STAR NET Region II has workshops and webinars planned for you!

⭐ Family Game Night! Supporting Skills and Extending Learning through Fun at Home

December 13, 2023 - 6:30 - 7:30 PM

Come learn about play, skills that can be embedded into common board games to support children of varying abilities, and how to share tha tinformation with your child's teacher in order to support your child's learning in the classroom and at home.

Presenter: Katie Suchy

*This event is being presented thanks to a generous grant from the TJ Maxx Foundation. No CEs will be provided for attending *

⭐Preschool Pyramid E-Modules Cohort Series

January 9, January 23, February 6, February 20, March 5

and March 19, 2024 - 3:15 - 4:45 PM

The Pyramid Model is a scientifically based positive behavioral framework that promotes evidence based practices to teach social emotional competencies to all young children. The framework identifies key skills for supporting relationships, creating learning environments, teaching targeted social emotional skills and supporting children with challenging behavior. 

Presenter: Nancy Kind

⭐Fun Ideas and Resources for Using Books to Strengthen Preschoolers' Social Emotional, Literacy, and Language Development

January 25, 2024 - 4:00 - 6:00 PM

You will leave this webinar with many fun ideas for promoting early literacy and language skills such as vocabulary, alphabet knowledge, phonological awareness, and rhyming - while also strengthening emotional literacy, friendship, and problem solving skills!

Presenter: TTweety Yates

⭐Engagement for All - Promoting Inclusion in Early Childhood Education

February 8, 2024 - 4:00 PM - 6:00 PM

Resources and strategies will be shared on how to differentiate during whole group instruction to ensure all learners can participate and gain necessary language/literacy/ and social-emotional skills. The goal of these strategies is for all students to feel a sense of belonging and inclusion in their learning environment. 

Presenters: Annie Boldt & Brianna Sayre Geiser

⭐The Art of Play Facilitation in Implementing Transdisciplinary Play Based Assessment and Intervention

February 20-21, 2024 - 9:00 AM - 3:00 PM

We all think we play well with children, but do we? This workshop will focus on strategies that enhance interactions in our play-based assessments and in interventions with young children. Eliciting developmental skills without "testing" is often a challenge. Participants will analyze videos to determine what strategies are effective. This is an advanced level training and It is recommended that attendees have previously attended a TPBA 2 training if they are attending this event as a means of improving their assessment practices.

Presenters: Annie Boldt & Brianna Sayre Geiser

⭐Supporting Communication and Language in Young Children on the Autism Spectrum

March 6, 2024 - 4:00 - 6:00 PM

This webinar will introduce a variety of evidence-based practices that can support communication and language in real-world settings like school and day care with specific examples of how to use the evidence-based practices in every day activities. The webinar will include freely available resources for learning and implementing the practices that support language and communication.

Presenters: Jessica Steinbrenner