Understanding Brain Development in Toddlers: Insights from the BrainPALS Study
Parenting during early childhood plays a powerful role in shaping brain development and children’s readiness to learn. This session will share emerging findings from the BrainPALS project and connect them to practical strategies for supporting healthy brain development during the toddler years. Participants will also gain an understanding of typical patterns of brain growth during this developmental period and how sensitive caregiving experiences shape neural connections that underlie learning and emotion regulation.
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- January 10, 2026
- 9:00 am – 11:00 am
Introduction to Leadership Coaching
This workshop explores how a coaching approach, together with a strong coaching process and key coaching skills, can make a significant and immediate difference in conversations leaders engage in everyday. This session is 2 virtual half days. Participants must attend both days.
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- February 2-3, 2026
- 9:00 am – 12:00 pm
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Connecting Through Caregiving: An Essential Part of the Curriculum
This expert speaker session explores the Magda Gerber Educaring Approach to working with infants and toddlers in a caring and respectful way. The principles in this approach empower parents and caregivers with the tools and perspective to understand each baby, the unique relationship, and find balance in the individual situation or setting.
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- March 14, 2026
- 3:00 pm – 5:00 pm
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Movement & Play as Curriculum in Sensorimotor Stage
This expert speaker session will give participants the chance to become familiar with the stages of natural gross motor development and play. We will observe infants and toddlers maximizing their learning at their own pace and in their own ways, and have opportunities to see examples of uninterrupted play as well as selective intervention. We will discuss how free movement and free play, along with sensitive caregiving, can add up to an optimal learning environment for children from birth to three with the support of attentive adults.
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- March 21, 2026
- 3:00 pm – 5:00 pm
- More information about Educaring Approach!
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