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In Person Trainings

Saturday, April 26, 2025

  • Infant Care

    This 2 hour session is focused on high quality infant care based on research by Ron Laly’s PTIC program in California and Zero to Three Website. What is curriculum for Infants? How do you manage all of the routines needed for children under 15 months of age. What are some of the trends in infant care in other countries. How do I communicate effectively with infants and their families?

    Subject
    CDA Subject Area 1 – Planning a safe and healthy learning environment
    Audience
    Infant Educators, Childcare Leaders
  • Date & Time
    Saturday, April 26, 2025
    8:30 am – 10:30 am
    JPS Administration Building
    501 Manhattan Boulevard
    Harvey 70058
  • Behavioral Guidance Using the Brain State Model

    Details Coming Soon!

    Subject
    CDA Subject Area 3 – Supporting children’s social and emotional development
    Audience
    Infant Educators, Toddler Educators, PreK Educators, Childcare Leaders
  • Date & Time
    Saturday, April 26, 2025
    8:30 am – 12:45 pm
    JPS Administration Building
    501 Manhattan Boulevard
    Harvey 70058

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  • Health & Safety: Enhancing Cleaning Safety in Childcare

    Many cleaning and sanitizing chemicals can pose health risks, particularly to children. In this session, we will delve into safer cleaning practices within childcare settings. Participants will gain insights into cleaning products, best practices for chemical handling, and ways to enhance cleaning procedures in childcare environments.

    Subject
    CDA Subject Area 1 – Planning a safe and healthy learning environment
    Audience
    Infant Educators, Toddler Educators, PreK Educators, Childcare Leaders
  • Date & Time
    Saturday, April 26, 2025
    9:00 am – 12:00 pm
    JPS Administration Building
    501 Manhattan Boulevard
    Harvey 70058
  • Literacy: What You Do Gets Children Ready to Read

    This 2 hour interactive session will focus on strategies that help develop a love of learning and reading in children. Learn age appropriate ways to teach letter recognition, rhyming, alliteration that encourage young children’s love of language and meaning in the written word. How do children learn to write. What should you teach at what age to maximize children’s outcome in literacy. How do you observe and document children’s skills and behaviors in literacy objectives.

    Subject
    CDA Subject Area 2 – Advancing children’s physical and intellectual development
    Audience
    Infant Educators, Toddler Educators, PreK Educators, Childcare Leaders
  • Date & Time
    Saturday, April 26, 2025
    10:45 am – 12:45 pm
    JPS Administration Building
    501 Manhattan Boulevard
    Harvey 70058

Saturday, May 10, 2025

  • Socially Strong

    Details Coming Soon!

    Subject
    CDA Subject Area 3 – Supporting children’s social and emotional development
    Audience
    Infant Educators, Toddler Educators, PreK Educators, Childcare Leaders
  • Date & Time
    Saturday, May 10, 2025
    8:30 am – 10:30 am
    JPS Administration Building
    501 Manhattan Boulevard
    Harvey 70058
  • Frog Street Curriculum Implementation

    Details Coming Soon!

    Subject
    CDA Subject Area 5 – Managing an effective program operation
    Audience
    Toddler Educators, PreK Educators, Childcare Leaders
  • Date & Time
    Saturday, May 10, 2025
    8:30 am – 12:45 pm
    JPS Administration Building
    501 Manhattan Boulevard
    Harvey 70058
  • Conversations with Children

    This training focuses on engaging children in conversations. In this session, you’ll learn how to get started in conversations with children and how important these conversations can be to young children’s development and learning.

    Subject
    CDA Subject Area 2 – Advancing children’s physical and intellectual development
    Audience
    Toddler Educators, PreK Educators, Childcare Leaders
  • Date & Time
    Saturday, May 10, 2025
    8:30 am – 10:30 am
    JPS Administration Building
    501 Manhattan Boulevard
    Harvey 70058
  • Emotionally Secure

    Details Coming Soon!

    Subject
    CDA Subject Area 3 – Supporting children’s social and emotional development
    Audience
    Infant Educators, Toddler Educators, PreK Educators, Childcare Leaders
  • Date & Time
    Saturday, May 10, 2025
    8:30 am – 10:30 am
    JPS Administration Building
    501 Manhattan Boulevard
    Harvey 70058
  • Health & Safety: Active Supervision

    Details coming soon!

    Subject
    CDA Subject Area 1 – Planning a safe and healthy learning environment
    Audience
    Infant Educators, Toddler Educators, PreK Educators, Childcare Leaders
  • Date & Time
    Saturday, May 10, 2025
    9:00 am – 12:00 pm
    JPS Administration Building
    501 Manhattan Boulevard
    Harvey 70058
  • Talk to Me Baby! Early Language Support for Children

    This 2-hour interactive training module will provide participants with high-level early language support in infant classrooms, through a deeper understanding of the Infant CLASS®tool and high-quality teacher-child interactions. Training participants will practice realistic strategies for implementing self-talk, imitating and initiating sounds or words; modeling turn-taking, and effectively using toys for expansion and extension of language. This training will also show how early language support strategies connect other Infant CLASS®dimensions, to support overall infant learning and care in both younger and older infants.

    Subject
    CDA Subject Area 2 – Advancing children’s physical and intellectual development
    Audience
    Infant Educators, Childcare Leaders
  • Date & Time
    Saturday, May 10, 2025
    10:45 am – 12:45 pm
    JPS Administration Building
    501 Manhattan Boulevard
    Harvey 70058