Inclusion Series: Increased Opportunity and Learning for Children with Disabilities
2021-07-27 12:00 - 13:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | Webinar
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Inclusion Series: Increased Opportunity and Learning for Children with Disabilities
In this Inclusion webinar, explore how to bring an Individualized Family Service Plan (IFSP) or an Individualized Education Program (IEP) to life! Learn ways to make the IFSP or IEP a genuine part of a child’s everyday routines in their learning environment, home, or community.
Learn how Disability Service Coordinators can support teachers, home visitors, and child care providers to create plans for achieving IFSP or IEP goals in collaboration with families and specialists.
This webinar will have English and Spanish captioning.

Fundamentals of Program Planning for the Return to Fully In-person Services
2021-07-28 11:00 - 12:30 | Webinar
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Fundamentals of Program Planning for the Return to Fully In Person Services
This session will review the fundamentals of program planning and how this process supports Head Start/Early Head Start services as they return to full in-person comprehensive services. The session will highlight the utility of the Program Planning Cycle and the community assessment. The event will also reinforce the importance of Head Start Program Leadership (governing body/Tribal Council, Policy Council and key management staff) in the planning process.

Stress and Trauma Part 2: Buffering the Impact of the Pandemic
2021-07-29 11:00 - 12:00 | Webinar
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Stress and Trauma Part 2: Buffering the Impact of the Pandemic
This webinar will build on Part 1 of the Stress and Trauma series. Discover strategies to reduce the negative impact of the pandemic in Head Start settings and children’s homes. Participants will also be invited to reflect on strategies for wellness and healing for themselves and their communities.

Head Start Forward: Health and Safety Considerations
2021-08-04 11:00 - 12:00 | Webinar
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Head Start Forward: Health and Safety Considerations

Join the fourth webinar in the five-part Head Start Forward series for guidance and support programs can use as they work toward full enrollment and fully in-person comprehensive services. Hear about important health and safety considerations. Keep the conversation going on social media using #HeadStartForward.
Certificates of Attendance will not be provided for this event. For more information about registration, access, or alternate phone lines, contact webcasts@hsicc.org. If you need to make accommodations for colleagues with hearing impairments, please send your request at least three business days prior to the event.

Time

Aug 4, 2021 11:00 AM

Ready and Resilient! Promoting the Resilience of Children and Adults
2021-08-04 11:00 - 12:30 | Webinar
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Ready and Resilient! Promoting the Resilience of Children and Adults, by Dr. Nefertiti B. Poyner
Each day, children and adults rely upon strong social-emotional skills as we navigate various life experiences. Learn strategies to support the resilience and social-emotional well-being of children and adults in this reflective webinar presented by Dr. Nefertiti B. Poyner. We will unpack key elements for creating early childhood environments that promote strong social-emotional development and how to build the protective factors both adults and children need to be resilient. In this webinar you will learn to:

Define the words risk factors, protective factors and resilience.
Explain behaviors related to building protective factors in children.
Explain behavior related to building protective factors in adults.

All sessions are 1.5 hours long, and include a brief announcement from our sponsor.
August 4, 2021 from 11:oo am – 12:30 pm
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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.

Ventilation Basics for Head Start Programs
2021-08-05 11:00 - 12:00 | Webinar
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Ventilation Basics for Head Start Programs
Join this webinar to hear from an expert on ventilation of indoor spaces in Head Start programs to reduce the spread of COVID-19. Topics include how to assess your ventilation system and ways to increase the flow of clean air. The webinar will also provide guidance for questions to ask your program’s ventilation consultant and products to consider purchasing.

Recognizing and Challenging Implicit Bias
2021-08-19 10:00 - 11:30 | Webinar
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Recognizing and Challenging Implicit Bias
This training provides an overview of what implicit bias is and how it can get in the way in our daily lives and work. Additionally, this training explores the significance of understanding and accounting for implicit bias and strategies to identify, reflect, and disrupt biases.

