Coaching to Support Children’s Emotional and Behavioral Self-Regulation
WebinarIn this Coaching Corner webinar, explore ways to help staff boost children’s emotional and behavioral self-regulation skills. Walk away with resources you can share with coachees—or use yourself!
Using the Pyramid Model to Prevent and Respond to Challenging Behavior
WebinarPyramid Model practices help staff prevent and respond to children's challenging behavior. Hear a brief overview of the Pyramid Model and hear from Head Start and Early Head Start programs that have successfully adopted its practices. Explore systems for establishing an effective workforce, maintaining nurturing and responsive relationships, and creating high-quality supportive environments. This webinar will be offered with simultaneous interpretation in Spanish.
Educational Advocacy for Children in Foster Care
WebinarThis training will increase understanding and provide practical advice about how resource parents and providers can best understand and advocate for the educational needs of children and young people in care.
November Teacher Trainings
Microsoft TeamsThe following trainings will be offered on Friday, November 19th. Although it is a Teacher Training Day, these sessions are available to ANY interested staff member. Please note that some sessions have a participant limit; for those sessions, preregistration is required. You will be invited to the Microsoft Teams training sessions for which you register.
Supporting Preschoolers’ Cognitive Self-Regulation
WebinarCognitive self-regulation skills are often referred to as executive functioning. These skills include preschoolers' ability to maintain focus during interactions with adults and other children and control impulsive behaviors. Cognitive self-regulation helps children show persistence when working toward a goal or solving a problem, use memory to recount past experiences, and demonstrate the ability to learn in more than one way. Join this webinar to explore the importance of cognitive self-regulation for preschoolers and learn ways to support their development.
Prioritizing Staff Wellness in Unprecedented Times
WebinarJoin this webinar to discuss strategies to support staff wellness during these unprecedented times. Hear from Head Start directors who have emphasized staff well-being while facing new and changing challenges in program operations. The webinar will also highlight information from ACF-IM-HS-21-05 Supporting the Wellness of All Staff in the Head Start Workforce.
Teaching Racial-Cultural Empathy and Challenging Discrimination in Early Childhood
WebinarEarly childhood educators have the unique opportunity to cultivate racial-cultural empathy and challenge discrimination before and during this prime age. Understand the importance of promoting racial-cultural empathy and challenging discrimination during early childhood to promote racial and cultural awareness among young children. Become familiar with the components of teaching racial-cultural empathy in early childhood education programs, including knowledge of inter-group differences, awareness of biases, and social-emotional skills to overcome prejudice and practice solidarity. Identify program-wide inclusive policies and family engagement practices that challenge discrimination and propel the development of racial-cultural empathy.
Strategies to Promote Cognitive Self-regulation
WebinarYoung children need their families’ support to build cognitive self-regulation — or executive function — skills like focusing, maintaining attention, and controlling impulses. In this Home Visiting Series webinar, explore research, home visiting strategies, and resources that support home visitors as they partner with families to promote cognitive self-regulation in young children.
Indigenous Wisdom for Listening to Children and Families
WebinarDr. Hinemoa Elder, MNZM, a Māori child and adolescent psychiatrist of Te Aupouri, Ngāti Kurī, Te Rarawa, and Ngāpuhi nui tonu descent, is an advocate for Te Reo Māori — the Māori language — and the cultural knowledge the language embodies. She will join us for this third Fall 2021 Learning to Listen conversation to share her reflections on Indigenous wisdom that can broaden our focus and foster family well-being.
How Infants Think and Feel: What Research Tells Us
WebinarThis webinar begins a three-part series that explores development from the child’s perspective as it changes across the first three years of life. Tune in to the first webinar to learn what research has uncovered about the remarkable ways infants think and feel during their first year of life. Discover strategies adults can use to deepen relationships and learning during the first and earliest stage of development. Join Dawson Nichols, Ph.D. and Beth Zack, Ph.D., from the National Center on Early Childhood Development, Teaching, and Learning for this webinar in the BabyTalks series.