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SDECE Conference Everyday Heroes Making a Difference
April 20-22, 2017 Sioux Falls, SD
Sioux Falls Convention Center
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Thank You to Our Generous Conference Sponsors
WELCOME!
On behalf of the South Dakota Association for the Education of Young Children, the South Dakota Head Start Association and all of our sponsors, we’d like to welcome you to the 2017 South Dakota Early Childhood Education Conference! This annual conference provides an opportunity for early childhood education professionals and their partners from across the state of South Dakota and the surrounding region to collaborate, network, learn and share. It is our hope that everyone who attends our conference leaves with new ideas and information to enhance their important work with young children and their families.
We encourage you to take advantage of the all of the opportunities to visit the exhibitor area, attend the keynote presentations, join your colleagues at the luncheons, and participate in the business meetings of your professional associations. There are also dozens of work-shops and presentations to assist you in learning creative ways of educating and working with children. Conferences like this one are also excel-lent opportunities to network with others in the field and re-connect with colleagues and friends who share your dedication to early childhood edu-cation.
Our 2017 conference theme is “Everyday Heroes Making a Difference.” This theme reflects the importance of acknowledging and supporting the heroes around us every day, including community members, families, children, friends, and you! As you browse through the pages of this pro-gram, you will notice that the keynote speakers and session topics cover a wide range of information relevant for the many roles that our mem-bers represent. Thank you to each of you for your work on behalf of children and their families. We are pleased that you have joined us for our 2017 South Dakota Early Childhood Education Conference, and are excited to welcome you!
PURPLE DAY! Saturday, April 22nd
In honor of:
Gera Jacobs Please wear purple in honor of Gera, who dedicated her life to the betterment of children. Gera passed away in June, 2016 after a 6 month battle with cancer.
Conference Information REGISTRATION—Will be open at the following times during the conference:
Thursday 7:30 AM to 5:15 PM Friday 7:00 AM to 4:30 PM Saturday 7:00 AM to 1:00 PM
EXHIBITS—Will be open at the following times during the conference:
Thursday 8:30 AM to 5:15 PM Friday 7:30 AM to 5:15 PM Saturday 7:30 AM to 3:00 PM
DOOR PRIZES—Door prize winners will be announced prior to each keynote speaker. Door prizes must be picked up by 4pm each day.
SILENT AUCTION— Auction tables will have bid sheets for each item and will be available for bidding throughout the confer-ence. Final auction times will be posted on each table. All proceeds go to SDAEYC and SDHSA Scholarships and Endow-ments.
CANCELLED SESSIONS—Will be announced, displayed on the message board by the registration table as well as posted on the location of the session. Please check daily for updates.
WORKSHOP TRAINING HOURS CERTIFICATE: Participants can receive a certificate of training contact hours completed by turning in their participation log complete with attendance stamps. You must turn in your participation log prior to 3:15 pm on Saturday, April 22nd. (Back cover of program) There is no cost for the certificate.
COLLEGE CREDIT: Participants must register and pay for credit with a check or cash at the conference. Participants must re-fer to the syllabi at the back of the conference program for assignment information. No credit cards will be accepted.
COLLEGE CREDIT COST: $40.00 payable to the University of South Dakota for undergraduate or graduate credit prior to the conference adjournment at 3:00 pm April 22nd.
OFFICIAL TRANSCRIPT: USD will mail a complementary copy of a transcript to each participant to the address listed on the credit registration form.
CELL PHONES—Please respect speakers and other participants by turning off or using the vibrate/silence mode on all cell phones or other devices during sessions. Thank you!
SCHEDULE OF EVENTS Thursday, April 20, 2017
7:30-5:15...………….…Registration & Exhibits Open 8:00-11:30.…………….Pre-Conference Melissa Pickle 12:30-2:15………….….Keynote - Steve Erwin 2:30-3:45…………..…...Workshop Session 1 4:00-5:00.………..….....Workshop Session 2 5:00-7:00……………....SDECE SOCIAL Sponsored by Lakeshore ————————————————————————————-- Friday, April 21 2017
7:30-5:15..………….…..Registration & Exhibits Open 8:00-9:45…………….…Keynote—Jennifer Daniels 10:00-11:15……….……Workshop Session 3 11:30-12:45…….………Workshop Session 4 2:00-3:15………...……..Workshop Session 5 3:30-4:45……….….…...Workshop Session 6 5:00-6:00……………….Workshop Session 7 ———————————————————————————————-Saturday, April 22, 2017
7:00-1:00………...……..Registration 7:30-3:00…………..…...Exhibits Open 8:00-9:45……….………Keynote—Wendy Young 10:00-11:15………...…..Workshop Session 8 12:30-1:45…………..….Workshop Session 9 2:00-3:00….……………Workshop Session 10
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Presidents’ Welcome / Sponsors
Conference Information/Schedule of Events 1
Sanford Ad 2
Door Prize/Silent Auction Contributors 3
Pre Conference/Exhibitors 4
Thursday Keynote/Session 1 5
Thursday, Session 1 & 2 6
Friday Keynote, Session 3 7
Friday, Session 3 & 4 8
Friday, Session 5 & 6 9
Friday, Session 6 & 7 10
Saturday Keynote 11
Saturday, Session 8 12
Saturday, Sessions 9 & 10 13
Saturday, Session 10/ Facility Map 14
Undergraduate Course Syllabus 15
Graduate Course Syllabus 16
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31 Bags and More
BankWest
Beemer & Bartlett Eye Clinic—Pierre
Boles Education Solutions
Buffalo Wild Wings
Capitol Connections Chapter of SDAEYC
Childcraft
ChildPlus Software
Children's Health Market
Dakota Midland Association for the Ed. Of Young Children
Dakota Prairie Chapter of SDAEYC
Delta Dental of South Dakota
Discovery Toys
East Central Association for the Ed. Of Young Children
Hardee’s—Pierre
Hardware Hank—Pierre
Kaplan Early Learning Company
Kathy's StoryPocket Pillows
Ken’s Superfair Foods
Lost & Found Occasionals
LuLaRoe -Jessica Schulte
Missouri Valley Assoc. for the Ed. Of Young Children
Mother Goose Time—Experience Early Learning
Northeast SD Head Start
NSU AEYC Student Chapter
Oahe Child Development Center
Oh My Word Paperie
Penn State Better Kid Care
Permabound Books
Prairie Pages Book Sellers—Pierre
Right Turn,Inc
SeneGence/Pusenality Handbags & Accessories
Silkey Pets
Siouxland Association for the Ed. Of Young Children
Sioux Falls Head Start
South Central Child Development
SD Afterschool Network
SD Association for the Education of Young Children
SD Council on Developmental Disabilities
SD Head Start Association
SD School for the Deaf /School for Blind & Visually Impaired
South Dakota State Library
The Speech Mom
Sticks and Steel
Suncreek Jewelry
Teacher’s Helper
TREC-Badlands Head Start
Treetop Publishing "Bare Books"
USD Head Start
Usborne Books & More
Youth and Family Services Head Start
ZOO-PHONICS INC
Thank You to the following businesses and organizations for donating Door Prizes and Silent Auction items (List current at time of printing)
The SDECE Conference provides a meeting place where individuals can gather and discuss issues important to those who work on behalf of children and families. SDAEYC and SDHSA assume no responsibility for any statement of fact or opinion by a presenter at this conference, nor does acceptance of exhibitors or advertisers imply endorsement of
any product, material, or services by SDAEYC or SDHSA.
