CCAL Spring Education Conference
VIRTUAL PLATFORM
Saturday April 5, 2025
Approved for six clock hours by
Louisiana Pathways and LDOE
We will broadcast three (2) hour sessions as follows:
8:00 AM - 10:00 AM
Toys Trikes and Tantrums - Dianna Constant, Agenda for Children
This two-hour workshop provides educators with a blueprint for success with young children in the early learning classroom. Participants will learn an underlying cause of preschool behaviors and learn effective techniques to prevent problem behaviors that sometimes occur in the preschool classroom. Dianna Constant has been part of the Agenda for Children team since 1990. She has over forty years of experience in early childhood education. She spent twenty years directing and operating her own childcare center and has more than two decades of experience as a trainer and technical assistance advisor for early childhood programs.
10:15 - 12:00 Noon
Bubbles and Boundaries: Self Care for Teachers in 2025
by Patrick Sciambra, TIKES
This presentation is intended for all early childhood educators. Teaching young children can be incredibly stressful! Research clearly shows that caregivers who are stressed are more likely to use harsh discipline. This session address stress management and self-care in a fun and educational way. Teachers will learn about stress and how it impacts both the brain and the body. Participants will then gain insight into how trauma impacts functioning, explore the importance of setting healthy boundaries, and finally will develop their own individualized self-care plan. We aim to support teachers in taking care of themselves, so they are better able to take care of the children in their classrooms!
1:15 - 3:15 PM
Playing with a Purpose - Sydney Bordelon, LOTR
This two-hour workshop is designed to empower early learning educators on the importance of play to target age-appropriate skills. The session includes instructional information as well as hands-on opportunities to incorporate the skills in the classroom. Sensory Integration: What the heck does that even mean? We will be reviewing following sensory systems: tactile, gustatory, olfactory, vestibular, visual, and proprioceptive. Sydney Bordelon is the owner of Pediatric Therapy to Geaux LLC. She is originally from Baton Rouge, but she and her family currently reside in Central Louisiana. She graduated from Louisiana Tech University with a bachelor’s in science in Kinesiology and Health Promotion. She also has an associate degree and a master’s degree in occupational therapy. She is a board-certified Occupational Therapist with 12 years of occupational therapy experience including outpatient pediatrics, NICU, PICU, Medical ICU, Surgical ICU and various acute care units including pediatrics, orthopedics, cardiac, stroke, trauma.
You will receive the ZOOM Link via email.
If you do not receive the ZOOM Link by 6:00 PM,
please text your name and email to
Cindy Bishop @ 225 933 5435
Add the following message to your text:
Need ZOOM Link for Saturday CCAL Conference and include your email address.
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