Priming Children for Language and Literacy Success: A Focus on the Toddler Years, by Betty Bardige, Ed.D.
This session is part of the Follett Growing Readers Series The research is clear: rich language experience gives babies and toddlers an ongoing and increasing advantage. Children who hear more words and more encouraging words as babies and who get more opportunities to hear and use interesting words as toddlers develop vocabularies, communication skills, and social-emotional […]Full Description
Session Resources & Slides01/16/2013
Campbell, Cen
Author/Consultant, Language Castle, LLCSenior Advisor on Early and Elementary Education Policy, New America FoundationEditor, LittleeLit.com
View full profileSupport Diversity in Your ECE Program With a A Treasure Trove of Free Resources: Libraries and Librarians by Lisa Guernsey, Karen Nemeth, Cen Campbell
Do you find yourself searching for great resources to enrich your multicultural or multilingual program? It is a challenge for preschool administrators to find the right materials for the languages and cultures they serve. The solution may be more accessible and affordable than you think: Partner with your local library. There are so many ways this kind of partnership can help both parties because librarians need to connect with families in your community to provide appropriate activities for ALL of the parents and children. Librarians have the skills and special tools to help your staff discover and use materials and resources they might never have considered before.This just might be the perfect match!Full Description
Session Resources & Slides01/09/2013
Lewis, Bisa
Author & Early Learning Consultant, Ideal Early Learning LLC
View full profileEmpowering Staff to Lead from Within in Early Childhood Settings – No Director Is An Island, by Dr. Bisa Lewis
As the Director in your program, you have a lot of responsibility. It sometimes seems it’s all on your shoulders because you wear so many hats and play so many critical roles. Wouldn’t it be great to harness the leadership potential and skills in your key staff members so you can focus on the most important work? In this practical and advice-packed session, Dr. Bisa Lewis, the author of the Wings Curriculum, will help you learn effective management strategies for empowering staff members and parents to actively support implementation of program policies, goals and objectives. You will learn how to bring out the emerging leader in key staff members and give them the nudge they need to develop their leadership potential, share important responsibilities, and lead from within. Join us to learn innovative approaches to shared governance. Let go and let staff grow! Isn’t it time to watch your program blossom?Full Description
Session Resources & Slides12/12/2012
Simon, Fran S.
Author/Consultant, Language Castle, LLCChief Engagement Officer, Engagement Strategies, LLC
View full profileDigital and DAP- What ECE Administrators and Trainers Need to Know to Help Teachers Use Technology by Karen Nemeth and Fran Simon
Now that we are deep into the 21st century, there's no escaping technology. Whether you think tech is good, bad, or ugly, its inevitable that tech will impact your work, and the work of the teachers you lead. It is time to embrace the fact that as an administrator, teacher educator, or trainer, you will have to address technology and its relationship to learning and developmentally appropriate practice. Full Description
Session Resources & SlidesIncreasing Enrollment and Parent Engagement Through Social Media and Online Communication Tools, by Fran Simon, M.Ed.
Early childhood learning programs thrive when they communicate well. Effective communication drives your program's brand in your community and on the web. In this webinar, the CEO of MemberHub.com, Matt Harrell, will explore the different levels on which a program needs to communicate in order to effectively market itself, drive enrollment and keep parents engaged.Full Description
Session Resources & Slides11/14/2012
Highfield, Kate
Lecturer, Institute of Early Childhood, Macquarie University
View full profileApps and Software in Early Childhood Classrooms: A Continuum of Teaching Tools, Kate Highfield
This session is sponsored by The TEC Center at Erikson Institute. Increasingly young children have access to a broad range of engaging technologies including educational software, web based resources, interactive multimedia and Apps. While many of these resources have the opportunity to positively enhance learning and play, teachers also need to consider the pedagogic approaches […]Full Description
Session Resources & Slides10/31/2012
Hester Paul, M.S.
Quality Assurance and Training Manager, Childrens' Creative Learning CentersRegional Children’s Environmental Health Coordinator, Environmental Protection AgencyNational Director, Eco-Healthy Child Care®, Children's Environmental Health Network
View full profileSmall Steps to Improve Children’s Environmental Health in your Early Childhood Program
PLEASE NOTE NEW DATE! OCTOBER 31, 2012! Children spend a significant time in child care settings. Early care and education programs should be safe and healthy and provide a learning environment free from exposures to lead, pesticides, plastics, harsh cleaning products and other hazards. Have you ever wondered how the environment or the chemicals used […]Full Description
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The Director’s Role in Developing LEGAL Enrollment Agreements – So Much More Than an Enrollment Form, by Michelle McGinnis
What is your process when you enroll new families in your preschool program? Many schools and child care facilities use a standard enrollment form instead of an Admission Agreement. Regardless of whether you require parents to complete a basic enrollment form or have them enter into an agreement with you, it’s critical that your documentation protects your program and outlines the details of the relationship. Even the most minimal of agreements provide for the basics, such as days and time of operation and the fees charged, but an agreement can and should be a comprehensive document that governs the relationship between the school and parents in a number of common scenarios.Full Description
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ECE Tech Trends in 2012, New Directions for 2013, and Why Tech Integration Matters- A TEC Conversation with Warren Buckleitner
This session is sponsored by The TEC Center at Erikson Institute. Warren Buckleitner, Editor of Children’s Technology Review, and Chip Donohue, Director of the TEC Center at Erikson Institute, will talk about technology trends, issues, and opportunities for early childhood educators and young children in 2012, and gaze into a virtual crystal ball to predict […]Full Description
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Engaging Children’s Hearts and Minds: Teaching and Learning with the Project Approach, by Sylvia Chard
This webinar presents an overview of the Project Approach to teaching and learning. Illustrated with photographs of project work in action Sylvia Chard offers a practical account of how teachers can develop in-depth projects with young children. Through their studies of the local environment many opportunities arise for children to apply math and language skills. Progress made by individual children in this context can be very rewarding to them and impressive to teachers and parents.Full Description
Session Resources & Slides09/12/2012
Michael Robb, Ph.D.