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PRE-CONFERENCE SPEAKER THURSDAY, APRIL 20, 2017 Pre-registration was required for this session.
Meeting Rooms: 13-14
Melissa Pickle
Taking Care of Ourselves: Stress Reduction Workshop
Working with children and families is intense and demanding work. Stress is natural and can be inevitable, but stress can take a toll on your health and effectiveness in your work. In this workshop, participants will develop a better understand-ing of stress and their role in stress creation and reduction. Participants will also create an individualized action plan to help manage stress. Pathways: Professionalism
31 Bags and More
Abrams Learning/Boles Education Solutions
Bright Horizons Family Solutions
Child Care Helpline
Childcraft-School Specialty
ChildPlus Software
Children's Health Market
Delta Dental of South Dakota
Discovery Toys
Kaplan Early Learning Company
Kathy’s StoryPocket Pillows
Lakeshore Learning Materials
LuLaRoe
Mother Goose Time—Experience Early Learning *
Penn State Better Kid Care *
Permabound Books
SeneGence/Pursenality Handbags & Accessories
Silkey Pets
SD After School Network
SD Council on Developmental Disabilities
SD Department of Education
SD Early Childhood Enrichment System
SD School for Deaf/Blind & Visually Impaired
South Dakota KIDS COUNT
South Dakota State Library
The Speech Mom
Suncreek Jewelry
TreeTop Publishing—Bare Books *
Usborne Books & More
ZOO-PHONICS INC
SD AEYC
SD Head Start Association
*Conference Packet Exhibitor
Visit our Exhibit Booths Exhibit Booths are available all day during the conference.
Please take time to view their goods and materials, and to tell them “Thank You” for spending time with us supporting the
SDECE Conference and Early Childhood in SD.
Steve Erwin - National Early Childhood Specialist Kaplan Early Learning
Steve has spent over 40 years working in a variety of capacities to promote, educate and advocate for young children and their families. His work experience has included the many service delivery and funding systems that provide care and education to children and families. In addition to the types of programs, He has enjoyed a geographical perspective of early care and education throughout the United States including Hawaii, China and America Samoa. Experience as well as education has taught him working with young children and their fami-lies is important because we can make a difference in their lives… at a time when we can make a difference. Early childhood education can be the easiest job to do wrong and the hardest job to do right. For that reason, it is important for Steve over these years to promote curriculum models that support developing a knowledgeable skilled workforce that can make a difference. Recently he worked at the As-sociated Students Child Development Lab at California State University, Chico (CSUC) and adjunct faculty for the Child Development
Program at CSUC. He is currently the National Early Childhood Specialist for Kaplan Early Learning Company.
Thursday KEYNOTE 12:30-2:15 p.m.
EXHIBIT HALL 2
1. Exhibit Hall 2: Resilience-Understanding the Protective Factors- Steve Erwin, Kaplan Early Learning Pathways: Guidance
The day to day challenges of being in an ECE program can influence a child’s behavior. The child’s ability to cope and manage these challenges depends on the resilience of the child. This interactive session will define resilience and the protective factors that can strengthen the child’s resilience. Resilience is a gift each teacher can give a child.
2. Room 1: The Importance of Block Play- Doniese Wilcox , Certified Family Life Educator, Avera McKennan Hospital and Krystal Trull Pathways: Learning Environments
Unit blocks and building toys help children develop important physics and math concepts and encourage social skills and critical thinking. Yet blocks are disappearing from pre-schools and kindergartens. Let's bring back block play and find ways to make it exciting for children.
3. Room 2 : Increasing Family Engagement- April Hodges, Program Specialist-Birth to Three. Pathways: Partnership with Parents
Is it possible that we could actually increase parent engagement and improve child out-comes simply by talking to parents? If we asked them tough questions, would they actual-ly tell us about their lives? Would they shy away? What happens if they cry? Over the past year, the Birth to Three program has implemented the Routines Based Interview-method in an effort to increase family engagement and improve child outcomes. The RBI is a semi-structured interviewtechnique used to gather information about a family's day to day activities in order to connect them with resources they need to meet the needs of their child and family. Come learn why families are saying "This was fun" and "I learned things I didn't know about my spouse" and why staff have come to believe this new pro-cess is a linchpin to garnering success with families.
4. Room 3 : Recognizing and Responding/Childhood Trauma and Resiliency- Teresa Thie, Education and Public Awareness Specialist , Children's Home Society. Pathways: Abuse & Neglect
We will talk about the importance of recognizing child abuse/neglect, how to respond and report, the importance of the use of Child Advocacy Centers, and knowledge of childhood trauma and resiliency.
(repeated Friday)
5. Room 6: Tooth decay - an infectious disease- Jean Gross, Registered Dental Hygienist, Delta Dental of South Dakota Pathways: Communicable Disease
Tooth Decay-The world's oldest & most widespread infectious disease. Although dental caries are largely preventable, dental decay is the most common chronic disease of children. Effective and proper care of the mouth is highly crucial to a person's general wellness and overall appearance. We will discuss the how's - how we get it, how we treat it and most importantly, how to prevent it.
6. Room 7: Cultivating Inclusion: The Power of Unintentional Bias- Kristin Houghton, Training and Curriculum Specialist, United States Air Force , Child and Youth Programs Pathways: Diversity
The things we say can be the catalyst for children's tolerance or intolerance, self-worth, self-identity, and level of acceptance of others. While all early child-hood educators share a common vision of an anti-bias environment, very often unintentional bias has a powerfully negative effect on this vision. Well meaning, but bias statements feed the intolerances our children adopt for life, and gender bias and stereotyping are among the primary forms of discrimination reinforced during early childhood. Everyone has implicit biases, however, once we are made aware of them, those biases can be successfully addressed. This work-shop will take a hard look at some what are often uncomfortable subjects and help learners to recognize and combat unintentional bias in their classrooms. (repeated Friday)
7. Room 9: Early Childhood Education Panel- Jessica Castleberry, Carole Cochran, Kathy Cruse, Billie Sutton, Rhonda Kludt, Carmen Stewart Pathways: Professionalism
During our Early Childhood Education Panel, participate in a conversation with state leaders in our industry. Join us to hear personal stories and insight, and to discuss and investigate solutions for early childhood education in South Dakota.
