Target Audience: CRN Members, Macomb County Great Start Readiness Program staff, Macomb County Agency Representation

Target Audience: CRN Members, Macomb County Great Start Readiness Program staff, Macomb County Agency Representation

Target Audience: GSRP Lead & Associate Teachers, Tuition Based Preschool Teachers, ECSE Teachers, Directors, Building Administrators, and Early Childhood Educators Educators will participate in four full days of deep learning around the Prekindergarten Essential            Instructional Practices in Early Literacy. The purpose of the Essential Practices in Early Literacy is to increase Michigan’s capacity to improve children’s literacy by identifying a small set of research supported daily core literacy instructional practices. Ten practices will be examined across the four days.

Target Audience: GSRP Lead & Associate Teachers, Tuition Based Preschool Teachers, ECSE Teachers, Directors, Building Administrators, and Early Childhood Educators  Come join us as we foster ways educators can collaborate positively and successfully with families! Participants will walk away with ideas and resources to enhance their program’s family engagement.

Target Audience: GSRP Lead & Associate Teachers, Tuition Based Preschool Teachers, ECSE Teachers, Directors, Building Administrators, and Early Childhood Educators  Join us to gain an understanding of the importance of children forming and sustaining positive relationships with adults and other children in the classroom. Learn how to support children in managing and expressing their emotions in a healthy way, as well as intentionally teaching problem solving skills.

Target Audience: GSRP Lead & Associate Teachers, Tuition Based Preschool Teachers, ECSE Teachers, Directors, Building Administrators, and Early Childhood Educators Come join us as we explore the power of teaching cultural awareness, and the  importance of establishing a sense of belonging by welcoming all children and families into the classroom! Learn how to engage children in activities that promote the acceptance and respect of different backgrounds.

Target Audience: GSRP Lead & Associate Teachers, Tuition Based Preschool Teachers, ECSE Teachers, Directors, Building Administrators, and Early Childhood Educators Participants will discover the benefits of Creative Curriculum’s social-emotional learning curriculum that will help develop the foundation children need for success in school and life by promoting social-emotional skills such as self-control, problem-solving, relationship building, and healthy decision-making.

Target Audience: GSRP Lead & Associate Teachers, Tuition Based Preschool Teachers, ECSE Teachers, Directors, Building Administrators, and Early Childhood Educators  Are your Spidey Senses tingling? Help grow your superpowers by learning and planning for children that present with sensory needs.  Participants will gain information on identifying sensory characteristics and planning classroom activities to support students.

Target Audience: GSRP Lead & Associate Teachers, Tuition Based Preschool Teachers, ECSE Teachers, Directors, Building Administrators, and Early Childhood Educators  Participants will discover the benefits of play and how it connects to learning. Join us as we discuss different strategies to engage preschool children in meaningful learning through play. 

Target Audience: GSRP Lead & Associate Teachers, Tuition Based Preschool Teachers, ECSE Teachers, Directors, Building Administrators, and Early Childhood Educators A consistent daily routine is implemented in the GSRP classroom to promote balanced participatory learning through all portions of the day. This workshop will focus on Small Group and allow participants to deepen their understanding and provide effective and appropriate practices to support learning.

Target Audience: GSRP Lead & Associate Teachers, Tuition Based Preschool Teachers, ECSE Teachers, Directors, Building Administrators, and Early Childhood Educators Come discover the benefits of open-ended art experiences. Learn how to differentiate between the two and reflect on the art activities taking place in your classroom. 

Target Audience: GSRP Lead & Associate Teachers, Tuition Based Preschool Teachers, ECSE Teachers, Directors, Building Administrators, and Early Childhood Educators Come discover the benefits of open-ended art experiences. Learn how to differentiate between the two and reflect on the art activities taking place in your classroom. 

Target Audience: GSRP Lead & Associate Teachers, Tuition Based Preschool Teachers, ECSE Teachers, Directors, Building Administrators, and Early Childhood Educators who currently use GOLD in the classroom. Participants must have a login. Participants will learn the art of purposefully observing children in the early childhood classroom. Teachers will learn how to use the SmartTeach assessment system and why it is important to observe and assess children.

Target Audience: GSRP Lead & Associate Teachers, Tuition Based Preschool Teachers, ECSE Teachers, Directors, Building Administrators, and Early Childhood Educators who currently use COR in the classroom. Participants must have a login. Learn the basic skills of the COR Advantage online assessment system: entering anecdotal notes, assigning scoring levels, running reports, and sharing data with families.

Target Audience: GSRP Lead & Associate Teachers, Tuition Based Preschool Teachers, ECSE Teachers, Directors, Building Administrators, and Early Childhood Educators Come join us as we explore the power of teaching cultural awareness, and the importance of establishing a sense of belonging by welcoming all children and families into the classroom! Learn how to engage children in activities that promote the acceptance and respect of different backgrounds.

Target Audience: GSRP Lead & Associate Teachers, Tuition Based Preschool Teachers, ECSE Teachers, Directors, Building Administrators, and Early Childhood Educators A consistent daily routine is implemented in the GSRP classroom to promote balanced participatory learning through all portions of the day. This workshop will focus on Adult/Child Interaction During Work Time and allow participants to deepen their understanding and provide effective and appropriate practices to support learning.