Explore 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.

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.

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.

In this Coaching Corner webinar, explore ways to help staff boost children’s emotional and behavioral self-regulation skills. Walk away with resources you can share with coachees—or use yourself!

Pyramid Model practices help staff prevent and respond to children's challenging behavior. Hear a brief overview of the Pyramid Model and hear from Head Start and Early Head Start programs that have successfully adopted its practices. Explore systems for establishing an effective workforce, maintaining nurturing and responsive relationships, and creating high-quality supportive environments. This webinar will be offered with simultaneous interpretation in Spanish.

Join this webinar to discuss strategies to support staff wellness during these unprecedented times. Hear from Head Start directors who have emphasized staff well-being while facing new and changing challenges in program operations. The webinar will also highlight information from ACF-IM-HS-21-05 Supporting the Wellness of All Staff in the Head Start Workforce.

Early childhood educators have the unique opportunity to cultivate racial-cultural empathy and challenge discrimination before and during this prime age. Understand the importance of promoting racial-cultural empathy and challenging discrimination during early childhood to promote racial and cultural awareness among young children. Become familiar with the components of teaching racial-cultural empathy in early childhood education programs, including knowledge of inter-group differences, awareness of biases, and social-emotional skills to overcome prejudice and practice solidarity. Identify program-wide inclusive policies and family engagement practices that challenge discrimination and propel the development of racial-cultural empathy.

Young children need their families’ support to build cognitive self-regulation — or executive function — skills like focusing, maintaining attention, and controlling impulses. In this Home Visiting Series webinar, explore research, home visiting strategies, and resources that support home visitors as they partner with families to promote cognitive self-regulation in young children.