Continuing Education and
Professional Development Opportunities

Click the link categories in the side navigation bar to the left to locate continuing education resources.

Calendar Resources

Wisconsin Training Network (to find training with Registry barcodes)
www.t-net.org

Department of Public Instruction Education Calendar
http://www2.dpi.state.wi.us/EIS_Calendar/calendar.aspx

Wisconsin Education Council Quality Educator Initiative
www.qei.wisconsin.edu/opportunities.cfm

Waisman Center UCEDD Community Training Calendar
www.waisman.wisc.edu/cte/calendar/

WSPEI Calendar of Training Opportunities of Interest to Parents and Educators
www.dpi.wi.gov/sped/par_calen.html

WI Early Childhood Collaborating Partners Planning Event Calendar
http://www.collaboratingpartners.com/calendars/index.htm

University of Wisconsin-Madison:
www.today.wisc.edu

Nationwide Training Resources

Directory of Online Degreed ECE Programs
www.ccie.com/edu_online/directory.php

Distance Learning Options by State
http://nccic.acf.hhs.gov/poptopics/statedistlearning.html

eCDA from Teaching Strategies and Northampton Community College
www.teachingstrategies.com/page/PD_Elearning.cfm

Exchange Magazine partnering with UW-Stout to offer online CEUs
https://secure.ccie.com/catalog/cciecatalog.php?cPath=57

High/Scope Online Training Courses
www.highscope.org/Content.asp?ContentId=102

National Association for Family Child Care (NAFCC)
www.nafcc.org/onlinetraining/nafcc_training_institute.asp

National Association for the Education of Young Children (NAEYC)
Developmentally Appropriate Practice online programs
www.naeyc.org/dap/pdt

Resources for Child Caring Learning Center
The RCCLC offers online family child care business training via interactive web-based courses, some taught by Tom Copeland. Contact the Redleaf National Institute at 1-800-423-8309
www.rcclearningcenter.org

Other Distance Education Resources:
www.uwex.edu/disted/desites.cfm

Wisconsin Conferences

The Registry:
www.the-registry.org

UW-Extension:
www.uwex.edu/ces/flp/conference/index.cfm

Wisconsin AfterSchool Association (WAA):
www.dpi.wi.gov/sspw/wan.html

Wisconsin Child Care Administrators Association (WCCAA):
www.wccaa.org

Wisconsin Council on Children and Families (WCCF):
www.wccf.org

Wisconsin Early Childhood Association (WECA):
www.wecanaeyc.org

Wisconsin Early Childhood Collaborating Partners (WECCP):
www.collaboratingpartners.com

Wisconsin Family Child Care Association (WFCCA):
www.wisconsinfamilychildcare.org

Wisconsin Head Start Association:
www.whsaonline.org

Various colleges, see:
www.t-net.org

Wisconsin Workshops

15 regional Child Care Resource & Referral Agencies:
www.supportingfamiliestogether.org/families/ccrr.php

Child and Adult Care Food Program (CACFP):
http://dpi.wi.gov/fns/training.html

UW-Extension:
www.uwex.edu/topics/course-catalogs/

Wisconsin Council on Children and Families (WCCF):
www.wccf.org/events.php

Wisconsin Early Childhood Association (WECA):
www.wecanaeyc.org/conference/index.php

Wisconsin Model Early Learning Standards (WMELS):
www.collaboratingpartners.com/wmels-training-opportunities.php

Wisconsin Women's Business Initiative Corporation (WWBIC):
www.wwbic.com/be.htm

Private trainers such as the DCF Approved Agencies offering non-credit courses:
www.dcf.wi.gov/childcare/licensed/pdf/agencylist.pdf

Other local organizations:

Child care support groups such as AEYC, PTA (Providers Taking Action), Eastside Support Group of Madison. Contact your Child Care Resource & Referral Agency:
www.supportingfamiliestogether.org/families/ccrr.php

Family Resource Centers:
www.supportingfamiliestogether.org/families/frc.php

Libraries:
www.publiclibraries.com/wisconsin.htm

YMCAs and YWCAs:
www.ymca.net or www.ywca.org

Churches, synagogues, hospitals and health centers all may offer trainings in your area. Phone them for dates and locations.

Training by Experts such as...