Thursday, April 20th Session 1: 2:30-3:45
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Keynote: Through the Hearts of Teachers Build the minds of Children Today’s teachers run the risk of becoming technicians and managers. This presentation will address and reflect on challenges that teachers face today and explore strategies that strengthen the focus on children. This presentation will address core values, leadership and interactions that will keep teachers engaged in building the minds of children. The key thought of this session is to validate the hard work teachers are asked to do each day. They will have a new perspective what their works means to their community and hopefully a new commitment
to their work. Pathways: Professionalism
Sponsored in part by:
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10. Exhibit Hall : How can movement affect the attention and retention of students in a preschool classroom? Becky Kayser, Katie Gregg, Danielle Schmitz, Brianna Clemenson, SDSU ECE Teacher Candidates Pathways: Age Appropriate Planning
Various movement strategies are implemented into preschool classrooms. We focus on four different areas: teacher hesitation, creative movement, transitional movement, and effects of movement in the brain.
11. Room 1: Successful Parenting—Connie Hermann, Information and Training Specialist , Black Hills Special Services Pathways: Discipline
Successful Parenting emphasizes the Head and Heart. The Head means using logical, practical methods of teaching skills to help a child learn to be self-disciplined. The Heart is the unconditional love and nurturing that helps a child grow and learn. Put them together and you have a successful approach to parenting.
12. Room 2: Data Management with ChildPlus- Jose Martinez, Account Executive, ChildPlus Software Pathways: Management & Regulation
In this session you will learn how to collect data and use reports, setup email notifications, improve data tracking for attendance, track staff time, and improve your policies and pro-cedures.
(Repeated Friday)
13. Room 3: Sign Language: How We Can Use it in Our Early Childhood Classrooms!- Kami Van Sickle, Juli Luke- SD School for the Deaf Outreach Consultant Pathways: Learning Environments
Our presentation highlights the benefits of using sign language in the classroom. Partici-pants will also learn some basic sign language and ways to incorporate sign language in an Early Childhood classroom.
(repeated Friday)
14 Room 6 : Ethical Responsibilities & Dilemmas in Early Childhood Education- Dr. Marcy Drew, Senior Lecturer, USD Pathways: Professionalism
Attendees will explore the NAEYC Code of Ethical Conduct and use it to discuss ethical dilemmas many of us face in the field, such as difficult working relationships, working with parents, and facing behavior issues.
(repeated Saturday)
15. Room 7: South Dakota School for the Deaf "nose" Language- Jodi Schnider, Laura Scholten, Outreach Consultants, South Dakota School for the Deaf Pathways: Learning Environments
This presentation will provide an overview of South Dakota School for the Deaf services as well as a discussion of language development in children with chronic ear infections or hearing loss. Strategies will be provided to increase vocabulary development in many different environments. Knowing how to elicit language and build vocabulary in a fun way, is so important for all children, and especially children with a hearing loss.
(Repeated Friday)
16. Room 8 : Ensuring Smooth Transitions in the Preschool Classroom - Melissa Pickle, Program Services Director/Education & Disabilities Specialist- TREC Badlands Head Start Pathways: Discipline
Transitioning from one activity to the next in a preschool classroom can be chaotic and stressful for teachers and children. This workshop will present strategies which focus on effectively managing those transitions to ensure they become fun learning opportunities for all involved.
17. Room 9: A New Option for a Degree in Early Education and Care- Lynda Vnehuizen, Lecturer, Early Childhood Education, South Dakota State University Pathways: Professionalism
Are you looking for a way to earn your degree in Early Education and Care so that you can be fully qualified for your job, but you don't have time or the means to go to college in the traditional sense? SDSU just began a completely online degree program that can be completed in the comfort of your own community, at your own pace. Come to this session to learn more about the on-line program.
18. Room 13-14: Unity through Mindfulness- Nathan Downs, Brooke Merry, Caleb Langner, Kelsey Van Loh, Fishback Center for Early Childhood Education Pathways: Guidance
The presentation details the mindfulness methods used in our preschool classroom to create a community of learners that shared a mutual respect and understanding with one another.
(repeated Friday)
Thursday, April 20th Session 2: 4:00-5:00
8. Room 8: Power of Play in Developing Social Emotional Development - Paula Terpstra, Counselor, MS NCC –Sioux Falls School District Pathways: Growth & Development
Play is an important part of the childhood development. Through play children learn about shapes, colors, cause and effect, and themselves. Besides cognitive thinking, play helps the child learn social and psychomotor skills. It is a way of communicating joy, fear , sor-row, and anxiety . In the early 2000s, children of all ages and socioeconomic background often prefer television, computers, and battery-operated toys to self-directed, imaginative, and creative play. This tendency leaves children developmentally deprived, because imaginative and fantasy play allows children to explore their world and express their inner-most thoughts and feelings, hopes and fears, likes and dislikes. Through play, decisions are made without penalty or fear of failure. Play allows children to gain control of their
thoughts, feelings, actions, and helps them achieve self confidence. In this session we will learn about the importance of play in developing social emotional development by using imaginary play, manipulatives, and literature. Participants leave with a activity to take back to their program.
9. Room 9 : Lions KIDSIGHT South Dakota- Jennifer Sigette, Executive Director, SD Lions Foundation Pathways: Child Growth & Development
Learn all about a new free and important vision screening program for kids. (Repeated Friday)
Thursday, April 20th Session 1: 2:30-3:45 (cont.)
SDECE Social & Networking 5:00-7:00 p.m. Sponsored by
Please join us in Exhibit Hall 2 for food and conversation (cash bar)
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Jennifer Daniels Singer-Songwriter
Friday, April 21st Session 3: 10:00-11:15
19. Exhibit Hall 2: Interactive Stories, Songs, and Organized Movement: Empha-sis on Kids with Autism and Sensory Processing Disorder, Jennifer Daniels Pathways: Inclusion
In this interactive concert setting, we'll discover how stories, songs and structured move-ment can help to calm the central nervous system, build real brain connections, develop physical strength and balance, and teach social skills. -Things kids with Autism and/or Sensory Processing Disorders need most. We'll find out how to give children a sense of control over the material, so that they can participate with confidence and courage. And we'll look at why interactive stories and songs, like Eric Litwin's Pete the Cat: I Love My White Shoes, have been a huge help. Note: You need no musical expertise, but wear clothes you can move in. 20. Room 1: Restructuring: What does this mean for SDAEYC?- Mary Bowne Associate Professor/ President , SDSU/SDAEYC Pathways: Professionalism This presentation will be similar to last year's presentation that focused on the NAEYC restructuring process. The presenter will explain the purpose behind the process, the upcoming changes that will occur, and how SDAEYC is moving forward with the overall process.
21. Room 2: Early Eating: The Development of Happy, Healthy Meal Times- Andrea Boerigter, MA SLP CCC (Speech/Lang Path), The Speech Mom Pathways: Growth & Development
Wishing your crew would eat more fruits and veggies? Join me to explore the development of happy healthy eaters starting at just a few months of age!
