The following are workshops we have already conducted and are not planning any additional dates for the immediate future. If you would like to inquire about private group trainings on any of the following, please contact us at 1.800.434.9129, ext. 232.


Addressing Challenging Behaviors:
Tools for the Classroom
Children struggling with challenging behaviors impact themselves, but also disrupt the group and limit individual learning. This workshop is designed to help early childhood educators prevent and reduce challenging behaviors. With the right tools, classroom teachers and child care providers can make all the difference for a child struggling with behavior issues and social-emotional development. Learn how to create an environment to support all children and help them develop alternatives to challenging behaviors.


Challenging Behaviors: Developing a Positive Behavior Support Plan
When Tools for the Classroom are simply not enough, try a more systematic approach to changing challenging behaviors. Join us to learn how to develop a Positive Behavior Support Plan - a systematic approach that explores why children have challenging behaviors and how educators can develop proactive strategies that make a difference. Learn why challenging behaviors occur, how to identify what triggers a behavior, and how the environment may be maintaining the behavior.


Brain Development: Applications for the Early Childhood Classroom
Did you know that by the first three years of life, a child’s brain is 90% developed and has created a “template” which impacts the child’s personality, social behavior, emotional resiliency, motor development, and learning ability? A lack of certain kinds of experiences, opportunities, or relationships can negatively influence children throughout life. Early childhood educators play an important role in helping children develop and become ready to learn. In this workshop, participants learn simple tools, techniques, practical classroom strategies, and activities to create a “brain friendly” curriculum and classroom that help children reach their highest potential.


Everyone Pays the Price:
Minimizing the "Cost" of Staff Turnover
Don't just accept staff turnover…Do something about it! In the early childhood care and education profession, staff turnover is higher than almost all other professions. Once a staff member leaves, everyone involved has to deal with the change - administrators, staff, children, and families. This workshop provides tips and tactics for eliminating the revolving door, explores the hiring process, and identifies retention strategies to reduce staff turnover.


Participatory Management:
Building Strong Staff Teams
Identify your management style and use that knowledge to work optimally with each staff person individually and as a team. By implementing these techniques, program administrators can focus on “big picture” issues facing their programs.

Learn to empower and energize staff to become a part of the decision making process. Staff wants to become part of a work environment filled with trust, recognition, and opportunities for personal and professional growth.

Join us and learn how to create a cooperative environment that supports healthy staff communication, group problem solving, consensus building, and positive relationships.


Running on Empty? Refueling Ideas for the Early Childhood Profession
It is no surprise that our profession, early childhood care and education, has a high burnout rate. In fact, burnout is the leading cause of turnover, absenteeism, and failure to meet the needs of our families. Join other early childhood educators and administrators in an interactive and informative session to examine the causes and symptoms of burnout, and strategies to address it.


Train-the-Trainers Conference
Take your early childhood education training to the next level. This three-day training-of-trainers conference offers critical resources to individuals who provide training to the early childhood education field. Whether trainers offer free training, fee-for-service training or staff development training, this conference will help ensure high quality resources and best practices are implemented in the training environment. This conference will sharpen your presentation skills and add to your tool kit of activities that help drive home your content in practical ways for your audience.

TAP: Teachers and Parents Learning to Dance Together
Being an effective early childhood educator means partnering with the families in your care. Join us and come away with fun filled ideas and resources that will help you get in step with the parents in your early childhood program.