☕Introducing the ECE Play Café – The Professional Voice: Advocacy, Language & Identity in Early Childhood Take a 30-minute pause in your day to reconnect, reflect, and spark new ideas in your practice. Join us 12:30–1:00 PM (MST) on the second Tuesday of each month for bite-sized sessions designed to fuel your passion for play […]
Playful Planning: Exploring the Planning Process with the 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. One of the most popular and best approaches to achieve this is the […]
Rooted in Care: A Professional Wellness & Advocacy Retreat for Early Childhood Educators When: Saturday, April 18, 2026 Where: Red Deer, AB Time: 8:00 AM - 4:30 PM Welcome to Inspired Minds ECC's very FIRST Educator Wellness Retreat! A Professional Learning Day focusing on YOU! Rooted in Care is a restorative professional retreat dedicated to honouring […]
NEW! Listening to the Land: Deepening Nature Play Through Land-Based and Place-Based Practices This workshop invites early childhood educators to deepen their understanding of land-based and place-based learning as vital components of high-quality early learning. Grounded in current research and best practices, participants will explore how children form relationships, knowledge, and identity through their encounters […]
Leading with Advocacy: Professionalism and Ethics for Early Childhood Educators Advocacy for the child care sector begins with you! As early childhood leaders, we must promote and maintain a sense of professionalism in our work. This requires us to engage in deep and meaningful reflective practices in all that we do. These self-reflective practices include […]
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 […]
☕Introducing the ECE Play Café – Dancing with the Wind Take a 30-minute pause in your day to reconnect, reflect, and spark new ideas in your practice. Join us 12:30–1:00 PM (MST) on the second Tuesday of each month for bite-sized sessions designed to fuel your passion for play and professionalism. Each mini-workshop offers: • Quick […]
Reflections of Playful Learning: Making Children's Learning Visible with the Emergent Curriculum Approach After a full day of play, everyone is exhausted! Oh, but what fun we had! What learning transpired! It was a success! Before we forget of all the adventures and discoveries, it’s time to reflect. Reflection is a main factor when enriching […]
Roots, Rhythms & Play: Enriching Children’s Outdoor Experiences Roots, Rhythms & Play: Enriching Children’s Outdoor Experiences invites educators to reimagine outdoor play as a rich, holistic learning experience where nature and children are co-constructors of knowledge. This workshop examines the power of active play, the importance of healthy risk-taking, and the educator’s role in creating […]
The Journey of Learning: Reflective Practices of an Early Childhood Professional One of the most impactful strategies I have learned as an early childhood educator is how to reflect on my practices. This is not something I did much of in my early years as an educator. After all, I was simply trying to survive […]