Executive Function and Challenging Behavior
What really works in managing challenging behavior? That’s been the question of every new parent, every new teacher. New research on executive function skills is helping to answer that question with more precision. In this paradigm-shifting webinar by child development experts, researchers, and author, Ellen Galinsky, you will learn the research implications and strategies that work to help children manage their own behavior through improved executive function.
Fearless Conversations With Toddlers: How to Open a Can of Worms With Little Ones
Join early educator Nick Terrones and author Ann Pelo for an interview-style session about Nick's new book, A Can of Worms. Moderated by Mike Browne, this deep discussion will explore the core of the book. In it, Nick shares stories about toddler-initiated conversations about race and identity. While the stories are sometimes amusing and often jarring, at their core, they are probing and important which opens a can of worms that make most adults uncomfortable. Ann, as the Co-Originator of the Reimaging Our Work Series of Books, and Nick the author of the newest book in the series, will share the importance of sitting with discomfort and model a willingness to talk about challenging topics with the youngest children.
Unpacking the Pyramid Model: A Practical Guide to Social Emotional Learning
The session will focus on the Pyramid Model as a framework for promoting social emotional competence and preventing challenging behavior. Join us to learn strategies and explore examples and resources for meeting the social emotional needs of preschoolers with diverse abilities. You will see early childhood teachers in inclusive settings through videos shared in this webinar.
Free Courses from Cox Campus
Build My Brain
A child’s brain is born ready to learn and grow. We all have a role to play in making reading a reality for every child. See how you can make every moment an opportunity to build children’s language and literacy skills.
Meaningful Conversations
Make conversations with your children brain-builders! The TALK strategy gives you the power to engage children ages 3-5 in meaningful conversations that prepare them for reading.
Rhyme With Me
Words, rhythm, and rhyme come together to spark children’s imaginations, build strong relationships, and encourage learning. See how you can pair rhythm and rhyme with powerful, brain-building moments with the infants and toddlers in your care.
Talk With Me Baby
You can be a brain-building partner! As a Talk With Me Baby coach, you can empower families to continue supporting their children’s learning at home, at school, and everywhere in between.
Transforming Story Time
How you read a book with children determines what they learn from the experience. In this course, you'll learn ways to read books interactively, in order to effectively build children’s oral language, comprehension, and critical thinking.
Free with an MPL Library Card!
Ready, Set, Read!
Take this opportunity to find out how children really learn to read and write. Explore current research that cuts through the media messages about reading wars and the right way to teach children. Learn by reading stories about children, doing interactive assignments, and exploring the latest in parent and childcare information.
Enhancing Language Development in Childhood
Follow your child's lead and have fun while enhancing language development. In this fun and user-friendly course for parents, teachers, and caregivers, you will discover how children learn to process language and how they become proficient speakers and thinkers.
Teaching Preschool: A Year of Inspiring Lessons
You will learn over 100 circle-discussion, art, literacy, fine and large motor skill, science, and music activities that you can take into your classroom right away. Then you can adopt the ideas just as they are or tweak them slightly to fit a variety of themes. Either way, you will have ample material for crafting memorable, balanced, and engaging lesson plans.
Conferences (Registration fees)
We recommend trainings from the following organizations
4C For Children- Course Finder
The 4C For Children Training Department offers a variety of classes to help and support you at each stage of your child care career. Whether you are just entering the child care profession, or are looking for classes to enhance your career options, our classes will help you to extend your knowledge and deepen your understanding of the early childhood field.
Pathways to Quality Conference
The Pathways to Quality Conference provides an opportunity to share information about current topics in early learning with child care providers living and working in the Greater Milwaukee area. The conference targets programs participating in YoungStar, Wisconsin’s Quality Rating and Improvement System.
WI Early Childhood Assn. Conference
This event brings together informative and engaging keynote speakers, breakouts, interactive sessions and other workshops to engage, inspire and educate. The event draws hundreds of attendees each year from across the state, country and globe.
WI Alliance for Infant Mental Health Conference
We aim for all Wisconsin infants and young children to reach their fullest potential through nurturing and consistent relationships within the context of family, community, and culture.
Wisconsin Family Child Care Association Conference
Join us for an exciting family child care conference featuring high quality educational presentations, dynamic workshops, and professional networking opportunities - all specifically geared toward family child care providers like you!