22. Room 3: Getting Started with Mindfulness- Jesse Foss & Laura Gloege, Instructors of Early Childhood Education, SDSU, Emma Wright, Student Pathways: Management & Regulation
The presentation aims to share the process of initiating a mindfulness practice for young children. As a teaching team, we became aware of an increasing amount of stress in our day and a need to respond to that stress in a positive way. Through our own personal practice of mindfulness, we noticed how a pause in our day allowed us to breathe and reflect on the moment, greatly benefiting our state of mind and increasing our patience. We quickly realized the impact mindfulness could also have on the young children in our center. We desired to create an inclusive environment that would provide a space for
young children to safely and positively recognize and manage strong emotions. Through intentful planning, our inquiry led us to multi-sensory engagements that encourage young children to be present in a given moment and begin to identify and communicate a state of awareness. As a result, we observed more peaceful transitions, increased attentiveness, noticeable compassion and patience for each other, and improved emotional regulation. The presenters aim to provide real and applicable strategies that attendees can apply in their own settings such as, movement, sound, art, taste, breathing, and visualization tech-niques. Time will also be set aside for sharing of ideas, discussion and practice of tech-niques. (repeated Saturday)
23. Room 6 : American Indian History & Culture: Past and Present, Melissa Buffalo, Senior Clinical Research Specialist , Collaborative Research Center for American Indian Health Pathways: Diversity
Attendee's will receive a brief overview of American Indian history, specific historical events in the Midwest, the indirect and direct impact historical trauma has on families and individuals, healing for both youth and adults and how social determinants of health im-pacts families and American Indian culture today.
24. Room 7: STEM -Developing an Observational Perspective- Steve Erwin-National Early Childhood Specialist Pathways: Learning Environments Children are learning Science, Technology, Engineering and Math every day. But if teach-ers cannot observe this learning during play then it is difficult for them to support this learning. This interactive session will provide teachers the perspective to identify cognitive constructs and processes of STEM. This session will explore strategies in creating cogni-tive capacity for children to learn these concepts and for teachers to support this learning.
Jennifer Daniels is a gifted writer and a powerhouse on stage. When her boy/girl twins made their world debut, her literary and musical interests expanded to include kids' genres. Now Jenn adds schools, libraries and fami-ly festivals to the tour, performing stories and songs that get kids jumping, growling and excited about reading and creative self expression. Jennifer offers lively, humorous, interactive workshops for educators seeking to build this fun way of learning into their curriculum. With a masters in counseling, and certification in Autism Movement Therapy, Jennifer teaches participants how to facilitate intentional play that draws kids into learning. Jennifer works closely with Eric Litwin, the author of the bestselling Pete the Cat picture books, and she also helps The Learning Groove music and movement curriculum, by walking teachers through the training pro-cess. Jenn teaches TLG parent/child classes in her hometown of Chattanooga, Tennessee, where she lives with her husband/lead guitarist, Jeff Neal, their aforementioned twins, and beloved road hound, Bob Marley.
Interactive Literacy and Music: An overview of the use of stories, songs and organized movement in early childhood In this interactive concert setting, we will playfully practice traditional techniques in stories and songs, that draw children to interact with the material. We'll become familiar with the many benefits of regular music and movement, and explore how these can be used to teach across the curriculum, to promote literacy, math, and to help in classroom management. Participants will leave with access to real stories, songs and strategies that they can use right away. Note: You need no musical expertise, but you do need willingness to participate, and clothes to MOVE in. Pathways: Age Appropriate Planning
Friday KEYNOTE 8:00-9:45 a.m.
EXHIBIT HALL 2 Sponsored by:
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25. Room 8: SD QuitLine Learn & Help- Hilary Overby, Southeast Region Tobacco Prevention Coordinator, Volunteers of America, Dakotas Pathways: Partnerships with Parents
The presentation will cover the importance of talking about tobacco cessation with head-start parents and headstart students. It will also share resources available to help guide staff and parents to a tobacco free life.
26. Room 9: Physical Activity: More Than the Everyday- Casey Kroll, Community Program Specialist, Sanford Children's CHILD Services Pathways: Age Appropriate Planning
Children getting antsy? Learn ways to get them moving, its good for the body, heart and mind!
27. Room 13/14: Data Management with ChildPlus- Jose Martinez, Account Execu-tive- ChildPlus Software Pathways: Management & Regulation
In this session you will learn how to collect data and use reports, setup email notifications, improve data tracking for attendance, track staff time, and improve your policies and pro-cedures. (Repeated from Thursday)
Friday, April 21st Session 4: 11:30-12:45
28. Room 1 : Leading At Your Level-Developing Your Own Team Of Super Heroes Within The Classroom- Collene Fletcher, Education Technician—Ellsworth AFB Child Development Center Pathways: Management & Regulation
No matter what position you currently hold you are a leader and a mentor. The moment you step into a classroom you are an early childhood educator. This presentation will be concentrating on introducing some tools to use both physically and mentally to take yourself to the next level of leadership right where you are now, whether you are a lead teacher or someone brand new to the early childhood profession.
29. Room 2: A Picture is Worth a Thousand Words: Proactive Use of Visual Strat-egies in the Educational Setting to Increase Positive Behaviors and Student Achievement -Kerri Mohnsen , M.S. SLP-CCC and Behavior/Visual Strategist Pathways: Learning Environments
Quite often we are "reactive" in our thought processes when it comes to behavior inter-vention and classroom management, which may put out the immediate "fire", but won't create any positive long term changes. This presentation will show how "proactive" strate-gies, particularly visual strategies, can be put into place for children of all abilities and in all settings resulting in an increase in positive behaviors, independence and task comple-tion leaving more time for meaningful instruction and less time putting out "fires".
(Repeated Friday)
30. Room 3: Get your heart to beat and get out of your seat! Melanie Picklesimer, Student– USD , Raelee Oberg , Emily Hill Pathways: Learning Environments
Descriptions and presentation on how to incorporate physical movement in the class-room. Examples will include yoga, brain breaks, age appropriate excersise, and out of the chair movements. Be ready to move along with us as we take you through the motions and explain why movement is so crucial to leaning and development and classroom learning!
(repeated Saturday)
31. Room 6 : South Dakota School for the Deaf "nose" Language- Jodi Schnider , Laura Scholten, Outreach Consultant, South Dakota School for the Deaf. Pathways: Learning Environments
This presentation will provide an overview of South Dakota School for the Deaf services as well as a discussion of language development in children with chronic ear infections or hearing loss. Strategies will be provided to increase vocabulary development in many different environments. Knowing how to elicit language and build vocabulary in a fun way, is so important for all children, and especially children with a hearing loss.
(Repeated Thursday)
32. Room 7 : Sign Language: How We Can Use it in Our Early Childhood Classrooms! Kami Van Sickle, Juli Luke- SD School for the Deaf Outreach Consultants, SD School for the Deaf Pathways: Learning Environments
Our presentation highlights the benefits of using sign language in the classroom. Partici-pants will also learn some basic sign language and ways to incorporate sign language in an Early Childhood classroom.
(repeated Thursday)
33. Room 8 : Tooth decay - an infectious disease.- Jean Gross , Registered Dental Hygienist -Delta Dental of South Dakota Pathways: Communicable Diseases
Tooth Decay-The world's oldest & most widespread infectious disease. Although dental caries are largely preventable, dental decay is the most common chronic disease of children. Effective and proper care of the mouth is highly crucial to a person's general wellness and overall appearance. We will discuss the how's - how we get it, how we treat it and most importantly, how to prevent it.
