Conference Program/Sessions

Welcome to Jump for Joy Music!

We have adapted this workshop for online presentation, so that you can experience maximum fun, optimum value, and great new material for your classrooms!

Be sure to check out our handout before you come. Thanks!

Learning outcomes, as we encourage the growth of the whole child:

· Math competency: 0-5 years, with easy sing-along parts.

· Literacy skills: as we incorporate use of the alphabet, reading skills, & other languages.

· Science exposure: It’s fun to sing about biology and astronomy with a crazy beat!

· Emotional growth: How can we encourage each other in these scary times? Experiencing community in song.

· 8-12 new songs (plus reference material/links for many more) that you can use this Monday morning.

· ASL and other natural movements to convey meaning beyond the spoken word.

We can get smarter through music! Let step into new areas together, looking at songs in new ways:

· No musical background needed.

· Music encourages the growth of the cerebral cortex function and executive function.

· Laughter involves several regions of the brain, and has physiological benefits.

· Come learn with us! Come laugh with us! Come sing with us!

This presentation offers new ideas, innovations and perspectives from early childhood organisations and experts in Australia, the Netherlands, New Zealand and Canada.

Participants will learn about new trends in innovation, provocations, pitfalls and possibilities learned from a decade of innovating in service to impact to support new developments and innovation at your ECE service.

Learn about the Program for Infant/Toddler Care Program Assessment & Reflection System (PITC PARS), a new approach to assessment for infant/toddler care. The PITC PARS supports study and reflection about the key components of quality in infant/toddler group-care settings — from caregiving interactions to the physical environment to program policies and administrative structures. The PITC PARS supports users in understanding and observing responsive, relationship-based care for infants and toddlers (0–3 years) in both family child care and center-based programs. The PITC PARS can be used as part of a comprehensive approach to quality improvement involving coaching and reflection, as well as for research and evaluation purposes.

This presentation will provide an overview of the PITC PARS, including background, areas of focus, unique features, and intended uses. We will discuss assessment needs and perspectives of different populations of potential users and address key questions that each population may have about the PITC PARS, such as how the PITC PARS is intended to be used and how it may benefit each type of user.

This presentation is appropriate for family child care educators, infant/toddler care teachers, administrators, coaches, trainers, and others who work with children ages birth to 36 months.

I am a master preschool teacher at the Children's Hospital of Los Angeles (CHLA). I have been a preschool teacher for 15 years. I am also a certified yoga instructor for both adults and children since 2012. I was inspired to put together a meditation and yoga presentation designed for educators when the pandemic changes started a year ago at CHLA. This meditation and yoga course will give you the tools to work through the stress, fears, and anxiety that many educators are currently experiencing during these difficult times. Furthermore, this course includes a meta meditation specifically designed for educators by me to center the mind. I have learned through my studies in organizational leadership that mindfulness practice is an important yet overlooked strategy to boost workplace morale.

Yoga or Mindfulness? We will provide ECE educators with simple strategies to incorporate mindfulness naturally in children's daily routine. We will provide you with ideas of how to transform your classroom space using simple tools and resources to help children learn strategies to become emotionally intelligent. We will learn the differences between Yoga and Mindfulness and how they can be used and introduced/used together and/or separately. These strategies are welcomed for all teachers, yogis or not!

We will review puppet handling with finger plays, pop-ups, puppet(s) with a book, felt-board pieces plus book and more! This presentation covers content-rich literature appropriate for ages infant - seven. The techniques demonstrated will be useful to ALL educators. Story examples include expansion activities, open ended questions, audience involvement methods, and story time management techniques.

We will review Preschool Learning Foundations or California Common Core Standards throughout the presentation and provide 20+ pages of application material. Attendees will forget this is a recording and be encouraged to join in. They will have the opportunity to try many techniques and simple rhymes (some Spanish) that all educators should have in their tool box. Most questions will be answered within the context of the presentation and contact info provided for follow up with presenter. This workshop is uniquely inspiring and, of course, keeps best practices at the core of all we do.

The presenters will use anecdotes, personal experience, family testimonials, and statistics provided by PITC. They are able to discuss continuity of care from an educator’s perspective as Emily has worked in centers with and without this practice . As programs often need teacher buy-in to make this practice successful for all, Emily is able to speak to the many benefits continuity has brought her as an educator and the relationships that she has formed with children to create a solid foundation for learning and development. As a parent educator, program coordinator, pre-service teacher trainer, and former infant/toddler teacher, Nodelyn is able to present information from a program and community perspective in order to discuss how the practice of continuity positively contributes to quality of care and program success. Presenters will introduce ideas around continuity of care and how lack of continuity can feel for us as adults, allowing participants to better relate to the feelings and attachment it evokes in young children. The presentation may offer information regarding pathways to implementing this practice within the participants’ programs. Presentation is best for people new to continuity.

Puppets are a fun and accessible tool for supporting young children’s development. In this playful and interactive workshop, participants will learn simple puppet strategies for increasing children’s attention and participation; expression and communication; social skills; and self-regulation. Daniel Gill will present simple techniques that make a puppet come alive and engage children. Using these techniques, participants will practice turning everyday objects into puppets. Daniel will demonstrate games practitioners can use to teach communication and social skills, such as reciprocal communication, appropriate touch, body space awareness, reading body language, and perspective taking. Daniel will also present examples of how puppets can be adapted to meet the needs of diverse learners, including children with mobility or visual impairments, or children who are nonverbal.

Today's unusual situation means we're all learning new ways to support families from afar. And that includes family workshops. So how do you hold a virtual event that achieves your goals AND parents will be excited to attend? During this 1-hour interactive session, veteran children’s programming performer and ECE content creator Rebecca Honig shows you how to make your virtual family event into the Event of the Season. The (nearly PowerPoint-free!) session includes (1) demonstrations of 3 virtual engagement techniques; (2) deconstruction of each technique, so you can easily replicate it with your families; (3) proven strategies for getting families to attend; (4) insights into topics families have told us they're eager to explore.

This workshop will provide practical application for all levels of teachers from preschool - higher education. The presenters will share their experience and knowledge from their collective years of experience in the field of Early Care and Education.

We will explore:

1. How to use open/ended questions effectively Discover the importance of process over product.
2. The use of effective and engaging communication as a tool to promote learning.
3. The use of powerful interactions that support all learners.

       4. Exposure to culture as a way of expanding perspectives of others and other ways of being.