The tools and learning experiences I provide are valuable resources for parents and educators; they will use them repeatedly. I simplify complex concepts and break them down into manageable steps, ensuring that the learning process is enjoyable and accessible to every individual. The goal of my workshops is for the participants to grasp what they learn and use it in a way that fits them.
What will you learn? Practical skills that you can use daily with the children in your care. A deeper understanding of the concepts that underlie these practical skills. Techniques to help you reflect and grow in your knowledge of child development.
For Educators
The four workshops below are offered to early childhood education providers wanting to increase and improve their child care knowledge and techniques.
Watching, Wondering, & What’s Next; 3 W’s for Observing Children and Supporting Their Learning
In this workshop, we will learn to recognize what we see when we observe children in order to fine-tune our responses to children. We will reflect on the teachers’ observations and develop skills to deepen our understanding of children’s behaviors to better meet their needs.
Separation and Separation Anxiety: How to Know the Difference and Support Parents and Children
In this workshop, we will review the types of children’s feelings and behaviors that are expected during typical separations. We will look at what separation anxiety is and is not. We will learn the basic tools that every teacher needs to support healthy separations.
Building Literacy Skills When Reading to Children
The building blocks of reading begin when young children first interact with books and are read to by adults and older children. Reading picture books to infants and toddlers builds a love of reading and much more. In this workshop, we will deepen our understanding of how reading to young children builds sound and letter awareness, sequencing, predicting and inferencing, and much more. We will practice the techniques and skills teachers use the maximize these opportunities.
Conversations with Pre-Verbal Babies; Building Language Skills
Many ECE providers work with pre-verbal children. Conversations with children who have yet to develop expressive language are essential for social, emotional, and cognitive development. In this workshop, we will learn the essential skills to support language development and the skills we use to engage in conversations with pre-verbal children.
For Parents
I offer two workshops to parents wanting to learn a deeper understanding of practical skills and early childhood education techniques to use outside of the classroom.
Embracing Boundaries I: Children and Parents Benefit from Clear, Consistent Boundaries
In this 4 week course, parents learn the value of limits and boundaries, what they may look like at different developmental stages, and the basic tools for creating consistent boundaries that work for parents and their children.
Embracing Boundaries II
In this second course, parents will learn the cycle of setting boundaries with their children, reflecting on their success, and becoming adept at adjusting boundaries as needed. This skill is used throughout a child’s development from infancy to adulthood.
Engaging with teachers and parents across various U.S. settings throughout my career, I approach learning as a collaborative socio-cultural process. We learn together and from one another. Everyone’s unique perspective brings something valuable to the collective experience.
I am a lifelong learner. Staying in this mindset keeps me humble and reinforces my belief in the uniqueness of the learning process for each person. Recognizing and honoring these individual differences is crucial to my mission of effectively supporting education and personal growth.
Let’s work together to make learning exciting and full of growth. Reach out and get in touch today!
“We are a little piece of continual change, looking at an infinite quantity of continual change.”
— BKS Iyengar