34. Room 9 : Lions KIDSIGHT South Dakota—Jennifer Sigette, Executive Director, SD Lions Foundation Pathways: Child Growth & Development
Learn all about a new free and important vision screening program for kids. (Repeated from Thursday) 35. Room 13/14 : Better Behaviors Through Children’s Stories- Carla Miller, Executive Director, South Dakota Parent Connection Pathways: Communications & Relations
Just like other developmental skills, children need to learn and practice positive social behaviors. Learn how to use children’s storybooks to support development of positive social skills with individual or groups of children, including children with disabilities. (Repeated Friday)
Friday, April 21st Session 3, Continued: 10:00-11:15
Friday, April 21st Session 5: 2:00-3:15
36. Room 1 : Creating Inclusive Classrooms for South Dakota- Melanie Picklesimer, Marcy Drew , USD Pathways: Diversity
Discussion on how to be culturally sensitive to Native American students in both curricu-lum and the classroom. Information will cover how to include culturally appropriate stand-ards, such as the Oceti Sakowin standards, along with state and national standards.
37 . Room 2 : Tired of Talking…..Use Visual Schedules- Carrie Weisenburger, Family Life Educator, Sanford Children's Child Services Pathways: Learning Environments
Visual schedules are a broad term that refers to the use of any type of visual tool that helps an individual to understand what will be happening. Learn how to utilize visual schedules to create seamless communication with staff and children
38. Room 3 : ECE Workforce Development– Jessica Castleberry, Little Nest Preschool Pathways: Professionalism
The focus of workforce development is to reduce unemployment and underemployment in Early Childhood Education by enhancing the skills and professionalism of our workforce. We will discuss professionalism from application to advancement, discuss best practices, and motivate employees. All of Jessica's classes are taught with warmth and humor and participants will leave with a renewed dedication to themselves and our profession!
39. Room 6: CDA--The Best First Step- Heather Fettig ,Family Life Educator, Sanford CHILD Services Pathways: Professionalism
Come find out about the Child Development Associate credential & why it’s the “Best 1st Step” to career advancement in the field of early childhood care & education. We’ll discuss the benefits of earning the credential, the process the class series will take you on, & resources to help you along the way.
40. Room 7: Recognizing and Responding/Childhood Trauma and Resiliency- Teresa Thie, Education and Public Awareness Specialist , Children's Home Society Pathways: Abuse & Neglect
We will talk about the importance of recognizing child abuse/neglect, how to respond and report, the importance of the use of Child Advocacy Centers, and knowledge of childhood trauma and resiliency.
(repeated Thursday).
41. Room 8: Ensuring Healthy Child Development:-Impacts of Toxic Stress on Brain Development and Strategies for Mitigating It—Melissa Pickle, Program Services Director/ED Specialist -TREC Badlands Head Start Pathways: Growth & Development
Child development, and more specifically, healthy brain development sets the stage for future outcomes of young children. This session focuses on the relative impacts of toxic stress on young children and their brain development. In addition, strategies for creating positive, nurturing environments to combat toxic stress will be presented.
42. Room 9: Inquiring Minds Want to Know: Creative Science & Technolo-gy for Young Children- Kaay Bowman, Early Childhood Specialist Faculty, Southeast Tech Pathways: Age Appropriate Planning Are you wondering about wondering? Children are curious little people! This session will give you strategies that tap into that enthusiasm to create interesting (and fun!) activities that stimulate scientific thinking. (Repeated Saturday) 43. Room 13-14 : **Double Session** Make Learning Fun! - Elaine Erickson, Kindergarten/Preschool Teacher, Hoven School District Pathways: Age-Appropriate Planning
Leave the conference with an armful of fun and learning; file folder games, flannelboard stories, games, a variety of hands-on materials to support your early childhood environ-ment. And the best part, you get to make them! A make-n-take…just for you…and your little learners of course! - Continued at 3:30
SDHSA RECOGNITION LUNCHEON 12:45-1:45 PM Ballroom A
(Pre-registration required)
Friday, April 21st Session 6: 3:30-4:45
44. Room 1: Unity through Mindfulness- Nathan Downs, Brooke Merry, Caleb Langner, Kelsey Van Loh, Fishback Center for Early Childhood Education Pathways: Guidance
The presentation details the mindfulness methods used in our preschool classroom to create a community of learners that shared a mutual respect and understanding with one
another.
(repeat from Thursday)
45. Room 2: Music Is A 'Sound' Brain Investment- Rhonda Swanson Manager, Community Programs, Sanford CHILD Services, Aberdeen Pathways: Child Growth & Development
Medical scans show music--listening to it, dancing to it, performing it--lights up the human brain like a Christmas tree. Music has been proven to ‘feed’ children’s brains at all stages of development, and can be an effective tool for all ages and all domains of learning. Don’t feel musical? No problem! Come learn how to easily and effectively incorporate music into your curriculum, daily routines and environment.
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46. Room 3: Integrating Social Emotional Learning Competencies within Health Education- Pat Stewart, Program Consultant, The Children's Health Market, publishers of The Great Body Shop Pathways: Guidance
This workshop will demonstrate how easy it is to integrate self-awareness, self-management, social awareness, relationship skills and responsible decision-making within a health education program for PreK through Grade 6. Using the Great Body Shop Health Education Program as an example, participants will participate in SEL activities integrated into health topics that engage students in building these skill-based competencies while helping parents promote this learning beyond the classroom.
(repeated Saturday)
47. Room 6: Early Messages: Communication Development of Young Children-Melissa Pickle- Program Services Director/Education & Disabilities Specialist -TREC Badlands Head Start Pathways: Growth & Development
Young children are wired from birth to communicate with those around them. This work-shop will explore how children learn language, highlight strategies for promoting language development, review language developmental milestones and discuss developmental red flags.
