Parenting With Purpose

Curricula Concepts offers three parent education sessions that are part of the Parenting with Purpose curriculum. Each hour-and-a-half training session has skills, tips, and strategies that can be customized to meet the unique needs of each family. The sessions are highly interactive and encourage families to talk with each other in a safe environment built on trust and mutual respect.

Engage Continuum

The Engage Continuum is a professional development series designed to encourage positive, goal-oriented relationships between early childhood educators and families. The classes in this series will teach educators how to build relationships that promote family well-being, strong parent-child relationships, and ongoing learning.

Move It!

Move It! provides opportunities for preschool educators to explore, understand, and practice aspects of physical development and gross motor skills for children. Participants will learn strategies that support and nurture children’s physical development, health, and learning. Move It! includes:

• Move It! - Yoga in the Classroom
• Move It! - Gross Motor Play
• Move It! - Music and Movement

Trauma-Informed Yoga

Trauma-Informed Yoga participants who work with children ages 3 to 18 years old about the effects of trauma on brain development and how it can manifest through challenging behaviors in the classroom. Participants will understand the benefits of yoga in general, as well as specific benefits for those who have been exposed to trauma. Participants will be introduced to mindfulness strategies, movement through foundational yoga poses, and breathing exercises in the session. Ultimately, the goal of Trauma-Informed Yoga is the successful implementation in the classroom to nurture children’s physical development and the development of key life skills. (ADE Approved)

Be Well Care Well

These professionals have a job that is critical - they shape our society’s future as they nurture the developing brain and whole child. However, they can struggle to find time to take care of themselves in the midst of juggling the demands of taking care of others.Caring for, nurturing, and providing a stable environment for children all day, every day takes a great deal of energy and it can be difficult to recharge. Caregivers who are experiencing high levels of stress, depression, and anxiety are less likely to have positive, supportive interactions with children and are more likely to expel a child from the preschool program. 

REACH

REACH is six-part series plus two director workshops focused on supporting key life skills for children and supporting nurturing teacher-child interactions. REACH provides training sessions at times that fit your schedule, toolkits with items to practice the skills and concepts taught, and personalized coaching through classroom visits, texts, and emails.

REACH includes:

• Director Workshops 1 and 2
• A Nurturing Relationship With Every Child: Laying the Groundwork for Good Behavior
• Routines, Schedules, and Rituals: Tools for Effective Behavior Guidance
• Talking About Feelings and Solving Problems Positive Attention: How to Use it Effectively to Increase Good Behavior
• Choices: Giving Children the Power to “Be Good” Advanced Strategies: What to do when a Child Needs Extra Help

REACHing Parents

REACHing Parents is a six-part series focused on supporting parent-child interaction and fostering real-world skills that children need to be successful. Research says that children who practice these skills in the early years have better behavior now and more success in elementary and beyond.

REACHing Parents includes:

• Lesson 1: Best Homework for School Success
• Lesson 2: Rituals and Routines
• Lesson 3: Solving Problems Peacefully
• Lesson 4: Positive Attention Boosts Self-Esteem and Good Behavior
• Lesson 5: Rules, Values, and Choices
• Lesson 6: Extra Help

Nutrition and Physical Activity

Curricula Concepts is offering four learning opportunities based on Go NAPSACC modules. These sessions offer information and support for best practices in the areas of Infant & Child Physical Activity, Child Nutrition, Breastfeeding & Infant Feeding, and Screen Time. Each training includes resources, giveaways, and the opportunity for coaching through Go NAPSACC. These trainings directly align with the Better Beginnings guidelines and can provide up to 6 hours of PDR.

Trainings include:

• Infant & Child Physical Activity
• Child Nutrition
• Breastfeeding and Infant Feeding
• Managing Screen Time

Go NAPSACC

Go NAPSACC is an online platform childcare providers can access to help improve the health of young children through practices, policies, and environments that instill habits supporting lifelong health and well-being. Go NAPSACC offers 35 hours of self-paced PDR training opportunities in the following areas:

Trainings include:

• Child Nutrition
• Breastfeeding & Infant Feeding
• Infant & Child Physical Activity
• Farm to ECE,
• Oral Health
• Screen Time
• Outdoor Play & Learning