Welcome to the
ELRC 8, 9, & 10 Newsletter
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Your source for all relevant resources, updates, PD, and events relating to Child Care and School Age Care in your region! |
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Special Announcement
Extended Suspension of Regulatory Provisions
ELRC Policy Announcement 21 #08 Keystone STARS Designation Extensions Delayed New Streamlined Keystone STARS Designation System Rollout Message
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October 2021 PA Early Ed News
October 2021 Edition View as Webpage Early Childhood Education in Pennsylvania Now Available: Pennsylvania Pre-K Counts and Head Start Supplemental Assistance Program Operations Report for FY 2020-202
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ELRC Learning Opportunities |
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Upcoming Health and Safety Workshops
Wednesday, October 13, 1-2:30 PM
Join our Health Care Consultants to discuss updates, changes, and ask questions that you may have.
RSVP to Judy Patterson with your name, organization, and session you plan to attend.
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October Sack of SACC: What’s In It for Me? Staff as Stakeholders in Meeting CQI Goals/Sack of Dramatic Play and Music Resources
Wednesday, October 13, 10:00 AM- 12:00 PM
In this Community of Practice we will discuss:
- The process participants use to determine goals.
- How they involve or could involve staff and other stakeholders in the development of goals.
- How they monitor progress and celebrate achievement.
- Tools and strategies that participants have found useful and effective in this process.
- There will also be time for questions.
Participants will receive a “Sack” of Dramatic Play and Music Resources.
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Nurturing Through Nature Workshop
Monday, October 18, 12:00-1:00 PM
This workshop will identify manageable ways to increase the amount of time children spend outdoors and share research on nature and play-based learning, highlighting the additional benefits available to children when we spend more time outside and create opportunities for child-led play.
Our time together will include a Q&A with our new Nature/Play Consultant Susan Chlebowski and TA Coach Elizabeth Marcello, who will provide an overview of additional coaching options for child care and SACC facilities interested in expanding outdoor learning and/or child-led play. Open to directors/administrators, owners, and teachers.
See the flyer for more information and to register.
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Family and Group Child Care Boot Camp
The ELRC is expanding its Boot Camp offerings to include Family and Group providers! Please see the flyer for information regarding the new 5-part series and how to register (link in flyer). Please keep in mind that the series is intended for FCCH and GCCH providers who have been operating less than 3 years.
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Teacher Boot Camp
Are you a new or beginning teacher? Do you feel like you could use more support in your day-to-day classroom responsibilities? The Coaches in ELRC Regions 8, 9, & 10 have created a FREE 5-week Boot Camp to teach you everything you need to know! The series is designed as a hybrid model, some sessions live and some recorded, to accommodate teachers in their classrooms. Session topics are listed on the flyer. Attendance, participation, and homework is required to receive 2 PQAS hours per session or 10 hours for the entire series.
Click here to view the flyer for more information.
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Information Technology Coaching Available
Want to know more about Adobe? Need to learn formulas in Excel? IT Consultant Darrell Steckler is happy to help! See the flyer for a full offering of the programs that he can coach you on.
To request IT coaching, reach out to Darrell with your name, program name, and the support you need.
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Story Time Live! 10/7/2021
With thoughtful planning, enthusiastic reading, and engaging opportunities to participate, story time can be a fun way for children to learn community, belonging, compassion, and empathy. Join Teachstone staff and other early childhood...
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Teaching with CLASS® - Teachstone
Teaching with CLASS ®, the podcast that explores topics that are important to you while giving tactical strategies you can implement right away in your classroom. Each episode probes topics selected to help you deepen your connections with...
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teachstone.com
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Congratulations to the following facilities who moved up in the STARS Program in September 2021!
Sonshine Child Care Center- STAR 4
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Social-Emotional Learning |
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Leading with SEL
There are many ways to lead: We can listen and learn from mistakes, show kindness to others, or use critical thinking to create solutions. While your child may not see themselves as a leader yet, you can help them explore their...
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leadingwithsel.org
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2021 SEL Exchange - Virtual Summit | October 2021
This past year raised important questions. What does it mean to participate as engaged, responsible, and caring members of a community? What will it take to develop empathy, critical...
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selexchange.casel.org
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Questions and Answers About the Time-Space Percentage -...
In my previous article I posted a list of questions and answers about the Time Percent. I this article I am posting questions and answers about the Space Percent and some unrelated questions. These questions and answers were a part... Read More ›
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tomcopelandblog.com
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October Opportunities from Center for Schools and...
Explore Center for Schools and Communities (CSC) digital experiences from webinar & conference attendance to call for presenters to sponsorship opportunities!
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Lights On Afterschool
In America today, 7.6 million children are alone and unsupervised after school. Afterschool programs keep kids safe, help working families and inspire learning. They provide opportunities to help young people develop into successful adults....
