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TWO-DAY PROFESSIONAL SERVICES TRACK Monday, April 16 & Tuesday April 17 Early Bird Rates expire February 28
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| | Early Bird Member | $425 | | Early Bird Non-Members | $475 | Regular Rates begin February 29
| | | Member Rate | $475 | | Non-Member Rate | $525 |
| Feldesman Tucker's Managing Risk in a Compliance Environment: Ensuring Successful Head Start Programs | | Monday, April 16 & Tuesday, April 17 | 8:45 AM to 4:45 PM
| | | | | Presenters: | Edward T. Waters, Esq.
Managing Partner, Feldesman Tucker Leifer Fidell LLP | | | J. Zoe Beckerman, Esq.
Partner, Feldesman Tucker Leifer Fidell LLP
Managing Principal, FT Solutions | | Capacity: | 200 |
Join Ted Waters and Zoe Beckerman, the nation's leading authorities on Head Start law, for this two-day training on critical risk management and compliance issues in Head Start. We'll cover what risk management means in a legal context and how best to build systems that protect your program. We will also address some of the biggest problem areas for programs (including hot spots from program, fiscal, and HR such as criminal background checks, timekeeping and self-assessments) and proffer tips for minimizing your exposure, including ideas about ensuring systems with built-in feedback mechanisms to help keep you operating a high quality program. We'll even discuss the OHS Monitoring Protocol to highlight issue areas and solutions. Both days will include tips and techniques to help your program stay organized, documented correctly, and within the bounds of the law that applies to Head Start and Early Head Start. All participants will receive materials including slides, supplementary sources, and sample checklists and documents. Click here for more details.
| | | | | Wipfli Training: Head Start Management Issues | | Monday, April 16 & Tuesday, April 17 | 8:30 AM to 5:00 PM | | | | | Presenters: | Denes L. Tobie, CPA | | | Janet Johnson, CPA |
NHSA is pleased to host Wipfli’s 2-day Head Start Management Issues pre-conference session. A detailed training seminar outline, daily schedule, and registration is available on the Wipfli site. Click here for more information. To register for the NHSA conference, exhibits hall and special events please follow the links and register for NHSA’s 39th Annual Conference.
| | Register on-line with Wipfli: | Click Here for Registration and Rates | | | TWO DAY SPECIAL TRACKS Monday, April 16 & Tuesday April 17 | Member Rate | $235 | | Non-Member Rate | $255 | Sound Beginnings: Best Practices in Early Literacy
Presenter: Shawna Moran
Capacity: 115 The Sound Beginnings special track provides instruction for early childhood educators on critical early literacy topics. The workshop is intended to help educators understand current research and best practices. Topics include code-focused and explicit instruction, alphabet knowledge, phonological awareness, phonics, print awareness, handwriting, oral language, and shared reading. Leading for Organizational Excellence
Presenter: Dr. Sheryl Gee
Capacity: 115 This interactive workshop is designed to provide participants an opportunity to learn ways to effectively: 1) Lead from their core with vision, heart and influence; 2) develop an effective leadership style; 3) Inspire, coach and manage performance; 4) Foster an organizational culture that supports implementation of CLASS (Classroom Scoring Assessment System), as well as inclusion, team work, cultural competence, and service excellence. Effective Head Start Monitoring & Managing by Outcomes
Presenter: Aaron Lieberman
Capacity: 65 Over the course of 2 days, we will review cutting edge practices that will help your program use child, family, health, and other data more effectively, and will provide a framework that enables you to focus on achieving higher standards and outcomes (vs. simply meeting the Head Start Performance Standards). There will be a special focus on effective School Readiness goals and the Parent, Family, & Community Framework in this new era of Head Start accountability. Reinventing Yourself and Your Agency To Succeed in Open Competition
Presenter: Tim Nolan & Barb Haxton
Capacity: 50 Our two day special track event will 1) focus on how to reinvent yourself and your agency to succeed in open competition, 2) help participants understand the very critical nature of Head Start Redesignation Program and, 3) how they as agency leaders are part of ensuring the solid future of their program. Strengths-Based Coaching for Leaders
Presenter:Joy Humbarger
Capacity:65 Change is continuous as programs engage in quality improvements. What leads to change? How do we motivate adults through change, building on their strengths? How can we make the most of our time together? Learn a practical systematic process that will transform your role as a leader. | | ONE DAY SPECIAL TRACKS
Monday, April 16
| Member Rate | $130 | | Non-Member Rate | $145 | Reaching for a Higher Level of Father Involvement
Presenter: Mike Hall
Capacity: 50 This session will help participants build a strong and sustainable father involvement program. Participants will learn the benefit of father involvement to children and Head Starts, the role of family reading on child outcomes, character development, and school readiness, and the best practices to sustain and promote father involvement efforts.
