Upcoming Professional Learning Academy Programs

Chief Instructors: Nonie Lesaux , Stephanie Jones , Junlei Li and Tessa Forshaw

Audience: Directors of early education centers or programs Leaders of early education service organizations across the mixed delivery system Principals, directors, administrators, and coaches in public school pre-K programs Teachers who take on leadership roles, and aspiring leaders State early education leaders Grantmakers and advocates

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