Saturday, February 1st 7.30 am - 3.30 pm
Join ELC Broward and fellow early educators in a day of learning.
Attend engaging workshops based on best practices in early childhood education, network with colleagues and learn new and fun activities for the classroom!
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Meet the legislative team from FACCM, the largest Early Education owners association in Florida. Learn how they dialogue on behalf of small business owners with every agency that has oversight on your business and the legislators who implement laws. As a small business owner ,director, teacher,...
Register ›What are challenging behaviors? In this interactive workshop, participants will discuss and define challenging behaviors and the caregivers role in addressing them. Caregivers will explore and develop strategies to increase desired behaviors with Toddlers and Pre-Schoolers and examine their own...
Register ›Each child learns and develops in their own unique way. This is especially true for children with autism and related disorders, sensory processing challenges, ADHD, and other learning differences. There is nothing ‘cookie cutter’ about young children and the same should hold true for intervention...
Register ›This session provides professionals with research-based education on gender, diverse families, children's early learning environment, and curriculum. Participants will engage in authentic, interactive dialogue driven by their questions, examples, and reflections. Participants will examine the impact...
Register ›Join Captain Barrington Irving and staff for hands on STEM projects you can replicate in the classroom to excite, educate, and energize your children to exceed expectations. We will use some of Captain Irving’s exploration-based materials to apply STEM principals in new and exciting ways.
Register ›Miss Penny will take you on a field trip through the KidVisionPreK.org website. You will understand how to earn CEUs and how to implement virtual field trips into your existing curriculum to strengthen standards achievement. You will go on a KidVision PreK virtual field trip with the group,...
Register ›Do you Know What Makes Up Your Credit Score? Do You Know The Credit Scoring Ranges? Do you Know What Lenders Look For? What is your Debt-To-Income Ratio? Join Us for More Information to Help you Jump Start Your Financial Journey in 2020
Register ›Making Art enables young children to develop awareness about themselves and express their ideas, feelings and connection to the world around them. This practical workshop experience enables teachers, directors and owners to understand more about the creative process and how they can nurture it in...
Register ›This program is group piano/keyboard program for VPK. It can easily be implemented in VPK classrooms. The attendees will receive comprehensive training on the PianoClub program. He or she will learn how simple and fun the program is. The presenter will present the basic concept of Keyboard,...
Register ›This workshop provides insights regarding brain health, Adverse Childhood Experiences Study (ACES), and Social-Emotional Well-Being. This workshop helps participants to identify and promote practices that improve child outcomes including: the fundamentals of healthy brain development, child...
Register ›Tantrums, aggression, and non compliance are the challenging behaviors most talked about when young children are expelled from preschools and childcare programs. These challenging behaviors make caregivers and early childhood professionals feel unprepared and unequipped to manage their classrooms....
Register ›“Say No To Preschool Expulsion” is an engaging session in which teachers will actively participate in activities designed to facilitate an understanding of positive strategies used to guide young children's behavior. Teachers will gain an awareness of the long-term negative effects of preschool...
Register ›This session provides professionals with research-based education on gender, diverse families, children's early learning environment, and curriculum. Participants will engage in authentic, interactive dialogue driven by their questions, examples, and reflections. Participants will examine the impact...
Register ›This presentation will demonstrate the benefits that Mindfulness meditation has on students, staff and your school as a whole. - Participants will learn what exactly what Mindfulness meditation is and how to do 5 min excerises for classroom management. - Participants will learn recent scientific...
Register ›The focus of this presentation is to discuss a new evidence-based intervention, The PLAY Project that has shown significant improvement in children with Autism ages 15 months to 10 years. This is a play based developmental approach to treating Autism. This is a child centered and parent/caregiver...
Register ›Community building in the VPK classroom creates a strong foundation for learning. A positive classroom culture sets the tone for children to develop warm, respectful, supportive relationships with their classmates, teachers and the school at large. The presenters will provide VPK Teachers with...
Register ›This presentation will demonstrate teachers of Pre-K children that a consistent emotional connection, effective redirection of misbehavior and activities that promote students' higher-order thinking skills are the key for frequent positive adult-child interactions in the classroom.
Register ›During this session, we will see what effective interactions look like as described by the CLASS tool. Participants will get the opportunity to use CLASS strategy cards and CLASS dictionaries to plan out how they can incorporate these interactions throughout their day.
Register ›Discuss core tools to have in place to build a foundation to promote what employees want at work and to ensure the organization gets the right people in the right jobs. The core tools are : Employment Application: Highlight why the employment application is important and what should be included...
Register ›This workshop provides insights regarding brain health, Adverse Childhood Experiences Study (ACES), and Social-Emotional Well-Being. This workshop helps participants to identify and promote practices that improve child outcomes including: the fundamentals of healthy brain development, child...
Register ›Making Art enables young children to develop awareness about themselves and express their ideas, feelings and connection to the world around them. This practical workshop experience enables teachers, directors and owners to understand more about the creative process and how they can nurture it in...
Register ›The T.E.A.C.H. Early Childhood® Scholarship Program and Early Childhood Educator INCENTIVE$ Program links training, compensation, and commitment to improving the quality of early care and education experiences for young children. This presentation will provide participants with an overview of both...
Register ›Patricipants will learn how to access services through Child Find for children (birth to age 5) who are at risk or have a disability. The Individual Family Support Plan (IFSP) and Individual Education Plan (IEP) will be explained, along with programs and other resources available in Broward County....
Register ›Spanish Session: This presentation will provide teachers of young children with fun learning opportunities in the developmental areas of cognitive and communication through the use of different modalities that include auditory, visual aids and movement. These tools and strategies offer joyful and...
Register ›This presentation will demonstrate teachers of Pre-K children that a consistent emotional connection, effective redirection of misbehavior and activities that promote students' higher-order thinking skills are the key for frequent positive adult-child interactions in the classroom.
Register ›Spanish Session: The teachers will understand the importance and the purpose of circle time in the classroom. They will get to know the different appropriate adaptations to integrate children displaying challenging behavior. The teachers will learn the meaning of the word Inclusion. Both children...
Register ›This presentation will demonstrate the benefits that Mindfulness meditation has on students, staff and your school as a whole. - Participants will learn what exactly what Mindfulness meditation is and how to do 5 min excerises for classroom management. - Participants will learn recent scientific...
Register ›This two-hour workshop will discuss six (6) Mathematics concepts and how teachers can best implement embedded Mathematics activities related to these concepts throughout their daily classroom routines and activities. Teaching these concepts to young children is important for acquiring a foundation...
Register ›Spanish Session: This presentation will provide teachers of young children with fun learning opportunities in the developmental areas of cognitive and communication through the use of different modalities that include auditory, visual aids and movement. These tools and strategies offer joyful and...
Register ›The toddler and preschool years are a critical time for development in children. Students turn to their teachers for praise, recognition, clarification, and so much more. As educators, we strive to encourage and affirm our students each and every day. How many times do we catch ourselves simply...
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The youngest person to pilot a plane around the world solo, a feat he accomplished in 2007. He founded Experience Aviation, a non-profit organization dedicated to empowering minority youth to pursue careers in aviation. His airplane, the "Inspiration", has been registered to Experience Aviation since 2006.