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    • 10/18/2024
    • 01/24/2025
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    Fall Education Conference

    Owners & Directors Track Recording

    Friday, October 18, 2024

    5.5 hours

     

    Keynote Speaker -  Vernon Mason      

    LDOE Updates           

    • Moderator - Karen Powell, Deputy Assistant Superintendent of Early Childhood Care and Education
    • Mellyn Baker, Assistant Superintendent of Early Childhood Care and Education 
    • Shelia Campbell – Executive Director, Early Childhood Education Operations
    • Edlink Update - Robert Klein
    • CCAP Update – Melinda George
    • Licensing Updates – Andrea Burl
    • Child Care Criminal Background Checks – Kayla Batiste

    Leading for Success and Happiness! 

    Vernon Mason

    Being an early childhood leader or entrepreneur should be a gift, not punishment. Vernon will share practical steps to set you up for success and happiness even in the most challenging times. Stop being the fixer, empower your leader. 

    Embark on a transformative journey with this veteran director turned speaker and author.  He redefines early childhood leadership as a gift, not a punishment. In this empowering keynote, discover practical steps to ensure both success and joy in your leadership role, even amid challenges. This roadmap extends beyond problem-solving, emphasizing the art of empowerment and inspiring growth within your leadership team.

    Navigate the dynamic world of early childhood leadership with insights, shifting from a fixer to a nurturing leader. Gain valuable tools to cultivate a positive and resilient mindset, enabling graceful navigation through challenges. Uncover strategies for fostering a collaborative work environment where team success becomes a collective achievement.

    Join us in this enlightening experience as the presenter shares wisdom on achieving both success and happiness in early childhood leadership. It's time to embrace your leadership role as the extraordinary gift it should be, setting a course for a fulfilling and joyful professional journey.

    • 10/19/2024
    • 12/31/2024
    • VIRTUAL Registration -
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    Fall Education Conference 

    Teachers & Support Track  


    No Mine! I wanna Do it!  Help me Navigate My Big Emotions 

    Karen Stevens, TIKES Infant and Early Childhood Mental Health Consultants

    Our goal for the workshop is to help teachers utilize routine parts of their day to highlight and strengthen their classrooms social-emotional literacy. We plan to validate the concerns and frustrations commonly felt by teachers of students with big emotions. We also want to educate an equip teachers with tools such as their social stories, a curated book list, and additional knowledge about social-emotional health, that will give them the confidence necessary to teach children how to identify and regulate their big emotions.   

    Behavior Has Meaning  

    Rachelle Gramstad

    Analiezel Hall, Co-Presenter – Agenda for Children

    During this workshop, participants will gain information about the importance of understanding that all behavior has meaning. During this workshop, participants will be encouraged to think about how the infants, toddlers, or preschoolers in their classrooms communicate their wants and needs, intentions and emotions, and how they respond to their attempts at communication. 

    Creating a Literacy Rich Environment 

    Dr. DeShannon Burrell

    Join us for an empowering presentation on fostering a love for reading and writing within homes and communities. This session aims to equip childcare owners, educators, and parents with practical strategies to create enriching literacy experiences for children. We will cover strategies on how to involve parents in their child’s literacy journey along with building community partnerships. Attendees will leave with actionable steps to support children’s literacy development, engage families with setting the home environment for a learning adventure, and collaborating with local organizations to create a supportive literacy network and establish community connections. 

    6 Clock hours - approved by LDOE & Louisiana Pathways

    Attendance Certificates will be emailed upon completion.

    • 11/05/2024
    • 01/17/2025
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    Ready Set Eat Food Safety 

    Earn 3.0 Clock Hours

    Qualifies for Health & Safety Training

     

    • 11/05/2024
    • 01/17/2025
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    Medication Administration & Epinephrine Training

    Earn 3.0 Clock Hours

    Qualifies for Health & Safety Training

     

    • 12/06/2024
    • 03/01/2025
    • Recording
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    Last Chance Education Conference Recording

    Day 1 

    Friday, December 6, 2024

    Target Audience: Owners, Directors, Assistant Directors    

    Approved for Six Clock Hours 

    8:55 AM   Welcome and Greetings - Tara Emery, President

    9:00 AM - 10:00 AM    Keynote Presentation

    From Awkward to Awesome:

    Strategies for Mastering Hard Conversations 

    - Dr. Teri DeLucca

    Communication in all its forms is an essential component of working in the early education field and living a happy life. As early educators, we’re communicating with supervisors, colleagues, children AND their families along with our own loved ones on a daily basis, so we need to make sure we have all the right tools in our tool box! Throughout this session, we will examine effective strategies for strengthening our relationships through good communication skills. We will talk about strategies for having better communication with coworkers & families, with particular focus on those pesky difficult ones. We will dive deep into how to best have hard conversations without those awkward moments causing anxiety, worry, and fall out. We will leave you with action steps to put in place at work, at home, and even when you are out and about town. All of life’s successes and failures usually come from our interactions with others, so we will ensure you can get it right, so you can grow your influence.

