Situational Awareness, PM Session
2022-11-18 12:30 - 15:30 (America/Los_Angeles) | Grand Gym, 21 N Grand St, Eugene, OR, United States
Situational Awareness is being aware of the things you can see, hear, feel, smell and taste (using your senses), and determining if there is a threat. It is the process of looking for warning signs, being aware of your environment, and discerning if something is a threat or not a threat. It’s the ability to process and use your senses to identify a threat and to respond to it in real time. We will apply this concept to working in various Head Start environments.
Please attend with your region. Staff not associated with region are welcome to attend via Microsoft Teams.
AM Session, 8:30-11:30am, Whiteaker Gym, Regions 3, 4, 5, 8 & 9.
PM Session, 12:30-3:30pm, Whiteaker Gym, Regions 1, 2, 6, 7 + Central Reception
This topic will give examples of potential threats to our environment and how to respond appropriately. We ask that you take care of yourself and your needs, as it has potential to be a heavy topic. Please know that all staff have access to Cascade Health Employee Assistance Program and we are also identifying if a mental health consultant might be available on site to debrief with individuals. Please also note that this is not a forum to discuss the politics surrounding gun laws and violence, nor will there be time on the agenda for it to be included.

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Noticing Feelings with Infants and Toddlers
2022-12-01 12:00 - 13:00 | Webinar
Noticing Feelings with Infants and Toddlers
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Emotional literacy skills — also known as emotional intelligence — are key to school readiness. These skills include recognizing, identifying, and regulating emotions. Join us as we explore how teachers and family child care providers can support the emotional literacy of young children. Learn practical strategies for helping infants and toddlers regulate their emotions.
This webinar is offered with English and Spanish captioning.

This is HSOLC: Beyond Onboarding
2022-12-01 16:00 - 17:00 | Grand Room 7, 21 N Grand St, Eugene, OR, United States
Session 4: Cultural and Linguistic Responsiveness
Working with diverse populations of staff and families in Head Start. Learning appropriate interactions and responses of varying cultures and languages spoken by children and families in Head Start.
This training series is for all staff new to HSOLC. Facilitated by Mary Margaret Reynolds.

MyPeers Orientation
2022-12-05 13:00 - 13:45 | Webinar
MyPeers Orientation
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Join this webinar for a 45-minute introduction to MyPeers, a community of practice forum for Head Start programs, staff, and partners. MyPeers is a virtual space for brainstorming, exchanging ideas, and sharing resources. Local program staff across the country are connecting with and lending support to fellow colleagues.

Techniques for Honoring the Home Language of Dual Language Learners
2022-12-06 10:00 - 11:00 | Webinar
Techniques for Honoring the Home Language of Dual Language Learners

Tue, Dec 6, 2022 10:00 AM – 11:00 AM

Dual language learning is multifaceted. Both monolingual and bilingual educators must intentionally support and honor the home language of dual language learners (DLLs) as they acquire English language skills. The presenter will provide helpful, practical tips and tools from her book, Dual Language Learners: Strategies for Teaching English (Birth to Grade 3), to help you honor and support the home languages of all children in your classroom.

Objectives:
– Understand that both monolingual and bilingual early childhood educators can support home languages for all children to help them reach their full potential.
– Explore techniques to support and honor home languages in multilingual classrooms to facilitate positive child outcomes and the educational success of all children.

Register here: https://register.gotowebinar.com/register/8395265383473497100

Promoting Substance Use Recovery by Reducing Stigma
2022-12-07 10:00 - 11:00 | Webinar
Promoting Substance Use Recovery by Reducing Stigma
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Stigma around substance use and recovery is still a barrier to asking for help and getting services. In Head Start programs, we know recovery is possible. This webinar highlights ways to promote recovery by reducing stigma. It also showcases resources on the Early Childhood Learning and Knowledge Center (ECLKC) for staff and families.
This webinar is offered with simultaneous interpretation in Spanish.

