During this support webinar, you will learn about the available features and functionalities teachers can use to complete the GOLD® spring checkpoint.

In this webinar, Emily Roden and Melissa Nast will share practical steps for incorporating social-emotional lessons into your family engagement strategy and highlight resources built into ReadyRosie that can help simplify this process.

Involving family members in your Head Start garden is always win for everyone involved, but even more important now as schools and centers are closed across the country. In this webinar, we will share easy garden activity ideas you can recommend to families to keep them gardening at home during these challenging times. With a focus on projects that can be completed with minimal supplies in limited spaces, we will hope to show how gardening can be accessible for all.

This workshop will provide an overview on advancing racial equity, inclusion, and social justice in early childhood. There are persistent race-based disparities in risks, access, positive experiences, and outcomes. This workshop will outline the problem and unique context, as well as share a framework for racial equity that highlights ways to increase awareness, analysis, action, and accountability, both individually as early childhood professionals and collectively as an early childhood community.

Part of the Early Head Start Rising: Summer Learning Series

This webinar, presented by author and nature-based learning expert Rachel Larimore, will help early childhood administrators identify the principles fundamental to a nature-based approach. Then, using a continuum of nature-based early childhood education as the overarching framework, Rachel will address the unique considerations for designing a nature-based classroom. We’ll discuss the spaces inside, outside, and beyond the fence. Additionally, we’ll discuss the other supporting spaces that help make for successful nature-based learning.

In this edLeader Panel, attendees will:

Learn what equity-mindedness means as a way of thinking, working, and living
Concretize recurring conversations around diversity, equity, and inclusion that impact our youth
Reflect on “norms” within our schools that are inequitable by design
Devise ways to create more equitable norms and strategies moving forward

In this Coaching Corner webinar, explore specific resources that support high-quality social and emotional teaching practices. Learn how the materials can be used to help coachees implement these practices.

High levels of Reflective Functioning in caregivers is associated with better outcomes for children. This webinar will provide an overview of what reflective functioning is and why it matters. We will explore the various levels of caregivers’ reflective functioning and share ideas about how to enhance reflective functioning during virtual home visits. In addition, participants will have an opportunity to practice rating reflective functioning using vignettes.

Critical thinking helps children analyze and evaluate information to guide their beliefs, decisions, and actions. Join us for a town hall discussion on how we can support parents in helping their children develop this important life skill through simple daily routines.

Learn pedagogy, practical tips and techniques for integrating media resources into everyday learning activities for young learners at school and at home to introduce, reinforce and enrich learning for every young child. edWebinar attendees will get a special preview of some of the literacy, science, math, and social studies videos and accompanying resources that teachers and parents can use to ignite curiosity, build foundational skills, and introduce children to the wonder and joy of learning.

Due to structural and systemic issues, students and families may have a difficult time meeting their basic needs. This can impact their overall wellbeing and their academic progress. This training will teach educators how to help families access services including food, housing, health and mental health resources. We will also cover child care and after-school programming to discuss how these supports will strengthen students and their families. In addition, educators will learn how to recognize when resource referrals might be needed to support a family's wellbeing. Finally, it is important to note that appropriate resource referrals have been shown to reduce the likelihood of future child welfare and juvenile justice involvement. By supporting families that are working to overcome systemic injustices, we can prevent future system involvement.

Programs that actively seek out and embrace learning from families are able to create learning contexts that are responsive and meaningful to children. The cultural wealth of families includes their language, their values, and their lived experiences. In this session, participants will learn how children’s understanding of their selves, family, community, and place can be used in the early education classroom. Additionally, how the formative assessment process can be used to support developing meaningful partnerships with parents in which everyone is working together to ensure that children gain optimal benefits from their early learning experiences.

What does nonbinary really mean? What is gender nonconforming? And isn't they a plural pronoun?

In this charming and disarming guide, Stuart Getty, a real-life they-using genderqueer writer, unpacks all your burning questions in a fun, visual way. No soapboxes or divisive comment-section wars here!

Sometimes funny, sometimes serious, always human, this gender-friendly primer will get you up to speed. It's about more than just bathrooms and pronouns--this is about gender expression and the freedom to choose how to identify.

Working together we can create a bridge to school an intentional approach that utilizes the summer to create connection, a feeling of belonging and excitement about learning.

In the final installment of our “Making Distance Learning Work” webinar series, we will celebrate all that we have learned together this school year. We have engaged in reflective practice in the midst of the unknown and guided our youngest learners in growth and discovery through one of the most challenging school years in recent memory. Together, we will celebrate the challenges, innovations, and resilience of the early childhood field in this educator-featured “Celebration of Learning.”

This edWebinar will help early childhood educators identify the principles fundamental to a nature-based approach and the benefits of such an approach. Then, using a continuum of nature-based early childhood education as the overarching framework, Rachel A. Larimore will address the unique challenges of integrating nature into the preschool classroom.

Erin Ramsey and Dan Torres will join us from the Bezos Foundation to talk about the importance of executive function and how even our youngest Head Start babies can start to develop these vital life skills. Through Mind In The Making and Vroom, they work to ensure all children and the adults who support them understand how to build better executive function.

The Community Resiliency Model (CRM)® is a mental health training for parents, caregivers, and community members to support families and their wider social network. The primary focus of this skills-based program is to re-set the natural balance of the nervous system in order to bring the body, mind, and spirit back into greater balance.

CRM’s goal is to help to create “trauma-informed” and “resiliency-focused” communities that share a common understanding of the impact of trauma and chronic stress on the nervous system, and how resiliency can be restored or increased using this skills-based approach.

Join this webinar to explore how child care health consultants (CCHCs) can address the impact of COVID-19 on children with chronic health conditions, using asthma as a case study. Learn how CCHCs can work with families and programs to understand new recommendations to keep children with special health care needs safe during the pandemic.