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, […]
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 […]
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! 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 […]
From Crying to Smiling: Understanding Children's Behaviours Ever wonder WHY some children react in ways we just don't understand? The screaming, biting and hitting came from no where! When a seemingly small situation throws them right into a major meltdown. Feeling like you're at a standstill of what to do next? Well, then this webinar […]
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 […]
Observing Play with Intention: Enriching your Emergent Curriculum Approach Every take the time to sit back and simply observe children playing? The conversations they have, even by themselves. The curiosity they show when they are exploring something new. The expressions of satisfaction when they are deep in thought in play and when they reach a […]
NEW! Bringing the Village Together: Team Building Practices for Early Childhood Organizations Creative, inspirational and effective team building strategies help to create a foundation of respect, trust and cohesiveness that every early childhood team needs in order to provide high quality care to the children and families they work with. We are the village that […]
Playful Planning: Enriching your Emergent Curriculum Approach Playful learning experiences promote a sense of curiosity, exploration, and confidence, which are what we all strive to achieve when we plan for our early childhood environment and our children's experiences. To achieve this, one of the most popular and best approaches is the emergent curriculum approach. This […]
NEW! We Are Family! Building Stronger Connections with Families Let's talk about the other part of children...their family! Families come in all sizes, cultures and expectations - they are as diverse as the children we work with! As the child's primary caregiver, it's important that we demonstrate respect and value the child's family as major […]
