Marketing for Success: Growing Your Child Care Business (06/02/20 - 06/16/20)
This course covers the importance of a marketing plan in reaching and maintaining enrollment goals in a childcare business, and provides an overview of basic marketing principles and concepts. Participants will gain skills to develop a marketing plan through practical application of concepts in the child care field.
Read MoreFinancial Management: Taming the Crystal Ball/Mastering the Juggling Act (08/04/20 - 09/01/20)
Gain control over your child care center’s financial future. Study includes developing departmentalized budgets, managing income and expense using budgeting and cash flow tools, and understanding financial statements, with particular emphasis on creating and managing staffing patterns and personnel budgets, the largest cost area for child care businesses.
Read MoreFinancial Management: Taming the Crystal Ball/Mastering the Juggling Act (04/21/20 - 05/19/20)
Gain control over your child care center’s financial future. Study includes developing departmentalized budgets, managing income and expense using budgeting and cash flow tools, and understanding financial statements, with particular emphasis on creating and managing staffing patterns and personnel budgets, the largest cost area for child care businesses.
Read MorePracticum Project Eager to Learn Online MN (03/31/20 - 11/10/20)
The Directors Credential Practicum Project is a guided independent study project serving as a capstone to the credential program. Participants develop and demonstrate skills in research, project planning, goal setting, creating and following a work plan and time table, and bringing a project to fruition on time. Projects are of a business, organizational or financial…
Read MoreDeveloping Human Resources in Early Childhood Programs (05/05/20 - 06/02/20)
Identify and illustrate knowledge of each step in the employee life cycle – recruitment; selection; orientation (on boarding); supervision and development; and retention. Through reading, video, discussion, and practical application activities participants development skills needed to manage the most important program resource – the center staff.
Read MoreEssential Management Skills for Early Childhood Director Success (04/07/20 - 04/28/20)
Essential Management Skills for Early Childhood Director Success is a four week online Eager to Learn course designed for Early Childhood Directors to explore and discuss key management skills for success in their roles as leaders and managers of early childhood businesses. Each participant will assess her/his own perceived management strengths and growth areas and…
Read MoreTime is of the Essence (03/03/20 - 03/24/20)
Time is of the Essence is a 16 hour online course designed for Eager to Learn. Participants will explore their own use of time to prioritize and organize tasks for maximum work effectiveness while still making time for a satisfying life outside of work.
Read MoreEthics in the Early Childhood Profession – An Introduction (11/12/19 - 05/11/20)
Learn what the NAEYC Code of Ethical Conduct is and understand the value of this document and pledge to professionalism. “Ethics – in the form of knowledge and skill in making responsible professional decisions – is one of the most fundamental qualities of a competent early childhood educator” (Feeney & Freeman, 2012) This is an…
Read MoreIntroduction to the Early Childhood Indicators of Progress for Directors or Program Administrators (11/04/19 - 05/11/20)
Directors and program administrators; discover how to read and use the updated ECIPs with your staff. You will also identify the organizational structure and terms of the standards as well as identifies resources for using the ECIPs within your program including involving and engaging families in children’s learning.
Read MoreEthics in the Early Childhood Profession – An Introduction (02/01/19 - 04/14/19)
Learn what the NAEYC Code of Ethical Conduct is and understand the value of this document and pledge to professionalism. “Ethics – in the form of knowledge and skill in making responsible professional decisions – is one of the most fundamental qualities of a competent early childhood educator” (Feeney & Freeman, 2012) This is an…
Read More