The Heart of Inclusive and Meaningful Assessment Practices with Young Children
2022-12-07 11:00 - 12:30 | Webinar
The Heart of Inclusive and Meaningful Assessment Practices with Young Children
Authentic assessment, practiced well, can be one of the most beneficial tools for teaching all children in inclusive early childhood settings. The process of implementing authentic assessment, regardless of the tool, can help teachers connect deeply with children and families, as well as learn how to best support them as individuals. Of course, assessment results will inform practice for each child, as well as for the group with whom you are working.
This powerful webinar presented by Kristie Pretti-Frontczak, Ph.D. Jennifer Grisham, Ed.D. and Lynn Sullivan, M.Ed. will share key practices that are necessary to assess young children of all abilities in inclusive early childhood settings. The webinar will cover practical strategies for assessing young children using authentic assessment practices by collaborating with families and other professions and ensuring equity across assessment purposes. The presenters will offer specific tips for implementing authentic, collaborative, and educationally equitable practices in inclusive early childhood programs.
Join this important webinar to:

understand the impact of authentic assessment on decisions related to determining eligibility, planning instruction, monitoring child progress monitoring, and evaluating early childhood programs.
compare authentic and conventional assessment practices.
understand the importance of partnering with families and other professionals to ensure inclusive educational experiences for all children.
become more aware of and able to respond to systemic inequities and assessment practices that are harmful to children, who are Black, Indigenous, of Color, and/or who have disability labels.

All sessions are 1.5 hours long and include a brief announcement from our sponsor.

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Trauma and Resilience Informed Care Foundations
2022-12-08 10:00 - 11:30 | Webinar
Trauma and Resilience Informed Care Foundations
This training will provide participants an introduction to trauma and its impact on human development across areas of functioning, as well as the core principles of trauma and resilience informed care. Participants will practice strategies to enhance their capacity for trauma and resilience informed care in themselves and their organizations. Participants will also learn strategies to promote resilience, reduce stress, and prioritize wellbeing for themselves and others.
Thursday, December 8, 2022 from 10:00 AM – 11:30 AM

Strengthening Male Engagement Through Father-Staff Relationships
2022-12-08 12:00 - 13:00 | Webinar
Strengthening Male Engagement Through Father-Staff Relationships
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In this second Exploring Fatherhood in the 21st Century webinar, we’re looking at how personal and professional knowledge and experiences influence relationships with fathers and men in Head Start programs. Father engagement can thrive in program environments that honor diversity in family structure, culture, gender, gender expression, and community. Fathers feel accepted when staff are open to them and exhibit respectful curiosity about each person as an individual. This webinar features reflective practices that support relationship-building with fathers and father figures in early childhood settings.

New Teacher Training
2022-12-08 16:00 - 18:00 | Grand Street, 21 N Grand St, Eugene, OR, United States
Dec 8 is Part 1 of the New Teacher Training on Foundations of Trauma Informed Care. The training will be in the Whiteaker Cafeteria from 4-6pm and also available by request on Teams (email Kerry directly for Teams access). Although designed for new teachers, this topic is relevant to all positions and open to all interested staff with their supervisor’s permission. Part 2 of this training will be offered after Winter Break on January 12th.

CPR Skills Check Day
2022-12-14, 2023-01-11, 2023-02-08 | Grand Street, 21 N Grand St, Eugene, OR, United States
Do you need to do your CPR Skills Check? Choose the session best for your schedule. AM Session is 8:30-9:00; PM Session is 3:00-3:30. Face coverings required.

Gender, Expectations, and Social-Emotional Development in Early Childhood Programs
2022-12-15 11:00 - 12:30 | Webinar
Gender, Expectations, and Social-Emotional Development in Early Childhood Programs
What does it mean to be a boy or a girl–or something else? How do we support children to love their gender, and to talk about what can feel restricting or harmful about it? As early educators how do our own experience of and education about gender impact our ability to support gender diversity and healthy social-emotional development in our classrooms?
In this eye-opening webinar, participants will learn about the importance of creating gender inclusive early learning environments and the concrete actions they can take to create environments that support all children’s healthy gender development. The presenters will guide you to reflect on you own gender identity, expression, and embodiment and how your perception of gender impacts your expectations of children. You will learn about the impact of strict gender roles and stereotypes on young children and adults. The constellation theory of gender development will be introduced as a more inclusive understanding of gender that is big enough for us all.
Presented by some of the authors of Supporting Gender Diversity in Early Childhood Classrooms: A Practical Guide, this webinar will share concrete action steps early childhood professionals can take to create early learning environments that support children of all genders to help them build a foundation of positive self-esteem and prosocial development. The presenters will share authentic stories that will bring to life how early learning teachers committed to gender justice are supporting children’s healthy gender development through play, gender inclusive classroom materials including children’s literature, and through their communication with parents and families. You will leave with a greater awareness of how to respond to gender-based segregation, exclusion, teasing and stereotyping, as well as how to create inclusive, reflective, and responsive school/program communities where all children are supported in their authentic gender selves.
After participating in this webinar, you will be able to:

