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December 2025
Embedding Assistive Technology and Core Vocabulary in the Preschool Classroom – Live Webinar
Explore a district’s Core Vocabulary Initiative, focusing on two core words each month that build on each other to enhance communication. Discover how this District has monthly team meetings to create resources with phrases and sentences aligned with monthly words, adapting them into stations, activities, and lessons. Learn to integrate AT during playtime to make communication accessible. Discover how AAC users interact with eye-gaze technology, switch-adapted toys, and brain-controlled interfaces. Note: Approximately three weeks before the webinar, registrants will receive…
Find out more »December 2025- Working with Families of Young Children with IEPs Community of Practice (CoP) – Virtual Meeting
This is an opportunity for educators to come together and share ideas on how to support families of young children with disabilities. We share resources and offer support to one another. This CoP is intended for educators who work with families who have children ages 3-5 with disabilities. Note: Approximately three weeks before the CoP meeting, registrants will receive an email to confirm receipt of their registration request and important instructions that should be viewed prior to the day of…
Find out more »Support Group Meeting – How to Keep from Kicking Santa Claus – Tips for Managing Holiday Stress – Live Webinar
Contrary to the ads on TV, holiday times are not always happy ones, especially for children with disabilities and their families. Too much rushing around, over-crowded schedules, and extra noise along with unrealistic expectations and others’ misunderstanding our children can make us all feel like kicking Santa Claus. Together we will explore the sources of our holiday stress and learn prevention strategies and in-the-moment supports that will help make everyone’s time more enjoyable. Note: Approximately three weeks before the webinar,…
Find out more »January 2026
I Wonder… What do young children really need? Back to Basics Back to PLAY – On-Demand
Registration deadline is January 23, 2026, at 3:00 pm. Starting January 2, 2026, through January 30, 2026, you can watch the training and take the quiz at a time that fits into your schedule. THIS TRAINING MUST BE COMPLETED BY January 30th at 4:30 pm. This workshop is focused primarily on play. It is a bit different because it invites participants to be willing to wonder about some important questions in our work with young children, especially those with disabilities. …
Find out more »Is It Deliberate or Development? – On-Demand
Registration deadline is January 23, 2026, at 3:00 pm. Starting January 2, 2026, through January 30, 2026, you can watch the training and take the quiz at a time that fits into your schedule. THIS TRAINING MUST BE COMPLETED BY January 30th at 4:30 pm. In this engaging session, Dr. Angela Searcy will help participants explore how to distinguish between behaviors that are part of normal early childhood development and those that may require intentional intervention. Grounded in neuroscience, child…
Find out more »Preschool Pyramid Model of Social Emotional Support Cohort Series: Tiers 2 and 3 – Live Webinar Series (Jan.6th, Feb.3rd, March 3rd, April 14th)
The Pyramid Model is a scientifically based positive behavioral framework that promotes evidence-based practices to teach social-emotional competencies to all young children. The framework identifies key skills for supporting relationships, creating learning environments, teaching targeted social-emotional skills, and supporting children with challenging behavior. This workshop provides an in-depth look at Tiers 2 and 3 of the Pyramid Model. Participants will learn essential strategies for fostering friendship skills, emotional literacy, self-regulation, and problem-solving in young learners; Discover how to tailor instruction…
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