Your Early Childhood Career Journey: Making the Most of Your Time as a Teacher and Planning Beyond
WebinarHow can you shine in your role as a teacher so you can be ready for the next steps in your journey, and what are those next steps? What types of opportunities are out there for ECE professionals? Discover insights about how to make the most out of your important teaching experiences and be ready to explore the world beyond the classroom. You will learn about the world of opportunities you might never have realized exist in the early care and education profession.
Cascade Training for All Staff
Microsoft TeamsTopics include: maintaining mindfulness, resilience, regaining equilibrium when stressed, staying focused in uncertain times, being joyful in your work.
Intentional Preschool Environments Set the Stage for Young Children
WebinarJoin this reflective webinar presented by early care and education expert, Laura Delgado to learn to design your space in a way that offers children the opportunity to feel comfortable owning the space. This session will provide practical ideas and processes for intentional design of indoor and outdoor environments for children birth through 5 years old. You will learn: Planning insights to enable you to set up your environment with intention. How to set the stage for learning, and use the environment as the 3rd teacher. How to use different types of materials, and collect age-appropriate materials including commercial, natural and repurposed.
PBIS Module 2: Social Emotional Teaching Strategies
Microsoft TeamsThursday evening offering of the January New Teacher Training
PBIS Module 2: Social Emotional Teaching Strategies
Microsoft TeamsFriday morning offering of the January New Teacher training
Covid-19 Update– Learning to Ride the Rapids
Microsoft TeamsJoin Val Haynes for a Q&A Session and hear the latest COVID-19 updates
January Teacher Training
Microsoft TeamsTopics for the January teacher meeting include: EHS is Amazing, Everyone's favorite topic: Policies & Procedures!, Assessment Support for Spanish speaking students, The CLASS tool: what is it? Why do we care?
Cascade Training for Direct Service Staff
Microsoft TeamsTopics will include: How do you QTIP, separating work and home, processing feeling threatened/discredited by parents/caregivers. The pandemic is a marathon.
Digital Detox: Screen Boundaries for Better Health
ZoomAccording to recent studies, smartphone users pick up their phones an average of 96 times per day, and spend between 5 to 6 hours daily on their screen. These convenient devices may make our lives easier and more enjoyable, but they’re also incredibly addictive and can increase depression, anxiety and relationship problems. Explore new ways to think about the place of your devices in daily life at our Digital Detox workshop February 8, 2022 from 12-1 p.m. on Zoom. Jodi DePaoli, LPC will help you explore what keeps you going back to the screen over and over again, and teach you how to set screen boundaries that actually work.
Mitigating the Impact of Trauma and Adverse Childhood Experiences: The Power of Relationships
WebinarIn classrooms across the country, teachers face a host of new challenges stemming from the stressful and even traumatic circumstances experienced by so many children and their families throughout the pandemic. Teachers play a critical role in children’s ability to heal from traumatic experiences—but often have limited guidance on what to look for or how to help. This webinar will support teachers in building trauma-sensitive classrooms by exploring: the basics of trauma and adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) and their impact on educators and on classroom communities, the impact of stress-related challenges that the past year has had on so many children and families, how to recognize and begin to address challenging or dysregulated classroom behaviors that stem from exposure to trauma and ACEs, and strategies for building relationships with children that act as a buffer against the negative impacts of trauma.