In between sessions visit the exhibitors for learning materials, supplies, and services that meet the unique needs of family child care programs.
Whether you are a family child care provider or work in a group center, new to the field or have years of experience, this conference is for you!
DCF Licensing Rule Changes
The State Licensing Regulations were revised and adopted on March 1, 2023.
Take the self-paced training provided by DCF about the changes.
Download and share this clickable pdf featuring virtual continuing education opportunities for early childhood teachers! These trainings are free and count toward your continuing education requirement from the state.
Earn Wisconsin Registry credit with free, online PBS KIDS self-paced learning courses! Every
course is available with a free account on The Registry - no membership required!
Unless noted, all courses are worth 2 hours of Tier 2 credit.
Connecting with Families
In this FREE, online, PBS KIDS self-paced learning course, you will explore effective strategies for using technology to enhance communication with families. You will also learn positive partnership strategies and technology tips in order to develop strong connections with families by fully supporting each child's development in your care.
Make Believe with Math
With this FREE, online Sesame Workshop self-paced learning course, you will discover ways to create more math moments in students' lives, especially during pretend play. This course is designed for all early childhood professionals who want to explore the importance of math and key math objectives for children ages 0-5 with engaging, simple activities and ideas to integrate into your learning spaces.
Welcoming Others with Small Steps to Support Families After Crisis and Conflict
With this FREE, online, self-paced PBS KIDS learning course, Sesame Workshop provides tools to help early childhood professionals support families affected by crisis and conflict. This course gives educators strategies and resources to welcome children and families into new spaces and begin a process of healing.
Many Right Ways: Exploring Quality in Family Childcare
With this FREE, online self-paced PBS KIDS learning course, Sesame Street in Communities shares supportive strategies to help you maximize the level of quality in your work with children and families. This course is a special collaboration between Sesame Street in Communities and the National Association for Family Child Care. It was created to support providers on their journey toward quality improvement and accreditation.
Developmental Monitoring
Watch Me! Celebrating Milestones and Sharing Concerns
As an early care and education provider, you play a critical role in the health and wellbeing of children. You are also very well positioned to help identify children who might need extra help in their development. This FREE, online training course helps you fulfill this role by providing tools and best practices for monitoring the development of children in your care and talking about it with their parents. 1 hour, 4 modules.
Free NAEYC Trainings
Creating Trauma Sensitive Classrooms
As early childhood educators, we are often the first responders for identifying individual needs and setting up strategies that lead to positive learning environments. This webinar identifies behavioral signs that children dealing with trauma may exhibit, as well as effective strategies that can be used to create trauma-sensitive classrooms.
Culturally Appropriate Positive Guidance for Young Children in Our Care
Watch this webinar for tips on how early childhood professionals can transform their thinking around children’s actions by using culturally appropriate positive guidance and how educators can practice the idea of cultural responsiveness in the context of guidance issues linked to variations in family practices.
Enhancing Knowledge and Skill Development by Gently Guiding Play
This video will help educators learn strategies to gently guide play in ways that boost knowledge and skill development. Administrators and policy makers will discover why recent brain research supports increased time for play-based learning.
This training welcomes all ECE professionals to explore researched-based practices and strategies designed to reduce obesity rates of children in Wisconsin. You will learn how to address childhood obesity by improving the physical activity environment in your program.
8 hours of Registry Credit: Tier 2
The Healthy Bites on-line tutorial covers five primary priorities for improving child nutrition in your program. Writing a nutrition policy, nutrition for infants and children, supporting healthy eating and planning healthy meals. This tutorial offers concepts and practical applications to enhance the nutrition quality of your early childhood education program, with the primary focus on setting nutrition program goals and implementing best nutrition practices relating to the quality of meals served, the nutrition environment and parent outreach. This tutorial will initiate a change in the way you think about nutrition in a child care setting. Upon course completion, providers will be able to earn Registry credit.
REWARD Wisconsin
Wisconsin’s young children depend on high-quality and consistent child care. Yet, the early childhood profession offers low wages and few benefits, impelling many professionals to leave the field. When this happens, children’s social and emotional development is negatively impacted. The REWARD Wisconsin Stipend Program is working to change this.
As a child care professional, REWARD Wisconsin provides you salary supplements based on your educational attainments and longevity in the field.
