Upcoming Professional Learning Academy Programs

Description: In Part I of this program, participants will *Understand how features of the early learning environment can promote children’s prosocial behaviors and healthy social-emotional development. *Explore how features of the early learning environment can support children’s language and literacy learning. *Reflect on their current approaches to promoting children’s healthy behavioral, social-emotional, and language and literacy development and identify opportunities to use data to improve quality. *Identify the habits of mind, cycles of inquiry, structures, and processes that support an effective and collaborative data-use culture. *Use a 5-part cycle of inquiry, to address one identified problem of practice at their setting and use new strategies to inform an initial strategic plan. In Part II of this program, participants will: *Review the key takeaways and high-level takeaways from Part I sessions. *Identify structures and processes that support a data-use culture. *Reflect on their ongoing efforts in supporting an effective and collaborative data-use culture using the plan they developed in Part I. *Work in small groups to Identify roadblocks to implementation of data-related strategies, discuss potential solutions. *Learn to assess the efficacy of setting-level practices put in place to support the effective use of data. *Discuss lingering questions and next steps.

Chief Instructors: Nonie Lesaux and Stephanie Jones

Audience: *Directors of early education centers or programs *Leaders of early education service organizations across the mixed-delivery system *Teacher leaders or teachers with an interest in leadership *Directors, administrators, and coaches in public school preK programs *Early education professionals who support teachers in their work, such as instructional coaches, supervisors, or teachers who have leadership roles Higher education faculty and staff in early education program

Description: This in-person program explores what the latest science reveals about creating optimal formal and informal language-learning environments and experiences — ultimately supporting children’s healthy brain development and laying the foundation for lifelong learning.

Chief Instructors: Stephanie Jones , Nonie Lesaux , and

Audience: Directors and leaders in early education and Pre-K programs, teachers, administrators, instructional coaches, supervisors, and higher education faculty and administrators.