Health and Safety Pre-service for Child Care Centers (02/02/21 - 02/23/21)
This series based course intended for new providers meets Licensing preservice requirements as well as the health and safety requirements from the Child Care Development Fund. Participants will explore MN Rule 3 licensing standards and best practices around supervision challenges experienced by child care centers. We’ll look at strategies a child care provider can implement…
Read MoreGood Teaching is Good Teaching Anytime (01/21/21 - 02/25/21)
Part 1 Intro to Online Education – We will examine best practices of adult education and how they transfer to online education. Specific focus will be on adult learning theory, environments and implementation into online education. Part 2 Building Community – we will become familiar with how to promote effective communication among students and between…
Read MoreCommunity Engagement for Early Childhood Programs #27 (10/27/21 - 11/24/21)
Discover how active involvement in a local community is key to carrying out a mission of community service. Determine how through community involvement, collaborating, partnering and clearly developing and interpreting their brand, child care programs can strengthen their organizations, build enrollment and build support for early education in their communities.
Read MoreBuilding and Maintaining Program Quality – The Director’s Role (09/15/21 - 10/20/21)
Mission, Goals and Strategy – Aligning for Business Success (07/14/21 - 08/18/21)
Capstone for Program Leaders #27 (04/14/21 - 12/08/21)
Courageous Conversations; Communicating Strategies for Program Leaders (04/28/21 - 05/26/21)
Developing Human Resources in Early Childhood Programs (03/03/21 - 04/07/21)
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 MoreEthics – From the Director Perspective (01/27/21 - 02/24/21)
Interpret the NAEYC Code of Ethics to determine the core values, ideals and principles in your program. In addition discover how the Code of Ethics and Power to the Profession can help understand dilemmas in your program. This is an online course.
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