48. Room 7: A Jump Start into Literacy- Betty Jo Huff, Shannon Weaver, First Step Child Care Pathways: Growth & Development Jumping into Literacy from infancy to preschool age student. We will be showing many ideas to share literacy. Come join us and get a jump start in Literacy 49. Room 8: The Maker Movement: Designing a Maker Table for Open-Ended Discovery & STEM Learning- Kay Cutler, Professor, TLL; Dir. Fishback Center at SDSU, Angela McKillip, Rebecca Kayser, Natalie Parks, Victoria Michel, Cailyn Schreurs Pathways: Learning Environments This presentation will discuss the Maker Movement that is sweeping the US and the collaboration between SDSU's Interior Design Program, the Fishback Center for ECE at SDSU, and Kodo Kids, in Broomfield, CO to design and make a Maker
Table for children and teachers. Students' considered both the teachers' and children' perspectives alongside sustainability and aesthetic dimensions. This project exemplifies experiential, inquiry-based learning, as well as interdiscipli-nary and multiple perspective practices. 50. Room 9: Cultivating Inclusion: The Power of Unintentional Bias- Kristin Houghton, Training and Curriculum Specialist, United States Air Force Child and Youth Programs Pathways: Diversity
The things we say can be the catalyst for children's tolerance or intolerance, self-worth, self-identity, and level of acceptance of others. While all early childhood educators share a common vision of an anti-bias environment, very often unin-tentional bias has a powerfully negative effect on this vision. Well meaning, but bias statements feed the intolerances our children adopt for life, and gender bias and stereotyping are among the primary forms of discrimination reinforced during early childhood. Everyone has implicit biases, however, once we are made aware of them, those biases can be successfully addressed. This workshop will take a hard look at some what are often uncomfortable subjects and help learn-ers to recognize and combat unintentional bias in their classrooms. (repeat from Thursday) 51. Room 13-14: **Double Session– Continued** Make Learning Fun!- Elaine Erickson, Kindergarten/Preschool Teacher, Hoven School District Pathways: Age Appropriate Planning Leave the conference with an armful of fun and learning; file folder games, flannelboard stories, games, a variety of hands-on materials to support your early childhood environ-ment. And the best part, you get to make them! A make-n-take…just for you…and your little learners of course! - Continued from 2:00 session.
Friday, April 21st Session 7: 5:00-6:00
52. Room 1: Better Behaviors Through Children’s Stories- Carla Miller, Executive Director, SD Parent Connection Pathways: Communications & Relations
Just like other developmental skills, children need to learn and practice positive social behaviors. Learn how to use children’s storybooks to support development of positive social skills with individual or groups of children, including children with disabilities.
(Repeat from Friday morning)
53. Room 2: Professionalism, Networking, Marketing and Advocacy for Early Child-hood Educators -Jessica Castleberry, Owner, Little Nest Preschool Pathways: Professionalism
During this presentation early childhood educators will learn the keys to professionalism, how to network and why it is important, marketing as an employer or employee, and how advocacy is the key to better wage and better work environments. Jessica teaches all courses with warmth and humor and you will have an impactful course with materials you can use right away. (repeated Saturday)
54. Room 3 : A Picture is Worth a Thousand Words: Proactive Use of Visual Strate-gies in the Educational Setting to Increase Positive Behaviors and Student Achieve-ment- Kerri Mohnsen , M.S. SLP-CCC and Behavior/Visual Strategist Pathways: Learning Environments
Quite often we are "reactive" in our thought processes when it comes to behavior interven-tion and classroom management, which may put out the immediate "fire", but won't create any positive long term changes. This presentation will show how "proactive" strategies, particularly visual strategies, can be put into place for children of all abilities and in all settings resulting in an increase in positive behaviors, independence and task completion leaving more time for meaningful instruction and less time putting out "fires". (Repeated From Friday morning)
55. Room 6: Where the Wild Things Aren't- Misty Welter, Educational Consultant/teacher, Cheyenne Eagle Butte Pathways: Learning Environments
Classroom behavior management tips and survival strategies. Turn your negative state-ments into positives for your students, giving yourself a peaceful day! (Repeated Saturday)
Friday, April 21st Session 6: 3:30-4:45
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56. Room 7: Reaching Child Outcomes through Nutrition- Carmen Stewart, Director USD Head Start Pathways: Nutrition for Children
Presentation will connect nutrition with hands-on learning in a variety of domain areas to support children reaching school readiness goals. This session will be interactive with participants exploring a variety of nutrition resources and ideas will be presented that can be easily implemented into activities. Activities will be focused on toddlers and preschool-ers.
(Repeated Saturday)
57. Room 9: Loose Parts and Their Place in the Classroom- Kay Cutler, Professor, SDSU, Laura Gloege, Emma Wright, Jesse Foss, Dan Stluka, Students Pathways: Age Appropriate Planning
This presentation will discuss what are loose parts, what materials can you collect to explore, and how you can effectively use them in developmentally appropriate ways with children.
58. Room 9: Themes & Webs!- Shelly Mathis, Early Childhood Specialist, The Right Turn, Inc. Pathways: Age Appropriate Planning
In this class we will break down the way to make a successful thematic lesson plan using a thematic web and incorporate all the learning objective areas for specific ages. Bring your theme ideas and let's brainstorm!
59. Room 13/14: Not Seen Not Heard; Helping Children of Domestic Violence- Tally Salisbury, LPC-MH QMHP, Clinical Therapist, Lutheran Social Services, serving Sioux Falls and Mitchell Pathways: Abuse & Neglect This workshop will provide a better understanding of the impact of witnessing family vio-lence on Children and how to provide emotional support. Focus of the workshop will be developmental indicators and ways to begin healing.
Friday, April 21st Session 7: 5:00-6:00 (cont.)
Wendy Young Wendy Young is a Child & Adolescent Therapist and ECE Behavioral and Mental Health Consultant, as well as the Founder of Kidlutions and co-author of BLOOM: 50 Things to Say, Think and Do with Anxious, Angry and Over-the-Top Kids (Kenney & Young, 2015, Unhooked Books). Her interests include behavior management, helping caregivers and teachers deal more effectively with challenging/difficult children, trau-ma, grief and infant/maternal mental health. She graduated Summa Cum Laude from Michigan State University’s School of Clinical Social Work and is known worldwide for her fun and creative interventions that promote change. She is a Certified School Social Worker, a Board Certified Diplomate, and the Clinical Director of Comprehensive Counseling & Consulting, LLC. In addition to being a contributor to two character development curriculums, her writing has appeared in Chicken Soup for the Soul books, Family Fun Magazine, Woman’s World Magazine, The Next Step Magazine and more.
BLOOM: Growing Better Behavior!
