Becoming Poverty Informed
Microsoft TeamsALL STAFF are highly encouraged to attend this training, and it will also serve as the September Teacher Training.
Coaching and Supervising Staff for Social Emotional Development Growth: Prioritizing SEL in Your Program
WebinarWe all understand the importance of Social/Emotional Learning for children in early childhood programs. Yet, one of the biggest challenges administrators face is ensuring all children in their programs are offered the best opportunities for social-emotional development. Join this paradigm-shifting webinar by early childhood education expert Jacky Howell to explore the most current thinking about social-emotional development and how to ensure the staff you supervise are applying best practice in their classrooms. Jacky will share her insights about how you can plan, set expectations, provide day-to-day coaching, and hold staff accountable for SEL.
Strategies for a Safe Return to In-Person Services
WebinarHead Start and Early Head Start programs returning to in-person services must continue to ensure the health and safety of children, families, and staff. This webinar will provide the latest information about COVID-19 and practical strategies programs can use in center-based, home-based, and family child care settings.
Office of Head Start Virtual Tribal Consultation
WebinarTribal Consultations will be held between OHS leadership and the leadership of tribal governments operating Head Start and Early Head Start programs. The OHS will listen to Tribal Leadership discuss ways to better meet the needs of American Indian and Alaska Native (AIAN) children and their families, taking into consideration funding allocations, distribution formulas, and other issues affecting the delivery of Head Start services in their geographic locations.
Pushing Past Bias and Challenging Classroom Behaviors: Changing Children’s Behavior Starts With Changing Ourselves
Research shows order to gain a meaningful understanding of children’s behavior there must be a meaningful understanding of adult bias and the context in which these behaviors occurs. This webinar will help you look beyond the child to the implicit bias, contextual elements, interactions, and classroom variables that might contribute to labeling behavior as challenging.
Fall All Staff
Microsoft TeamsFriday, October 8th from 10:30-12:00
Big Questions, Worries, and Fears: How to have hard conversations with little children
WebinarJoin Dr. Lauren Starnes in this webinar to address the big adult questions young children often ask that often cause us to pause, silence the child, or deflect the response. This session will guide you to answer difficult question respectfully and developmentally appropriately with even the youngest children. The webinar will explore big topics as miscarriage, domestic terror events, gender fluidity, death of a classmate, and other equally emotional and unsettling topics.
How Optimistic Leaders Can Create Equity in Early Learning Programs
WebinarTo create the next generation of critical thinkers and leaders, we must ensure that every child has a sense of agency — that they are problem solvers and decision makers! For this to happen, educators make a difference. Children must learn in equitable settings where power is shared and all the adults define themselves as Optimistic Leaders. This interactive webinar will examine how Optimistic Leaders think impact, cultivate self-awareness, nurture relationships, refine communication, and activate curiosity to enhance their work and ensure children’s success as learners.
October Teacher Training: Dual Language Learning
ZoomJoin us as we welcome guest trainer, Dr. Lillian Duran. Lillian Durán has a Ph.D. in Educational Psychology from the University of Minnesota and her research is focused on improving instructional and assessment practices with preschool-aged dual language learners (DLLs). She teaches graduate coursework in early literacy and early childhood special education at the University of Oregon. This training will focus on dual language learning and how to best support dual language learners at Head Start of Lane County. This training is on ZOOM --- not on Teams.
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.