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Partnering With Families in The Creative Curriculum® for Infants, Toddlers and Twos – Spanish
30
Max Participants
During this 1-day session, participants will learn how to plan language-rich routines and experiences that support the development of young children’s language and literacy knowledge, skills, and abilities. Participants will identify practices and strategies that build children’s vocabulary, promote children’s expressive and receptive language, help children notice the sounds and rhythms of language, encourage interaction with books and stories, and foster children’s love of writing.
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Prerequisites:
Introduction to The Creative Curriculum®
Infants, Toddlers & Twos
Creative Curriculum
1 Day
1 Day
Inspiring Interactions: Exploring the Teacher’s Role in Interest Areas
30
Max Participants
Are you interested in maximizing positive child outcomes by offering Choice Time? Are you curious about how you can intentionally address the Objectives for Development and Learning within interest areas? If so, Inspiring Interactions: Exploring the Teacher’s Role in Interest Areas, is for you! During this 6-hour advanced session for users of The Creative Curriculum® for Preschool, participants will discover techniques for facilitating important content learning, including literacy and mathematics learning, in interest areas. Participants will be introduced to a collection of helpful teaching strategies that nurture creativity, encourage problem-solving, and engage children in critical thinking. Through discussions and activities, teachers will examine their role in supporting, and extending, high quality play experiences during Choice Time. Additionally, teachers will practice aligning Objectives for Development and Learning, along with associated support strategies, to child-led play scenarios. Participants will leave the session equipped with the tools and skills needed to make Choice Time one of the most important and impactful times of the instructional day. During this 6-hour advanced session for users of The Creative Curriculum® for Preschool, participants will discover techniques for facilitating important content learning, including literacy and mathematics learning, in interest areas. Participants will be introduced to a collection of helpful teaching strategies that nurture creativity, encourage problem-solving, and engage children in critical thinking. Through discussions and activities, teachers will examine their role in supporting, and extending, high quality play experiences during Choice Time. Additionally, teachers will practice aligning Objectives for Development and Learning, along with associated support strategies, to child-led play scenarios. Participants will leave the session equipped with the tools and skills needed to make Choice Time one of the most important and impactful times of the instructional day.
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Prerequisites:
Introduction to The Creative Curriculum®
Preschool
Creative Curriculum
1 Day
0.5 Day
Introduction to Tadpoles for Administrators
30
Max Participants
Designed for administrators and directors, this 3-hour exploration of Tadpoles® introduces participants to the powerful program management features available within the platform. From viewing children’s and teachers’ locations at a glance, to tracking ratios in each classroom in real time, to sending important notifications to classrooms or families with ease, participants will learn how Tadpoles® can reduce the time and effort needed to complete everyday administrative tasks. During the session, program directors will also learn how to easily manage and track their enrollment pipeline, identify potential gaps in each classroom, and determine appropriate actions with easy-to-use enrollment forecasting tools.
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None
Grades 1-3
Infants, Toddlers & Twos
Kindergarten
Preschool
Tadpoles
0.5 Day
0.5 Day
Introduction to Tadpoles for Teachers
30
Max Participants
We invite you to join us for a 3-hour exploration of Tadpoles, a child-care management system designed to help teachers spend more time with children and less time focusing on attendance, lesson plans, and filling out daily reports. During this hands-on session for teachers and staff members, participants will learn how Tadpoles® can support positive school-family connections through the use of dynamic and intuitive tools for creating and sharing detailed Daily Reports with families and crafting individualized lesson plans. Additionally, participants will learn how to quickly and easily capture attendance, health, and safety information- all from the Tadpoles platform.
