NEW! Mentoring and Coaching Your Team to Success: Effective Coaching and Mentoring Practices for Early Childhood Leaders Coaching and mentoring are key strategies to building stronger teams, competent and capable educators and creating a learning organization. Building on your team’s ability to transfer knowledge, skills and attitudes after a training supports a cohesive and positive […]
We All Belong: Inclusive Practices in the Early Years We live in a world that is wonderfully diverse - not only culturally but also in our unique abilities. Some of us can sing while others can solve Sudoku in a couple minutes. Children all learn at their own rate and in their own way. It's […]
NEW! The Inner Child! Developing the Spiritual Well-Being of Every Child A relatively new term in early childhood that we are seeing more and more is the term 'spiritual development.' What does this mean? How can we support spiritual development in the early learning environment? In this session we will discuss what spiritual development is […]
NEW! Leading Your Team to Success: Collective Leadership for Early Childhood Leaders Leadership is key in early childhood programs. We need strong leaders to guide us through policies and best practices to help educators achieve their goals and ensure high quality practices in our early childhood programs. Leadership is a skill that takes time, intentionality, […]
Finding Calm in the Chaos: The Importance of Self Care for Early Childhood Educators As early childhood educators, providers and leaders, we are used to always lending a helping hand when needed and going the extra mile for our children, our families, our co-workers and our field in general. We work hard, long hours. We […]
We All Belong: Inclusive Practices in the Early Years We live in a world that is wonderfully diverse - not only culturally but also in our unique abilities. Some of us can sing while others can solve Sudoku in a couple minutes. Children all learn at their own rate and in their own way. It's […]
Mighty Transitions: Discovering Transitions that Work Oh those transitions! From here to there and back again. They could be a time of chaos or a time of calm - which one do we plan for?! That's right! Transitions can be calm, fun and effective if we intentionally plan for them! A planning goes a long […]
Cultivating Creative Hearts and Minds: Open Ended Art Experiences for Young Children Creativity is intelligence having fun! Alberta Einstein had it right with his quote on creativity. Children are natural artists, as all their masterpieces are a visual representation of how they see the world around them. Let us foster this self expression through open-ended […]
Let’s Move! Including Movement & Active Play Everyday In a world that seems to promote sedentary activities, and children seem more interested in screen time then play time, it's important that we get children moving from a very young age. After all, this is how children learn! So, how can we get children moving every […]
The Daily Struggle: Facilitating Conflict Resolution Conflict is something that we all experience on a daily basis. We all have our own perceptions and experiences and opinions, and with children...these opinions can get very vocal! It's up to us, the adults in their lives, to facilitate how to resolve conflicts constructively so that our children […]
