Regions 3 & 5 Education & Family Services Preservice Training
2021-08-31 09:00 - 11:30 (America/Los_Angeles) | Microsoft Teams
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Regions 4 & 6 Education & Family Services Preservice Training
2021-08-31 12:30 - 15:00 | Microsoft Teams

Region 2 Education & Family Services Preservice Training
2021-09-01 12:30 - 15:00 | Microsoft Teams

Regions 1 & 8 Education & Family Services Preservice Training
2021-09-02 09:00 - 11:30 | Microsoft Teams

Front Porch Series: Adult-Child Interactions: Asking Good Questions to Support Children’s Thinking and Learning
2021-09-02 12:00 - 13:00 | Webinar
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Front Porch Series: Adult-Child Interactions: Asking Good Questions to Support Children’s Thinking and Learning
Children learn through conversations with us. But sometimes we pepper children with a steady stream of questions that don’t leave much room for children to lead. In this webinar, learn research-backed questions that support children’s thinking and learning, and encourage curiosity and exploration.
Join Marley Jarvis, PhD, from the National Center on Early Childhood Development, Teaching, and Learning, and the Institute for Learning & Brain Sciences, University of Washington, to discuss the important role of language in supporting young children’s thinking and learning in the next webinar in the Front Porch series.

This webinar will have English and Spanish captioning.

Food Services Training for Teaching Staff and CFSWs
2021-09-02 12:30 - 14:00 | Microsoft Teams
Required for teaching staff, Classroom Food Service Workers, and others that may be responsible for child meal service.
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New Teacher Training
2021-09-03 09:00 - 12:00 | Microsoft Teams
Required for new teachers; other staff are welcome.
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Supporting Employee Recruitment and Retention Efforts
2021-09-08 11:00 - 12:30 | Webinar
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Supporting Employee Recruitment and Retention Efforts
Human resource systems are critical to a Head Start program’s resilience. Join us as we highlight resources and strategies grantees can use to support their efforts in employee recruitment, including on boarding across organizations, and retaining staff during challenging times. In addition, this session will explore succession management and sustainability.

Play and Assessment? YES! Reciprocal Partners in the Early Childhood Classroom Dance
2021-09-15 11:00 - 12:30 | Webinar
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Play and Assessment? YES! Reciprocal Partners in the Early Childhood Classroom Dance
At times, assessment and play have been pitted against each other, considered to be at opposite ends of the “developmentally appropriate” continuum. In reality, both are not only essential, but they work together! Play informs authentic, observation-based assessment and assessment informs facilitation. In this session, we will examine both play and assessment and the power that comes when early educators leverage the power of both in creating learning environments for young children.
Join this eye-opening webinar presented by early care and education expert, Michelle Salcedo to learn how you and your staff can:

Relate the goals of play to classroom practices.
Identify opportunities to assess children’s learning and development in their play.
Create and sustain play-based environments and experiences based on assessment.

Coaching Corner Series: Equity and Inclusion: Resources to Support Coaches
2021-09-15 12:00 - 13:00 | Webinar
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Coaching Corner Series: Equity and Inclusion: Resources to Support Coaches
Join this webinar to explore resources that support equity and inclusion. Discover resources and discuss how they can be used to support coachees to provide an equitable and inclusive learning environment.

This webinar will have English and Spanish captioning.

Common Medical Issues and Interventions for Children in Foster Care
2021-09-16 10:00 - 11:30 | Webinar
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Common Medical Issues and Interventions for Children in Foster Care
This training will provide information on common issues such as bedwetting, encopresis, asthma, and age appropriate hygiene, as well as common behavioral diagnoses and treatment such as for ADHD and anxiety.

Mothers & Babies: An Intervention to Prevent Postpartum Depression
2021-09-16 11:00 - 12:00 | Webinar
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Mothers & Babies: An Intervention to Prevent Postpartum Depression
Mothers and Babies (MB) is an evidence-based postpartum depression preventive intervention. It provides pregnant women and new parents with a toolkit of cognitive, behavioral, social, and mindful approaches to effectively respond to stress and manage their mood. This webinar will provide an overview of MB’s key components and implementation logistics. It will also discuss opportunities to be trained to deliver MB.

