, and on-boarding. It’s so easy to get bogged down with the daily fires, constant interruptions, and the never-ending revolving door. The effect of this equates to many missed opportunities and lost revenue especially when we are mishandling enrollment leads, potential new[...] Full Description
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- Business, Management, Recruiting, Staffing
June 19, 2019
Sponsored by McCormick Center for Early Childhood Leadership. Imagine an organization where every leader has the skills to build relationships with staff; children and families to nurture their highest potential and that create a psychologically safe learning environment. In this empowering webinar, early education leadership and organizational effectiveness expert, Rosa Carrillo, will draw on multiple sources from neuroscience, psychology and sociology to provide evidence that relationships[...] Full Description
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- Leadership, Management, Supervision
June 12, 2019
Sponsored by Free Spirit Publishing. All children should have the opportunity to move and be active throughout the day. The rich art form of dance/creative movement is a lively physical activity that nurtures imagination and has the potential to offer experiences in all early childhood content areas. As a longtime dance educator, Connie Bergstein Dow believes that dance can and should be accessible to young[...] Full Description
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- Language Development, Math, Movement, Teaching Practices
June 5, 2019
Sponsored by Early Childhood Investigations Consultants Directory Young children participate in engineering design and science inquiry from their earliest years as they seek to understand and change their environment. Helping children learn to use materials and their surroundings to build and solve problems is part of early childhood education. Children’s engineering may involve seeking to build a stable tower, using a stick as a tool,[...] Full Description
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- Creativity, Science, STEM
May 8, 2019
Sponsored by Brookes Publishing This insightful webinar, presented by Dr. David Dickinson, Cowan Chair of Education and Associate Dean for Research at Vanderbilt University’s Peabody College, will describe the amazing role of language in supporting children’s emotional, social, intellectual and literacy development. Research findings from multiple fields will be discussed and illustrated with brief video clips that make those findings tangible. Dr. Dickinson’s presentation will[...] Full Description
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- Language Development, Teaching Practices
May 1, 2019
This webinar is sponsored by Second Step, an initiative of Committee for Children. Kindness and empathy are two of the most important social skills we can teach children that can build meaningful connections in a diverse world. We want to help develop compassionate people who can bridge divides. This webinar will explore ways we can create experiences, use children’s social emotional competence and self-regulations skills,[...] Full Description
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- Diversity, Kindness, Teaching Practices
April 17, 2019
This webinar is sponsored by Exchange. NEW FORMAT!! Join us for an interview with two of the most influential icons, authors, and master practitioners in early education today, Margie Carter and Ann Pelo! Margie and Ann will participate in a live interview about their new book, From Teaching to Thinking. The interview will cover the book and provide insights about how to build a culture[...] Full Description
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- Professional Growth, Teaching Practices
April 10, 2019
Sponsored by RedLeaf Press. Optimists try to give meaning to the events in their lives. They tend to be healthier, happier, and more successful in life. Using optimistic thinking they shape a picture of reality and respond in a way that seeks solutions and promotes well-being. Optimistic thinking requires focusing on the positive without denying the realistic existence of the negative. It helps people[...] Full Description
