Professional Development News
School of Sustainability and the Environment
Rachel Carson Institute
Upcoming Events:
October 22, 2011- Rachel Carson Forum: Creating Healthy Places to Live, Learn and Play.
This day - long conference and workshop addresses four topics essential to providers of early learning for children in early childhood education programs, nursery and kindergarten facilities whether they are privately or publicly operated. Phil Boise, author of Go Green Rating Scale, and Jane Houlihan, Senior Vice President for Research at the Environmental Working Group will offer plenary keynote remarks; a panel will address merging environmental best practices and quality initiatives for child care providers, and there will be interactive workshops on four topics: Setting administrative policies for green operations; Preventing children’s exposure to toxics indoors and outdoors; Environmental cost-efficiency; and Curriculum and best practices in teaching young children about the environment. The Rachel Carson Institute partners with Pittsburgh Association for the Education of Young Children (PAEYC) and Sense of Place Learning, Inc. to present this Rachel Carson Forum.
Save the Date! Information on registration will be available soon!
Sponsorship opportunities are available: contact Patricia DeMarco at (412) 365-2702.
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The following links are the revised Career Lattice and Teacher Quality documents that were recently adopted.
Clink here to view the revised Career Lattice 2010-2011
The purpose of this is to provide information on the Teacher Quality/ECE Counting Credits document and on the updates to the Pennsylvania Career Lattice.
________________________________________________________________ Attention Child Care Providers!!! Child Development Associate (CDA) Credential Classes Penn State DuBois Campus, DEF (Career Link) Building, Room 204 Thursdays starting January 6th 6:00-9:00 p.m. Venango County Fairgrounds/Penn State Extension Building, Franklin, PA Mondays starting January 3rd 6:00-9:00 p.m. Don’t wait…Register NOW!!! It’s not too late.
Early Learning Keys to Quality establishes guidelines related to professional development. The program and professional development-based quality improvement content is research based, incorporates state and national research and best practices, and builds upon current standards including the Pennsylvania Early Learning Standards (ELS), the Standards Aligned System (SAS), Keystone STARS Program Standards, NAEYC Accreditation Standards, and the Pennsylvania Core Body of Knowledge.
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For more information regarding upcoming Professional Development Days or to print a copy of the 10-11 FY Professional Development Days Flyer click here.
Please click here for a list of the 10-11 FY Pediatric First Aid events.
