Events for September 29, 2024 - September 29, 2024

Join 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.

Early 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.

Young 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.

Dr. 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.

This 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.

How 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.

Join 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.