The Center for the Child Care Workforce
Offers on-site leadership training programs that can be brought to your community:

• Leadership Empowerment Action Project (LEAP)
• Taking on Turnover
• Creating Better Child Care Jobs
• Lifting the Lid on Child Care Wages
• Getting Training in Your Community

Contact: Angie Roberson, (336) 334-3794; email atrobers@uncg.edu
http://ccw.cleverspin.com/publications_trainings.html

High/Scope Educational Research Foundation
Contact: High/Scope's Workshop Coordinator, (734) 485-2000 extension 218
www.highscope.org/Content.asp?ContentId=4

Teaching Strategies, Inc. The Creative Curriculum System®
www.teachingstrategies.com/page/pd_overview.cfm

VSA Arts of Wisconsin (Very Special Arts)
Early Childhood Program serves children from birth to age 6. It provides arts training to educators at early childhood sites across the state, particularly in classrooms that have children with disabilities or serve a high at-risk population.
Contact: Alexis London, (608) 241-2131, email: vsa@vsawis.org
www.vsawis.org/ec.htm

Wisconsin Child Care Improvement Project
offers training and consulting services under contract to help child care programs.
Contact: WCCIP Info Line at 1-800-366-3556 or email bevensen@prodigy.net
www.wccip.org/consult.html

Some of the DCF approved agencies offering non-credit courses also offer onsite training.
www.dcf.wi.gov/childcare/licensed/pdf/agencylist.pdf

Organizations

Wisconsin Child Care Information Center
CCIC (whose website you are now on) mails free articles and brochures and also loans books, CDs, and videos statewide for only the cost of return postage. We also create customized learning packets on topics of your choice.
www.dpi.wi.gov/ccic

National Child Care Information and Technical Assistance Center
The NCCIC website is an excellent source of information about child care, including government policies. It provides web links to many national child care organizations, clearinghouses, and publications.
www.nccic.org

National Network for Child Care
The NNCC website, sponsored by the Cooperative Extension System, is an excellent source of practical information about children and child care. Click on the Articles & Resources tab at the NNCC site to locate useful information.
www.nncc.org

Your Local Library!
Your local public library is another good source for learning materials!
www.dpi.wi.gov/pld/lib_dir.html

Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development
ASCD is a membership organization that develops programs, products and services mostly for K-12 educators. Click on Research a Topic at the ASCD site and then on one of the many specific educational topics to see a definition, short articles on the topic, audio and/or video files of experts and practitioners.
www.ascd.org

Center on the Social and Emotional Foundations for Early Learning
CSEFEL is a national resource center promoting the social emotional development and school readiness of young children birth to age 5. Its website offers training modules that include facilitator guides, trainer scripts, PowerPoint Slides, participant handouts, and training videoclips. CSEFEL is funded by the Office of Head Start and the Child Care Bureau to disseminate research and evidence-based practices to early childhood programs across the country.
www.vanderbilt.edu/csefel

Child Care Information Exchange
Exchange promotes the exchange of ideas among leaders in early childhood programs worldwide through its magazine, books, training products, training seminars, and international conferences. It has free articles on its website as well as purchase information for its out-of-the-box training kits.
www.ccie.com

National Association for Family Child Care
NAFCC supports and strengthens family child care, in part through the Quality Standards for NAFCC Accreditation. The NAFCC website hosts Tom Copeland’s excellent materials on the business aspects of family child care.
www.nafcc.org

National Association for the Education of Young Children
NAEYC is a membership organization that works to improve the quality of educational and developmental services for all children from birth through age eight. Its website has a wealth of articles, brochures, standards, position statements and even radio programs.
www.naeyc.org

National Association of Child Care Resource and Referral Agencies
NACCRRA collects data, compiles reports, and advocates for national policies and partnerships to advance the development and learning of all children. In We CAN Do Better: 2009 Update, it ranks the states’ on their child care center regulation and oversight. NACCRRA’s Child Care Aware website has print information and video segments for parents and providers.
www.naccrra.org

Search Institute
The Search Institute’s 40 Developmental Assets™ are common sense, positive experiences and qualities that help influence choices young people make and help them become caring, responsible adults. This site has interactive asset lists for early childhood, middle childhood, and adolescence.
www.search-institute.org/assets

