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& Events The Forum for Professional Development
San Jose, CA
September 24 -25, 2010
Celebration of Imagination with CAEYC & Disney’s California Adventure
NAEYC Annual Conference & Expo
Anaheim, CA
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2011 CAEYC Annual Conference & Expo
Sacramento, CA
March 24-26, 2011
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Thank you for Attending our Conference! More than 3,000 people experienced why play IS the optimal way to learn during three full days of professional development. High-energy presenters, engaging workshops, and exhibitors full of resources,
We enjoyed three fantastic speakers: Nancy Carlsson-Paige, Becky Bailey, and Michael Mendizza.
We honored Docia Zavitkovsky, long-time leader and play advocate, at our Leadership Day luncheon on Thursday and attendees sang and celebrated at our tribute to Tom Hunter on Saturday. Join us as we celebrate these two remarkable individuals.
This Conference & Expo is made possible through the generous support of our 2009 Partners: Lakeshore Learning Materials; Dell; Discount School Supply; First 5 California; Greater Sacramento Region, First 5 Association of California; Kaplan Early Learning Company; Jackrabbit Care; DRDP-R.com by eCompendium; Preschool First; and Teaching Strategies, Inc.
Future Dates
2010 CAEYC Annual Conference & Expo
April 8-10 • Long Beach, CA
2011 CAEYC Annual Conference & Expo
March 24-26 • Sacramento, CA
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Workshops & Schedule
Choose from 270 workshops including Spanish offerings. Tracks include:
Accreditation
Administration
Challenging Behaviors
Children with Special Needs
Curriculum
Environments
Equity and Diversity
Faith-based ECE
Health, Infants and Toddlers
Kindergarten/Primary
Parent/Family Relationships
Quality/Evaluation
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Thursday, March 26 Nancy Carlsson-Paige, Keynote Speaker
Nancy Carlsson-Paige is a professor of early childhood education at Lesley University in Cambridge, Massachusetts, where she has educated teachers for more than 30 years. Since the mid 1980s, she has written and spoken extensively about the impact of violence--especially in the media--on children’s lives and their social development, and how children can learn to build caring, positive relationships in our world today. Ms. Carlsson-Paige has co-authored four books and written numerous articles on media violence, conflict resolution, peaceable classrooms and global education. Her most recent book is Taking Back Childhood: Helping Your Kids Thrive in a Fast-Paced, Media-Saturated, Violence-Filled World. She is an advocate for policies and practices that promote children’s well-being and encourage their self-understanding, empathy, and awareness of our common humanity.
Friday, March 27 Becky Bailey, Keynote Speaker
Becky A. Bailey, Ph.D., is an award-winning author, renowned teacher and internationally recognized expert in childhood education and developmental psychology. She is the founder of Loving Guidance, Inc., a company dedicated to creating positive environments for children, families, schools and businesses. Dr. Bailey is also the developer of the Conscious Discipline® program. She has authored seven books related to guidance and discipline. Her core publication for parents, Easy to Love, Difficult to Discipline, has received national acclaim and is published in seven languages. Dr. Bailey has established the first Early Childhood Education four-year-university degree program in the state of Florida. She was also instrumental in establishing a teacher certification program for Native Americans in New Mexico. For more information visit www.ConsciousDiscipline.com
Saturday, March 28 Michael Mendizza, Keynote Speaker
Michael Mendizza is an author, educator, documentary filmmaker, CEO of Nurturing, Inc., and Founder and Executive Director of Touch the Future, a nonprofit learning design center. His book, Magical Parent-Magical Child, the Art of Joyful Parenting, co-authored with Joseph Chilton Pearce, applies research on optimum states to parenting and to education. Mr. Mendizza is developing two additional books; Kids are Not The Problem, a series of essays on parenting the next critical generation and Flowering, a collection of dramatic floral images and quotes by Krishnamurti. Inspiration for this work emerged from personal relationships with Pearce, Physicist David Bohm, Philosopher J. Krishnamurti, and over 100 scientists, authors and educators. Background for his insights emerge from 25 years of personal relationships and over 75 filmed and videotaped interviews with scientists, authors, visionary educators and athletes. For more information visit www.ttfuture.org and www.nurturing.us.
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