Self - Paced

Professional Development

This course supports early childhood coaches who are working with programs going through an ERS-3 observation. It walks you through steps to take to get started coaching with the ERS-3, tools to help you define a shared frame of reference with programs and educators, and offers tools and resources to use as you use the ERS-3 for continuous quality improvement.

This four-module course gives coaches and consultants who work in early childhood an introduction to the benefits of adopting teleconsultation by reviewing what teleconsultation is, providing an overview of the rules, regulations, and technical requirements for teleconsultation, as well as exploring how to prepare for and conduct a teleconsultation session. It also covers how to troubleshoot problems, identify common errors, and implement best practices across a variety of teleconsultation scenarios. Finally, viewers will learn what proper follow-up looks like and will have an opportunity to practice.

This course is intended to help school and center administrators use authentic assessment data to achieve positive child outcomes. You will learn about foundational principles of data use; and strategies for using assessment data for common purposes at the administrator level including data analysis, reporting, program improvement, and support and monitoring educators.

This course is intended to help school and center administrators use authentic assessment data to achieve positive child outcomes. You will learn about foundational principles of data use; and strategies for using assessment data for common purposes at the administrator level including data analysis, reporting, program improvement, and support and monitoring educators.

This course is for anyone facilitating virtual meetings who would like to increase their skills and learn new tools for deepening engagement. This course will help you to feel more confident in making the best use of technology and consider accessibility and inclusion for your participants. This course provides tools, templates, demonstrations, and extra resources to boost engagement and deepen connections between people. This course will apply to various types of early childhood spaces, including training, group facilitation, consultation, coaching, and communities of practice.

The community of practice is driven forward by shared goals, collective knowledge building, and a dedication to lifting the voices of our coaching community. Identifying your professional development needs by participating in the community allows us to see where our work in coaching needs additional support, where we are interested in growing as a collective of coaches, and helps us generate tangible ways to grow alongside one another. When we come together on the second Tuesday of each month we are supported by the regional coaching team and community facilitators who plan for interactions that ensure equity of voice and build connections between members. This results in timely collective knowledge building that feels the most supportive of our daily work and builds us up as we do it.

Learn from and with fellow teacher leaders, supervisors, and coaches. Reflect and collaborate in a safe, non-judgmental space. Connect and share your experiences with relationship-based leaders from around the state in small groups. Practice building competency in relationship-based coaching. The CO Coach Community of Practice is driven forward by shared goals, collective knowledge building of relationship-based competencies, and a dedication to lifting the voices of our early childhood community. When we come together on the third Wednesday of each month we are supported by coaching colleagues at the CDEC who will work alongside community facilitators who plan for interactions to ensure equity of voice and build competency as a collective.

When trained in equity-focused, trauma-informed strategies, early childhood learning communities are equipped to provide key protective factors that can promote resilience and mitigate the impact of trauma on youth, as well as decrease the use of exclusionary practices, which are often rooted in implicit bias. In this recorded presentation training, participants will gain knowledge and strategies to increase their understanding of student behavior through a trauma-informed lens, while recognizing the role in which bias manifests in discipline, toward the goal of reducing exclusionary practices and student removal in early childhood learning communities. Resources are provided to support your learning.