Join us as we journey through the BLOOM Mindset and how it transforms early childhood classrooms. We’ll focus on our “Say, Think and Do” approach that plants the seeds of change. More than a behavioral intervention, this a way to "be with children" that truly transforms every-thing. Rooted in neuroscience, this approach is based on the latest research and findings shown to support children into new behaviors. You'll get printables and templates that will help keep you on track as you begin to implement this approach that leads to lasting change for chil-dren. When you start to BLOOM in your classroom, we know you'll start applying these principals to every other human interaction you have! Pathways: Guidance
Saturday KEYNOTE 8:00-9:45 a.m. EXHIBIT HALL 2 Sponsored by:
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Saturday, April 22nd Session 8: 10:00-11:15
61. Room 1: Integrating Social Emotional Learning Competencies within Health Education- Patricia (Pat) Stewart, Program Consultant, The Children's Health Market, publishers of The Great Body Shop Pathways: Guidance
This workshop will demonstrate how easy it is to integrate self-awareness, self-management, social awareness, relationship skills and responsible decision-making within a health education program for PreK through Grade 6. Using the Great Body Shop Health Education Program as an example, participants will participate in SEL activities integrated into health topics that engage students in building these skill-based competencies while helping parents promote this learning beyond the classroom. (repeated from Friday)
62. Room 2: Getting Started with Mindfulness- Jesse Foss, Instructor of Early Childhood Education, SDSU, Laura Gloege, Emma Wright, Students Pathways: Management & Regulation
The presentation aims to share the process of initiating a mindfulness practice for young children. As a teaching team, we became aware of an increasing amount of stress in our day and a need to respond to that stress in a positive way. Through our own personal practice of mindfulness, we noticed how a pause in our day allowed us to breathe and reflect on the moment, greatly benefiting our state of mind and increasing our patience. We quickly realized the impact mindfulness could also have on the young children in our center. We desired to create an inclusive environment that would provide a space for young children to safely and positively recognize and manage strong emotions. Through intentful planning, our inquiry led us to multi-sensory engagements that encourage young children to be present in a given moment and begin to identify and communicate a state of awareness. As a result, we observed more peaceful transitions, increased attentiveness, noticeable compassion and patience for each other, and improved emotional regulation. The presenters aim to provide real and applicable strategies that attendees can apply in their own settings such as, movement, sound, art, taste, breathing, and visualization techniques. Time will also be set aside for sharing of ideas, discussion and practice of techniques. (repeated From Friday)
63. Room 3: Reactive Attachment Disorder: Characteristics and Behaviors -Judy Knadel, Director/Teacher, Campus Learning Center Pathways: Growth & Development
Reactive Attachment Disorder causes behaviors that can effect the classroom in a dra-matic way. This session is meant to help understand where the behaviors stem from, and if we can do anything to help.
64. Room 6: Ethical Responsibilities & Dilemmas in Early Childhood Education- Dr. Marcy Drew, Senior Lecturer, USD Pathways: Professionalism
Attendees will explore the NAEYC Code of Ethical Conduct and use it to discuss ethical dilemmas many of us face in the field, such as difficult working relationships, working with parents, and facing behavior issues. (repeated from Thursday)
65. Room 7: STEAMing Ahead in the Early Childhood Classroom- Katie Krieger, Education/Disabilities Coordinator, USD Head Start/Tea Sprouts Preschool, Amanda Brinkman, Director of Tea Sprouts Preschool, Kali Mehlhoff, USD Head Start Teacher, Joy Schreurs, Teacher's assistant for Tea Sprouts, Vera Krui, Teach-er's assistant for Tea Sprouts and USD Head Start Pathways: Age Appropriate Planning
In this session you will learn valuable ways to integrate STEAM into your early childhood classroom. We will provide a background of things we have done in our STEAM Studio. During this session, you will receive valuable resources, work with others to experience and create, and participate in make and take activities. At the conclusion of the session, we will take time to share ideas that participants have used in their classrooms.
66. Room 8: Pedagogy. What's that?-Krista Bertelson, Facilitator, Montasaurus Rex Pathways: Learning Environments
Test your knowledge and expand on your experiences with several pedagogies. See the faces and materials of Montessori, Waldorf, Reggio Emilia, Forest Schools and more as we explore alternative methods for curriculum delivery. Let's get involved and hands on to learn more about each theory and how to best implement some of the ideas behind the success.
67. Room 9 : Relighting Your Candle- Kathy Gilpin, FRN Training Specialist Pathways: Interpersonal Communication and Relationships
Caring for children involves giving of yourself and it can be stressful at time. Explore tips and tricks to positively handle stress and provide quality self-care. (Birth to age 8 focused)
68. Room 13/14: Pay Attention!- Tally Salisbury, LPC-MH QMHP, Clinical Therapist Lutheran Social Services, serving Sioux Falls and Mitchell Pathways: Guidance In this workshop you will come away with a different understanding of attention issues in young children. Emphasis will be on things that impact attention, ADHD and how it is a developmental disorder, early signs of high functioning Autism and some methods to use in the classroom.
SDAEYC BUSINESS MEETING LUNCHEON 11:15-12:30 PM
Ballroom A (Pre-registration required)
60. Exhibit Hall 2: The Anger Antidote- Wendy Young Pathways: Guidance
Anger is not the enemy! Being uncertain about how to manage BIG emotions is! If you deal with pint-sized people who have gallon-sized anger, this breakout session is for you! This session will provide you with a variety of tools, tips, techniques and strategies you can start using immediately to help children discharge anger in healthy, productive ways, so they can get back to the business of learning and growing. When you apply simple steps to support angry children, a whole new world of possibilities opens up for the entire classroom. These techniques are research-based and have been tested in real classrooms. Best of all, they WORK!
69. Room 1: Autism in the Early Childcare Setting- Shelby Bergeson, Early Childhood Specialist, The Right Turn, Inc. Pathways: Diversity
Learn about the types, characteristics & causes of autism and discuss ways to help an autistic child and include them in your program. Includes tips on how to arrange your environment & schedule to be beneficial for an autistic child.
70. Room 2: Where the Wild Things Aren't- Misty Welter, Educational Consultant/Teacher, Cheyenne Eagle Butte Pathways: Learning Environments
Classroom behavior management tips and survival strategies. Turn your negative state-ments into positives for your students. Giving yourself a peaceful day!
(Repeated from Friday)
71. Room 3: Early Childhood Education Panel- Jessica Castleberry, Carole Cochran, Kathy Cruse, Reynold Nesiba, Rhonda Kludt, Carmen Stewart Pathways: Professionalism
During our Early Childhood Education Panel, participate in a conversation with state lead-ers in our industry. Join us to hear personal stories and insight, and to discuss and investi-gate solutions for early childhood education in South Dakota.
72. Room 6: Music Is A 'Sound' Brain Investment- Rhonda Swanson Manager, Community Programs, Sanford CHILD Services, Aberdeen Pathways: Child Growth & Development
Medical scans show music--listening to it, dancing to it, performing it--lights up the human brain like a Christmas tree. Music has been proven to ‘feed’ children’s brains at all stages of development, and can be an effective tool for all ages and all domains of learning. Don’t feel musical? No problem! Come learn how to easily and effectively incorporate music into your curriculum, daily routines and environment.
73. Room 7: Inquiring Minds Want to Know: Creative Science & Technology for Young Children- Kaay Bowman, Early Childhood Specialist Faculty, Southeast Tech Pathways: Age Appropriate Planning Are you wondering about wondering? Children are curious little people! This session will give you strategies that tap into that enthusiasm to create interesting (and fun!) activities that stimulate scientific thinking. (Repeated from Friday)
74 . Room 8: Action Research in a Toddler Classroom- Mary Bowne, Associate Professor, SDSU, Emma Wright, Anna Hudson, Olivia Huntimer, Liz Scheidt, Erin Johnson, Brandi Schuiling, Brittany Reiman Pathways: Observing
This presentation wiill showcase an action research project, conducted by teacher candi-dates, that took place in in a toddler classroom. The presenters will provide the audience with information about the overall process and how their results helped individual children succeed in various ways.
75. Room 9: Let's Get Physical with Zoo-phonics!- Charmaine Turpin, Educational Consultant, Zoo-phonics Inc
Pathways: Learning Environments
Teach your students the alphabet at the same time they are developing their motor skills. Learn physical games that tie into language arts; including Zoo-Robics!
