Services

Workshops and Professional Development

If you think you can, you can.  And if you think you can’t, you’re right. 
– Mary Kay Ash

For parents and early care and education professionals alike, the key to success is confidence!  And the key to confidence is good information and knowledge.  With useful, practical information, adults can approach teaching, working and playing with young children with greater confidence and enjoyment.

Let’s learn new skills and approaches together. It’s possible – perhaps essential! – to have fun doing the serious work of raising and educating confident, capable children!

Here are some of the workshop topics available – or a topic can be developed to meet your specific needs.  All professional workshops incorporate relevant intentional teaching practices and strategies, as well as the preschool standards from the Connecticut Preschool Curriculum Framework and the Preschool Assessment Framework.

For early care and education professionals

• Supporting Positive Behaviors from Young Children
• Structuring the Environment to Prevent Discipline Problems
• Reframing Discipline (3 part series)
• Five No-Fail Behavior Management Strategies
• Fostering Social Emotional Development
• Curriculum and Assessment
• Student Portfolios
• Observation and Data Collection on Student Outcomes
• Fostering Oral Language Development
• Fostering Mathematics and Mathematical Thinking
• Comprehensive Curriculum – Moving from “Themes” to “Topics of Study”
• Working with Families
• Constructive and Productive Student Conferences
• The “Difficult” Conference
• Helping Parents/Families Understand “Curriculum”
• Helping Parents/Families Understand Developmentally Appropriate Practices

For parents and family members

• Surviving Life with a Preschooler  (Understanding Child Development)
• Positive Parents Raise Positive Kids (Positive Guidance Strategies)
• Getting Your Child Ready for Kindergarten – and Life!  (School Readiness)