It Starts with You! -Part 1/3

Topic: Early Childhood Education Work-Life Stressors

Learner Level: Foundational Learning

• Learning Points and Objectives:
• Increase understanding and causes compassion fatigue
• Recognize the impact of vicarious and secondary trauma
• Identifying early signs of burnout

It Starts with You! -Part 2/3

opic: Wellness and Self-Care

Learner Level: Advanced Tools and Strategies

Learning Points and Objectives:

• Assess staff wellness and self-care
• Identify and combat barriers to self-care
• Implement individualized tools to build a sustainable self-care practice and reduce burnout

It Starts with You! -Part 3/3

Topic: Responding Rather Than Reacting

Learner Level: Advanced Tools and Strategies

Learning Points and Objectives:

• Increase understanding of how challenging behaviors and work-related stressors can activate the body’s stress response system
• Practice and implement somatic, mindfulness and emotional regulation strategies
• Learn positive teacher-child interaction tools to improve co-regulation

Demystifying Challenging Behavior – Part 1/3

Topic: Behavior and Brain Development I

Learner Level: Foundational Learning

Learning Points and Objectives:

• Increase understanding 0-5 brain development and social-emotional development
• Recognize why challenging behaviors occur from a neurodevelopmental lens
• Identifying typical vs. atypical early childhood behavior

Demystifying Challenging Behavior – Part 2/3

Topic: Behavior and Brain Development II

Learner Level: Advanced Tools and Strategies

Learning Points and Objectives:

• Neurodevelopmental centered interventions to improve social-emotional development and reduce challenging
• Implementing connection before redirection
• Learn and apply bottom-up brain development interventions

Demystifying Challenging Behavior – Part 3/3

Topic: Positive Relationships and Co-regulation:

Learner Level: Advanced Tools and Strategies

Learning Points and Objectives:

• Improve emotional support and a positive climate in the classroom setting
• Learn and implement tools to improve classroom organization and create safe environments that decrease challenging behaviors
• Learn and implement strategies to support engaging interactions, responsiveness, and acknowledging of feelings and emotions to increase social-emotional development

Inclusive Approaches for Behaviors Related to Children with Developmental Delays – Part 1/2

Topic: Autism and Developmental Delays and Behavior I

Learner Level: Foundational Learning

Learning Points and Objectives:

• Increase understanding of autism spectrum and related developmental delays
• Identify why challenging behaviors occur specifically for children with ASD, developmental delays, and sensory processing challenges
• Advocating for early identification and early intervention

Inclusive Approaches for Behaviors Related to Children with Developmental Delays – Part 2/2 Final Session.

Topic: Autism and Developmental Delays and Behavior II:

Learner Level: Advanced Tools and Strategies

Learning Points and Objectives:

Create an inclusive environment that allows for individualized instructional support to children with diverse learning needs

Implement specific strategies to support with behaviors related to:

• Expressive and receptive language delays
• Sensory integration challenge
• Challenges with changes and transitions