Becoming Poverty Informed
2021-09-17 09:00 - 12:00 | Microsoft Teams
Becoming Poverty Informed
Friday, September 17, 9:00am-12:00pm
What does it take to make a difference for people who live in the crisis of poverty? How can we develop empathy for the experience of living in crisis situations and respect for the strength and resourcefulness of those who struggle? What does the word poverty even mean?
Join us at the teacher meeting on Friday September 17th 9:00-12:00 on TEAMS to deepen your understanding, and to explore and discuss the history and the impacts of poverty in the US. (ALL STAFF are highly encouraged to attend!)
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Coaching and Supervising Staff for Social Emotional Development Growth: Prioritizing SEL in Your Program
2021-09-17 11:00 - 12:30 | Webinar
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Coaching and Supervising Staff for Social Emotional Development Growth: Prioritizing SEL in Your Program
We all understand the importance of Social/Emotional Learning for children in early childhood programs. Yet, one of the biggest challenges administrators face is ensuring all children in their programs are offered the best opportunities for social-emotional development. Join this paradigm-shifting webinar by early childhood education expert Jacky Howell to explore the most current thinking about social-emotional development and how to ensure the staff you supervise are applying best practice in their classrooms. Jacky will share her insights about how you can plan, set expectations, provide day-to-day coaching, and hold staff accountable for SEL.
In this webinar you will learn you need to coach for implementation AND supervise for success:

The 5 most important ideas related to SEL that you should see in your program’s classrooms based on current research.
How you can move from just imparting knowledge to staff to actually implementing and creating developmentally appropriate SEL practices.
Coaching, supervising, and accountability strategies for program Directors.

Strategies for a Safe Return to In-Person Services
2021-09-21 11:00 - 12:00 | Webinar
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Strategies for a Safe Return to In-Person Services
Head Start and Early Head Start programs returning to in-person services must continue to ensure the health and safety of children, families, and staff. This webinar will provide the latest information about COVID-19 and practical strategies programs can use in center-based, home-based, and family child care settings.

Office of Head Start Virtual Tribal Consultation
2021-09-21 11:00 - 14:00 | Webinar
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Office of Head Start Virtual Tribal Consultation

Tribal Consultations will be held between OHS leadership and the leadership of tribal governments operating Head Start and Early Head Start programs. The OHS will listen to Tribal Leadership discuss ways to better meet the needs of American Indian and Alaska Native (AIAN) children and their families, taking into consideration funding allocations, distribution formulas, and other issues affecting the delivery of Head Start services in their geographic locations.

OHS will host four Tribal Consultations – each will focus on tribal governments from specific regions. While grantees are welcome to attend any Tribal Consultation, we encourage you to register for the session that aligns with your geographic region.

July 7, 2021 10:00am – 1:00pm
Tribal nations in Regions I – V
Register by July 7, 2021 9:00am
August 18, 2021 10:00am – 1:00pm
Tribal nations in Regions VI – VIII

Register by August 18, 2021 9:00am
September 21, 2021 11:00am – 2:00pm

Tribal nations IX & X
Register by September 21, 2021 11:00am
November 15, 2021 10:00am – 1:00pm

For grantees nationally
Register by November 15, 2021 9:00am

Pushing Past Bias and Challenging Classroom Behaviors: Changing Children’s Behavior Starts With Changing Ourselves
2021-09-22 11:00 - 12:30 | OR
Pushing Past Bias and Challenging Classroom Behaviors: Changing Children’s Behavior Starts With Changing Ourselves, by Dr. Angela Searcy
When children exhibit behaviors that are not compliant, early educators often label them “challenging.” But are they really? Teachers and administrators often jump to conclusions about the child or their family and community. However, behavior is complex so there is seldom one reason children don’t or cannot comply with our expectations. Research shows order to gain a meaningful understanding of children’s behavior there must be a meaningful understanding of adult bias and the context in which these behaviors occurs. This webinar will help you look beyond the child to the implicit bias, contextual elements, interactions, and classroom variables that might contribute to labeling behavior as challenging.
Join this paradigm-shifting webinar presented by author Dr. Angela Searcy to:

examine examples of implicit bias
explore contextual elements, classroom variables, and potential bias within your programs and your practice.
learn about tools to help you identify implicit bias