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www.afterschoolalliance.org
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Health, Safety, & Wellness |
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Oral Health & Dental Visit Etiquette
As things begin to resemble "normal life", children's smiles, and their family's, are important to everyone’s well-being. Medical facilities require masks of all people inside, regardless of vaccination status. To adhere to these guidelines, please wear your mask while in the office.
If a patient or anyone in their immediate family has been exposed to someone with a fever, cough, cold, flu-like aches, or fatigue in the last 14 days prior to their appointment, or if they are experiencing any of these symptoms on the day of their appointment, they need to reschedule their appointment.
If you traveled by car to the appointment, you may also be asked to wait in your car. When possible, additional individuals who are not being seen on that day are not brought into the office.
Here are some tips to ensure and maintain good oral hygiene:
- Eat healthy foods and avoid sugary snacks.
- Avoid the use of tobacco products.
- Rinse your mouth with water after meals or chew sugarless gum.
- Brush your teeth at least twice a day or after every meal.
- Protect your teeth with a mouth guard when playing contact sports.
- Use a night guard when you tend to grind your teeth during your sleep.
- Schedule preventive dental care treatment for your child.
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Global Hand Washing Day is October 15
This is an opportunity to have a celebration and review the correct procedure with your children. Hand washing is especially important at the beginning of cold and flu season. You could also teach the children a new hand washing song, maybe in Spanish!
Ideas for classroom activities:
- Ask the children to draw some pictures of germs, then have the children stick them to the things around them that they frequently touch, or think are particularly germy. This technique allows your children to have a bit of fun with the concept of germs. It portrays a physical trace of where germs can be; they can even stick the germs on each other. It also allows them to use their knowledge and instincts as to why they think certain spots are more prone to germs than others.
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Try the Glitter Germs activity
- Fun and Easy 4-Step Handwashing Process
- Handwashing Song in Spanish
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Defining Mental Health || Talking Mental Health with...
October 5, 2021In recognition of both Mental Illness Awareness Week and World Mental Health Day, we are dedicating this YouTube limited series (Talking Menta...
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Learning is Everywhere: October 2021
We're outside! October 2021 Fun activities, aligned with the Pennsylvania Early Learning Standards, to help prepare children for school success! View as Webpage We're Outside! Babies Help your baby no
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Let's Learn with Kindergarten Here I Come!
October 2021 edition October 2021 Activities aligned with the Pennsylvania Early Learning Standards to help your preschooler prepare for Kindergarten. View as Webpage Let's Play and Learn Did you kno
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Kindergarten Here I Am
October 2021 edition Fun activities, aligned with the PA Early Learning Standards, to help your child have a successful Kindergarten year. View as Webpage We Are Learning in October Now that your chi
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Professional Development: on the PD Registry |
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Click on the document below to download a full list of PD opportunities through mid-November. |
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Professional Development: Other Trainings |
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Starting 10/6- Intentional Interactions: Social-Emotional...
Throughout any difficult time, such as the pandemic or recent weather-related disasters, we often hear "The children will be all right. They are resilient." There is a difference, however, between short-term situational adaptability and true,...
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teachingstrategies.com
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10/7- My Skin, Your Skin: Using reading to celebrate...
Join us for the launch of My Skin, Your Skin, written by Laura Henry-Allain MBE and illustrated by Onyinye Iwu, a much-needed and powerful picture book supporting Early Educators, parents and carers to have meaningful conversations with children...
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10/13 - Radically Listening to Multiracial Kids
Join this conversation about the particular experiences of multiracial kids at school - from the perspective of those kids and of the caregivers and teachers trying to support them. Educators and social justice movers Drs. Ralina Joseph and...
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us02web.zoom.us
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10/14 - Strengthening Families Webinar: Vicarious Resilience
Please join us for a webinar on Thursday, October 14, from 3:00-4:00 pm EDT, to learn about vicarious resilience. Vicarious Trauma is a common topic for the helping community. Join us, with presenters from Be Strong Families, to explore its...
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cssp.zoom.us
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10/20 - Secrets to Finding Talent Amidst ECE Staffing Crisis
Sponsored by Procare Software. Have crippling staff shortages forced you out of the director's office and back into the classroom? Are you struggling to recruit and train employees? Does your existing staff complain about burnout? Perhaps you've...
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www.earlychildhoodwebinars.com
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10/21-Addressing a Call for Help - Suicide Risk Assessment
This session will review recognizing signs of suicide and address six best practices considerations for implementing Student Suicide Risk Assessments in K-12 schools. Learn how these practices can help improve and align the work of mental health...
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csiu.zoom.us
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Additional Online Training Opportunities |
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October 2021 Newsletter: Celebrate World Teachers' Day
Thank you to all of the amazing educators who inspire children inside and OUTSIDE the classroom. To celebrate, we’d like to offer you a FREE Exchange Reflections. Exchange Reflections are training resources to facilitate in-depth thinking and group..
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Thank you for all you do for children, families, and your community by being part of the STARS program.
Sincerely,
Child Care Consultants
(717) 854-2273 or
(800) 864-4925
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