Revitalize your early childhood education programs with our dynamic training session on leadership and business logistics. This session delves into critical, yet often-neglected, aspects of business management and operations vital for maintaining a high-quality educational environment. Participants will gain essential tools and insights that will empower them to enhance their leadership capabilities, streamline program operations and ultimately deliver a higher quality program, ensuring a well-rounded and impactful educational experience for young learners.

Making sure that families have their own voice in activities planned just for them is, first of all, respectful and second, the best way to encourage participation and host successful events. Using a specially designed template, participants will use the ideas presented to plan an event for implementation when they return home. Together we will share our best ideas and learn from one another to create some great take-home strategies. The free template and a curated resource list will be available after the session.

This presentation introduces the pop-up concept to parent education and engagement in early childhood. Are your parents in a hurry? Too busy to attend parent meetings? This concept can help! In efforts to increase parent engagement we share a wide variety of strategies to support parent-child learning at home and parent participation at school.
Using curriculum objectives to guide and the element of surprise we have increased parent participation and family engagement in our program, and you can as well!
We will walk you step by step through our process from timing, topic selection, presentation, preparation and follow up. Some samples include physical/emotional health and development, cognitive development, and creativity.
Participants will have the opportunity to develop their own Pop-Up Parent Meetings to use, increasing participation at their site/center. We will also share some of our proven effective parent activities and some challenges.

This session highlights the critical role of family engagement in fostering young learners' growth and development. Participants will explore the benefits of building strong partnerships with families and discover practical strategies, resources, and activities to actively involve families in the classroom. The training will provide creative, culturally responsive approaches to strengthen communication, promote collaboration, and create a welcoming environment for families to support their child’s learning journey.

In 2022, New Orleans voters passed a 20-year property tax (millage) that allocates over $20 million annually to provide free early childhood seats and services. With state matching funds that doubles this investment, New Orleans has had to rapidly expand its early childhood infrastructure, including its workforce. Join the leader of the city’s early childhood workforce task force to learn how New Orleans is thinking about teacher preparation and pathways, pay and benefits, and retention and recruitment for early childhood educators.

Are you a childcare administrator or manager struggling to retain talented staff? Join us for "Top Secret Tips to Keeping Your Incredible Staff," a dynamic and interactive session designed to help you understand your own personality and those of your team to foster a supportive and effective work environment. In this session, we will explore stress points, love languages, learning styles, and management styles, providing you with valuable insights to create a harmonious and productive team.

Participants will engage in a variety of activities, including self-assessment, identifying traits in others, and practical application using basic assessment tools. You will assess a hypothetical staff member or a real-life example from your experience, and create a personalized development plan to enhance strengths and address challenges. To make the learning process engaging, the session will incorporate a game show format where participants answer questions and solve scenarios related to staff management, promoting an interactive and competitive environment.

Group discussions will foster a collaborative learning atmosphere, allowing participants to share insights and strategies. By the end of the session, you will have created a personalized tool or plan for effectively managing and retaining your staff, based on the assessments and strategies discussed.