    10:00 AM - 11:00 AM    LDOE Updates 

    Moderator:   Shelia Campbell

    • Teaching and Learning Updates – Amy Poirier

    • Licensing Reminders & Updates _ Andrea Burl
    • CCAP Reminders & Updates – Melinda George
    • CC Criminal Background Check Reminders & Update - Kayla Batiste
    • EdLink and KinderSystems Reminders and Updates – Robert Klein

    11:00 AM - 12:00 PM  

    Tracking and Organizing CCAP Remittances,  Redeterminations, Semi-Automated Invoices (SAIs) and More - Danielle Credeur, Chief Operating Officer, Sugar N' Spice Academy

    In this session, center owners and directors will learn how to effectively and efficiently track and organize their CCAP Remittances, their CCAP redeterminations and their semi-automated invoices (also known as SAIs).  Come prepared with your laptop and your CCAP paperwork to roll up your sleeves and get your Child Care Assistance Program paperwork organized so that your center can easily stay on top of CCAP payments received, owed and pending. 

    12:00 Noon - 1:30 PM   Lunch Break

    Highlights from our Sponsors and Corporate Partners  

    1:30 - 4:30 PM    Breakout Session 

    Dr. Teri DeLucca and Dr. Brittany Hewett

    From “Just a Pulse” to Passion: Unlock the Buy-in of Your Team & Improve Center Culture

    All Directors/Owners in the trenches know how much heart, dedication, teaching skill, professionalism, and many other components are the making of a great teacher. We want our staff to have the buy in and commitment to stay during the challenging days, and to be viewed (and FEEL!) as more than a warm body covering a classroom. We want them to be capable and competent and to see themselves as having the potential to elevate and that starts with investing in them. Join us for an insightful and engaging two hour session designed to

    • reignite the teaching spark,
    • increase staff buy-in to your vision
    • reduce the revolving door of turnover!

    In this workshop, we’ll explore how you can leverage coaching & mentoring strategies to cultivate a striving organizational climate in your center. By focusing on key dimensions of clarity, supervisor support, professional development, along with their own self leadership, Directors/Owners will learn new strategies that shift center culture. We’ll share strategies for effectively supporting teacher mental health, stopping the drama train, and how leaders can navigate the overwhelm and stay ahead of that dreaded burnout so they can empower their teams to reach their full potential, increase staff buy-in, and drive organizational success.

    About the Presenters

    Dr. Teri DeLucca is the Founder & CEO of Impact Early Education. Impact helps owners/ directors lead successful schools & provides teachers with effective strategies & solutions. Dr. DeLucca has a dual PhD in educational psychology & previously worked as a research scientist focused on early intervention & social-emotional development. She successfully operated privately owned preschools where she reduced staff turnover, improved school culture & expanded business growth- however the aspect she found most rewarding was coaching & leading her team. The combination of her expertise & experiences gave her unique insight into the need for effective PD that disrupts the status quo and evokes change in schools. She founded Impact Early Education in 2020 & the team now serves preschool owners, directors, & teachers across the world. She is a published author, recognized speaker, and her work has been recognized by multiple awards including the Sigma Xi Women in Science Award, Academic Pediatric Association’s Young Investigator Award, the Institute of Education.


    Tara Emery is the President of the Child Care Association of Louisiana.  She is the‎ owner‎ &‎ director‎ of‎ London‎ Bridge‎ Early‎ Learning ‎Centers with two locations in East Baton Rouge Parish and one location in Ascension Parish. She also operates two microcenters in partnership with the East Rouge Parish School System, one at the Baton Rouge Center for the Visual and Performing Arts and one at Westminster Elementary School.  In addition to being a longstanding member of the Child Care Association of Louisiana, she is also a member of the National Child Care Association, the National Association for the Education of Young Children and the Louisiana Association for the Education of Young Children.



    Dr. Brittany Hewett's educational background consists of a Doctorate in Human Development and Family Studies. as well as a Master of Science in Child Development and Family Relations and a Bachelor of Science in Elementary Education. She has also been recognized by the National Council on Family Relations as a Certified Family Life Educator, which acknowledges her competence in ten content areas such as: families and individuals in societal contexts, human growth and development across the lifespan, and professional ethics and practice. Brittany has an intricate knowledge of the ECE field as she has served in early care classrooms as a teacher, in administration as an assistant director, as a lecturer in courses for aspiring early childhood educators, as a researcher examining and evaluating ECE contexts, an Early Childhood Behavior Specialist, and is now serving as the Director of Education for Impact Early Education where she gets to combine her knowledge, skills and passion in creating professional development for early educators! 


    Danielle Credeur is from Lafayette and resides in Scott, Louisiana. She is the Vice President and Chief Financial Officer for Sugar n’ Spice Children’s Academy and Inspire Management Solutions. Danielle had been a part of the Sugar ‘n Spice Family since 1990. She began dance classes from the owner of Sugar ‘n Spice at the time, Mrs. Carita Pearce, at the age of 5 in 1979 and has been a part of the family ever since. Danielle’s love and compassion for the children, families, employees, vendors, and all partners earned her the “Heart” of Sugar ‘n Spice Award in 2012.  Danielle oversees payroll, account receivable/payable, and all Child Care Assistance/DCFS accounting for all four locations of Sugar ‘n Spice Children’s Academy as well as multiple Property Management Companies with her boss Jonathan Pearce.  

Childcare Association of Louisiana is statewide,  non-profit, professional membership organization that advocates on behalf of the early childhood education profession. 


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