Secrets to Finding Talent Amidst a ECE Staffing Crisis: Think Outside the Toybox, by Lauren Small and Virginia Marsh
Sponsored by Procare Software. Have crippling staff shortages forced you out of the director’s office and back into the classroom? Are you struggling to recruit and train employees? Does your existing staff complain about burnout? Perhaps you’ve even turned away potential enrollments due to being short-staffed. As overwhelmed directors must ask more and more of their loyal workers—who often play multiple essential roles, from food[…] Full Description
How Optimistic Leaders Can Create Equity in Early Learning Programs, by Judy Jablon and Nichole Parks
Sponsored by Procare Solutions. To create the next generation of critical thinkers and leaders, we must ensure that every child has a sense of agency — that they are problem solvers and decision makers! For this to happen, educators make a difference. Children must learn in equitable settings where power is shared and all the adults define themselves as Optimistic Leaders. This interactive webinar[…] Full Description
Big Questions, Worries, and Fears: How to have hard conversations with little children, by Dr. Lauren Starnes
Sponsored by ChildCare Education Institute. Join Dr. Lauren Starnes in this webinar to address the big adult questions young children often ask that often cause us to pause, silence the child, or deflect the response. This session will guide you to answer difficult question respectfully and developmentally appropriately with even the youngest children. The webinar will explore big topics as miscarriage, domestic terror events, death[…] Full Description
Turn Challenging Behavior Into Prosocial Learning : A New Year Brings New Opportunities, by Jacky Howell
Sponsored by ChildCare Education Institute. The first few weeks of school mean everything! Being proactive and intentional is often the most effective strategy teachers can use to set children up for success. This is especially true when it comes to prosocial learning. Young children need teachers to help them navigate life in early childhood programs. The early days of the school year offer the greatest[…] Full Description
New Options for Health Care for Early Childhood Professionals, by Louise Stoney, M.A., Sharon Easterling, B.A. and Jeremy Smith, M.A.
Sponsored by Procare Solutions. NEW DATE: September 23rd Very few child care centers can afford to offer employee benefits like health insurance and retirement plans. This workshop will explore ways that recent investments from the American Rescue Plan Act and other pandemic recovery measures may be used to expand access to employee benefits. Strategies such as tapping the Affordable Care Act health care exchange,[…] Full Description
Pushing Past Bias and Challenging Classroom Behaviors: Changing Children’s Behavior Starts With Changing Ourselves, by Dr. Angela Searcy
Sponsored by ChildCare Education Institute. When children exhibit behaviors that are not compliant, early educators often label them “challenging.” But are they really? Teachers and administrators often jump to conclusions about the child or their family and community. However, behavior is complex so there is seldom one reason children don’t or cannot comply with our expectations. Research shows order to gain a meaningful understanding of[…] Full Description
Play and Assessment? YES! Reciprocal Partners in the Early Childhood Classroom Dance, by Michelle Salcedo
Sponsored by COR Advantage. At times, assessment and play have been pitted against each other, considered to be at opposite ends of the “developmentally appropriate” continuum. In reality, both are not only essential, but they work together! Play informs authentic, observation-based assessment and assessment informs facilitation. In this session, we will examine both play and assessment and the power that comes when early educators leverage[…] Full Description
Screening to Identify Preschool Children’s Strengths and Challenges Using a Cultural Wealth Framework, by Iheoma U. Iruka, Ph.D.
Produced in partnership with Equity Research Action Coalition at UNC Frank Porter Graham Child Development Institute It is that time of year when many educators and professionals will need to identify children’s strengths and challenges to provide needed support to meet their developmental and learning needs. The data, unfortunately, shows that many children of color, children from low-income households, and children from linguistically diverse backgrounds[…] Full Description
Engineering With Nature: Learning and Communicating through Construction Play, by Tina Reeble and Kirsten Haugen, M.A.
Sponsored by Nature Explore. Children communicate competency, ideas and emotions through block building and other three-dimensional work. In this energizing webinar, nature learning and universal design experts, Tina Reeble and Kirsten Haugen will share research, classroom stories and practical suggestions to support engineering play with natural and human-made materials for building. Join us to strengthen your capacity to identify opportunities for natural engineering play indoors[…] Full Description
Ready and Resilient! Promoting the Resilience of Children and Adults, by Dr. Nefertiti B. Poyner
Sponsored by Early Childhood Investigations Consultants Directory. Each day, children and adults rely upon strong social-emotional skills as we navigate various life experiences. Learn strategies to support the resilience and social-emotional well-being of children and adults in this reflective webinar presented by Dr. Nefertiti B. Poyner. We will unpack key elements for creating early childhood environments that promote strong social-emotional development and how to build the[…] Full Description