Being Thorough: A Concept for Building High-Performance in Your Early Childhood Program
2021-08-19 11:00 - 12:30 | Webinar
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Being Thorough: A Concept for Building High-Performance in Your Early Childhood Program
There’s no magic to creating dynamic learning environments or cultivating powerful relationships with children, their families, or staff members. Oddly enough the primary ingredient for success may just be simply…being thorough.
Over the years, the meaning of “high-quality” in early care and education programs has become murky and subjective. So much so, that many of us have lost a clear understanding of what high-quality actually looks like. But when we instill a culture dedicated to being thorough, there’s no ambiguity in our actions. It’s about being complete, precise, and aware of our actions and interactions.
In this webinar, presented by Christy Jones-Hudson, you will learn that high-performing teachers aren’t perfect, and they don’t always get it right the first time. But their motivation and passion go hand-in-hand as they sharpen their skills. They exude confidence and handle uncomfortable situations with ease and professionalism.
Being thorough nearly guarantees teachers will become performers. Thoroughness is a skill that’s quickly becoming extinct, but as a program leader you can guide teachers to become thorough and deliver outstanding care for children and families.
Join this webinar to:

Explore definitions of “high performance” and “high quality” in early care and education programs.
Explore the concept of being thorough and how it applies to our programs and staff.
Learn five strategies you can convey to your staff so they become more thorough instantly.
Engage in various scenarios that demonstrate thoroughness in comparison to inefficient practices.

Region 9 Education & Family Services Training
2021-08-23 09:30 - 12:00 | Microsoft Teams
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Program Approaches for Staff Wellness
2021-08-24 11:00 - 12:00 | Webinar
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Program Approaches for Staff Wellness
In this webinar, review strategies for and approaches to developing staff wellness plans. Learn how to implement a systematic, program-wide approach to staff wellness. Discover tools to plan for and measure ongoing progress and meaningful change. Engage with others around innovative ideas and practical next steps to enhance staff wellness throughout your agency.

Education Manager Series: The 5 Rs for Early Leaders: The Importance of Recognition
2021-08-24 12:00 - 13:00 | Webinar
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Education Manager Series: The 5 Rs for Early Leaders: The Importance of Recognition
Strong Early learning Leaders recognize teachers’ learning and growth through acknowledgement of small and big wins. Join this webinar to review The 5 Rs for Early Learning Leaders and explore the ways that strong leaders formally and informally demonstrate Recognition.
Discover what it looks like to lead with the heart and offer meaningful feedback. Identify the positive impact on program quality and outcomes when staff feel seen, supported, and valued.
This webinar will have English and Spanish captioning.

Region 7 Education & Family Services Training
2021-08-25 09:30 - 12:00 | Microsoft Teams

Head Start Forward: Showcase of Grantee Best Practices on In-person Services
2021-08-25 11:00 - 12:00 | Webinar
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Head Start Forward: Showcase of Grantee Best Practices on In-person Services

Join the final webinar in the Head Start Forward series for guidance and support programs can use as they work toward full enrollment and fully in-person comprehensive services. It will showcase best practices on in-person services from Head Start grantees around the country. Keep the conversation going on social media using #HeadStartForward.
Certificates of Attendance will not be provided for this event. For more information about registration, access, or alternate phone lines, contact webcasts@hsicc.org. If you need to make accommodations for colleagues with hearing impairments, please send your request at least three business days prior to the event.

Time

Aug 25, 2021 11:00 AM

Engineering with Nature: Learning and Communicating through Construction Play
2021-08-25 11:00 - 12:30 | Webinar
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Engineering with Nature: Learning and Communicating through Construction Play
Children communicate competency, ideas and emotions through block building and other three-dimensional work. In this energizing webinar, nature learning and universal design experts, Tina Reeble and Kirsten Haugen will share research, classroom stories and practical suggestions to support engineering play with natural and human-made materials for building. Join us to strengthen your capacity to identify opportunities for natural engineering play indoors and out. You will learn:

Engineering Skills of Play in Nature-based setting: Understand and support children’s explorations and competencies
The Language of Building: Learn the power of visual spatial communication
Supportive Spaces and Natural Materials: Set the stage, indoors and out

Child Care Health Consultation Quarterly Webinar Series: Check-in on Well-child Check-ups
2021-08-26 11:00 - 12:00 | Webinar
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Child Care Health Consultation Quarterly Webinar Series: Check-In on Well Child Check-Ups
This webinar will highlight the important role child care health consultants play in connecting children and families to health and social services. They also educate families and staff about how well-child visits are critical for learning, growth, and development. The session will examine the landscape of well child checks in the aftermath of the pandemic.

Welcome Back! -- Event Postponed
2021-08-30 10:00 - 12:00 | Microsoft Teams
This event has been postponed.
Welcome to the 2021-2022 school year! Information will be shared and fun will be had. More info to come. Join us!

Transportation for Bussed Sites
2021-08-30 13:00 - 17:00 | Microsoft Teams
For staff of sites that provide transportation, especially all bus monitors and drivers.
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Regions 3 & 5 Education & Family Services Preservice Training
2021-08-31 09:00 - 11:30 | Microsoft Teams

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!)
Important: Please print out the attached materials for an activity during our time together. If you need any assistance with printing materials please contact your FSC or ECEC.

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