First and foremost, Happy Summer! As you enjoy the sunniest time of year (at least in the northern hemisphere), I encourage you to take some time to venture into the realm of professional development by exploring our rich archive of Webinar presentations. This past year was our inaugural year for hosting a Webinar series and was very successful. Registration began at just a few hundred and through the course of the series reached 1200! We had fantastic questions and comments which you can find in the follow up blog posts from each webinar, archived by topic.
We attribute the success of our Super-Power Webinars to the experts who presented on such relevant topics and to our skilled Moderator Fran Simon. Coming from several fields, our all star lineup of guests, in the order of when the Webinar occurred, included:
- Dr. Dale McManis (Research Director, Hatch Early Learning)
- Dr. Kyle Snow (Director of the Center for Applied Research, NAEYC)
- Susan Gunnewig (Product Development Director, Hatch)
- Lisa Guernsey (Director of the Early Education Initiative at the New America Foundation)
- Dr. David Kirp (Professor, Goldman School of Public Policy, University of California Berkeley)
- Brian Puerling (Director of Technology Education, Catherine Cook School)
- Dr. Sue Bredekamp (Consultant, Author, Former Director of Professional Development, NAEYC)
- Fran Simon (Chief Engagement Officer, Engagement Strategies, LLC) and Karen Nemeth (Consultant & Author, Language Castle)
- Dr. Mike Assel (Associate Professor of Pediatrics, University of Texas Health Science Center)
- Kara Lehnhardt (Director of Technology Initiatives, McCormick Center for Early Childhood Leadership)
I invite you, if you haven’t attended their webinars, to take a look back at the valuable information and powerful insights from our presenters and view some of the recordings, all linked above. Additionally, I welcome you to register for our upcoming sessions, which include a continuing cast of phenomenal experts:
- Dr. Robert Pianta (Dean of the Curry School of Education, University of Virginia)
- Dr. Doug Clements & Dr. Julie Sarama (Dr. Clements -SUNY Distinguished Professor, University of Buffalo Graduate School of Education. Dr. Sarama -Professor & Department Chair, University of Buffalo Graduate School of Education)
- Dr. Elsa Cardenas-Hagan & Karen Nemeth (Dr. Cardenas-Hagan - Bilingual Speech Language Pathologist and Certified Academic Language Therapist, Director of Valley Speech Language and Learning Center in Brownsville, Texas, and works with Texas Institute for Measurement Evaluation and Statistics at the University of Houston. Karen Nemeth is a Consultant & Author at Language Castle)
- Susan Gunnewig and Dr. Dale McManis (Susan Gunnewig -Director of Product Development at Hatch Early Learning. Dr. Dale McManis -Research Director at Hatch Early Learning)
- 12/6/2012: New Technologies: Emerging Research on Classroom Practices and Outcomes for Early Learners
We’re extremely excited about our second year and these upcoming Webinars, and invite you to join us! We will also have preview blog posts and interviews with our expert presenters for each session. Stay tuned for those posts, and join us as we continue to advance early learning collaboration, engagement, and professional development. We hope you will share this information with your colleagues and we look forward to seeing you at a Webinar soon!