Define the gender binary and identify its limitations.
Recognize how gender diversity impacts social-emotional development during the early childhood years.
Identify at least three strategies you can use to create gender-inclusive early learning settings for children and families.

All sessions are 1.5 hours long and include a brief announcement from our sponsor.

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This is HSOLC: Beyond Onboarding
2023-01-05 16:00 - 17:00 | Grand Room 7, 21 N Grand St, Eugene, OR, United States
Session 5. This training series is for all staff new to HSOLC. Facilitated by Mary Margaret Reynolds.

Exploring Equity to Support Children and Families Series
2023-01-10 09:00 | Webinar
Exploring Equity to Support Children and Families Series

Three part series:
Jan 10, 2023 09:00 AM
Feb 14, 2023 09:00 AM
Mar 14, 2023 09:00 AM

Head Start and Early Head Start staff are uniquely positioned to partner with families in navigating the obstacles of poverty while prioritizing equity. Through trusting and positive relationships between families and staff, families can gain increased access to resources, enhance their well-being, and support their journeys toward economic mobility.
In this 3-part series, we will focus on the OHS Priority of Advancing Equity by identifying and reducing systemic barriers for historically underserved and marginalized populations.
Training Objectives:
• Increase knowledge and awareness of historical inequities and the relationship between
equity and family well-being.
• Discuss the assumptions and biases associated with poverty and identify strategies to
support strengths-based attitudes when working with families experiencing economic
hardships.
• Explore relationship-based practice

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New Year, New Start: Make Change Happen!
2023-01-12 11:00 - 12:30 | Webinar
New Year, New Start: Make Change Happen!
January 12, 2023 from 11:00am – 12:30pm
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Embrace the energy of the new year and develop a plan for implementing positive professional transformation as an early childhood leader. In this inspiring and motivating webinar, author and professional coach, Susan MacDonald, will help you clarify a specific change you would like to make to enhance your work. Using the Appreciative Inquiry methodology, she will guide you through a process of creating an action plan to bring your positive change to life. All participants will receive a comprehensive workbook with reflective activities and a current listing of resources to fuel their continued learning.
This energizing webinar will ignite your passion and boost your confidence to:

Identify a professional transformation you would like to make.
Clarify an actionable goal to focus your transformational journey.
Design a realistic plan to make small changes, move past your challenges, and embrace new possibilities!
Develop new ideas for supporting professional transformation in the educators you work with.

New Teacher Training
2023-01-12 16:00 - 18:00 | OR
This New Teacher training session will cover Trauma Informed Services (Part 2 of 2). This is required for new teachers. Any staff member that has not completed this portion of the Trauma Informed Services series is highly encouraged to attend! Facilitated by Karla Snell.

Emerging Leaders 2023: Trust & Inspire, Pt 1
2023-01-13 14:30 - 16:00 | Grand Room 7, 21 N Grand St, Eugene, OR, United States
Session 1 out of 5 for “Trust & Inspire,” the 2023 Emerging Leaders series. Advance registration required.

Rooted in Relationships: Effective Interactions with Infants and Toddlers
2023-01-19 10:00 | Webinar
Rooted in Relationships: Effective Interactions with Infants and Toddlers
January 19th at 10:00am
Infants and toddlers learn best in environments where they have trusting relationships with caring and responsive adults, where they feel safe, comfortable, and welcome to explore and learn. Adults in children’s lives nurture these early roots of relationship through co-regulation, supporting the child’s developing self-regulation, and serve-and return interactions. Join this session to engage in dialogue with your peers to learn and discover strategies for supporting Early Head Start staff in forming rooted relationships with all infants and toddlers.
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This is HSOLC: Beyond Onboarding
2023-01-19 16:00 - 17:00 | Grand Room 7, 21 N Grand St, Eugene, OR, United States
Session 6. This training series is for all staff new to HSOLC. Facilitated by Mary Margaret Reynolds.

