NCCCC 2012 Conference Tenative Schedule
Wednesday
2:00pm-6:00pm
Registration & Information Desk
5:00pm-6:00pm
Opening Reception
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Thursday
7:00am-5:00pm
Registration & Information Desk
7:30am-8:00am
Continental Breakfast & Poster Session
8:00am-9:30am
Opening Remarks and Keynote Speaker Deborah Meier
10:00am-11:15am | Workshop
Presenter(s): Dr. Carol W. Patrick, Assistant Professor, Eastern Kentucky University, Department of Family and Consumer Sciences
Track: Practicum
Higher Order Thinking: Taking Children to the Top!
The session will benefit conferees including those developing curriculum, environments, and the young children they work with by providing information that will encourage practicing teachers and early childhood professionals. It will demonstrate how to incorporate higher-order thinking skills in their classroom/childcare center. Strategies will be presented to teachers and caregivers to encourage planning and reflection in their programs.
10:00am-11:15am | Workshop
Presenter(s): Mark Bittner, Director University of Wyoming Early Care and Education Center
Track: Leadership
Working With Staff to Create a Critically Knowing Community
Presenters will share their campus program’s three-year journey to create a professional development environment that promotes critical reflection, empowers teachers, and embraces change.
10am-11:15am | Workshop
Presenter(s): Mike Lindstrom – Principal Michael Lindstrom Associates Architects, LLC
Track: Environments
Design Workshop – Selecting and working with your Architect
Experienced child-care architects provide insight into finding, hiring, and working with an architect including pitfalls to avoid and tips to make your project successful.
11:30am-12:45pm | Workshop
Presenter(s): Robert Dowling , Special Education Coordinator, Educational Day Care Center, Tufts University
Track: Inclusion/Curriculum
Including the Hard to Include: Working towards Making Every Child's School Experience Positive and Successful
The challenges of developing curriculum for an inclusive classroom will be addressed. We will also explore a multitude of practical strategies for incorporating all children.
11:30am-12:45pm | Workshop
11:30am-12:45pm | Workshop
Presenter(s): New Director
12:45pm-2:00pm
Lunch & Membership Meeting
2:15pm-3:30pm | Workshop
Presenter(s): Paul Roberts, President PR & P Childplay
Track: Programs
Creating Sustainable Learning Environments for Children
Children learn better when they are in well designed learning environments. This session focuses on how to create these healthy environments.
2:15pm-3:30pm | Workshop
Presenter(s): Carol Hagen, Ed.D, Director, Child Development Laboratory; Faculty, Department of Teacher Education and Administration, University of Northern Texas
Track: Campus Child Care Collaborations
Moving Beyond Financial Support for Student Parents: Changing Community Childcare through a CCAMPIS Grant
This CCAMPIS program works to improve the quality of child care to PELL eligible student parents, whether or not they access the campus facility.
2:15pm-3:30pm | Workshop
Presenter(s): Sherry Waugh, Director, Child and Family Research Center, College of Education, University of Nevada, Reno
Director Topics: Leadership, Building/rebuilding a program, Strategic planning
Embracing complexity: confronting the interaction of measures of quality and requirements in campus children’s centers
Complexity within campus children’s programs increases with multiple stakeholders, expectations, regulations, and tools used to measure quality. A model will assist participants in decision-making.
3:45pm-5:00pm | Workshop
Presenter(s): Beth Hatcher, Ph.D. Assistant Professor, University of Maine at Farmingham, Division of Inclusive Early Childhood and Elementary Education
Prepared for Kindergarten? Parent and Teacher Perceptions of Kindergarten Readiness in Campus-Based Programs
This session will present findings from a qualitative research study seeking to identify beliefs of parents and teachers concerning meanings of Kindergarten readiness.
3:45pm-5:00pm | Workshop
Presenter(s): Pamela J. Pallas, Ph.D. Director Baby Gator Child Development and Research Center at the University of Florida
Track: Campus Child Care Collaborations; Campus Colleges and Departments
Campus Partnerships: Communicating, Connecting, and Collaborating for Everyone’s Benefit
How do campus child care centers identify the wealth of knowledge, services and support on their campus to establish valuable and viable partnerships?
