Events for January 16, 2025 - January 16, 2025

Join Office of Head Start leadership in using monitoring data to explore patterns of child health and safety incidents across Head Start programs. Get a better understanding of the role of Head Start programs in reporting health and safety incidents, the federal staff to whom programs must report, and the reporting time frame. Find out about the trainings and resources you can use to appropriately train and support your staff to build a culture of safety and wellness in your program.

Black and Brown children. In this paradigm-shifting webinar Dr. Iheoma Iruka will help you examine the historical and contemporary impact of racism on early intervention and special education access, services, and outcomes. You will learn to incorporate an intersectionality lens that examines equity through a race and ability equity lens to dismantle racism and other systemic barriers and ensure equitable opportunities.

Every day, every student will bring their developing brain and their developing identity to school. As teachers and school leaders, we can implement research from the Science of Learning and diversity, equity, and belonging to benefit all students. This edWebinar will explore how principles from these two fields intersect to support teaching, learning, and the student experience. The presenters will share and use a tool for reflection on teaching practice and creating a culture of belonging in our school communities.

This New Teacher training session will focus on Family Partnerships & Goal Setting.  This is required for new teachers, and any interested staff member is welcome to attend.  Facilitated by Kerry Holmes and Karla Snell.

Join this webinar for a 45-minute introduction to MyPeers for family services staff! MyPeers is a community of practice forum for Head Start programs, staff, and partners. MyPeers is a virtual space for brainstorming, exchanging ideas, and sharing resources. Local program staff across the country are connecting with and lending support to fellow colleagues around family engagement goals, parent involvement, economic well-being, community partnerships, and more.

Happy, healthy, and joyful early educators make for happy, healthy, and joyful programs. In this refreshing and inspiring webinar, early care and education leader, author and inspirational speaker, Erin Ramsey will inspire you to pave a positive path forward with ways to claim your power, remove your roadblocks and find your joy. Erin will share tools, stories, photos, and poetry that will provide you an opportunity to reset and rejuvenate to improve your life and work!

Reading aloud to early learners models fluent and expressive reading, models the reading process, facilitates comprehension for English language learners, provides interactions with a variety of texts, helps children make connections, stimulates participation, and encourages sharing of children’s thoughts. Attend this session to learn ways to introduce and build vocabulary, and what to do before, during, and after a read aloud. As you will see, it’s beneficial to have a read-aloud strategy for effective learning.