10 Reasons to Choose Quality Early Learning and Child Care

Expert knowledge Early childhood educators are experts in child development and are trained to create inspiring learning environments!
Intentionality Early childhood educators provide your child the gift of time and attention. They will stop and explore the new flowers or jump in the mud puddles with your child.
Young at heart Early childhood educators know how to have fun! They’re not afraid to be silly and laugh with your child; all while nurturing your child’s creativity and helping to build their self-confidence.
Setting limits Every child needs reasonable boundaries, such as no playing ball inside. Early childhood educators set limits and support families in doing the same.
Love of literacy Early childhood educators read and tell stories, sing songs, and do puppet shows to inspire a love of language and to build early literacy skills.
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Confidence boost Early childhood educators provide safe opportunities for your child to be independent and to become confident in their personality and decision making skills.
Inspired learning Early childhood educators ask open-ended questions to inspire creative thought and curiosity, to encourage children to explore, and to make learning fun.
Life skills Early childhood educators use their expertise to develop programs that use play as a tool for teaching math, literacy, science and essential life skills that last for life!
Making friends Early childhood educators are educated to appropriately support children to gain social skills, which are so important in making friends and developing positive relationships!
Helping hand Everyone gets stumped by parenting from time to time - juggling schedules, demands, and behaviours. When it gets tough and you need someone to talk to, reach out to your child’s early childhood educator!
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Opening Keynote by Richard Cohen

This keynote requests interactivity from participants as we explore Love, its various meanings and its place in early childhood curriculum and professionalism. Richard will discuss love from a neurological perspective and relate it to early attachment theory.  He will then facilitate exercises in which participants reflect, interact and discuss ideas with each other around their affective and behavioral experiences of love. Richard will close by providing a powerful guided imagery exercise in which participants explore how they balance who they are as loving persons and as professionals.

Richard Cohen, M.A. has proudly been an early childhood professional for over thirty years. Richard has traveled the world as a consultant, coach and motivational speaker/instructor, facilitating fun, innovative, thought-provoking, interactive adult learning experiences for communities of early childhood teachers, administrators, caregivers and parents. Additionally, he curates his viral social media presence, “Zen and the Art of Early Childhood Education,” offers a catalogue of online ECE Professional Development courses and hosts Community Sing-a-Longs.

In recent years, Richard has fallen in love with teaching Early Care and Education at the community college level, currently at Manchester Community College in Connecticut and previously at Saint Louis Community College in Ferguson, Missouri for four years where his life was transformed by the shooting of Michael Brown and the ensuing riots that both wrought destruction on and bonded together his community.

This event has been approved by the Early Learning and Child Care Board for 1.00 professional development training hours.

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“Children begin to learn the basics of science and math as they scoop and pour water, build a block castle, and make mudpies.” – Start with Play Campaign (2013)