Listen in as our guest, Public Health Nurse Sarah Hawley, of Minnesota Child Care Health Consultants, discusses ways to implement good procedures that will help ensure that your team is well trained in health and safety protocols. Sarah shares suggestions for implementing a training process that reinforces and reminds regularly so that your health and safety procedures are consistent across the whole team.

WIDA stands for World Class Instructional Design and Assessment and is part of the Wisconsin Center for Educational Research at UW Madison. They are THE experts in working with Multilingual Learners and their families.  Listen and learn how to meet one of the new Minnesota Knowledge and Competency Framework new competency areas, Working with Multilingual Learners and their Families.  Join us as we welcome Cindy Check and Carmen Cook who are partnering with the MN Department of Education and working to lead this work to share free resources and essential actions for all those working with young children, equipping them to support multilingual learners.

To learn more about the available resources for educators working with young multilingual learners and their families, visit MDE: Multilingual Learners. You will find links to gain access to the WIDA Early Years training as well as additional resources and support.

For information regarding training support, please contact Cindy Check at [email protected] or 952-594-2745.

Angeline Kallhoff and Tari Niemeyer, two of our CICC coaches, join us to continue our discussion of ways to respond to young children when they exhibit challenging behavior.  They share some proactive ways to set both you as the caregiver and the child up for success and calm the situation.

Join us for our podcast episode with two of our CICC coaches, Angeline Kallhoff and Tari Niemeyer as we discuss some common responses to behavior challenges that may occur in the early childhood setting.  They discuss how our verbal response has the ability to teach a child some new skills if we think about how we phrase things.

We wrap up the series with Kiley Hendrick, ECSE Teacher, St. Paul Public Schools, and Jackie Johnson, CICC Coach by discussing what is helpful in the ECSE-child care partnership and what are some possible roadblocks to success?

Kiley Hendrick, ECSE Teacher, St. Paul Public Schools, and Jackie Johnson, CICC Coach join us for part two to discuss key components of success in the partnership between child care and ECSE.

Join us as we host Kiley Hendrick, ECSE Teacher, St. Paul Public Schools, and Jackie Johnson, CICC Coach in a discussion of an overview of early childhood special education, the system, and the process of evaluation.

Our guests from the MN Department of Human Services Autism Resource Portal, Nicole Berning, and Kim Hicks join us again to showcase the amazing resources located in the portal.  They discuss ways it can be helpful to early childhood professionals and to parents.

Listen as our guests, Nicole Berning, Autism Clinical Lead, and Kim Hicks, Autism Policy Lead for the MN Department of Human Services share an overview of autism spectrum disorder (ASD) and some of the early signs to watch for as you care for young children.

We continue our discussion about being trauma-aware with our guests Arielle Handevidt and Lily Cooks.  In this podcast, we dig deeper into the role of leadership in an early childhood setting to be trauma-responsive to staff, parents, and children.