This required training explains all the parts of North Carolina’s SIDS Law. Participants will review information about when and how to use the approved waivers, how to best place a baby in bed to sleep, and other “Best Practice” recommendations. During the workshop, participants will get the needed information to create a Safe Sleep Policy, updated research about SIDS, and local health and safety resources. Participants also will be walked through how to do an unresponsive infant drill and the reason for doing them regularly.

Learn more about the components of the ECERS-R. Get clarification about questions and discuss the subscales. Brainstorm how this may look in your classroom. Look at the individual items and how they are scored. Learn more so you can feel confident before your ECERS-R assessment.

Learn about the importance of sensory play in early childhood. Every child has preferences around certain sensory experiences and textures. Offering a variety of sensory activities can ensure all students can enjoy sensory play! Sensory play can be more than just sand and water play. Please join us as we make sensory bins out of a variety of materials that your students will enjoy!

The environment a teacher creates, paired with her knowledge of the children in her care, can prevent many challenging behaviors in young children. Teachers who create positive social environments find that children more easily develop the social-emotional skills they need to succeed. This session focuses on modifications teachers can make in six key areas of the environment that will prevent and reduce conflict that leads to challenging behaviors.

FLIP IT® is a strategy anyone can use to address a challenging behavior. It is a simple, kind, strength-based, commonsense, and effective four step process embodied in the FLIP IT mnemonic: F - Feelings, L - Limits, I - Inquiries, and P - Prompts. FLIP IT transforms best practice into a strategy that is easy to remember, applicable in a variety of challenging situations and portable. FLIP IT may not be rocket science, but it is brain development, and an effective strategy all teachers should know how to use. Come learn how to FLIP your kids instead of flipping your lid!