All sessions are 1.5 hours long, and include a brief announcement from our sponsor.
11:oo AM – 12:30 PM
To ensure you receive confirmation and reminder emails, add customercare@gotowebinar.com to your contacts list. If you do not receive your email confirmation, check your Spam or Junk mail folders in your email system.
Can’t participate in our webinars at the appointed time? Never fear! All of the webinars are recorded. To view the recording, simply register now and you will receive an email with a link to the recording when it is ready to be viewed. You can still download the certificate by watching the recording to the end when the certificate link is announced and displayed on the screen.
Regardless of when you register, only 3,000 people at one time can attend our webinars. Only the first 3,000 people to click the link to attend the webinar will be able to join. We start the webinars 30 minutes in advance of the start time. Arrive early to make sure you get in.
Please be advised that you will only be eligible for the great door prizes if you participate in the live session.
You can earn .2 CEUs for each webinar. The cost is $15 paid to University of Oklahoma online when you apply. Learn more here: Continuing Education Units (CEUs) from University of Oklahoma
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Fall All Staff
2021-10-08 10:30 - 12:00 | Microsoft Teams
Our Fall All Staff event will be on
Friday, October 8th from 10:30-12:00
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Big Questions, Worries, and Fears: How to have hard conversations with little children
2021-10-13 11:00 - 12:30 | Webinar
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Big Questions, Worries, and Fears: How to have hard conversations with little children, by Dr. Lauren Starnes
Join Dr. Lauren Starnes in this webinar to address the big adult questions young children often ask that often cause us to pause, silence the child, or deflect the response. This session will guide you to answer difficult question respectfully and developmentally appropriately with even the youngest children. The webinar will explore big topics as miscarriage, domestic terror events, gender fluidity, death of a classmate, and other equally emotional and unsettling topics.
In this session we will :

Investigate the tendency to silence adult topic questions from children
Discuss to the appropriate way for classroom teachers to address the unexpected questions
Contrast this approach with how families may choose to address unexpected questions
Authentically practice how to structure the conversation with a young child
Model this approach with authentic questions and responses young children may pose

All sessions are 1.5 hours long, and include a brief announcement from our sponsor.
2:oo PM – 3:30 PM Eastern Time.
To ensure you receive confirmation and reminder emails, add customercare@gotowebinar.com to your contacts list. If you do not receive your email confirmation, check your Spam or Junk mail folders in your email system.
Can’t participate in our webinars at the appointed time? Never fear! All of the webinars are recorded. To view the recording, simply register now and you will receive an email with a link to the recording when it is ready to be viewed. You can still download the certificate by watching the recording to the end when the certificate link is announced and displayed on the screen.
Only 3,000 people at one time can attend our webinars, but registration often tops 4,000. Only the first 3,000 people to click the link to attend the webinar will be able to get in. We start the webinars 30 minutes in advance of the start time. Arrive early to make sure you get in.
Please be advised that you will only be eligible for the great door prizes if you participate in the live session.
You can earn .2 CEUs for each webinar. The cost is $15 paid to University of Oklahoma online when you apply. Learn more here: Continuing Education Units (CEUs) from University of Oklahoma
See the schedule of upcoming webinars.

How Optimistic Leaders Can Create Equity in Early Learning Programs
2021-10-14 11:00 - 12:30 | Webinar
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How Optimistic Leaders Can Create Equity in Early Learning Programs
To create the next generation of critical thinkers and leaders, we must ensure that every child has a sense of agency — that they are problem solvers and decision makers! For this to happen, educators make a difference. Children must learn in equitable settings where power is shared and all the adults define themselves as Optimistic Leaders. This interactive webinar will examine how Optimistic Leaders think impact, cultivate self-awareness, nurture relationships, refine communication, and activate curiosity to enhance their work and ensure children’s success as learners.
Objectives:

Understand their role as Optimistic Leaders for Children
Apply the five commitments of Optimistic Leadership to be more effective in their role
Use strategies to ensure increased equity and shared power in their settings

October Teacher Training: Dual Language Learning
2021-10-15 09:00 - 11:00 | Zoom
Join us as we welcome guest trainer, Dr. Lillian Duran.
Lillian Durán has a Ph.D. in Educational Psychology from the University of Minnesota and her research is focused on improving instructional and assessment practices with preschool-aged dual language learners (DLLs). She teaches graduate coursework in early literacy and early childhood special education at the University of Oregon.
This training will focus on dual language learning and how to best support dual language learners at Head Start of Lane County.
This training is on ZOOM — not on Teams.
ZOOM Link: https://uoregon.zoom.us/j/95600473323?pwd=[REDACTED]

Think Outside the Toybox: Secrets to Finding Talent During the ECE Staffing Crisis
2021-10-20 11:00 - 12:30 | Webinar
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Think Outside the Toybox: Secrets to Finding Talent During the ECE Staffing Crisis
Have crippling staff shortages forced you out of the director’s office and back into the classroom? Are you struggling to recruit and train employees? Does your existing staff complain about burnout? Perhaps you’ve even turned away potential enrollments due to being short-staffed. As overwhelmed
directors must ask more and more of their loyal workers—who often play multiple essential roles, from food prep to administrative tasks—they risk losing the staff they already have.
This very timely webinar will reveal untapped sources of talent you might not have considered—from targeting certain groups for recruitment, to finding hidden potential in your current staff.
You’ll learn:

