Upcoming Workshops: List View

Marketing your Childcare Business

Vicki Lepper

Time: 9:30am - 12:30pm | Location: Online | 25 spaces remaining

This workshop will teach you the basics of managing and marketing as well as using the Internet and social media to help you maximize enrolment and income for your business. As child care providers, the notion of marketing ourselves or our child care seems to often make us feel uncomfortable. Somehow advertising seems out of step with the work we do. The fact is, however, that the ability to market our child care service in tasteful and effective ways is one indicator of a professional child care provider. This workshop teaches providers how to identify, articulate, and sell the benefits of their child care program to potential clients using both traditional strategies and technology. Parents are using the Internet to find child care providers. This workshop is for a person who wants to understand how to fit all the pieces together.

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Fry No More: Resilience Skills for Stress, Uncertainty & Positive Mental Health

Shannon Gander

Time: 6:00pm - 8:00pm | Location: Online | 23 spaces remaining

Do you wonder about skills to better navigate stress, uncertainty and a busy work-life? Would you love to quiet your mind after a full day of tasks, to do’s and people interactions? This skill-building workshop is focused on how to close the stress loop, gain stability in uncertainty, pull yourself into the resilience window and build your personal toolkit for burnout prevention. From the best of neuroscience, learn the practical and portable skills for those that want to better understand resilience and change small habits that have immediate positive impacts on our energy, productivity, and joy.

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Alert Emergency Childcare First Aid CPR/AED - Level C

Alert Facilitator

Time: 8:30am - 4:30pm | Location: Archway Community Services ( Jasbir Saran Room ) | 18 spaces remaining

This fun and interactive 8 hour course trains people how to react and improvise when dealing with life threatening emergencies. This course includes initial assessment, disease prevention, secondary survey, airway obstruction, adult, child and infant CPR and AED (level C). Recognition and first-aid treatment for head and spine injuries, shock, burns, bleeding, seizures, broken bones, anaphylactic shock, small wound management, poisoning, heat exhaustion and heat stroke will also be addressed. Participants spend the majority of the course doing hands on first-aid and participating in first-aid scenarios. By practicing with scenarios students gain confidence, learn to improvise, and react in emergency situations. This course meets Child Licensing guidelines.

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Transitioning Out of Theme-Based Curriculum

Ana Valle Rivera

Time: 6:30pm - 8:30pm | Location: Online | 25 spaces remaining

Transitioning from a theme-based curriculum to following children's interests can be daunting at first. This is an introductory workshop about how educators can go from pre-planned curriculum to following children's interests. In this workshop, educators will:

● Learn why we as educators lean into theme-based curriculum as a default

● Begin to understand inquiry-based learning

● Think creatively about ways to observe, document and reflect, to move toward an emergent curriculum.

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Building Foundational Communication & Social Interaction Skills for Children with Special Needs

Farrah Rahim & Andrea Rizzuto

Time: 9:30am - 12:30pm | Location: Online | 24 spaces remaining

Communication is a fundamental aspect of human interaction, enabling us to connect, express our needs, and build relationships. For children with special needs, developing effective communication and social interaction skills is particularly crucial. This workshop aims to equip educators with the knowledge and tools necessary to support these children in their journey towards effective communication and socialization.

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We Dig Dinosaurs (and so much more!): Following Children’s Interests in Early Learning Settings

Nancy Tovell

Time: 6:00pm - 8:00pm | Location: Online | 24 spaces remaining

Join us as we explore the importance of encouraging, celebrating and building on the ideas and interests of young children in early childhood settings. Together we'll look at stories, rhymes, songs and hands-on activities that can be adapted to the interests of the children in various early learning environments while encouraging numeracy, literacy, gross and fine motor skills. Participants will have the opportunity to work with others to develop their own ready-to-use interest-based lesson/activity plans as we recognize the importance of following the lead of the children in our care. Best for those working with infants, toddlers and pre-school aged children.

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