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Local Training Opportunities
Local Conferences Sponsored by the Child Care Council:
In addition to individual workshops, the Council offers larger, full day conferences at different times throughout the year.
Consortium Day
2008 Consortium Day A Huge Success
On April 9th, 440 child care professionals spent the day at the Westchester County Center attending educational workshops and presentations at The Child Care Council’s annual Consortium Day. The keynote speaker was Diane Trister Dodge, founder and president of Teaching Strategies, Inc. and author of “The Creative Curriculum”. She spoke about “Play in the Age of Outcomes: The Role of Curriculum and Assessment.”
Participants’ responses to the keynote were uniformly positive:
- “I learned that relationships are important and a key factor in any curriculum.”
- “I learned how a classroom is organized can determine children’s behavior.”
- “The importance of observation and how to use observation to respond and plan for each individual child.”
- “A curriculum is a road map for planning your program.”
- “I learned how important it is to be sensitive to age appropriate activities and follow the children’s interests.”
Participants learned from a wide variety of workshops, including: “Linking Curriculum and Assessment”, “New York State Learning Standards in a Reggio-Inspired Program”, “Infection Control”, “The Whole Child Multi-Disciplinary Approach to Pediatric Child Abuse ”, “Managing Stress”, “Constructive Block Building”, “Building and Sustaining Parent-Teacher Relationships”, “Room Arrangement”, and “Creating Simple and Safe Connections to The Natural World.”
The following evaluation excerpts reflect participants’ enthusiastic and positive response to the professional development opportunities offered at this year’s Consortium day.
- “Great day! It’s always good to be reminded of tips we can use to make us more effective in the classroom.”
- “Good selection of workshops!”
- “Very profitable day! Enjoyed the entire day. It was well planned and the choices of speakers were excellent!”
- “The presenters were highly knowledgeable and enthusiastic about their subjects, which made the day as a whole quite interesting and inspiring.”
Consortium Day was made possible through generous funding from The Early Childhood Direction Center.
Click here for a list of Exhibitors.
Infant Toddler Teacher Conference
The sixth annual Infant Toddler Teacher Conference held on October 24, 2007 at Manhattanville College was an enormous success. The conference was well supported with 128 Infant-Toddler providers attending morning and afternoon sessions. Among the participants were teachers, directors and owners from centers, family and group providers, and students.
Pilar Fort, MA from Zero to Three began the morning with the keynote, “Creating Positive Relationships with Parents and Supporting Cultural Diversity.” Participants overall response to the keynote were consistently positive. Some comments from participants are as follows:
- “Pilar clearly revealed an acute understanding of what she discussed. She took an approach that was understandable and everyone could relate.”
- “I learn from Pilar how important it is to build strong and lasting relationships with families. It is extremely vital for infants/ toddlers to grow up in healthy and social environment.”
- “I plan to be more open-minded, and aware of what parents might be experiencing.”
Following the keynote participants attended one of five workshops that explored the issue from different prospective. Topics included: “Using ITERS-R for Quality Care,” “Sharing Stories to See Strengths,” “Collaborative Conversations: Establishing Reciprocal Relationships with Families,” “Saying Goodbye at Child Care,” and “Parents and Programs: Sharing the Infant Toddler Experience.” To deepen the understanding of all each workshop leader collected questions from participants that were answered by Pilar Fort when the group came together for lunch.
Conference-goers were treated to an afternoon of five workshops that were fun and hands-on. Topics were as follows: “Song Time for Infants and Toddlers,” “First Friends- Celebrating Diversity and Making Friends through Children’s Books,” “Museum Quality Art by Infants and Toddlers,” “Creating Fun Spaces for Infants and Toddlers,” and “Sensory/Messy Time.”
For questions regarding upcoming training opportunities, please refer to the most recent Training calendar. You may also contact the Council at (914)761-3456 ext. 108
After-School Conference
After-School Conference A Resounding Success!
The 16th Annual Fall Afterschool Conference, held on Saturday October 21, 2006 at the Crowne Plaza Hotel, White Plains, NY was a great success. Over 200 school age and family child care professionals attended “On Your Mark, Get Set… Grow! Marketing and Selling Your Program” and attended the over 20 offered workshops.
All attendees thoroughly enjoyed keynote speaker Steven Amick, a leader in the field of before and afterschool programs. Based in San Diego, CA, Steve discussed “An Entrepreneurial Approach to Afterschool” that detailed the importance of marketing programs to children and not parents. He also led two training sessions that focused on recruitment and retention of middle school children in after school programs and provided ideas and initiatives designed to increase enrollment, and keep it high.
Participant’s responses to the keynote were uniformly positive:
- Focus on what is ‘in’ with the kids
- I will learn what is fun for the kids in my program so they will be excited about the program
- Steve brought his experiences to life!
- Great speaker! He totally included the audience; he spoke to what I am doing.
Conference attendees chose from a variety of learning and training workshops that included: Service Learning: A Model to Engage Students; Supervising Inexperienced Staff, Inoculating Your Children Against Sexual Abuse, More Awesome Games for School Age Children and How to Effectively Market Your Child Care Program. Attendees also attended one of four workshops presented by artists from the Westchester Arts Council that focused on increasing math interest and skills through the use of arts-based activities.
This educational and fun day of networking and learning was enjoyed by all who attended, as evidenced in the following participant evaluations:
- The conference was very exciting and informative. I learned a lot.
- This session gave me great ideas I can implement to get kids interested in reading.
- I will follow the trainer’s planning techniques to better our program.
- The materials handed out were very useful and helpful. I can use them as a model to re-create my own.
- This is a very engaging activity for school age children. It will keep the kids interested and involved!
