This session is designed for early childhood educators and staff to explore how to incorporate science throughout their daily practice, discover how to find resources and research to support children and educators learning of science and add science to your lesson plans and curriculum. This session will help to extend the learning of a child’s natural curiosity about the world around them and incorporate science into their everyday experiences.

This course focuses on the social emotional development of school-aged children. Educators will explore social emotional competencies and the importance of incorporating these competencies in creating caring classroom community. Educators will also have an opportunity plan social emotional supports for the classroom environment.

The Circle of Security Classroom Approach (COSC) is an eight-chapter professional development series designed to help promote an understanding of attachment theory and offer support to classroom teachers. It is modeled after the Circle of Security Parenting series. The Circle of Security Classroom (COSC) Approach is designed to enhance educators’ abilities to form secure relationships and offers critical organizing principles from attachment theory to improve educator confidence and competence in relationship building. This, in turn, fosters strong secure educator-child relationships, and ultimately, child learning. This series meets criteria for the 4 hours of Infant/Toddler Specific training for NM Childcare licensing.

Creating appropriate social emotional learning environments starts with promoting a positive atmosphere in which children can grow and thrive. This training will explore the role of relationships and the physical environment impact children’s social emotional well-being.

In this course educators working with infants and toddlers will explore the value and importance of their role as educators and caretakers. Educators will gain strategies to prioritize purposeful interactions with children, grow as professionals by reflecting on the value of their practices to facilitate learning for infants and toddlers.

This training is designed for teachers using authentic observation and documentation. Teachers will explore how to enhance social emotional supports for children, use reflection to guide changes to teaching practices, review and reflect on written documentation and lesson planning, and practice using the Continuous Quality Improvement Process to enhance teaching practices.

This training is designed for individuals working with infants and toddlers. Participants will have an opportunity to explore strategies for rich interactions in infant-toddler care through discussion, self-assessment and practical use of strategies related to lesson planning, environment and interactions.

Over the course of 7 conversations, early childhood educators, families, and others from the community who care about children will engage in reflection and explore how the Five Commitments of Optimistic Leaders support their own self-empowerment and leadership. It’s also about building stronger relationships, growing trust, and seeing ourselves as agents of positive change for children and communities. Course participants will be provided with a copy of The Five Commitments of Optimistic Leaders for Children by Judy Jablon, Nichole Parks, and Laura Ensler.

This course is designed as an introduction to special services and inclusion resources available to support early childhood professionals so that every child is included in early childhood programs. Ideas for building family partnerships and information about service providers will be highlighted. A review of related laws is also included in the course. All child care educators working in 3-STAR and 4-STAR licensed child care centers and family child care homes are required to complete this course, or its equivalent, within the first six months of employment.

Research shows that supporting healthy Social Emotional development is a key skill for all child care providers. This session will explore how children communicate through their behaviors, offer practical suggestions for supporting social emotional development in group care settings, and give child care providers an opportunity to explore their own strengths and challenges with this topic.

Early care providers and educators can have a great impact on infants. Learn the many ways to enhance your classroom environments and practices to promote infant growth, development, and learning.

This hands-on, interactive training focuses on the role of wind and air in early childhood education. Educators will engage in hands-on and investigative activities to explore air movement, its effects, and how to use it as a tool to foster curiosity and science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM)-based learning in young children.

Over the course of 12 conversations, early childhood educators, families, and others from the community who care about children will engage in reflection and explore the book- The 11 Simple Rules with a community of learners. The 11 Simple Rules book is a tool of the Humanity First Model that describes and illustrates guidelines for how people in communities can engage inclusively and respectfully in relationships and interactions, the emotional and physical environment, and learning experiences. The 11 Simple Rules offers a shared language for creating equitable, healthy communities for all, so children and adults can thrive. It’s also about building stronger relationships, growing trust, and seeing ourselves as agents of positive change for children and communities. Course participants will be provided with a copy of the 11 Simple Rules book by Judy Jablon and Nichole Parks.