January Teacher Training
2023-01-20 09:00 - 12:00 | Grand Gym, 21 N Grand St, Eugene, OR, United States
The January Teacher Training will focus on Compassion Fatigue. Facilitated by Kerry Holmes and Karla Snell.

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New Teacher Training
2023-01-26 16:00 - 18:00 | Grand Street, 21 N Grand St, Eugene, OR, United States
This New Teacher training session will cover Attachment Based Caregiving. This is required for new teachers. Any staff member that is interested in the topic is welcome to attend. Facilitated by Kerry Holmes and Karla Snell.

Magic Moments: Active Problem Solving with Young Children
2023-02-08 11:00 - 12:30 | Webinar
Magic Moments: Active Problem Solving with Young Children
February 8, 2023 from 11:00am – 12:30pm
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Every problem, large or small, is an opportunity for young children to learn and grow. From spilled glue to a conflict in the block corner, problems are an unlimited natural resource generated inside our own classrooms. This insight-building webinar, presented by author and inspirational speaker, Ann Gadzikowski, will explore how early childhood educators can take the problems, mistakes, and accidents that inevitably occur in every early childhood program, and turn them into teachable moments.
We’ll also shine a light on what children learn along the way: the social skills, emotional intelligence, language and communication skills, and STEM concepts that children learn as they participate in an authentic, meaningful problem-solving process. This conversation will approach problem solving with an anti-bias lens, taking into account children’s (and our own) family and community contexts as essential influences on how we view and solve problems together.
Join this free webinar to:

Recognize the importance of mistakes, conflicts, accidents, and problems as opportunities for learning in an early childhood classroom. Discuss scenarios demonstrating common problems that happen during the daily routines of an early childhood classroom, such as snacks, naps, play, and transitions.
Develop strategies for facilitating a problem-solving process with young children, such as asking open-ended questions and offering prompts (“Tell me what you think about that.”)
Explore how issues of diversity, equity, and inclusion influence how we, as educators, view, define, and facilitate problems with children.

New Teacher Training
2023-02-09 16:00 - 18:00 | Grand Street, 21 N Grand St, Eugene, OR, United States
This New Teacher training session will cover Emotion Coaching. This is required for new teachers. Any staff member that is interested in the topic is welcome to attend. Facilitated by Kerry Holmes and Karla Snell.

Emerging Leaders 2023: Trust & Inspire, Pt 2
2023-02-10 14:30 - 16:00 | Grand Room 7, 21 N Grand St, Eugene, OR, United States
Session 2 out of 5 for “Trust & Inspire,” the 2023 Emerging Leaders series. Advance registration required.

February Teacher Training
2023-02-17 09:00 - 12:00 | Grand Street, 21 N Grand St, Eugene, OR, United States
Facilitated by Kerry Holmes and Karla Snell

New Teacher Training
2023-02-23 16:00 - 18:00 | Grand Street, 21 N Grand St, Eugene, OR, United States
This New Teacher training session will cover PBIS module 2: Teaching Social Emotional Skills (Pre-K) pt 1. This is required for new teachers. Any staff member that is interested in the topic is welcome to attend. Facilitated by Kerry Holmes.

Beyond Onboarding: A Solid Foundation for Life
2023-03-02 16:00 - 17:00 | Central Office Board Room
Beyond Onboarding: A Solid Foundation for Life
March 2nd 4:00 – 5:00 pm @ Central Office Boardroom and/or Teams
This first session of “Beyond Onboarding” focuses on the makeup & structure of HSOLC, our organizational chart, navigating the website, etc.

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CPR Skills Check Day
2023-03-08 | Grand Street, 21 N Grand St, Eugene, OR, United States
Do you need to do your CPR Skills Check? Choose the session best for your schedule. AM Session is 8:30-9:30; PM Session is 3:00-4:00.