We thank the Wallace Fund administered by the Westchester Community Foundation and the IBM Global Work/Life Fund for their major funding for the full day conference. We also thank School Age Directors’ Network for their funding.
We thank the following organizations for their generous donations:
A’Mangiare
Mario Ianelli 350 Mamaroneck Avenue, White Plains, NY 10605
(914) 683-1313
A & P Supermarket
Marty McDermott Triangle Square, Yorktown Heights, NY 10598
(914) 962-0968
Crowne Plaza Hotel White Plains
Linda Ferone 66 Hale Avenue, White Plains, NY 10601
(914) 821-1365
Crystal’s Flowers and Gifts
Crystal 2121 Albany Post Road, Montrose, NY 10548
(914) 736-2500
Daffy’s
Anthony 60 South Broadway, Westchester Pavilion, White Plains, NY
(914) 761-4477
Dorry’s Diner
Dorry 468 Mamaroneck Avenue, White Plains, NY 10605
(914) 682-0005
Educational Warehouse
Debbie Gropman 60 South Broadway, White Plains, NY 10601
(914) 682-2223
House Center Hardware
Al Urban 488 Mamaroneck Avenue, White Plains, NY 10605
(914) 946-3232
Hudson Valley Renegades
Justin Fowler P.O. Box 661, Fishkill, NY 12525
(845) 838-0094
New York State School Age Care Coalition
Jim Murphy 230 Washington Avenue Ext., Albany, NY 12203
(518) 694-0660 www.nysscc.org
School Age Directors’ Network
Donna Cipriano Ossining Children’s Center, 90 S. highland Road, Ossining, NY 10562
(914) 941-0230
Stew Leonard’s
Tom Arthur One Stew Leonard Drive, Yonkers, NY 10710
(914) 375-4700
Trader Joe’s
Allison 727 White Plains Road, Scarsdale, NY 10583
(914) 472-2988
USTA Eastern Section
Sandy Hoffman 4 West Red Oak Lane, Suite 300, White Plains, NY 10605
(914) 696-7289
Whole Foods
Sara Westbrook 110 Bloomingdale Road, White Plains, NY 10605
(914) 288-1300 Sara.Westbrook@wholefoods.com
We thank the following companies who exhibited their products and services:
Becker School Supplies
Chris Merlini 12300 McNulty Road, Philadelphia, PA 19154
1-800-523-1490
Cashmere Pashmina Groups, Inc.
Renee Jain 51 Windsor Road, Rye Brook, NY 10573
(914) 690-0564 cashmerepashmina@aol.com
Educational Incentive Program, SUNY TSG
Eliot Cressell SUNY Plaza, Corporate Woods Bldg. Fl 3, Albany, NY 12246
1-518-443-5940 www.tsg.suny.edu
Educational Warehouse
Debbie Gropman 60 South Broadway, White Plains, NY 10601
(914) 682-2223 Debbie@educationalwarhouse.com
Kaplan Early Learning Company
Keri Repetto PO Box 609, Lewisville, NC 27023
1-800-452-7526 www.kaplan.com krepetto@kaplanco.com
Michaels & Associates
Norman Michaels 80 Business Park Drive, Suite 306, Armonk, NY 10504
School Specialty Education Essentials
Joseph Burby 62 Park Terrace West, #A79, New York, NY 10034
646-522-0312 jburby@schoolspecialty.com
United States Tennis Association Eastern Section
Sandy Hoffman 4 West Red Oak Lane, Suite 300, White Plains, NY 10605
(914) 696-7289 smaxhof@optonline.net www.eastern.usta.com
Westchester Arts Council
Ayeshah Wiltshire 31 Mamaroneck Avenue, White Plains, NY 10601
(914) 428-4220 x 241 awiltshire@westarts.co
Click here to access the conference brochure.
Still having trouble getting your staff trained? We can come on-site!
On-site training may be the solution for your home or center based program. An experienced trainer from the Council will come to your program and provide training for the entire staff. Trainers are also available to provide workshops at association meetings. Workshops can be tailored to meet your specific needs and schedule.
For more information call Hannah at (914) 761-3456 ext. 113.
For group or family child care providers, individual training in your home is also available at an hourly fee. An environmental scale will be administered and the results will guide the training.
Call Kathy at (914) 761-3456 ext. 105 to learn about the cost and available scholarship supports.
National Training Opportunities
National and regional conferences are a wonderful opportunity to attend workshops that are led by recognized experts in the field and make new and renewed connections with your colleagues in the child care community.
Early Childhood
Since 1926, the National Association for the Education of Young Children has led the way toward a vision of excellence in early childhood education. The annual conference will be held on November 7-10, 2007 in Chicago, Illinois.
For conference information and registration go to www.naeyc.org
New York State Association for the Education of Young Children is the state affiliate that presents an annual conference. This year the conference will be held on
May 1-3, 2008 in
in Buffalo, NY.
For information about the organization, go to www.nysaeyc.org
Zero To Three is a national organization whose mission is to strengthen and support families, practitioners and communities to promote the healthy development of babies and toddlers. The National Training Institute (NTI) will be held on
November 30-December 2, 2007 in Orlando, Florida.
For information about the organization and conference registration go to www.zerotothree.org.
After-School
The 2008 National Afterschool Association (NAA) 20th Anniversary Conference will be held in Ft. Lauderdale, Florida from March 12 – 15, 2008.
For more information about this conference go to www.naaweb.org.
Family Child Care
FCCANYS will hold its Annual Conference at the Hyatt Regency in Rochester , NY during the weekend of October 12-13, 2007. Keynote speakers include Lisa Murphy, the Ooey Gooey Lady, Gretchen Kinnell and Suzanne Zafonte Sennett of NYS OCFS.
Visit their website www.fccanys.org for detailed information, presenter proposal forms and to learn about liability insurance available to members.
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