Engaged: Using Summer to Connect with Students and Families
WebinarWorking together we can create a bridge to school an intentional approach that utilizes the summer to create connection, a feeling of belonging and excitement about learning.
Reflecting on Resilience: A celebration of learning of 2020-2021 school year
WebinarIn the final installment of our “Making Distance Learning Work” webinar series, we will celebrate all that we have learned together this school year. We have engaged in reflective practice in the midst of the unknown and guided our youngest learners in growth and discovery through one of the most challenging school years in recent memory. Together, we will celebrate the challenges, innovations, and resilience of the early childhood field in this educator-featured “Celebration of Learning.”
Overcoming the Challenges of Integrating Nature into the Early Childhood Classroom
WebinarThis edWebinar will help early childhood educators identify the principles fundamental to a nature-based approach and the benefits of such an approach. Then, using a continuum of nature-based early childhood education as the overarching framework, Rachel A. Larimore will address the unique challenges of integrating nature into the preschool classroom.
Mind in the Making and Vroom: Even Babies Develop Executive Function
WebinarErin Ramsey and Dan Torres will join us from the Bezos Foundation to talk about the importance of executive function and how even our youngest Head Start babies can start to develop these vital life skills. Through Mind In The Making and Vroom, they work to ensure all children and the adults who support them understand how to build better executive function.
Community Resiliency Model (CRM) Parent/Caregiver Training: Part 1
WebinarThe Community Resiliency Model (CRM)® is a mental health training for parents, caregivers, and community members to support families and their wider social network. The primary focus of this skills-based program is to re-set the natural balance of the nervous system in order to bring the body, mind, and spirit back into greater balance. CRM’s goal is to help to create “trauma-informed” and “resiliency-focused” communities that share a common understanding of the impact of trauma and chronic stress on the nervous system, and how resiliency can be restored or increased using this skills-based approach.
COVID-19 and Children with Special Health Care Needs: CCHCs Can Help
WebinarJoin this webinar to explore how child care health consultants (CCHCs) can address the impact of COVID-19 on children with chronic health conditions, using asthma as a case study. Learn how CCHCs can work with families and programs to understand new recommendations to keep children with special health care needs safe during the pandemic.
Trauma-Informed Facilitation Workshop
WebinarJoin us for this free, interactive workshop about the importance of implementing trauma-informed facilitation in your work. This is a two-part training, June 7 & 21, 9:00 – 11:00am, led by the Trauma Healing Project, and hosted by Live Healthy Lane, Early Learning Alliance, and United Way of Lane County. Be sure to add both dates to your calendar!
Strengths Based Approach to Culturally Responsive Services: Understanding the influence of Culture
WebinarEvery individual is rooted in culture. To build ongoing, goal-oriented relationships with families, program staff value and embrace the diverse cultures of enrolled children and families while also exploring their own. In this interactive session, join NCPFCE to review key concepts that will enhance understanding and awareness of how culture may influence engagement efforts with families.
Identifying and Working with Children with Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorders (FASDs)
WebinarThis webinar will provide teachers and home visitors with strategies to help identify and improve outcomes for children who were prenatally exposed to alcohol. Learn how FASDs may cause problems with learning and development that lead to challenging behaviors. Understanding the cause of these behaviors can inform strategies to support positive social and emotional development and learning.
Staff Retention from Inception: Effective Interviews and Onboarding in ECE
WebinarDo you ever wonder why recently hired staff don’t hang around for long, or worse, behave in ways that make you question your own judgment in hiring them? Every childcare business should have interview and onboarding/orientation processes that are streamlined, consistent and empowering for new staff members. From the moment you first screen applicants through the moment you make the job offer, you will want to share the roadmap to them becoming a part of the team. Hiring and onboarding are best thought of as a process of ramping staff into the culture of your program– think of it as organizational socialization!