Supporting Inclusive Practices (SIP) Archived Virtual Events
Supporting Inclusive Practices (SIP) Archived Virtual Events
SIP provides a wealth of recorded trainings, podcasts, webinars, and other resources including content on Universal Design for Learning, equity in special education, designing inclusive preschools, a paraeducator series, and more.
Family Child Care At It’s Best (FCCB)
Family child care and family, friend, and neighbor providers are a critical source of support for working families. The Family Child Care at Its Best program delivers high-quality, research-based workshops that help home-based caregivers improve their knowledge, skills, and quality of care for working with mixed-age groups of children. FCCB is now offering two types of training:
- Facilitator Training NEW! Trainers, coaches, and community leaders who provide support to family child care or family, friend, and neighbor providers can learn how to facilitate FCCB workshops and gain access to all necessary curriculum to offer FCCB workshops.
- Direct Service Workshops are offered at no cost to the host agency. Simply complete the request form to choose from the available topics, languages, and date(s) you are looking for. You conduct outreach and registration, and FCCB does the rest! We will provide you with a flyer template, all needed materials, and an instructor to lead your selected workshop. Availability is based on current funding.
ECTA (Early Childhood Technical Assistance) Center: Upcoming Webinars
ECTA Center hosts regular webinars with a variety of partners.
Head Start Upcoming Events
These events are opportunities from across the early childhood field that may be of interest and helpful to the Head Start community. Some of them may charge a fee. Inclusion in this list does not imply endorsement from the Office of Head Start (OHS).
My Disability Road Map (Video)
Did you see the movie, “Including Samuel”? The award-winning film documented the inclusion of Samuel Habib, a child with multiple disabilities, in preschool and into elementary school. Now he is all grown up! He’s 21, wants to date, leave home, go away to college.
But for Samuel and millions of other young adults with disabilities, the path beyond public school and into adulthood is difficult to navigate. Samuel lives with a rare neurodevelopmental disorder caused by a mutation in a gene known as GNAO1. He drives a 350-pound wheelchair, uses a communication device, and can have a seizure at any moment.
In “My Disability Roadmap,” co-directed by Samuel and his father Dan Habib, he seeks out guidance from America’s most rebellious disability activists. He wants to learn how they built full adult lives as a road map for himself and others. “No one tells you how to be an adult, let alone an adult with a disability,” he says. “But there are badass people with disabilities who figured it out. Maybe they could be my mentors.”
Learn more about the film and listen to the audio description pre-show
This Is Not About Me (Video)
Emily Ladau, author of Demystifying Disability, recommends the documentary called This Is Not About Me, suggested to her by Lauren Schrero, Co-Founder and Executive Director of The Nora Project. It spotlights Jordyn Zimmerman, who shares her experiences as a nonspeaking autistic student who didn’t have access to effective communication tools until she was 18 years old.
“….this documentary incredibly powerful and worthwhile. It’s clear proof that we need to move beyond the limiting idea that there are only certain “right” ways to express ourselves or communicate.”
Becoming Helen Keller – Now Streaming (Video)
Revisit the complex life and legacy of the author, advocate and human rights pioneer. Helen Keller, who was deaf and blind, used her celebrity and wit to champion rights for women, people with disabilities and people living in poverty.
The film reveals little-known details of Keller’s personal life and examines her public persona and advocacy, including the progressive reforms she helped achieve. Speaking out for civil rights at great personal cost, Keller supported women’s suffrage, the NAACP, access to health care and assistive technology as a human right, and workers’ rights as a member of the Socialist Party of America and the labor union Industrial Workers of the World.
The Research on Life Changing Teaching
Being an effective teacher is about more than just improving test scores—it’s also about making a difference in students’ lives. When we asked our readers to describe the traits of a life-changing teacher, they said that great teachers make their students feel safe and loved, possess a contagious passion for learning, believe their students can succeed—and always know when to be tough to help students reach their full potential.
This article presents 8 recommendations based on current research for how to be an exceptional teacher who truly makes a difference in the lives of their students.
How to Choose a Preschool
Early childhood education experts say that the type of program you choose is less important than key factors like how teachers interact with students, whether the space is specifically designed for young children and whether learning is play-based and culturally responsive.
Parent Child Social Games (PDF)
When infants begin showing interest in their parents and other adults, the time is right to play social games. Social games are back-and-forth, your-turn-my-turn infant-adult play accompanied by short rhymes or songs that engage infants in playful interactions. Some of the results of playing social games with your child are active child participation, lots of playful bouts of back-and-forth communication, and bunches of smiles and laugher.