Creative ideas to find talented employees from inside and outside the ECE industry
Recruitment must-haves for the busy director
Ways to improve and streamline your hiring process
How to keep your finger on the pulse of your center’s work climate
Methods of bringing out the best in your employees
Easy-to-implement retention strategies that work

Understanding Behavioral Challenges through a Trauma and Resilience Lens: From Deficit to Adaptive Strength
2021-10-21 10:00 - 11:30 | Webinar
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Understanding Behavioral Challenges through a Trauma and Resilience Lens: From Deficit to Adaptive Strength
This training will provide greater understanding about how a young person’s history and context informs current behaviors. The training will aim to shift one’s lens from thinking about behaviors such as lying, hoarding food, and tantrums as deficits to understanding them as adaptive strengths that have enabled a child to survive in very difficult circumstances.

The School Wellness Wheel: Enhancing Student Growth Through Healing and Resilience-Centered Education
2021-11-01 11:00 - 12:00 | Webinar
The School Wellness Wheel: Enhancing Student Growth Through Healing and Resilience-Centered Education
Monday, November 1, 2021 @ 11:00 am – 12:00 pm PST
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Join the authors of the telling and timely book, The School Wellness Wheel, to explore the complex interplay between mastery, culture, and trauma in an innovative framework that has the potential to completely transform the narrative of traditional education. In this edWebinar, attendees will learn how to shift the perspective away from time-based, curriculum-centered schools to creating resilience-centered educational models that can help take students and teachers to higher levels of learning for all.
This edWebinar will be of interest to teachers and school and district leaders of preK through high school levels. There will be time for questions at the end of the presentation.

About the Presenter
Mike Ruyle, Ed.D. has served as a classroom teacher, athletic coach, school principal, alternative program director, university professor, and educational presenter for over 30 years. He led the creation and implementation of personalized, competency-based schools in Montana and California and is a recognized authority in the areas of assessment practice, mindfulness in classrooms, social justice, culturally responsive pedagogy, and healing-centered schooling. Dr. Ruyle’s leadership experience and dynamic presentation style have made him a sought-after national and international speaker for numerous schools, districts, state agencies, and conferences.
Dr. Ruyle is the author of the book, Leading the Evolution: How to Make Personalized Competency-Based Education a Reality, as well as a coauthor of The New Art and Science of Classroom Assessment and Cultivating Mindfulness in the Classroom. He earned Bachelor of Arts degrees in history and English from the University of San Francisco, as well as master’s and doctoral degrees in educational leadership from Montana State University.

To participate in the live edWebinar, log in with current version of Google Chrome or install the meeting app prior to the edWebinar on your computer, your Apple device, or Android device. If you have a firewall in your location, you can participate on your mobile device using your cellular data (not your local network).
The edWebinar recording will be posted to this page the day after the presentation. Closed captioning will be added to the recording within 2 weeks of the live presentation.

Supporting Infants' and Toddlers' Emotional and Behavioral Self-Regulation
2021-11-04 12:00 - 13:00 | Webinar
Supporting Infants’ and Toddlers’ Emotional and Behavioral Self-Regulation
November 04, 2021 | 12:00 pm–1:00 pm
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An important part of becoming a successful learner is developing the ability to regulate emotions and behaviors. Infants and toddlers learn to self-regulate within the context of consistent, responsive relationships with familiar adults. Join this webinar to explore the importance of emotional and behavioral self-regulation for infants and toddlers. Learn ways teachers and family child care providers support self-regulation though responsive and consistent teaching practices.
This webinar will be captioned in English and Spanish.

