Race to the Top- The Early Learning Challenge Program: What It Means to You
With the arrival of the new federal competition, Race to the Top – Early Learning Challenge, early childhood programs are finally getting a seat at the table in conversations about education reform.
DAP + Tech in Early Childhood Classrooms: Best Practice Looks Like This
As early childhood educators, it’s our goal to help prepare young children for the future: how to listen, speak, respect, engage, create, think, and reflect. We offer children concrete, hands-on experiences that encourage inquiry and investigation. Now, in the 21st century, we are looking for answers about how to integrate and use technology to enhance and augment practices that foster divergent thinking.
Creating a Nature-Based Culture in Your Program
In today’s harried society, getting young children (and their adults!) outside and connected with nature offers many benefits. This session will explore five essential steps in creating a Nature-Based Culture in your Program.
ECE Program Contracts & Policies 101: How to Establish and Maintain Effective Business Relationships with Parents
Being a child care administrator or family child care provider can sometimes be like a high-wire tightrope walker. As the primary leader in your organization, you have to maintain a careful balance between nurturing open relationships with parents and establishing clear business guidelines and procedures. It may seen counterintuitive, but clear, well-implemented policies and contracts can actually pave the way for warm, caring professional relationships by establishing common ground right off the bat.
5 Simple Steps To Help You Manage, Motivate and Retain Great Staff
Discover a step-by step plan of action to help you manage, motivate and retain great staff. You’ll discover proven strategies to help you get the results you desire.
Define Your ECE Program’s Culture: Starting the School Year Right
Like societies, neighborhoods, and companies, all early childhood programs have their own cultures. But, we often don’t stop to think about the implications of our culture on children, families, and staff. What is your program’s culture? How is it defined? How is the culture communicated? Do you embrace and “live” your culture every day?
Firefighter or ECE Administrator? Putting Out Management “Fires” in Preschool Settings
This webinar, presented by Beth Engelhardt, a preschool administration veteran with 30 years of experience, will help you recognize the ways in which you contribute to the firestorm and how you can be proactive to prevent everyday problems and full-blown crises in your early childhood program.
Seamless Preschool to Elementary Transitions: The Role of Elementary Principals in Creating Prek through Grade 3 Alignment
Now more than ever, elementary principals are aware of the role that they can play in supporting a continuum of learning from early childhood settings and actively engaged in communities and schools to help set the stage for academic success. Join Gail Connelly and Barbara Chester from The National Association of Elementary School Principals (NAESP) to begin a dialog about how principals and early childhood professionals can work together to smooth the seams between preschool and elementary school.
Creating Effective Learning Spaces for Early Childhood Cognitive Development
The session will focus on strategies to effectively set up interest or learning centers to foster cognitive leaning and engage children in active participation.
ECE Tech: Beyond Debate-How To Evaluate Children’s Interactive Technology Tools and Media
It’s easy to find fierce debate about using technology with young children. As multi-touch screens flood our classrooms, minivans and playrooms, some have gone as far to say that technology causes health problems, developmental delays and imply that there could be frightening long-term implications. But what exactly is “technology?” In this webinar, we’ll unpackage the issue, and look specifically at issues related to evaluating children’s[…] Full Description
