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Grip the Future: Strategies for Improving Pencil Grasp with Young Learners
Early childhood educators play a pivotal role in laying the foundation for fine motor skills, which are critical for successful handwriting and overall academic success. However, many children struggle with pencil and scissor grasp due to underdeveloped fine motor skills, which can impact their ability to write, draw, cut, and engage in other essential classroom tasks. This edWebinar is designed specifically for early childhood teachers seeking practical strategies to improve pencil grasp in young learners using fun, playful opportunities.
Loose Parts Alive: Exploring Nature
From bugs and plants to pets and friends, low-cost and no-cost loose parts alive enhance the quality of childhood through play. Noticing the living things in and around our environments leads to innovative ways to incorporate them into children’s playful explorations.
Reggio-Inspired Classrooms for Infants, Toddlers, and Twos
Witness the magic of open-ended exploration and the wonder of learning through play. As a nurturing caregiver, you have precious opportunities to ignite curiosity in the infants, toddlers, and twos you care for.
The Basics of Growing a Child-Care Business
Understanding your ideal customer, writing a marketing plan, creating a responsive service system, and tracking your performance are just a few of the tools highlighted. With key terms to know, case studies, key questions, and exercises to help you apply the concepts, this book will set you on your way to growing and strengthening your child-care business.
Simple and Effective Strategies to Support Executive Function Skills in Young Children
Executive function helps people remember what they need to, attend to what they are supposed to, and maintain control over their thoughts and actions so they can be successful in planning, completing, and executing goal-driven activities.
Looking at Public and Private Partnerships in Early Childhood Programs
Dr. Sarah Taylor Vanover dispels the myths and explains the opportunities of a mixed-delivery system to bridge gaps in child care.
Turning Your Child Care Program Into an Inclusive Environment
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Dr. Sarah Taylor Vanover shares how to draft a powerful vision and mission statement, navigate the legal landscape of special education, and create policies and accommodations that meet the needs of children with disabilities and their families.
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Cooperative Body Safety Strategies that Protect Young Children: Empowering Teachers and Caregivers
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Kimberly King, Body Safety Educator, Sexual Abuse Prevention Expert, and Best-Selling Author, shares how breaking down the topic of prevention early, using research-based strategies, and taking the scare out of the topic helps prepare all who care for children and protect children.
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Accessible Learning Spaces: A Guide to Implementing Universal Design in Early Childhood
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Whether you’re new to UDL or looking to deepen your understanding and practice, this edWebinar will empower you to unlock the potential of every child in your early learning environment. Prepare to transform your teaching and create a more inclusive, engaging, and effective environment.
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Simple and Effective Strategies to Support Young Children’s Self-Regulation
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Dr. Julie Tourigny, OTD, MS, OTR/L shares teaching simple and effective strategies to help preschool- and kindergarten-aged children learn to regulate their emotions throughout the school day.
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Inspired by Nature: Designing Play Places for the Littlest Learners
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In this edWebinar, Dr. Sandra Duncan explores how nature offers valuable and important lessons about transforming classroom spaces into places where infants and toddlers can thrive.
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Rise and Shine: Find the Joyful Leader Within
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Teresa A. Byington, Ph.D. shares techniques that will help you become a more joyful leader and/or teacher and ways you can inspire joy in others.
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Advice for Navigating Challenging Conversations in Early Childhood Programs
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Angela Searcy, Ed.D., discusses strategies that will help you navigate conflicts and elevate equity. Watch the recording to earn a CE certificate.
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Creating Equitable Early Learning Programs
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As early childhood professionals concerned with the well-being of the whole child, we have a responsibility to create learning environments where all children feel affirmed, safe, and welcome regardless of their skin color, hair texture, language, socioeconomic background, etc.
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Developing and Implementing Effective Early Childhood Discipline Policies
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In this webinar, Dr. Sascha Longstreth and Dr. Sarah Garrity prepare early childhood consultants, coaches, and leaders to implement a simple five-step process that can be used to create and revise discipline policies that support young children’s social-emotional competence.
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Measuring the Quality of Nature-Based Classrooms Using the NABERS Tool
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Nature-based education is a rapidly growing approach in early childhood. The Nature-Based Education Rating Scale (NABERS) is a tool developed to help identify the quality and level of “natureness” for those PreK and K-3 programs adding nature to their curricula. This edWebinar identifies the core principles of Nature-based Early Childhood Education (NbECE) and discusses tangible measures of quality.
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