Think Outside the Toybox: Secrets to Finding Talent During the ECE Staffing Crisis
WebinarHave 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 prep to administrative tasks—they risk losing the staff they already have. This very timely webinar will reveal untapped sources of talent you might not have considered—from targeting certain groups for recruitment, to finding hidden potential in your current staff.
Understanding Behavioral Challenges through a Trauma and Resilience Lens: From Deficit to Adaptive Strength
WebinarThis training will provide greater understanding about how a young person’s history and context informs current behaviors. The training will aim to shift one’s lens from thinking about behaviors such as lying, hoarding food, and tantrums as deficits to understanding them as adaptive strengths that have enabled a child to survive in very difficult circumstances.
The School Wellness Wheel: Enhancing Student Growth Through Healing and Resilience-Centered Education
WebinarLearn how to shift the perspective away from time-based, curriculum-centered schools to creating resilience-centered educational models that can help take students and teachers to higher levels of learning for all.
Supporting Infants’ and Toddlers’ Emotional and Behavioral Self-Regulation
WebinarAn important part of becoming a successful learner is developing the ability to regulate emotions and behaviors. Infants and toddlers learn to self-regulate within the context of consistent, responsive relationships with familiar adults. Join this webinar to explore the importance of emotional and behavioral self-regulation for infants and toddlers. Learn ways teachers and family child care providers support self-regulation though responsive and consistent teaching practices.
Introduction to Trauma Informed Services
Microsoft TeamsThis New Teacher training is designed for ALL STAFF to gain an introduction to Trauma Informed Services. There are two opportunities to attend this training, as it will be offered on Thursday evening and on Friday morning.
Introduction to Trauma Informed Services
Microsoft TeamsThis New Teacher training is designed for ALL STAFF to gain an introduction to Trauma Informed Services. There are two opportunities to attend this training, as it will be offered on Thursday evening and on Friday morning.
Reclaiming the Narrative for Equity, Inclusion, & Belonging in Schools
ZoomExplore how we can effectively communicate about and take collective leadership for the schools and educational environments that our young people are demanding and deserve. Join other committed educators, students, parents, advocates, and community members to learn, strategize, dream, and take action to create equitable and just schools in which every young person is seen, valued, cared for and thrives.
The Keys to Effective Practice-Based Coaching: A Framework for Early Childhood Leaders
WebinarDeveloping your coaching skills is critical to help your staff engage children nurture their development. Join this free eye-opening webinar to learn about a coaching framework for supporting early childhood practitioners’ use of evidence-informed teaching practices. In this session, the editors of Essentials of Practice-Based Coaching will share highlights of their new book about practice-based coaching and essentials for successful implementation. Together, we will explore three key elements of the framework: Shared goals and action planning, focused observation, and reflection and feedback.
Let’s Start Normalizing Inclusion & Diversity: Equitable Access, Participation, and Supports for Children of Diverse Backgrounds
WebinarEducators must use teachable moments to address diversity and differences in ability as they create learning environments and develop curricular approaches that reframe our beliefs and norms in early childhood programs. Join our webinar to gain an understanding of intersectionality and its impact on equity and inclusion in early childhood special education.
Using the 5Rs to Promote Self-regulation Skills in Young Children
WebinarThe first five years of life are foundational in building the emotional and behavioral self-regulation skills that every child needs. Join this webinar to discuss how early learning leaders can provide education staff with the resources and guidance necessary to foster these skills in children. Explore the strategic use of data to inform and focus professional development to maximize impact and improve outcomes for children. This webinar will have English and Spanish captioning.