Conscious Discipline - It's Bigger Than the Classroom!
Presenter: Peg Tazewell
Capacity: 65 In this training, participants will learn from a National Head Start Center of Excellence how consistently using Conscious Discipline® throughout all Head Start components, benefits not only children while at school, but also families, giving them a blueprint for their own self regulation, improving relationships and problem solving. | | ONE DAY SPECIAL TRACKS Tuesday, April 17 | Member Rate | $130 | | Non-Member Rate | $145 | A Joyous Jump Start in Literacy
Presenter: LaDonna Wicklund
Capacity: 160 Jump start 3 to 5 year olds in literacy skills with I Can Read Songs. Learn simple songs that teachers and parents can use to ease children into reading and writing. These simple, joyous, effective songs will empower teachers and parents to boost children in literacy as they sing and dance and move naturally into reading and writing.
Be Choosy Be Healthy: Innovative Enhancements for Oral Health, Movement, and Nutrition
| | | | | Presenters: | Linda Carson, EdD
Ware Distinguished Professor Emerita, WVU
Founder, Choosy Kids | | | Brandon Williams, MA
Master Trainer, Choosy Kids | | | Courtney Elder, MA
Trainer, Choosy Kids | | Capacity: | 65 |
Become energized and motivated to re-visit what your program can do to promote a balance of healthy habits every day. This Training Seminar will provide programs with tools to engage families as partners in developing healthy habits in nutrition, physical activity, and oral health. Discover how unique dental health materials have been paired with movement and nutrition resources for addressing childhood obesity. Experience innovative strategies that complement existing curricula and classroom routines. Have fun experiencing examples of utilizing a health hero, music, and movement for sharing health messages with children, families, and staff. See brochure for more details.
| Stress Buster Boot Camp - Strategies, Tools, & Ideas for High Level Wellness
Presenter: Steve Saffron & Rob Peck
Capacity: 125
Are you stressed-out about constantly increasing Federal Regulations, and having to do more with less? This boost camp will lift your spirit and shift your energy from feeling burned out to being fired up! This creative learning experience will leave you with clear strategies and simple steps to manage your time and energy more effectively. In an atmosphere of fun, you will learn a series of high level wellness tools to take better care of yourself, energize your supervision, and enhance your self-esteem. You will grow personally and professionally, and be better equipped to work together as a team to realize Head Start's vital mission. ERSEA: Determining, verifying and documenting eligibility
Presenter: Deborah A. Ross, Ph.D.
Capacity: 425
This session will present information on determining, verifying and documenting eligibility within the context of ERSEA. This session will lay the groundwork for implementing eligibility consistent with the changes made through the 2007 Head Start Act. Participants will understand how to strengthen procedures to determine, verify, certify and maintain records regarding eligibility. At the end of this session, you will: - Understand how to certify documents
- Understand how to establish procedures to verify and determine eligibility records
- Understand how to accurately determine eligibility of homeless families
- Understand how to establish policies and procedures for eligibility violations
- Understand how to establish training policies for eligibility.
See Dr. Ross's bio.
Reading, Through the Eyes of a Child
Presenter: Lois Wachtel
Capacity: 50 Join Miss Lois on a voyage into the early childhood classroom, as we look at reading through the eyes of our children. Together, we will bring together phonological awareness and whole language. We'll design class books that will encourage us to stretch familiar story; watch as a potato chip can, a silly sock, and a pizza box become stories. We'll move and interact with some fun songs, all of which will bring the joy of learning to read into your classroom. Totally interactive and fun learning, with a few giggles added. Miss Lois will be joined by a special guest, David Kisor - David is the Music Director at Children, Inc., a non-profit agency offering nationally accredited early education and care throughout Northern Kentucky for infants through the school age child. Mr. David is a songwriter, performer, and teacher with a Master’s Degree in Composition from the University of Cincinnati College Conservatory of Music. | | | | PLEASE NOTE: | | Completing the registration form alone will not guarantee participation in sessions. Participation is not guaranteed until full payment of the registration fee is received via check or credit card. Sessions fill quickly, so please make full payment as early as possible to secure your seat. Please read the detailed cancellation, refund and substitution policy. | | | | |
