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November 14, 2023

Strengths-Based Leadership, Mentorship, and Coaching

Brazelton Touchpoints Center invites all professionals who serve in leadership, management, coaching, or mentor roles to attend this workshop series to develop strategies on how to cultivate and sustain a strengths-based approach in your leadership role.

Event Details

  • 2-part workshop series, 3 hours each, totaling 6 hours of training
    • January 23 and 25, 11-2 pm ET / 8-12 pm PT
  • Live Spanish translation and closed captioning are available
  • Participants receive a certificate of participation. Contact Hours: 6
  • Register for this opportunity today.

Additional Details

In this course, participants will learn:

  • How to take the other person’s perspective to support a strengths-based approach
  • How to identify where staff start and how they are advancing in their learning process
  • How to highlight and appreciate staff strengths in your interactions with them
  • Strategies that can help you deepen your connections with staff

 

News

Strengths-Based Leadership, Mentorship, and Coaching

Brazelton Touchpoints Center invites all professionals who serve in leadership, management, coaching, or mentor roles to attend this workshop series to develop strategies on how to cultivate and sustain a strengths-based approach in your leadership role.

Event Details

  • 2-part workshop series, 3 hours each, totaling 6 hours of training
    • January 23 and 25, 11-2 pm ET / 8-12 pm PT
  • Live Spanish translation and closed captioning are available
  • Participants receive a certificate of participation. Contact Hours: 6
  • Register for this opportunity today.

Additional Details

In this course, participants will learn:

  • How to take the other person’s perspective to support a strengths-based approach
  • How to identify where staff start and how they are advancing in their learning process
  • How to highlight and appreciate staff strengths in your interactions with them
  • Strategies that can help you deepen your connections with staff

 

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November 1, 2023

Supporting Breastfed Children in Child Care Settings

The Pennsylvania Chapter of the American Academy of Pediatrics is offering professional development credits for child care providers who complete the Breastfeeding Evaluation.

Learn More

The 1.5-hour recorded webinar discusses breast milk storage and handling, provides practice guidance on paced-bottle feeding, and offers resources needed to promote breastfeeding in early education and child care settings.

At the conclusion of the webinar participants will be able to:

  • Identify reasons to support chest/breastfeeding

  • Explain the safe handling and storage procedures for human milk

  • Describe the rationale and practice for paced bottle feeding

  • Explain the benefits of the program when chest/breastfeeding is supported

  • Describe and apply supportive policies for chest/breastfeeding

Listen to the recording and download the evaluation form. The password is “Ecels”. Completed evaluation forms should be emailed to ecels@paaap.org or faxed to 484-446-3255. The webinar will be free until December 31, 2023.

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October 4, 2023

Capturing Moments: Planning For and Conducting Classroom Observations

The ELRC Region 5 is offering a professional development opportunity for your early learning educators.

This session will introduce early education professionals to the importance and value of purposeful observation.

Through whole and small group discussions and activities, attendees will understand what observation is and identify various types of observation used in the classroom. They will also learn how observations can be linked directly to observation-based child assessments, and discuss how to identify their own biases to prevent them from affecting their objective observations.

Session Details

Tuesday, October 24 | 6:30 – 8:30 p.m.

Location: Virtual via Zoom

Instructors: Shawna Preston and Elizabeth Foreman

Standards: Child Observation, Documentation, and Assessment

Cost: $10

Register

Learn More

This session is eligible for 2 hours of PQAS and Act 48 credit.

For questions about the course or credit, contact Paige Kizior at paige@tryingtogether.org.

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January 9, 2018

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