Baby Gator will share our pathway to partnerships with over 20 departments on our campus.
3:45pm-5:00pm | Workshop
Presenter(s): Lorraine Breffni, Ed.D Mailman Segal Center for Human Development, Nova Southeastern University
Track: Programs
Child Study: A process for supporting children with behavioral challenges in the classroom.
Dealing with challenging behavior can test the best early childhood programs. This presentation will showcase the Child Study process implemented in one university-based preschool setting.
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Friday
7:00am-5:00pm
Registartion & Information Desk
7:30am-8:00am
Continental Breakfast & Poster Session
8:00am-9:30am
Opening Remarks and Keynote Speaker Dr. Pam Schiller
10:00am-11:15am | Workshop
Presenter(s): Dr. Pam Schiller
10:00am-11:15am | Workshop
Presenter(s): Joyce E. Nuner, Ph.D., Assitant Professor, Baylor University, Department of Family and Consumer Sciences, Child and Family Studies
How to Really, Really, Connect with Families: Using the Brazelton Touchpoints Approach in a Lab School Setting!
Implementing the Brazelton’s Touchpoints Approach in the lab school setting and larger involvement in a coalition initiative to bring Touchpoints to the community.
10:00am-11:15am | Workshop
Presenter(s): Dr. Amy M. Kay, Director, Child Development Lab at the McPhaul Center, University of Georgia
Track: Personnel Professional development, Team building, Working with a vision
Careful, Your Attitude is Showing
Hear about our experience addressing teacher attitudes. We will share implemented action and information used in creating a more positive atmosphere.
10:00am-11:15am | Workshop
Presenter(s): Kresha Warnock Co-Director, Child Study Center, Program Chairman, Family and Child, Department of Family and Consumer Sciences, Ball State University
Track: Inclusion
Including children with food allergies in our early childhood classrooms
How to include a child with life-threatening food allergies.
The presenter shares her successful experiences, along with knowledge she gained from raising two allergic children.
11:30am-12:45pm | Workshop
Presenter(s): Marc LeFebre, Senior Program Manager Council for Environmental Education, Amanda Napper
Track: Curriculum/Professional Development
Growing Up WILD: An Innovative Approach in Early Childhood Environmental Education
Build your skills to successfully implement nature-based learning experiences with children ages 3-7. Discover the award-winning Growing Up WILD early childhood curriculum guide and professional development program.
11:30am-12:45pm| Workshop
Presenter(s): Jane Elyce Glasgow, M. S. Ed., Director of Child Development and Child Study Center Old Dominion University
Track: Director’s Topics- Strategic Planning
Mapping the Future of Your Program: The Strategic Planning Process
The Strategic Planning Process can be an overwhelming thought! Take a walk through the process that one center followed in their journey to map the future.
11:30am-12:45pm | Workshop
Presenter(s): Lisa Ranfos, MS. Director, Child and Family Development Center, NHTI, Concord’s Community College
Track: Campus child care collaborations: Lab school/practicum programs
Building professionals in the field
Teaching students about the importance of their professional role with young children requires hands-on experiences and trust on the part of cooperating teachers.
12:45pm-2:00pm
Lunch & Recognition Meeting
2:15pm-3:30pm | Workshop
Presenter(s): Mike Lindstrom – Principal Michael Lindstrom Associates Architects, LLC
Track: Environments
Introduction to Green Design for Children’s Environments
Understanding the basics of Green Design, how it is particularly relevant to children’s environments and how various strategies can be implemented to green existing centers.
2:15pm-3:30pm | Workshop
Presenter(s): Colleen Tracy Haddad, NAC Accreditation Specialist, National Association of Child Care Professionals
Track: Accreditation
Introduction to NAC Accreditation
Participants will become acquainted with NAC Accreditation and its value as an ongoing quality improvement system promoting effective management skills for program directors, professional development for staff and successful classroom practices.
