Training for Early Educators

This workshop will cover an overview of the Early Childhood Environmental Rating Scale-Revised, including the validity and the different purposes the tools serve. Participants will understand how these tools relate to quality environments and tips on how to make positive long-lasting changes to their program's environment. The training will also cover how these tools are affected both negatively and positively during COVID-19 and how to modify your classroom environment to meet ERS requirements during the pandemic.

Intended Audience:  Open to all center-based early learning programs serving preschool children in San Mateo County.

Dates and Time: Saturday, December 5, 2020  ◊  9:00 AM to 12:00 PM 

How and where to register: ECERS-R Eventbrite Registration Webpage  ◊  Via Zoom Meeting platform

The self-care and wellness of teachers often goes under the radar when early care and education stakeholders assess classrooms for positive climate and quality teacher-child interactions. Teachers face many competing life demands in and out of the classroom environment that can unintentionally transmit to the children. This workshop unapologetically takes teachers on a journey of self-care and wellness, leading them to a place of restoration and rejuvenation. Participants will leave with a customized self-care plan that fits their daily lives both inside and outside the classroom. This will be a fun and spirited workshop where teachers playfully engage and explore self-care tips and tricks designed for and by them.

Intended Audience:  Open to all center-based and family child care early learning programs serving preschool children and infant-toddlers in San Mateo County.

Dates and Time: Saturday, December 12, 2020  ◊  12:30 PM to 2:00 PM 

How and where to register: Link to come  ◊  Via Zoom Meeting platform

Note: Simultaneous Spanish interpretation will be provided. / Interpretación simultánea en español será proporcionada.

This is a three-part training that will be offered completely in English: Part I will provide an overview of how to administer and interpret the results of the ASQ-3 developmental questionnaires. Part II will provide an overview on how to administer and interpret the results of the ASQ:SE 2 social-emotional questionnaires. Part III will provide an opportunity to think together about using these tools to follow-up and connect young children and their families to further assessment/services when there are developmental concerns identified through screening.

Intended Audience:  Open to all center-based and family child care early learning programs serving preschool children and infant-toddlers in San Mateo County.

Dates and Time: Saturdays, January 23 & 30, 2020 and February 6, 2020  ◊  9:00 AM to 11:00 AM for all

How and where to register: Link to come  ◊  Via Zoom Meeting platform

Note: Participation in all three sessions required to complete training. 

Why does early childhood leadership matter? More importantly, why does it matter who is reflected in these roles and who isn't? The disparity of early care and education administrators of color is rarely addressed and discussed. How does structural inequality outside classrooms and programs make its way into a nice profession like early care and education? The interplay and intersectionality of administrators’ role as gatekeepers of quality early learning is high stakes in many early learning communities and is often tied to funding mandates and child outcomes. Yet, key decision-makers continue to reflect the dominant structure of our macro society while the demographics of our children, families, and practitioners continue to become more diverse. During this training, participants will engage in critical discourse about the importance and value of disrupting this narrative to achieve desired outcomes for children, families, and the workforce that is culturally responsive.

Intended Audience:  Open to all center-based and family child care early learning programs serving preschool children and infant-toddlers in San Mateo County.

Dates and Time: Saturday, May 1, 2021  ◊  10:00 AM to 11:30 AM 

How and where to register: Link to come  ◊  Via Zoom Meeting platform

Note: Simultaneous Spanish interpretation will be provided. / Interpretación simultánea en español será proporcionada.