Events for December 11, 2025 - December 11, 2025

This New Teacher training session will focus on Curriculum Planning & Individualizing.  This is required for new teachers, and any interested staff member is welcome to attend.  Facilitated by Kerry Holmes and Karla Snell.

What does it mean to be an MVP and encouraging school staff to role model healthy behaviors? A CATCH MVP does these things everyday: 1. Moves and Stays Active, 2. Values Healthy Eating & Mindsets, 3. Practices Healthy Behaviors and Social Emotional Wellness.

Discuss the difference between stress and overwhelm and how to effectively focus on needs to support yourself and the families you serve. We will talk about resilience and how to focus on early relationships and support as a way to build resilience with children and families. Learn about the importance of early relational health and compassionate models, and discovers some tangible tools to connect with families.

Join this interactive 45-min webinar session to demystify mental health and overcome feelings of self-doubt, isolation, and fear to pave the way to better self-care.

Culture influences our values, beliefs, gender roles, family structures, language, and even our teaching styles. The ability to understand and celebrate differences is more important now than ever. Join our go-to social emotional development and learning expert, Barbara Kaiser to explore the dynamics of culture in shaping teachers’ expectation and children’s behavior.

Sign up to join Cascade Health Counseling & EAP manager Jodi DePaoli, L.P.C., for a virtual lunch hour wellness class to learn more about anxiety and how to manage it.

During this webinar, we’ll explore ideas for supporting the development of children's first and second languages.

A two-day Saturday workshop hosted on Zoom. Two-generation approaches draw from findings that a child’s social-emotional, academic, physical and economic well-being is grounded in the well-being of their parents. At the same time, parents’ ability to succeed in life is affected by how well their children are doing. Teachers and early care providers play a profound role in creating opportunities for families and children to grow and learn together. Explore how to close the opportunity gap, support families’ financial wellbeing, and become partners with parents in growing great kids.

During this interactive edWebinar, we will share ideas on how to celebrate diversity in the classroom and beyond by using books and podcasts to help educators connect with students and families in authentic ways, helping to preserve cultural awareness and build bridges of communication. We will provide you with Common Sense’s “best of” lists for powerful podcasts and multicultural books that break barriers as we come together to celebrate National Hispanic Heritage Month.

In this edWebinar, attendees will explore the importance of at-home materials for bilingual families and strategies for using literacy-based discussion prompts to strengthen participation. Literacy experts will review why it is important to collaborate with families, both in person and digitally, and strategies observed from the field for doing so. Dr. Samina Hadi-Tabassum, Clinical Associate Professor at Erikson Institute in Chicago, will discuss her home ecology research.