Explore a number of skills and classroom-tested teaching strategies that early childhood educators need to help children develop an “ear” for language. (Designed for educators of early learners aged 2-5 years.)

What Your Staff Will Learn:
• Strategies for strengthening early learners’ language abilities
• Techniques for promoting phonemic awareness in the classroom
• How phonemic awareness impacts future reading and writing abilities

Based on the six key areas of language—classification, building vocabulary, communication, print awareness, phonemic awareness and alphabet knowledge—this training session provides educators with everything they need to help their students meet important literacy standards. (Designed for educators of early learners aged 3-6 years.)

What Your Staff Will Learn:
• Hands-on activities for promoting skills in six key areas: classification, phonemic awareness, communication, vocabulary, alphabet knowledge and awareness of print
• How to increase student interest and involvement
• How to enhance your weekly lesson plan with 48 pages of emergent literacy activities

Learn how to develop a truly balanced math program that goes beyond simple counting and numbers—and meets crucial standards. (Designed for educators of early learners aged 2-5 years.)

What Your Staff Will Learn:
• How to reinforce math skills using appropriate hands-on activities
• The best way to incorporate math standards into your curriculum and achieve student success
• Sure-fire techniques for teaching patterning, sorting, classifying, measuring, matching, graphing and sequencing

Discover new ways to celebrate diversity…then watch as self-esteem and self-expression flourish! (Designed for educators of early learners aged 3-5 years.)

What Your Staff Will Learn:
• Simple ways to incorporate diversity into all curriculum areas
• How to promote an appreciation of the unique individual in every child
• Developmentally appropriate activities that increase self-expression and foster the sharing of family and cultural traditions

Enhance the world of infants and toddlers with a variety of activities that promote physical development, increase self-esteem and build language skills. (Designed for educators and parents of infants & toddlers.)

What Parents and Staff Will Learn:
• How to enhance a child’s self-awareness, self-confidence and sense of self-worth
• Simple and engaging activities for developing coordination, motor function and muscle control
• Important benchmarks and growth guidelines in child development

Learn how to increase learning effectiveness by applying current brain research to health and nutrition. We’ll discuss brain-friendly strategies and introduce games and movement activities that assist in the healthy development of young children. (Designed for parents, providers and early educators.)

What Your Staff Will Learn:
• Current recommendations for health checks and screenings
• How to meet children’s nutritional needs, including an overview of the food guide pyramid
• How to model good eating habits and make connections between healthy and unhealthy foods

Bring new life to early childhood environments by integrating interactive music with daily lessons. This training session is particularly useful for those teachers who are not musically inclined! (Designed for educators of early learners aged 2-5 years.)

What Your Staff Will Learn:
• How to improve language and literacy skills using singing, dancing and chanting
• How to enrich the curriculum—even math and science—using music, rhythm and movement
• A range of delightful activities and extension ideas for immediate classroom use

Teachers gain a new and lasting appreciation for blocks when they discover how these simple learning tools boost physical, social and cognitive development! (Designed for educators of early learners aged 2-5 years.)

What Your Staff Will Learn:
• How to create an inviting, age-appropriate block center for the classroom
• Simple, hands-on activities that explore language, math and other essential curriculum areas
• The best way to promote sharing and cooperative forms of play

This training session provides educators with the key to a successful children’s science curriculum—keeping it simple! (Designed for educators of early learners aged 2-5 years.)

What Your Staff Will Learn:
• How to relate science concepts to children’s everyday experiences
• Strategies for making the scientific method accessible to early learners
• Exciting, hands-on activities that focus on the five senses, our bodies, color, and cause & effect

This session’s discussion will focus on important units of a kindergarten setting such as literacy, social skills, self-esteem and peer relations. (Designed for parents and educators of early learners aged 4-5 years.)

What Parents and Staff Will Learn:
• Requirements and standards for kindergarten
• Developmental connections between pre-k and kindergarten curriculum expectations
• What a “transitional moment” is and simple strategies for creating a more seamless transition

Discover the importance of embracing literacy at an early age…and learn how parents, providors and educators can play a larger role in creating activities that support appropriate development for kindergarten. (Designed for parents, providers and educators of early learners aged 2-5 years.)

What Attendees Will Learn:
• Simple ways to boost pre-reading skills while shopping, doing laundry, cooking and more
• How to transform household routines into fun-filled literacy experiences
• One-on-one activities that promote children’s confidence and self-esteem

Learn how to adapt eight key learning centers to the outdoor environment! We’ll focus on linking literacy with outdoor play using sand and water, gross motor games and discovery kits. There will also be a discussion on special play for special days. (Designed for educators of early learners aged 2-5 years.)

What Your Staff Will Learn:
• Easy and effective activities for immediate outdoor application
• New insights on how to create learning opportunities with everyday outdoor activities
• The real reasons why we should (but don’t) provide outdoor learning activities