Our five most-popular webinars of 2024 covered topics you care about, including how to attract new families to your preschool, nurturing well-being among your ECE staff and leadership tips to train and keep your staff.
Let’s take a look at each webinar!
1. From Burnout to Balance: Nurturing Well-Being in Early Childhood Education
Anisha Angella, ECE coach and expert from The Early Childhood Coach, shares insights and practical strategies to navigate the challenges of this demanding field. She explains the nuances of burnout to understand its causes and symptoms and explores a holistic concept of wellness that encompasses physical, mental and emotional dimensions.
Key takeaways of this webinar include:
• Personalized approaches to prioritizing self care
• Setting boundaries
• Effective stress management
• Cultivating resilience and fostering positive relationships within ECE communities
View the entire on-demand webinar here.
2. Innovate and Enroll: Attract New Families to Grow Your Preschool and Maximize Revenue
Molly Hichens, early childhood education speaker and trainer and second-generation, multi-site owner of Bright Beginnings Preschools, explains how to revolutionize your preschool’s enrollment process with cutting-edge strategies and modern technology.
Key takeaways of this webinar include:
• Exploring effective lead tracking systems to streamline your admissions pipeline and demonstrate user-friendly tools that simplify the enrollment experience for parents.
• Empowering your staff to become enthusiastic enrollment ambassadors and leverage their engagement for better results.
• Understanding the unique needs of millennial parents and how to attract them through targeted marketing and community-building activities.
• Automating and personalizing follow-up strategies to ensure no prospective family is left behind.
View Molly’s webinar here.
3. Child Care Management Software Industry Trends
Child care organizations seeking better ways to manage, grow and improve their businesses. A necessary first step to achieving these goals is to understand critical industry benchmarks and trends.
Procare Solutions conducted a survey of thousands of ECE stakeholders to understand these trends. In this webinar, we dive deeper to make sense of them with insights from Kathy Ligon, Kathe Petchel, Beth Cannon, Caroline Jens and Prerna Richards.
You’ll get a better understanding of:
• Software usage
• Accounting practices
• Enrollment strategies
• Parent engagement techniques
• Curriculum and ECE
• Challenges faced by the industry
Watch the webinar here.
4. How to Use Creative Leadership and Assessments to Train and Keep Your Staff
Many of us are finally fully staffed, so our attention must turn to staff retention! What better way to retain your staff than to provide meaningful and fun training?
Kathe Petchel, a business development specialist and multi-site owner from HINGE Early Education Advisors, leads an engaging and supportive staff-training webinar designed specifically for owners, administrators and directors of ECE programs to do just that!
Discover how creative leadership and meaningful assessments can quickly move your team from floundering to functioning. Tactics discussed include:
• Compliance checklist
• Camera observations
• Team scoring
• Secret shoppers
• How to “gamify” your training
Watch Kathe’s webinar here.
5. Finding Joy through Developmentally Appropriate Practices (DAP): Developing Emotional Intelligence
In this webinar, we explore the fascinating world of brain development in young children and the role adults can play in nurturing emotional intelligence.
Prerna Richards, founder of Together We Grow, describes how to teach children life skills such as self-regulation, self-control and impulse control to help them experience the joy of learning in a developmentally appropriate environment.
Key takeaways include:
• An explanation of DAP and its alignment with equity and inclusion
• The significance of authentic play and the role of educators
•A description of emotional intelligence and its importance in the early years
Check out this important webinar here
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