Videatives
On this site you can purchase and download videatives. The word "videative" is a composite of the words "video" and "narrative." Videatives are text documents presented in electronic format that describe and explain the significance of the goals, strategies, and theories of children engaged in learning experiences. Within the text, words and phrases serve as hypertext links that, when clicked, launch short video clips. The video clips (usually no more than 30 seconds in length) exemplify and give context to the experiences described and explained in the text. The purpose of the videative is to enhance the reader’s ability to recognize, interpret and understand children’s thinking and learning.
www.videatives.com

Washington Learning Systems
This website has many free handouts to complement the Language is the Key videos the company sells in several languages for staff development and parent education. The program teaches strategies that are effective with infants, toddlers and preschool children who are developmentally "on-target" and with children who have developmental delays. These programs may be duplicated for educational use by non-profit organizations as long as copies are not sold.
www.walearning.com

Magazines

Child Care Information Exchange
www.childcareexchange.com

Childhood Education, a publication of the Association for Childhood Education International
www.acei.org

Earlychildhood NEWS
www.earlychildhoodnews.com

Early Childhood Today
http://teacher.scholastic.com/products/ect

Educational Leadership, a publication of the Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development
www.ascd.org

Everyday TLC, Teaching Learning Caring
www.everydaytlc.com

School Age NOTES
www.schoolagenotes.com

Texas Child Care
www.childcarequarterly.com

Young Children, a publication of the National Association for the Education of Young Children
www.naeyc.org

Zero to Three
www.zerotothree.org

Newsletters

Center for the Child Care Workforce
www.ccw.org

Child Care Information Center
dpi.wi.gov/ccic/mat_newsletters.html

Children's Hospital of Wisconsin
www.chw.org/display/ppf/docid/20175/router.asp

Community Playthings
www.communityplaythings.com/subscription/frmSubscribe.aspx?sub=4

ECNEWSlink online magazine
www.earlychildhoodnews.com/teacher_resources/newslink.aspx

Ellyn Satter Associates (Interpreting the news and research about feeding and eating)
www.ellynsatter.com/newsletters.jsp

The Grantsmanship Center
www.tgci.com/magazine/archives.asp

Healthy Child Care
www.healthychild.net

High/Scope ReSource
www.highscope.org/Content.asp?ContentId=138

PACER Center (Information and resources for parents of young children with disabilities)
www.pacer.org/newsletters

Prevent Child Abuse Wisconsin
www.preventchildabusewi.org/$spindb.query.listallpub.pcawview

Redleaf E-News
www.redleafpress.org/client/client_pages/rl_newsltr.cfm

Resources for Child Caring
www.resourcesforchildcare.org/index.cfm?page=newslettersprov

UW-Extension
www.uwex.edu/ces/flp/families/childcare.cfm

Wisconsin Council on Children & Families
www.wccf.org

Wisconsin Early Childhood Association
www.wecanaeyc.org

Wisconsin Alliance for Infant Mental Health
www.wiimh.org/newsletter.htm

Areas which focus on...

Activity Ideas

Born Learning
www.bornlearning.org

Discount School Supply - Teachers' Resources
www.discountschoolsupply.com/Community/MyCommunityResources.aspx?MenuID=22

Gryphon House - Activities
www.gryphonhouse.com/activities/index.asp

PBS TeacherSource
www.pbs.org/teachersource

Teacher QuickSource
www.teacherquicksource.com

Washington Learning Systems
www.walearning.com/guide.html

Health and Safety

Consumer Product Safety Commission
www.cpsc.gov/search.html

ECELS - Healthy Child Care Pennsylvania
www.ecels-healthychildcarepa.org

National Program for Playground Safety
www.playgroundsafety.org/safety

National Resource Center for Health and Safety in Child Care and Early Education
http://nrckids.org/

New York Loves Safe Babies (web video on SIDS, Traumatic Brain Injury, Shaken Baby Syndrome)
www.healthyfamiliesnewyork.org/resource_videos.cfm

Wisconsin Department of Health Services' Communicable Disease Fact Sheets
www.dhs.wi.gov/communicable/factsheets

Infants and Toddlers

Healthy Child Care America Back to Sleep Campaign (SIDS prevention)
www.healthychildcare.org/section_sids.cfm

