2009 Opening Minds Conference

View analytic

9:00am

Changed, Fed, Now What? Activities for Infants and Toddlers CC22 A Creation, Adaptation, Inspiration! CC20 BC Enriching Your Classroom Through Storytelling CC10 AB Meeting the Challenge of Standards While Using Appropriate Practice Materials CC11 A More Than Just Kid Talk! CC22 BC Talking Circles: An Intervention/Prevention Tool to Building Community CC12 CD Volumes of Valentines! CC11 B Documenting the Differences Strengthening Families Makes CC10 D Healthier Indoor Spaces for Healthier Children CC20 A Overview: Where is Strengthening Families Now? CC10 C Why Won't They Listen To Me: What's Wrong With Them? Regency Rooms AB Alphabet Soup: BA, AAS, AA, CDA - What's Best for Me? Meeting Suite 3 Confidentiality Meeting Suite 1 Improve Quality from the Top Down for Administrators CC21 A Seeing is Achieving! NAEYC Accreditation Regency Room E The ABC's of Advocacy CC21 BC Tips for Making Quality Improvements and the Illinois Quality Rating System CC23 A Turning Dreams Into Action: INCCRRA and Gateways to Opportunity Deliver Real Resources for Family Child Care and for All Meeting Suite 2 Where's The Map? Using the ECERS-R to Guide Your Program Towards High-Quality Care and Education for Children CC12 AB Why Won't They Listen To Me: What's Wrong With Them? Regency Rooms AB Why Words Matter, the Science of Storytelling and How We Advocate for Prevention CC24 ABC

11:00am

Autism and the School Community Regency Room C Can a Math-Phobic Teacher Help Children Learn Math? Yes! CC11 A Color Me Healthy CC11 B Engaging Environments for Young Learners CC10 AB Family Child Care Networks and Quality Improvement in Family Child Care CC23 BC Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorders: The Invisible Disability Board Room 2 Get Them Ready for Kindergarten With the Kohl McCormick StoryBus CC23 BC Goo Goo Ga Ga'?Gracias? Why Early Second Language Learning is So Important (and So Easy)! Meeting Suite 3 Reggio-Inspired, Bilingual Early Childhood Education (in Spanish and English) CC20 A Teaching Social Skills CC21 A The Community School Model: Resolving Obstacles to Student Success CC12 CD Using the Early Literacy Research to Pave the Way for Kindergarten Success CC22 A 50 Picture Books That Help With Pain and Loss CC21 BC Implementing Strengthening Families in an Early Childhood Program: Part 1 CC10 C Strengthening Families by Involving Fathers CC10 D Reggio-Inspired, Bilingual Early Childhood Education (in Spanish and English) CC20 A Using Assessment and Interventions in a Kindergarten Professional Learning Community Regency Room E Americans With Disabilities Act Meeting Suite 1 Funding and Advocating for Early Childhood Programs in Illinois CC22 BC Quality Rating System Orientation CC23 A Supervising Infant/Toddler Staff CC20 BC The Continuity of Care Model in Infant and Toddler Care CC24 ABC Using Assessment and Interventions in a Kindergarten Professional Learning Community Regency Room E Your Role as an Advocate for Children and Families Meeting Suite 2

2:00pm

Art Therapy and the Schools CC20 A Explore Nature CC21 BC Focus on Maximum Benefit for Students with Autism Spectrum Disorder: The Hope Institute Learning Academy (HILA) Regency Rooms CD Making Circle Time Work for Every Child CC22 BC Measurement With Young Children: What Kind of Big Is It? CC11 B Ready, Set, Resilience: Promoting Social and Emotional Health CC24 ABC Science Alive in Your Classroom CC20 BC Space - The Final Frontier: Designing the Learning Environment CC12 CD The Best New Books for Preschool Children CC10 AB The Environment as a Third Teacher CC11 A The Kindergarten Standards and the Project Approach Regency Room E The World Around Them: Setting Up Your Infant/Toddler Classroom CC12 AB Implementing Strengthening Families in an Early Childhood Program: Part II CC10 C Strategies for Using Strengthening Families for Personal and Professional Development CC10 D Becoming an Emotionally-Intelligent Teacher: An Urgent Qualification for All Educators Regency Rooms AB Becoming an Emotionally-Intelligent Teacher: An Urgent Qualification for All Educators Regency Rooms AB Building Your Dream Team: Shared Leadership in Action CC22 A Introduction to the Environment Rating Scales CC23 A Making Quality Child Care Affordable for Working Families Meeting Suite 2 NAC: An Accreditation Model for the Twenty-First Century CC21 A Reinventing the Faculty Meeting CC23 BC The Fair Labor Standards Act, Overtime and Child Care Employees Meeting Suite 1 Where's the Map? Using the ITERS-R to Guide Your Program Towards High-Quality Care and Education for Children Meeting Suite 3

4:00pm

Literacy Education Through Story Dictation CC11 B Putting the 'Positive' in Discipline: 8 Questions to Ask BEFORE You React! Regency Room E Building Protective Factors With Family Child Care Homes and Networks CC10 D Chicago Metro's Own Community Café CC10 C What a Difference a Day Makes: Intentional Programming for Father Involvement CC22 A Como ofrecer sus servicios de cuidado de niños a los padres (in Spanish) CC20 A Como ofrecer sus servicios de cuidado de niños a los padres (in Spanish) CC20 A Court Orders and the Release of Children Meeting Suite 1 Enhancing Child Observation and Data Collection Through Technology CC12 A How Classroom and School Design Support Children's Learning CC23 BC The Coach's Role in Individualizing Professional Development for Preschool Teachers CC11 A

7:30pm

Jazz Night M-X Bar at Hyatt Regency McCormick Place

Get Adobe Flash player

Play
Pause

SONG_NAME