Mobility Mentoring® Monthly Webinar
- Second Thursday of each month from 9-10:00 a.m., September through May.
- Next meeting is September 12, 2024
- Register here
Family Support Staff Check-In
- Third Thursday of each month from 9-10:00 a.m., September through June.
- Next meeting is September 19, 2024
- Register here
Las Platicas De El Puente
This monthly check-in is offered in Spanish only.
- Third Tuesday of each month, from 3:30 p.m.-4:30 p.m.
- Next meeting is September 17, 2024
- Register here
Mobility Mentoring® Online Foundations Course
This course if available for all family support staff to access at no charge. It is designed for learners to see Mobility Mentoring® in action, learn about intentional practice, and prepare them to use the coaching approach. The course is broken into four modules that take between 8-10 hours to complete. If you are new to the platform, you must first click the button that says, “sign up”.
Mobility Mentoring® Foundations Monthly Reflection Session
Completion of this session is mandatory to receive STARS credit and to be eligible for Trauma-Informed Care incentives. After successful completion of the Mobility Mentoring® Foundations Course, you need to attend one reflection session to receive STARS credit.
- Fourth Monday of each month at 1:30 p.m., September through June
- Next session is September 23, 2024
- Register here
B-5 ECEAP Coach Check-In
- First Friday of each month from 12:30 p.m. to 1:30 p.m., September through June.
- Next meeting is September 6, 2024
- Join here
Health Coordinator Check-In
These occur the third Wednesday of each month. Join us for the Health Coordinator check-ins as we discuss trends, share resources and plan for the coming year.
- Third Wednesday of each month at 1:00 p.m.
- Join here
Teaching Strategies ECEAP Office Hours
Register to attend Teaching Strategies ECEAP Office Hours. Register in advance and attend to get answers to your specific questions about any of your Teaching Strategies digital resources.
- Second and Fourth Wednesdays of the month
- Registerhere
ReadyRosie for ECEAP - How to Get Started
Join us to learn how to get started with ReadyRosie! This session is for administrators and educators new to ReadyRosie or those needing a refresher. In these sessions, we'll cover: What is ReadyRosie? How to invite families to join, share customized content, communicate with families, and read data.
- Second Thursday of each month from 10-10:45 a.m.
- Register here
DCYF Community Child Care Forums
Child care providers have asked for regular meetings with DCYF to discuss their challenges and receive timely answers to their questions concerning child care policy, rules, and other relevant topics. In response, DCYF has organized community child care forums across the state.
To ensure we can plan accurately for interpretation needs, please register only for the location you intend to attend. Please make sure you have the correct location before registering.
About the Forums
Community Child Care Forums aim to:
- Strengthen relationships between providers and the agency;
- Make a space for providers and DCYF to share and celebrate what is going well; and
- Foster opportunities for ongoing collaboration.
These forums are open to licensed child care centers, licensed family homes, outdoor nature-based providers, and school-age providers, including certified providers, who may be located on tribal lands.
Visit the Community Child Care Forums webpage for information on additional forum dates and locations.
Questions?
For questions, email dcyf.communityengagement@dcyf.wa.gov.
Early Care and Education Newsletter
This monthly newsletter informs, educates, and inspires child care providers, professionals, and advocates. Read previous issues here.
Subscribe here
2024 Re-Imagining Behavioral Health: Race, Equity & Social Justice Conference, September 26-27
The two half-day free virtual conference unites a variety of individuals from the Washington state behavioral health community and beyond.
The RESJ conference is designed to empower individuals and teams who want to advance health equity and support diversity, inclusion, and belonging in behavioral health. The goal of the conference is to provide a learning and sharing experience that expands knowledge, promotes partnerships, and brings behavioral health systems closer to equity. The conference is an opportunity to connect with others and join in meaningful conversations about healing racial trauma, dismantling systemic racism, and combating social injustices through the lens of mental health and substance use issues.
UW Cultivate Learning Coach Webinars
Cultivate Learning’s coach webinars have returned! This fiscal year we will be offering different trainings coaches can register for. The webinars will remain on the 2nd Thursday of each month from 2:00 – 4:30. These will begin on September 12, 2024. Our goal in offering different trainings is to better meet the needs of coaches who are new to coaching and those who have more experience in their roles. Coaches will need to register for one of the trainings below.
Coaching Essentials and Introduction to Practice-Based Coaching
This training is for coaches seeking introductory information about coaching. Coaching essentials extends the learning from onboarding and provides guidance on supportive and productive coaching relationships by focusing on relationship-based practices and coaching competencies. It will also include further suggestions for initial coaching visits including coaching agreements and approaches for relationship-based notetaking for your own coaching practice. This training will also push coaches to consider the effects of inequity in ECE and the coaches’ role in advancing equity.
Practice-Based Coaching is an evidenced-based approach to improving teaching practices that while centering collaborative partnerships, provides guidance and practice with shared goals & action planning, focused observations, reflection and feedback. This training offers opportunities to demonstrate coach competencies and skills as you engage in the PBC cycle activities. It covers approaches for both in-person and video-based coaching and heavily integrates CECI.
Coaching for High-Quality Environments
High-quality early learning environments are central to nurturing rich and engaging learning experiences for young children. This training reviews the elements of early learning environments and how to facilitate learning opportunities in each area. Coaches will learn and share with each other coaching strategies that:
- Help the environment work for teachers and children
- Use materials to promote learning opportunities
- Maintain schedules and routines to facilitate engagement
- Register here
Nurturing Transitions: Supporting children and families in the new school year.
Explore the pedagogy about transitions for children and families in ECE settings. This session will equip program leaders and educators with tips and strategies to foster confidence and belonging for both children and families.
- September 11 at 11:00am Register here
Gross Motor Art Activities that calm squirming bodies and Minds
Physical art can be an active mind-body engagement with sensory materials that channels energy. You will learn how to use physical art for stress release and building community in your program.
- September 18 at 11am. Register
Building Connections with Families – Strategies for Moving Beyond Negativity and Judgement
A child’s learning and development are best supported when teachers and parents, or other caretakers have strong, trusting relationships. Establishing effective and collaborative relationships can be challenging. This webinar will guide you in utilizing impactful strategies to enhance your connection with parents. You will be inspired to find new ways to illuminate and share special moments as a way to reduce negativity and judgment that can cause stress and fuel misunderstandings.
- September 19 at 11am. Register here.
What is Early Relational Health?
Join the Early Relational Health Conversation Series. Learn what Early Relational Health is, why it’s important and how to support it. Watch the first session What is Early Relational Health?. Register for the next session Diversity-Informed Practice, Well-Being, Compassion & Healing
- Monday, September 23, 12-1:30 pm, register here.
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