April 23, 2025 APOST Offering Eight Professional Development Workshops This Summer Allegheny Partners for Out-of-School Time (APOST) is offering eight professional development workshops this summer that cover a variety of topics that are relevant to early childhood learning professionals. Learn More Registration is required and closes two days prior to each workshop or when a session is full. Each workshop lasts about two-and-a-half to three hours and locations vary. The summer professional development offerings include: Essentials of an SEL Framework (Wednesday, May 7 from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. at CoLab18 in Nova Place, located at 100 South Commons, Suite 100) Foundations & Self Awareness of Cognitive Development (Friday, May 9 from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. at CoLab18 in Nova Place) Building Community (Thursday, May 22 from 10 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. at Community Engagement Center – Homewood, located at 622 North Homewood Avenue, Room 103) Cooperative Learning (Friday, May 30 from 10 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. at CoLab18 in Nova Place) Engaging Youth in Supported Struggle (Wednesday, June 11 from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. at Community Engagement Center – Homewood) Essentials of an SEL Framework (Wednesday, June 18 from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. at Community Engagement Center – Homewood) Reframing Conflict (Wednesday, June 25 from 10 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. at CoLab18 in Nova Place) Building Community (Thursday, June 26 from 10 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. at Colab 18 in Nova Place) For workshops at CoLab 18 in Nova Place, APOST will provide parking validation for attendees. Descriptions of workshops are available on APOST’s website.
February 5, 2019 Open Wide the Circle! Musical Games for Early Learning Fun Musical games can provide so many rich benefits to children’s social and cognitive development! This interactive workshop will model how educators can integrate musical games in their early childhood classrooms to support their students at various levels of play. During this engaging workshop, educators will participate in a variety of musical games, including parallel play games, circle and line games. There will be plenty of fingerplays, too! Educators will be able to identify connections to early literacy and math concepts. Act 48 and PQAS credit hours available. Register for this event here.
