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Keeping Our Children Safe: Planning Ahead and Being Prepared 2025-2026
This 4-hour course offers 0.4 CEU and aligns with CDA Subject Area 1.
Learn about potential safety hazards in child care settings and how to address them. Plan for emergencies and how to respond to specific emergency situations including first aid and CPR procedures. This course covers the CCDF topics of: “Building and physical premises safety,” “Emergency preparedness and response planning,” “Storage of hazardous materials and biocontaminants,” and “First-aid and CPR.”
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Honoring All Families
This 4-hour course offers 0.4 CEU and aligns with CDA Subject Area 4.
The purpose of the Honoring All Families course is to prepare early childhood professionals to work effectively with a variety of families. This course provides educators with the knowledge and skills needed to interact with culturally diverse families in a manner that is respectful and appropriate to their diverse needs. It is designed to build educators’ cultural competency, including understanding how distinct cultural perspectives influence interactions with families. Honoring All Families equips participants with an awareness and understanding of different cultural groups and provides strategies to effectively engage culturally diverse families.
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Engaging Families with Social Media
This 4-hour course offers 0.4 CEU and aligns with CDA Subject Area 4.
An important step in creating successful family engagement programs is meeting families where they are. And where are they? Research shows that the majority of them are on social media, not just reading the latest neighborhood gossip, but looking for parenting information. Social media can be an effective vehicle for engaging busy families. This course describes a variety of social media platforms, defines common social media terms, provides tips for using social media when engaging families, shares some dos and don’ts, and more.
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Curriculum Unpacked
This 4-hour course offers 0.4 CEU and aligns with CDA Subject Area 7.
Teachers are often expected to not only implement an existing curriculum but also to design appropriate supplemental activities to meet the needs of individual children. In many cases, teachers lack the deep understanding of developmentally appropriate practice that they need in order to implement curricula effectively and meet children’s needs. The purpose of this course is to provide early child care professionals with a deep understanding of what is meant by the term curriculum and what is included in a high-quality curriculum. Participants will explore the many facets that are considered to be a part of the curriculum in the early childhood field, including the importance of developmentally appropriate practice and play. In addition, participants will review several examples of prominent early childhood curricula and gain an understanding of how different child development theories guide best practice in the early childhood field.
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Creating Positive Connections
The love and nurturing that a child receives in the first few years of life can have effects on development that last a lifetime. As we learn more about children and how they develop, we understand more clearly the role of early relationships. Warm, nurturing relationships based on respect, understanding, and acceptance are essential for children’s optimal development. In this course, explore caregiver behaviors that create four positive connections: Teacher to child, child to child, child to environment, and teacher to family. Through interactive learning activities, group discussion forums, videos, reflective writing exercises, scenarios, and a field assignment, participants will learn to create an environment where relationships flourish. This course aligns with CDA Subject Area 3, and it is worth 0.4 CEU’s.
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The Creative Curriculum for Kindergarten: Foundation
This 10-hour course offers 1.0 CEU and aligns with CDA Subject Area 8.
Build a strong start with The Creative Curriculum® for Kindergarten. This course offers an in-depth look at the foundational volumes and daily resources that support effective teaching and learning. Learn how to observe, document, and use insights about each child’s development to plan appropriate, engaging experiences. Discover how to create a responsive classroom where every child is supported, challenged, and celebrated.
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Building Positive Relationships
Participants will explore the impact of classroom climate on children’s behavior and learning. For instance, how do the subtle nuances of the teacher’s behavior impact the atmosphere in the classroom? You will review important ideas about the nature of positive relationships, and you will study examples and strategies to promote positive teacher-child and child-child relationships. Relationships are essential to children’s development and learning. A teacher’s ability to create a positive atmosphere will inspire positive relationships and support the education and healthy development of young children. This course aligns with CDA Subject Area 3, and it is worth 0.4 CEU’s.
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Amazing Development: Toddlers
To be a toddler teacher is to be witness to an incredible burst of energy and development! There is an incredible amount of growth and development that happens in children between the ages of 12 and 36 months. This course takes a deep dive into toddler development; building knowledge about the milestones that typically emerge during this period. With a greater understanding of typical development, teachers can plan developmentally appropriate interactions, scaffold learning with “just-right” experiences, and identify possible delays in their classroom. Teachers will build knowledge about the general topic of developmental milestones and specifically about the growth and developmental during the ages of 12 – 36 months. As teachers deepen their understanding of what can be expected from toddlers, they can identify delays, and support their development by planning “just right” interactions and activities. This course aligns with CDA Subject Area 7, and it is worth 0.4 CEU’s.
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Traveling With Precious Cargo 2025-2026
This 3-hour course offers 0.3 CEU and aligns with CDA Subject Area 1.
When you think of Bus Safety, what do you think of? Driver requirements, seatbelts and child restraints? Yes, but there is so much more. In this course, participants will explore key components of safely transporting young children–before, during, and after the trip. Best practice recommendations from Caring for Our Children, as well as the National Highway Administration are referenced as learners explore loading zone safety, emergency prevention, and more. This course covers the CCDF topic of “Precautions in transporting children”.
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Program and Classroom Assessment
This 3-hour course offers 0.3 CEU and aligns with CDA Subject Area 5.
The Program and Classroom Assessment Course focuses on self-evaluation in a single classroom or across multiple classrooms in a center-based program, or in a family child care home. The course prepares early childhood teachers, administrators, and family child care providers for self-guided, self-evaluation. The methods of evaluation are reviewed and include how to analyze the information and use it to make a quality improvement plan. This course involves two field assignments and evaluation tools.
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Confident and Prepared Every Step of the Way
Make the greatest impact on the children in your program with professional development that empowers your teams to enhance and share their skills and knowledge and build their professional network.
