When a child uses challenging behaviors at school, parents and teachers need to work together toaddress the issue. However, when discussing behavior problems parents often feel blamed by the teachers and the teachers often feel unsupported by the parents. This session focuses on developing strategies and skills to make these conversations more productive for everyone..especially the child! Participants will learn how to set the stage for and successfully conduct these difficult conversations with parents.

When a child uses challenging behaviors at school, parents and teachers need to work together toaddress the issue. However, when discussing behavior problems parents often feel blamed by the teachers and the teachers often feel unsupported by the parents. This session focuses on developing strategies and skills to make these conversations more productive for everyone..especially the child! Participants will learn how to set the stage for and successfully conduct these difficult conversations with parents.

This In-PERSON TRAINING provides an overview of Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS), identifies risk factors, and describes ways to reduce the risk of SIDS in child care.

This training is geared towards informing, assessing, and providing strategies to support the skill of deep breathing and making the connection to help children learn how to calm. Participants will assess their own responses and reactions in relation to deep breathing by creating an environment that naturally promotes this crucial skill to early social-emotional development. They will learn about the importance of and evidence-based research on why breathing with children matters. This training will provide you with an understanding of your relationship with yourself, your children, and your teaching team/s.

This EPR in Child Care training for early educators is an IN-PERSON training. NC Child Care Rules require that all family child care home operators and one staff person per child care center complete the EPR training by July 2017. The session will last approximately two hours and covers planning and preparing for emergencies in early care and education settings. It includes an overview and an introduction to the online EPR Plan template and covers questions about the assignment, practicing, responding and recovery related to emergencies.

In this face-to-face training, the following objectives will be covered:

The Burden of Asthma

Define Asthma & The Disease Process

Identify Common Asthma Triggers & Avoidance Strategies

Identify & Respond to Asthma Symptoms

Identify Categories of Asthma Medications

Using Asthma Management Tools (asthma action plan & spacers)

Describe the functions of the Pediatric Asthma Program

Resources

Why are daily classroom routines and schedules so important in the daily lives of teachers and young children? How does following a consistent daily schedule with embedded routines support the social and emotional development of the children in your class? What can we do to help children ‘stay on track’ as they move through a typical preschool day? Through this training, you will receive answers to these questions and develop a deeper understanding of the role of schedules and routines in supporting healthy social-emotional development for all children.

Most preschool teachers are diligent about introducing their students to a large variety of literatureand pre-literacy activities. But emotional literacy – the ability to identify, understand and respond toemotions in yourself and others in a healthy manner – is even more basic to school readiness. We’llexamine the many benefits to children who gain a strong foundation in emotional literacy, exploresimple ways in which you can foster emotional literacy in your classroom, and share some excellent resources for tools and activities teachers can incorporate into their daily classroom curriculum tomake intentional teaching of emotions fun and easy.