Examining Challenges for Children with Activated Stress Response and Calming Strategies Using All 5 Senses
Hands-on activities will allow attendees to explore a variety of strategies that can effectively be used to calm overactive minds and bodies by targeting all five senses.
Caring for Young Children and Staff During COVID-19
This webinar will focus on practical strategies that programs can use in all settings.
Partnering with Families During Emergencies
Discover resources program staff can use to help families access important information, benefits, and tools that can strengthen their economic security during crises.
How to Improve Equity: One Step, One Goal at a Time
Dr. Liz Brooke and Dr. Suzanne Carreker will talk about the steps to improve educational equity and will highlight the difference between an achievement gap and an opportunity gap, how the pandemic is widening equity gaps, the implications of a new equity-focused U.S. Secretary of Education, and what leaders can do to start leading with an equity agenda.
Preschool Play for Physical Development
Learn what research says about using playful learning to engage children in big body play, as well as play that develops fine and gross motor skills. Explore scaffolding strategies and techniques for managing physical play.
Attachment & Emotion Coaching
Microsoft TeamsNew Teacher Training with Kerry Holmes. This training gives an introduction to Attachment Theory and what children need from their caregivers as a secure base and safe haven. We will go over how this might look in a classroom and will also provide an introduction to Emotion Coaching as a way of helping children with their feelings. This training is appropriate for both HS & EHS staff.
Developing Early Childhood Education Settings to Support Students with Autism and Other Developmental Delays
This workshop provides examples of evidence-based practices that can be immediately implemented in classrooms.
Anti-Bias Teaching and Learning Environments in HS and EHS Programs
Presenters discuss children’s understanding of race and identity development. They also share strategies to promote anti-bias and inclusive practices through supportive interactions and activities with children.
Supporting Social and Emotional Learning Through Parent-Child Interactions
In this webinar, explore research, strategies, and resources that support social and emotional learning through intentional parent-child interactions.
Early Ideas of Addition and Subtraction in Children: The Role of Language and Literature in Math Class – Part 1
Explore strategies and resources for developing conceptual understanding of addition and subtraction through language and literature.