Seminario web gratuitos para educadores de niños bilingües
Introducción a Pedagogía con Respeto: el Marco del desarrollo del lenguaje español
Este seminario web autónomo es para maestros, administradores y personal de apoyo en programas bilingües de español/inglés en los grados kínder al 12º. El seminario fue diseñado para el entrenamiento a ritmo propio. No se necesita tener experiencia previa en el uso de los Estándares del desarrollo del lenguaje español de WIDA para participar en este seminario.
Seminarios web gratuitos para educadores
Desarrolladores de Cerebro
Breves momentos con un adulto cariñoso y preocupado pueden ayudar a los niños a desarrollar conexiones positivas en el cerebro que los ayudarán a progresar en la escuela y en la vida. En este webinar, tómese el tiempo para recordar lo importante que es el bienestar y desarrollo de los niños que usted cuida. ¡Usted verdaderamente es un desarrollador del cerebro! De nuestros amigos en Sesame Street, aprenda estrategias para tener interacciones de calidad con los niños. Le harán sentir motivada y comprometida a medida que sigue en su importante trabajo con los niños y las familias.
Cuidar de los niños
Se necesita una aldea completa para criar a un niño. Rara vez los padres educan solos a sus hijos. Frecuentemente, dependen de la familia, amigos y los vecinos para asegurarse de que sus hijos estén cuidados durante la semana. Sesame Street en las Comunidades ha diseñado recursos tomando en cuenta esta “aldea”. En esta sesión, vamos a explorar los recursos de nuestra página principal “El cuido de niños.” Comentaremos maneras de fortalecer la comunicación entre los padres y los cuidadores. Al final, veremos a nuestros amigos en The Children´s Place en Kansas City, Missouri, que nos demostrarán cómo poner en acción algunas estrategias sencillas como estas.
Cómo ayudar a los padres a hablar y estar en contra del racismo
Todos debemos poner de nuestra parte para luchar contra el racismo. Pero hablar o incluso pensar en el racismo puede ser una tarea difícil para muchos adultos. Para las familias que lo abordan por primera vez, el miedo a cometer errores u ofender a otros puede evitar que se sumerjan en este importante tema. Afortunadamente hay cosas que los padres pueden hacer para superar el miedo y emprender acciones auténticas. Hacer un “trabajo de corazón” prepara a los padres para que guíen a sus familias a luchar juntos contra el racismo. En este webinar Patricia Taylor y Shannon Evans brindan lenguaje, estrategias y estímulo para que los padres y las familias den los primeros pasos.
Capacitaciones gratuitas en línea
¡Mírame! Celebremos los indicadores del desarrollo y compartamos las inquietudes
Como proveedor de cuidados y educación temprana, usted tiene un rol fundamental en la salud y el bienestar de los niños. También está en una excelente posición para ayudar a identificar a los niños que tal vez necesiten ayuda adicional en su desarrollo. Este curso de capacitación en línea GRATUITO, “¡Mírame! Celebremos los indicadores del desarrollo y compartamos las inquietudes” lo ayuda a desempeñar ese rol al proporcionarle las herramientas y las mejores prácticas para monitorear el desarrollo de los niños que usted cuida y discutir los resultados con los padres.
Entornos apropiados para el desarrollo: YoungStar 2021-22
Esta capacitación en línea se enfoca en el indicador Developmentally Appropriate Environment (Entornos apropiados para el desarrollo) (DAE) actualizado en los Criterios de evaluación de YoungStar 2021-22. El indicador DAE es obligatorio para los programas que desean obtener una calificación de 3, 4 o 5 estrellas. Los requisitos actualizados de los criterios de evaluación serán efectivos para cada programa al momento de la calificación 2021-22. Los participantes tendrán la oportunidad de revisar cada ítem del indicador DAE para entender mejor el requisito. Se utilizarán videos, muestras de trabajo y otros ejemplos de implementación para ayudar al participante a entender cómo aplicar las prácticas dentro de su propio entorno de aprendizaje.
Módulos de Desarrollo Temprano del Lenguaje
El Centro ha creado dos módulos en línea con el propósito de ofrecer información sobre el desarrollo temprano de lenguaje en los niños pequeños y también para ofrecer herramientas para apoyarlos en su labor diario. Estos videos fueron desarrollados para proveedores de cuidado infantil familiar los cuales juegan un papel fundamental en el éxito académico de los niños. Al final del Módulo 2 los proveedores completan una encuesta en línea antes de recibir el Certificado de Finalización.
