WORKSHOPS — Early Childhood Educators

Workshops and Key Notes to Empower Early Childhood Educators and Child Care Center Directors

Let Them Create! ~ Embrace Open Ended Art for Kids (1-3 hours)
Creativity is our birthright yet most of us learned at a very early age to smother our unique expression under a blanket of conformity. In this workshop teachers learn to allow children to express their true creativity with open-ended art activities. What’s in it for you? Less time, less prep, less cutting, less patterns and MORE creativity for all!

Non-Negotiables for Leading Staff (1-1.5 hours)
Get empowered as a leader with Kendra’s Top Ten Guiding Principles for inspiring staff towards their best performance in this interactive workshop! These tips for success help center directors manage stress and maintain their sanity, too! Learn the Seven Minute Rule, how to give feedback, simple techniques for coping with change, and more.

Must Do’s for Working With Parents (1-1.5 hours)
Learn Kendra’s Ten Must Do’s for successfully working with parents! This interactive workshop explores how negative is positive, the motivation behind parent complaints, why “nice matters,” the Rule of Two, and more. These are tried and true!

Get it All Done With An Annual Calendar (2-3 hours)
This in-depth workshop is designed specifically for center directors to assist them with strategic thinking in a non-threatening, easy-to-understand way to implement. Kendra will teach you how to use an annual calendar so that you get more efficiency in overall center operations, better communication with parents and staff, and less stress.

“I had a lot of aha moments in this training. Making the calendar was challenging at first but once we got rolling it produced a lot of ideas!” ~ Early Childhood Program Coordinator

“I really enjoyed this training. I learned so much. These tools are useful and practical. We sometimes go to trainings and get tools and ideas but they don’t always work for us. Today was awesome! This CAN work for my center.” ~ Assistant Director

“The best! I have a concrete tool to make my center a better place and my life easier!” ~ Director, Corporate Child Care Center

Eliminate “That’s Not My Job!” with Organizational Charts (2-3 hours)
Tired of hearing “that’s not my job” and “I thought someone else was doing it” in your center? Frustrated with people who waste time focusing on the wrong things? In this in-depth workshop Kendra will help center directors create an organizational chart that eliminates all confusion about who is supposed to do what in their busy child care center.

“Kendra had great handouts. And I was able to walk away with a plan and great ideas.” ~ Center Director

“Wonderful! I was hesitant at first but now I am excited to dig into this and bring my Assistant Director and teachers on board as well.” ~ Center Director

“AWESOME! I can’t wait to get back to my center to use this.” ~ Curriculum Director

Cool Truths from Working With Kids Under Five
In this 45-minute keynote Kendra shares how the most simple things to a child under five, and the most common phrases we use with them, can become doorways to enlightenment for adults who’ve forgotten how to look, listen and feel.

Unless They Have Lice, Resist the Urge To Nitpick ~ 20+ Years of Life Lessons
This 45-minute keynote is an inspirational jaunt through 20+ years of working in the field of Early Childhood Education and the touching, heart-centered life lessons gleaned from serving thousands of children, parents, and teachers. Kendra offers thought-provoking yet simple lessons that are sure to inspire, uplift, and make ECE audiences smile.

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