Events

The sessions will discuss the various stages of a child’s development during the first 3 years and the associated milestones. Sessions 2 and 3 will demonstrates brain-boosting activities based on the science of brain development to strengthen children’s attention, memory and thinking skills (cognitive development) at each stage of development. Participants will also learn how to actively engage with the children to stimulate a child’ language growth and build communication skills using routine activities at home and also while on-the-go. Focus: Birth to Three Years

Parents, caregivers, and educators will learn how to foster children’s social-emotional development critical for school and life success. Using a variety of behavior scenarios, the session will engage participants in a discussion on how to use problem-solving and positive approaches to cultivate children’s social-emotional competence. Focus: Birth to Three Years

Learn simple and easy-to-use strategies on how to respond to young children’s tantrums using Calmness, Caring and Choices. Augmented with a variety of behavior scenarios, the session will illustrate how to use problem-solving and positive approaches to address problem behaviors of children and strengthen their social-emotional competence and self-regulation skills. Adults will learn how to model self-regulation and calmness when confronting children’s problem behaviors. Focus: Birth to Five Years

Young children, full of curiosity, like to experiment, explore, and discover the world around them. STEM-based (Science, technology, engineering, and math) thinking makes them better problem-solvers and discovery learners. This hands-on session will demonstrate a variety of enriching activities that parents/caregivers and educators can use to stimulate young children’s discovery, problem-solving, making predictions, and critical thinking skills. Focus: Birth to Five Years

The session demonstrates how-to-use creative storytelling techniques to captivate and sustain children’s attention. With combining action and expression during storytelling, you can spark children’s imagination, strengthen their focused attention, and increase their language development. Participants will receive a resource list of book suggestions along with related activities associated with several of the books. Focus: Birth to Five Years

Children need executive function and self-control skills — able to focus, hold, and work with information in mind, filter distractions, switch gears and exercise self-control — for school readiness and academic success. In this session, parents, caregivers, and educators will learn strategies to foster children’s executive functioning growth. Focus: Birth to Five Years

Children need executive function and self-regulation — able to focus, hold, and work with information in mind, filter distractions, switch gears and exercise self-control — for school readiness and academic success.  In this session, parents, caregivers, and educators will learn strategies to foster children’s executive functioning growth.