21^st Annual Early Childhood Conference

Keynote Speaker: David J. Schonfeld, MD

All Children May Be Created Equal, But They Are Not Alike

David J. Schonfeld, MD, is a developmental-behavioral pediatrician and the Thelma and Jack Rubinstein Professor of Pediatrics and director of the Division of Developmental and Behavioral Pediatrics and the National Center for School Crisis
and Bereavement at Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center.

Dr. Schonfeld established the School Crisis Response Program in 1991, funded by national, state, foundation, and community support.

In addition, Dr. Schonfeld has been actively engaged in school-based research, funded by NICHD, NIMH, NIDA, the Maternal and Child Health Bureau, William T. Grant Foundation and other foundations, involving children's understanding of and adjustment to serious illness and death and school-based interventions to promote adjustment and risk prevention. He is the current Chair of the Committee on Pediatric Research for the American Academy of Pediatrics and President of the Society for Developmental and Behavioral Pediatrics (9/06-9/07).

Session A Workshops
9:45 AM - 12:15 PM

Quality Care for Infants and Toddlers
Presented by Beth Wainscott

What are the essential components of a quality
infant or toddler program? How can an environment
be designed to convey to infants and toddlers
messages about their worth? Learn what responsive
caregiving looks like and how active physical play is
essential in helping infants and toddlers to thrive.

Infant and Toddler Guidelines
Module One: The Overview
Presented by Gerry Weller

Explore the Infant Toddler Guidelines and their
role in the lives of infants, toddlers, providers and
parents. Review the six developmental domains of
young children, and discuss the impact that routine
care has on all developmental domains.

Early Learning Content Standards:
Mathematics, Module Two, part 1
Presented by Lowellette Lauderdale

Bring mathematics to life all across the early
childhood curriculum! Ohio’s Early Learning Content Standards provide a framework for developing meaningful learning experiences for children. Enhance math learning for children, while
incorporating the standards, and considering
assessment and planning. Participants must also
attend the afternoon session.

Bully-Free Zone
Presented by Jim Bisineus

Learn to identify the things kids who target look
for in their victims. Master step-by-step techniques to help a child alter his or her body language and
reactions to eliminate future bullying. Help a child
know what to do when being bullied, and end the
bully-victim cycle in your school-age program today.

Culturally Responsive Approach in Today’s
ECE Programs
Presented by Debra Chin

Working with children and families from diverse
backgrounds can be challenging in today's early care
and education programs. Come to this dynamic
workshop to explore how our own cultural
backgrounds, values and beliefs impact our
educational practices. Participants will learn ways of
constructing cultural competence, and discover how
to respond in sensitive and appropriate ways as they
work with families from diverse identities.

Session B Workshops
1:00 PM - 3:30 PM

Tears, Tantrums and Hugs
Presented by Beth Wainscott

Infants and Toddlers have important emotional
needs, and often intense ways of expressing them.
Learn what these tears, tantrums and hugs mean, and
how to meet the individual emotional needs of infants
and toddlers in a group care setting.

Infant and Toddler Guidelines
Module Seven: Learning from the Start
Presented by Gerry Weller

Babies are motivated, curious, and competent
learners right from the start! Cognitive development,
the building of concept knowledge and thinking skills,
is utilized by children of all abilities. Participants will
examine cognitive development through the
discussion of the six discoveries that infants make in
their world. Strategies for translating this knowledge
into a higher quality of caregiving practice will be
provided. (Note: this workshop will finish at 4:00 PM.)
The Overview is a pre-requisite for attendance
at this Module.

Early Learning Content Standards:
Mathematics, Module Two, part 2

Continued from the morning session.

Putting an End to Bullying
Parents, Understanding, and Your Environment:
Key Strategies
Presented by Jim Bisineus

You know you have a bullying problem, but do
you know how to resolve it, rather than make it
worse? Use information from the Anonymous Peer
Rating Tool to re-map your school-age program
environment, thus reducing bullying opportunities.
Get a leg up by learning about the types of parenting
styles that produce each type of bully and victim.
Walk away from this workshop knowing specific
strategies to foster healthy peer connections, help
parents of bullies and victims, and bring kids on the
fringe back into safe social groups.

Living with Terror:
Children Who Witness Domestic Violence
Presented by Sandra Keiser

Witnessing violence can have a lasting impact on
children. Join us to learn more about the signs and
symptoms exhibited by children who witness violent
acts and how to respond to such indicators. Learn
interventions, referrals and safety plans that help
ensure a safe and supportive environment.

Schedule

Lunch

Displays and resources available:

• Step Up To Quality
• Discovery Toys
• Curriculum in Bloom
• SERRC
• Kaplan
• Health Child Care Ohio (HCCO)
• University of Cincinnati
• Cincinnati State Technical and Community College
• Usborne Books
• Lakeshore

Registration

Deadline to register is Wednesday, April 16.
Registrations must include payment.

Mail

4C-PDCS, 1924 Dana Ave.
Cincinnati, OH 45207

Check, money order, or credit card

(513) 221-0393
VISA or MasterCard only

Cost and Information

Date

Saturday, April 19

8:00 Registration and Continental Breakfast
8:30 Conference begins promptly

IACET Continuing Education Units (CEU)

CEUs are not available for the Keynote or schoolage
workshops. All other workshops offer CEUs.

Arrive 15 minutes early to complete CEU paperwork.

Learning outcomes are assessed during the workshop.

CEU processing fee is $10 per workshop.

For more information about CEUs see the CDA council website at www.cdacouncil.org.

Location

Directions

• Merge onto OH-562 E via EXIT 7 toward I-71/ Norwood
• Take the Reading Rd. / US-42 exit
• Turn Left onto Reading Rd. / US-42
• Turn Right onto Langdon Farm Rd.
• Building is immediately on the left

• Take Paddock Rd. S. / OH-4 EXIT 9 toward OH-561/ Seymour Ave / Cincinnati Gardens
• Turn Left onto Paddock Rd. / OH-4
• Turn Left onto Seymour Ave. / OH-561
• Turn Right onto Reading Rd. / US-42
• Turn Left on Langdon Farm Rd.
• Building is almost at the end of Langdon Farm, on the right side

• Merge onto OH-562 W via EXIT 8B toward Norwood
• Take the Reading Rd. / US-42 Exit
• Turn slight right onto Reading Rd. / US-42
• Turn right onto Langdon Farm Rd.
• Building is immediately on the left
  

• Take EXIT 7 Hwy 562 W to Norwood
• Take 42 Reading Rd. Exit stay right
• Turn right onto Reading Rd.
• Turn right onto Langdon Rd.
• Building is immediately on the left