76. Room 13/14: Power to the Profession-Doing more in our field- Kayla Klein, Executive Director, Northern Hills Alliance for Children Pathways: Communications & Relations Women should not be afraid to stand up and speak out. My presentation will focus on giving women the encouragement needed to stand up for what they believe in as well as finding their inner leader. Giving them a voice to state their concerns, confidence in the words they choose and the body language they present. Most importantly, we have a responsibility in the Early Childhood field to make our voices heard and advocate for the things we believe in. More often than not, we see the disparities, yet we resist to urge to speak up. I want to help educators in the field change that, I want to give them courage to speak out assertively about their beliefs. I will also cover the new movement by NAEYC - Power to the Profession. The P2P movement is a nation-wide research initiative that has compiled focus groups, deep dive research states, and a well-rounded task force group that will then present their ideas to all NAEYC members and allow for feedback and changes to be made. My goal is to get just one woman from the group to feel a sense of power and the urge to stand up and fight for what is right and be a voice for the youth in our state and in our country.
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Saturday, April 22nd Session 9: 12:30-1:45
77. Room 1: Action Research in Kindergarten Settings- Mary Bowne, Associate Professor, SDSU, Tyler Novak, Jaime Sichmiller Pathways: Observing
This presentation will showcase two action research projects, conducted by teacher candi-dates, that took place in separate Kindergarten classrooms. Each presenter will provide the audience with information about the overall process and how their results helped individual children succeed in various ways.
78. Room 2: Professionalism, Networking, Marketing and Advocacy for Early Child-hood Educators- Jessica Castleberry, Owner, Little Nest Preschool Pathways: Professionalism
During this presentation early childhood educators will learn the keys to professionalism, how to network and why it is important, marketing as an employer or employee, and how advocacy is the key to better wage and better work environments. Jessica teaches all courses with warmth and humor and you will have an impactful course with materials you can use right away. (repeated from Friday)
79. Room 3 : Creating a positive, stress-free work environment- Shelly Mathis, Early Childhood Specialist, The Right Turn Inc. Pathways: Professionalism
This presentation is centered around staff and directors. It gives ideas on how to make sure the entire staff is working together to make the enviornment is positive and stress-free workplace that not only benefits the staff but in turn, the children in their care and the families.
80. Room 6: Pedagogy. What's that?- Krista Bertelson, Facilitator, Montasaurus Rex Pathways: learning Environments
Test your knowledge and expand on your experiences with several pedagogies. See the faces and materials of Montessori, Waldorf, Reggio Emilia, Forest Schools and more as we explore alternative methods for curriculum delivery. Let's get involved and hands on to learn more about each theory and how to best implement some of the ideas behind the success.
(repeated Earlier Saturday)
81. Room 7: Get your heart to beat and get out of your seat!- Mela-nie Picklesimer, Raelee Oberg, Emily Hill, USD Pathways: Learning Environments
Descriptions and presentation on how to incorporate physical movement in the classroom. Examples will include yoga, brain breaks, age appropriate excersise, and out of the chair movements. Be ready to move along with us as we take you through the motions and explain why movement is so crucial to leaning and development and classroom learning!
(repeated from Friday)
82. Room 8: Reaching Child Outcomes through Nutrition- Carmen Stewart, Director USD Head Start Pathways: Nutrition for Children
Presentation will connect nutrition with hands-on learning in a variety of domain areas to support children reaching school readiness goals. This session will be interactive with participants exploring a variety of nutrition resources and ideas will be presented that can be easily implemented into activities. Activities will be focused on toddlers and preschool-ers. (Repeated from Friday)
Saturday, April 22nd Session 10: 2:00-3:00
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Sioux Falls Convention Center
ELED 492 – Everyday Heroes Making a Difference
April 20-22, 2017
Location: Sioux Falls Convention Center, Sioux Falls, SD
Instructor: Tara Topete, MA
Course Description: Participants at the 2017 SD Early Childhood Education Conference will attend 15 hours of professional development related to the theme of Everyday Heroes Mak-ing a Difference. Participants will keep a participation log and write a one-paragraph sum-mary of each session attended including the title, date, and time of each session. The hours may include pre-conference sessions, general sessions, and keynote sessions.
Participants will register for credit at the time of registration. Participation logs and summaries must be submitted by 3:15 on April 22, 2017 at the SDAEYC table in the exhibit hall.
Course Objectives:
Develop a deeper understanding of topics re-lated to Early Childhood Education
Reflect on best practices in working with chil-dren and families
Engage in dialogue on current research in the field of Early Childhood Education
Evaluation:
Participation Log (minimum of 15 hours) – 50 points possible
Summaries (one paragraph per session at-tended) – 50 points possible
Grading:
90 – 100 points – A
80 – 90 points – B
70 – 80 points – C
60 – 70 points – D
Below 60 points - F
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ELED 592 – Everyday Heroes Making a Difference
April 20-22, 2017
Location: Sioux Falls Convention Center, Sioux Falls, SD
Instructor: Tara Topete, MA
Course Description: Participants at the 2017 SD Early Childhood Education Conference will attend 15 hours of professional development related to the theme of Everyday Heros Making A Difference. Participants will keep a participation log and write a one-paragraph summary of each session attended including the title, date, and time of each session. In addi-tion, participants will write an action plan describing how at least 3 ideas or pieces of infor-mation from the conference will be implemented into their practice. The action plan should list timeline, needed resources and steps for implementation of the plan. The hours may include pre-conference sessions, general sessions, and keynote sessions.
Participants will register for credit at the time of registration. Participation logs and summaries must be submitted by 3:15 on April 22, 2017 at the SDAEYC table in the exhibit hall.
Course Objectives:
Develop a deeper understanding of topics relat-ed to Early Childhood Education
Reflect on best practices in working with chil-dren and families
Engage in dialogue on current research in the field of Early Childhood Education
Articulate a plan for integrating new ideas and information into daily practice.
Evaluation:
Participation Log (minimum of 15 hours) – 50 points possible
Summaries (one paragraph per session attend-ed) – 50 points possible
Action plan describing implementation of con-ference information
Grading:
90 – 100 points – A
80 – 90 points – B
70 – 80 points – C
60 – 70 points – D
Below 60 points - F
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On behalf of our respective associations, we would like to thank you for
attending the 2017 South Dakota Early Childhood Education Conference.
We hope you have enjoyed the largest early childhood education
conference in South Dakota while participating in great education,
training and networking opportunities.
We wish you all great success in the year to come, and
look forward to seeing you in Spearfish, SD-April 12-14, 2018
2017 SDAEYC/SDHSA Conference Coordinators:
Kathy Cruse, South Dakota Head Start Association
Patricia Buechler, South Dakota Association for the Education of Young Children
For more information about SDAEYC, please visit our website www.sdaeyc.org
For more information about SDHSA, please visit our website www.sdheadstart.org
April 20-22, 2017 Sheraton Convention Center, Sioux Falls,