Introduction to Trauma Informed Services
2021-11-04 15:00 - 18:00 | Microsoft Teams
Introduction to Trauma Informed Services
This New Teacher training is designed for ALL STAFF to gain an introduction to Trauma Informed Services. There are two opportunities to attend this training, as it will be offered on Thursday evening and on Friday morning.
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Introduction to Trauma Informed Services
2021-11-05 08:30 - 11:30 | Microsoft Teams
Introduction to Trauma Informed Services
This New Teacher training is designed for ALL STAFF to gain an introduction to Trauma Informed Services. There are two opportunities to attend this training, as it will be offered on Thursday evening and on Friday morning.
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Reclaiming the Narrative for Equity, Inclusion, & Belonging in Schools
2021-11-10 11:00 - 12:15 | Zoom
Reclaiming the Narrative for Equity, Inclusion, & Belonging in Schools
Wed, November 10, 2021 11:00 AM – 12:15 PM PST
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Over the past two decades, many school districts across the United States have engaged in some form of ‘equity work’ in an effort to change persistent racialized patterns in student experience and achievement. Communities have engaged in a wide range of efforts to increase opportunity and expand educational excellence and equity. While the impacts of these efforts vary, much has been learned about (and brain/neuroscience supports) the benefits of creating student centered and culturally sustaining approaches to teaching and learning.
Yet, today diversity, equity, and inclusion work is under increased scrutiny and controversy in many school districts. While framed as a debate about “critical race theory”, the programs and initiatives under attack more often include research-based efforts intended to increase opportunity and fairness in our schools, classrooms, and curriculum.
How might we use this moment of contention to inspire, engage, and activate our communities to protect educational approaches that ensure every young person has access to the resources, opportunities, and relationships they need to learn, develop, and thrive?
LaShawn Routé Chatmon, Kathleen Osta, and Stephen Chang of the National Equity Project will host this interactive webinar exploring how we can effectively communicate about and take collective leadership for the schools and educational environments that our young people are demanding and deserve. Join other committed educators, students, parents, advocates, and community members to learn, strategize, dream, and take action to create equitable and just schools in which every young person is seen, valued, cared for and thrives.

Interactive Webinar Overview & Accessibility
This webinar will be delivered in a live, 75 minute interactive learning session conducted online in Zoom. The session will be recorded and live transcription and close captions will be enabled.
This is intended to be an inspiring, joyful, and inclusive learning space – abusive, hurtful or hateful language will result in removal from the webinar.

Registration
You will receive a password-protected Zoom link the day of the event via email. Be sure to check your spam and allow email from Eventbrite to ensure receipt.
Note: Registration closes Tuesday, November 9 at 2pm Pacific.

The Keys to Effective Practice-Based Coaching: A Framework for Early Childhood Leaders
2021-11-10 11:00 - 12:30 | Webinar
The Keys to Effective Practice-Based Coaching: A Framework for Early Childhood Leaders
November 10, 2021 11:00 AM
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As an early childhood program leader, you know coaching is the most powerful element of continuous quality improvement. Developing your coaching skills is critical to help your staff engage children nurture their development. Join this free eye-opening webinar to learn about a coaching framework for supporting early childhood practitioners’ use of evidence-informed teaching practices. In this session, the editors of Essentials of Practice-Based Coaching will share highlights of their new book about practice-based coaching and essentials for successful implementation. Together, we will explore three key elements of the framework: Shared goals and action planning, focused observation, and reflection and feedback. You will also hear about examples of implementation resources and hear an overview of how to:

Develop collaborative partnerships with teachers
Create effective goals and action plans
Conduct practice-focused strengths and needs assessments
Observe teachers’ practices and collect data about coaching effects
Give supportive and constructive feedback
Employ web-based platforms and coaching apps to support PBC

All sessions are 1.5 hours long, and include a brief announcement from our sponsor.
11:oo AM – 12:30 PM
To ensure you receive confirmation and reminder emails, add customercare@gotowebinar.com to your contacts list. If you do not receive your email confirmation, check your Spam or Junk mail folders in your email system.
Can’t participate in our webinars at the appointed time? Never fear! All of the webinars are recorded. To view the recording, simply register now and you will receive an email with a link to the recording when it is ready to be viewed. You can still download the certificate by watching the recording to the end when the certificate link is announced and displayed on the screen.
Only 3,000 people at one time can attend our webinars, but registration often tops 4,000. Only the first 3,000 people to click the link to attend the webinar will be able to get in. We start the webinars 30 minutes in advance of the start time. Arrive early to make sure you get in.
Please be advised that you will only be eligible for the great door prizes if you participate in the live session.
You can earn .2 CEUs for each webinar. The cost is $15 paid to University of Oklahoma online when you apply. Learn more here: Continuing Education Units (CEUs) from University of Oklahoma
See the schedule of upcoming webinars.

Using the 5Rs to Promote Self-regulation Skills in Young Children
2021-11-16 12:00 - 13:00 | Webinar
Using the 5Rs to Promote Self-regulation Skills in Young Children
November 16, 2021 | 12:00 pm–1:00 pm
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The first five years of life are foundational in building the emotional and behavioral self-regulation skills that every child needs. Join this webinar to discuss how early learning leaders can provide education staff with the resources and guidance necessary to foster these skills in children. Explore the strategic use of data to inform and focus professional development to maximize impact and improve outcomes for children.
This webinar will have English and Spanish captioning.
