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.
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.