2:15pm-3:30pm | Workshop
Presenter(s): Howard Baker Executive Director, Gersh & Sarah Lemberg Children’s Center, Director, APA ACT Northeast Regional Training Center, Brandeis University
Track: Parent Involvement/Leadership
Build Safer Homes for Children and Strengthen Your School Community with ACT Raising Safe Kids, A Violence Prevention Program from the American Psychological Association’s and NAEYC
Help your parents learn positive parenting, anger management and what to expect from their child while doing something meaningful to reduce violence in our lives.
3:45pm-5:00pm | Workshop
Presenter(s): Sandra Owen, Cincinnati State Technical and Community College
Track: Practicum
Zoom! My teacher has wheels!
This session will look at how to adapt practicum experiences for students with physical challenges. We speak of inclusion for children but what about inclusive opportunities for training teachers also! Issues covered include adoptions made to the typical classroom practicum experiences, concerns of parents and teachers, using strengths to compensate for weaker areas and the use of children's literature to facilitate inclusion.
3:45pm-5:00pm | Workshop
Presenter(s): TBD
Track: Advocacy
3:45pm-5:00pm | Workshop
Presenter(s): Karen Woland Payne, Director, Children’s Learning Center at Pennsylvania College of Technology
Track: Director Topics
Grant Writing Tips for Beginners
Very basic tips for beginners on how to write successful grant proposals. The presenter is a director who has been writing successful grant proposals for many years and who has also served as a grants reader for the U.S. Department of Education’s CCampis grants.
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Saturday
7:00am-10:30am
Registration & Information Desk
7:30am-8:00am
Breakfast
8:00am-9:15am
Opening Remarks and Keynote Speaker Juanita Copley
Tours
Buses Depart 9:30am
- Austin Community College Child Care Center 10:00am-10:30am
- University of Texas Comal Child Development Center 11:00am-11:30am
- University of Texas San Jacinto Child Development Center 11:45-12:15pm
Return to Sheraton 12:30pm
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Poster Presentations
Visit NCCCC's Poster Presentations in the ballroom before the general session on Thursday and Friday mornings.
Lesli Sparkman-Williams, Austin Community College Children’s Lab School
Evening Care Helps Even Out Busy Days
This poster will show how quality evening childcare helps even out busy days for student families.
Dana Keller Bush, Ph.D., Eastern Kentucky University
Plan Your Work and Work Your Plan: Home Economics and EfficentT Living at Two State Funded Universities 1900-1940
Plan Your Work and Work Your Plan -- such was the historic, enduring motto of the University of Kentucky's Home Management House. The historically important motto captures and conveys concisely both to students and to its constituents the guiding principle of a distinctive professional and academic program intended to bring systematic knowledge and expertise to what was hailed as a model of efficiency and home management beginning in the early twentieth century. This qualitative study reconstructs and analyzes this program and its principles via case study and historical analysis.
Sharon M. Carver, Ph.D., Director, Children's School, Teaching Professor, Psychology, Associate Training Director, Program in Interdisciplinary Education Research (PIER), Carnegie Mellon University
Creating a Community Mural: A Story about Paint and Collaboration
This poster includes highly replicable strategies for muraling that could be used to foster collaboration on many campuses. The story and images will inspire other educators to use muraling to communicate their presence and purpose on campus.
Teri Knouse
Beyond Sand and Water in the Sensory Table
The development of fine motor skills is important to children's process of learning to write. The sensory table is a wonderful way to entice children to use fine motor skills. This poster will help spark participant’s imagination about the endless possibilities of activities to plan for the sensory table.
Mary Sciaraffa
Cultivating Communities of Learners Across Campus through Nature Inspired Playgrounds
This poster presentation will visually walk participants through a campus collaboration between the Early Childhood Lab, the Dietetics Department, and Renewable Resources. Participants will learn about our Garden Project that was funded through a grant written by the Dietetics Department. Participants will learn the objectives and outcomes of the project from both the children’s perspective and the adult student’s perspective. The Garden Project was part of a larger Nature Inspired Playground design and implementation. Participants will learn about the collaboration between the Early Childhood Lab and the Renewable Resource department. The adult student’s of the Renewable Resource department designed and constructed the playground as a service-learning project. Participants will also be provided with resources, including potential funding opportunities.
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