Director of Education and Research , Fred Rogers Center for Early Learning and Children’s Media
View full profileUsing Ele™, a Free Online Tool, to Incorporate Principles from NAEYC and the Fred Rogers Center into Your Program
This webinar is sponsored by the TEC Center at Erikson Institute. The NAEYC/Fred Rogers Center joint position statement on technology and media in ECE is great…. but now what? Join Michael Robb and Chip Donohue for a discussion of how free online tools can be used in ways that support the […]Full Description
Session Resources & Slides08/22/2012
Strader, Bill
Facilitator, Student Interest Forum of NAEYC, National Association for the Education of Young Children
View full profilePut future ECE leaders to work in your program: Making the most of college students in early childhood settings
Future Leaders in Early Childhood Rock! So who are our future leaders in the field of Early Childhood Education? College and university students, ECE clubs and organizations, faculty sponsors and advisers have been building collaborative, cooperative relationships with the affiliates of the National Association for the Education of Young Children. Just this past year over […]Full Description
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Challenging Behavior is Everyone’s Challenge! How to support ECE staff who work with children with challenging behaviors
A child care center director/administrator is an advocate for the children, the staff and the center. When there is a child with challenging behavior at the center, this becomes an even more difficult task. Learn strategies that will help you support your staff through what can be a very difficult time. Help your staff to […]Full Description
Session Resources & Slides07/11/2012
Morris, Ben
Marketing Director, Bum bleBee Childcare SoftwareProduct Director, BumbleBee Software
View full profileBuild Waiting Lists for Your ECE Program with ideas from the Fortune 500
BB Discover how surprisingly small changes in your marketing practices can lead to having parents lined up around the block to enroll their children in your center. In this session, Jeff Holden and Ben Morris will offer tips to simplify your enrollment management including: Setting up a simple process to follow up with families and […]Full Description
Session Resources & Slides06/27/2012
DeHaney, Felecia
President and Chief Executive Officer , National Black Child Development Institute
View full profileFamily, Culture, Program Administration, and Social-Emotional Development- A Lens for ECE Administrators
This session is sponsored by the National Black Child Development Institute. It’s a fact that strong early social-emotional development underlies future academic success, but how often do you, as the administrator, examine the impact family culture has on your program’s social-emotional ecosystem? Join this free webinar to learn more about the relationship between culture, program administration […]Full Description
Session Resources & Slides06/20/2012
Getskow, Veronica
Co-Founder of The Children’s Project, The Children's ProjectEarly Childhood and Child Development Professor, Los Angeles Community College District
View full profileEmotionally Healthy Children, Families, Early Childhood Programs and Communities
One of the biggest challenges early childhood educators face is how to help children develop social-emotional skills and resiliency. This unique session will show teachers and administrators how to combine common sense and systematic methods to create a community environment where children, parents, teachers and administrators thrive. It will provide an action strategy, including simple […]Full Description
Session Resources & Slides06/06/2012
Simon, Fran S.
Author/Consultant, Language Castle, LLCChief Engagement Officer, Engagement Strategies, LLC
View full profileUsing ECE Technology DAP-Style! Top Questions Answered – A TEC Track Session
The presenters for this session, Karen Nemeth, Ed.M., and Fran Simon, M.Ed, will walk you through many of the signature guidelines presented in the new technology position statement by NAEYC and The Fred Rogers Center, as well as the recommendations Karen and Fran make in their soon-to-be-released book on technology in early childhood classrooms.Full Description
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Mentoring for ECE Staff – The Goldmine of Self-Sustaining Mentoring Practices
Exposure to role models and mentors is correlated with higher confidence, success rates, and ascension in organizations. Of course, this all sounds great, until it becomes another thing on your to do list! Guerrilla Mentoring, a proprietary process adapted by the award winning Hot Mommas Project (a global leadership venture), helps overcome this concern. Guerrilla […]Full Description
Session Resources & Slides05/09/2012
Schomburg, Roberta
Director of Distance Learning and the TEC Center, Erikson InstituteProfessor of Education , Carlow University in Pittsburgh
View full profileTeaching with Technology: Guidance from the NAEYC + Fred Rogers Center Joint Position Statement
Chip Donohue and Roberta Schomburg, Senior Fellows at the Fred Rogers Center, will discuss the revision process and their approach to the NAEYC and Fred Rogers Center Joint Position Statement on Technology and Interactive Media as Tools in Early Childhood Programs Serving Children from Birth through Age 8. Full Description
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Guiding Teachers to Use Teachable Moments in Early Childhood Settings
This session is sponsored by Hatch Early Learning Our focus with Teachable Moments in Early Childhood will enable leaders and administrators to build teacher awareness in regards to the endless teachable moments that occur throughout each day in your early childhood program. Jenne Parks, Content Specialist for Hatch Early Childhood, will lead a discussion on the subject […]Full Description
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