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12:40 pm | Classroom Conscious Discipline (3 Choices)
Choose from one of the following 3 options:
Option 1
Building Relationships with Infants and Toddlers Taylor Olson and Clarissa Bredemeier
During this session we will explore how the quality of our relationship with infants and toddlers lays the foundation for establishing the following patterns that we use throughout our lives.
- Our mental model for relationships
- Our mental model of ourselves
- Our foundation for the ability to motivate ourselves
- The way we self-regulate and manage stress
Babydoll Circle Time is a structure that enhances the quality of these relationships between adults and children by strengthening attachment, attunement and social play and creates a healthy blueprint in all four of these developmental areas.
Option 2
Building the School Family - Reflection, Relationships, and Working Together
Danielle Richards
Creating a compassionate school culture is much more than a pizza party or a team building activity every other month at staff meetings. It comes from the basic building blocks of all relationships- safety and trust. We must use our daily interactions, even in conflict or moments of upset, to build that safety and trust within our staff and our school family.
Option 3
Developing Self-Regulation Skills in Children
Mackenzie Kirksey and Andrea Kienholz
During this session preschool and school age teachers will focus on helping children develop self-regulation skills. When we focus our mindset on the Power of Acceptance, which says that the moment is as it is, we can access the skill of empathy which allows us to model naming and working through feelings. We will discuss the role the adult plays as a child’s co-regulator, and how the D.N.A. process gives us a framework to help children work through their feelings. The Feeling Buddies structure helps children be more aware of their feelings and gives them a chance to practice working through them.
1:40 pm | The Economics of an Early Childhood Program
Penny Allen and Andrea Schneider
2:30 pm | Break
Need to top off your coffee, refill your water, or grab a snack? Now’s the time!
2:40 pm | Chaotic Goodness: Embracing, Owning, and Celebrating the Unknown
Pat Dwyer
In this empowering and often uproarious keynote, Pat Dwyer gives you the tools for redefining change as a gift, rather than a hindrance. Leveraging the very chaos that comes with our day-to-day, Pat provides an easy framework for embracing the chaos in real time; using it to your advantage and how to make active choices that harness the goodness hidden inside. Most importantly, you'll do it while laughing.
Key Learning Objectives:
- See their inherent power and benefit in embracing the chaos
- Adapt more efficiently to rapid change
- Have a honed ability to remain positive in adverse situations
- More easily get to the fun side of change
- Get revved up knowing how integral they are to their future
3:40 pm | Career Development
Chantelle Cheng
3:50 pm | Closing Remarks
Bev Bauman
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