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Prerequisites:
None
Grades 1-3
Infants, Toddlers & Twos
Kindergarten
Preschool
Tadpoles
0.5 Day
0.5 Day
Exploring OSEP Features and Reports Within GOLD®
30
Max Participants
Tailored to meet the needs of administrators and instructional leaders, this 3-hour advanced GOLD® session introduces participants to the OSEP features and reports available within MyTeachingStrategies®. Participants will review the purposes of GOLD® and the role it plays in informing instruction before diving into an overview of OSEP. Additionally, administrators will learn how the objectives for development and learning connect to the three OSEP outcomes. Participants will be guided through the process of setting up and using the OSEP reporting tools powered by GOLD® and will learn how to generate and analyze OSEP reports, including the OSEP Status Report and the OSEP Federally Mandated Year-End Report. Note: This advanced administrator-focused session is intended for subscribers of both OSEP reporting features and GOLD®.
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Prerequisites:
Introduction to GOLD®
Infants, Toddlers & Twos
Preschool
GOLD
0.5 Day
1 Day
Introduction to GOLD® for Kindergarten Entry Assessment
30
Max Participants
During this 6-hour session, participants will be introduced to the knowledge, skills, and abilities most closely associated with kindergarten readiness. Through engaging activities and rich discussions, participants will examine strategies for documenting children’s development and learning throughout the day. Participants will also analyze the four steps of the assessment cycle and learn how to use assessment data to inform instructional decisions. Finally, participants will learn how to use the GOLD® for KEA Survey to compare student’s knowledge, skills, and abilities for each objective and dimension to widely-held expectations for students entering kindergarten.
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None
Kindergarten
GOLD
1 Day
0.5 Day
Introduction to The Creative Curriculum® Cloud for Preschool
30
Max Participants
The Creative Curriculum® Cloud couples our leading early childhood curriculum with powerful digital planning tools. During this 3-hour session (intended for preschool, prekindergarten, and transitional kindergarten teachers), participants will explore the dynamic teaching resources available in the Creative Curriculum® Cloud Digital Content Library. Participants will discover the MyTeachingStrategies® Family app and investigate impactful family engagement strategies. Additionally, participants will learn how to use The Creative Curriculum® Cloud to streamline their planning and individualize learning experiences for children.
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Prerequisites:
Introduction to The Creative Curriculum®
Preschool
Creative Curriculum
0.5 Day
0.5 Day
Introduction to The Creative Curriculum® Cloud for Infants, Toddlers and Twos
30
Max Participants
The Creative Curriculum® Cloud couples our leading early childhood curriculum with powerful digital planning tools. During this 3-hour session (intended for infants, toddlers & twos teachers and caregivers), participants will explore the dynamic teaching resources available in the Creative Curriculum® Cloud Digital Content Library. Participants will discover the MyTeachingStrategies® Family app and investigate impactful family engagement strategies. Additionally, participants will learn how to use The Creative Curriculum® Cloud to streamline their planning and individualize learning experiences for children.
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Prerequisites:
Introduction to The Creative Curriculum®
Infants, Toddlers & Twos
Creative Curriculum
0.5 Day
1 Day
Mathematics in The Creative Curriculum® for Infants, Toddlers & Twos
30
Max Participants
Infants, toddlers, and twos are introduced to mathematical concepts as they engage in everyday routines and experiences. During this 1-day session, participants will explore the three curricular volumes, which feature the latest theory and research, to identify strategies that promote children’s mathematical thinking and support active, individualized learning during routines and experiences. Participants will identify practices and strategies that support the development of, and help children notice, number concepts, patterns and relationships, geometry and spatial relationships, and sorting and classifying.
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Prerequisites:
Introduction to The Creative Curriculum®
Infants, Toddlers & Twos
Creative Curriculum
1 Day
1 Day
Introduction to The Creative Curriculum® for Preschool
30
Max Participants
This highly interactive 1-day session introduces participants to The Creative Curriculum® for Preschool. Participants will become familiar with the 38 objectives for development and learning that inform every aspect of teaching. They will then explore and practice using the components of the curriculum, including knowledge-building volumes, Teaching Guides, Mighty Minutes®, Intentional Teaching Experiences, Book Discussion Cards®, and, if applicable, Highlights High Five Bilingüe® and Book Conversation Cards®.
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Prerequisites:
None
Preschool
Creative Curriculum
1 Day
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