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 [...]

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.

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 [...]

BB Discover how surprisingly small changes lead to simplified enrollment management including: Setting up a simple process to follow up with families and drive enrollment Email marketing – from simple to sophisticated using tools you already own Building authentic and personal marketing – great photos and copy Responding to inquiries – what you need to [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

Have you ever wondered how the environment or the chemicals used in your program impact the children and staff?  Are those all of those allergies and illnesses just a normal part of every child care program? As an administrator, there’s a lot you can do to improve the environment in your program.  Armed with knowledge and support, [...]

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.

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 [...]

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 [...]