This session looks at the importance of staff meetings as the primary vehicle for staff development and community building. Topics include an analysis of social interaction in groups and how interpersonal orientation among group members affects group functioning. A key focus is applying methods for managing meetings that achieve maximum participant satisfaction and productivity in a minimum amount of time.

Revitalize teaching, coaching, and family partnerships with research-based, development-fostering strategies that boost toddlers’ language skills, strengthen social-emotional competence, and scaffold self-directed behavior regulation. Meet the unique needs of toddlers within a framework of resilience-promoting, child-centered guidance that will reorient your practice and radically change outcomes for children. Skills are inclusive for toddlers learning multiple languages, those with special needs, and children experiencing multiple risk factors including trauma and stress.