National Center on Shaken Baby Syndrome
www.dontshake.com

Program for Infant/Toddler Care
hwww.pitc.org/pub/pitc_docs/resources.html

Zero to Three (click on Key Topics)
www.zerotothree.org

School-age Care

Afterschool Alliance
www.afterschoolalliance.org

National AfterSchool Association
www.naaweb.org

National Institute on Out-of-School Time
www.niost.org

U.S. Department of Education 21st Century Community Learning Centers
www.ed.gov/21stcclc

Wisconsin Afterschool Network (WAN)
www.dpi.wi.gov/sspw/wan.html

Children with Special Needs

CanChild Centre for Childhood Disability Research
www.canchild.ca

MUMS National Parent-to-Parent Network
www.netnet.net/mums

National Center on Birth Defects and Developmental Disabilities
www.cdc.gov/ncbddd/autism/actearly/default.htm

National Dissemination Center for Children with Disabilities (NICHCY)
www.nichcy.org

PACER Center
www.pacer.org/

Waisman Center Family Village
www.familyvillage.wisc.edu

Research

Centres of Excellence for Children's Well-Being
www.excellence-earlychildhood.ca

Child Care & Early Education Research Connections
www.childcareresearch.org

ECRP: Early Childhood Research & Practice
www.ecrp.uiuc.edu

Harvard Family Research Project
www.hfrp.org

National Institute for Early Education Research
http://nieer.org

Wisconsin Child Care Research Partnership
www.sohe.wisc.edu/outreach/wccrp

Wisconsin's Early Childhood Excellence Initiative
www.sohe.wisc.edu/outreach/ece

Resources in Spanish & Hmong

Sitios Recomendado del Internet
Recommended Websites with Child Care Information in Spanish

BANANAS Inc.
www.bananasinc.org/freePubsResults.php?publangID=2

Biblioteca Digital Internacional Para Niños (International Children's Digital Library)
http://es.childrenslibrary.org/

Born Learning
www.bornlearning.org/default.aspx?id=89

California Childcare Health Program
www.ucsfchildcarehealth.org/html/pandr/pandrmain.htm#spanish-tab

Center on the Social and Emotional Foundations for Early Learning
http://csefel.vanderbilt.edu/resources/espanol.html

Child Care Aware
www.childcareaware.org/es

¡Colorín Colorado! : Un Sitio Bilingüe para Familias y Maestros para Ayudar a los Niños a Leer
www.colorincolorado.org/?langswitch=es

Criando Niños Inteligentes y Saludables (Growing Smart and Healthy Babies)
http://dlg.galileo.usg.edu/ggp/id:s-ga-bh800-pr2-bm1-b1999-bb3-bspan-p

ECRP: Investigación y Práctica de la Niñez Temprana
http://ecrp.uiuc.edu/index-sp.html

Harvard University Center on the Developing Child – InBrief Series Videos
http://developingchild.harvard.edu/library/multimedia/inbrief_series

Head Start – Early Childhood Learning & Knowledge Center
http://eclkc.ohs.acf.hhs.gov/hslc/Espanol

Illinois Early Learning (IEL) Project – IEL Tip Sheets
http://illinoisearlylearning.org/cgi-bin/iel/searchiel.asp?st=ts

National Child Care Information Center
http://nccic.acf.hhs.gov/spanish/index.html

National Network for Child Care
www.nncc.org

Program for Infant/Toddler Care
www.pitc.org/cs/pitclib/query/q/2222

Semillitas de Aprendizaje (Leading to Reading)
www.rif.org/leadingtoreading/es

Washington Learning Systems – On-the-Go Parent-Child Literacy Resources
www.walearning.com/resources/on-the-go

Wisconsin Websites

Normas de Aprendizaje Temprano Modelo de Wisconsin
www.collaboratingpartners.com/docs/WMELS_SegundaEdicion.pdf

Wisconsin Department of Health Services – Communicable Disease Fact Sheets
www.dhs.wisconsin.gov/communicable/factsheets

Wisconsin Shares, Ayuda con el Cuidado de su Niño Cuando es Necesario
http://dcf.wi.gov/childcare/informacion.htm

Niños con Necesidades Especiales

American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry
www.aacap.org/cs/root/facts_for_families/informacion_para_la_familia

Educación Especial en Palabras Sencillas (Special Education in Plain Language)
www.specialed.us/pl-07-esp/pl-07-fp-esp.html

National Center on Birth Defects and Developmental Disabilities
www.cdc.gov/ncbddd/Spanish/index.html

National Dissemination Center for Children with Disabilities
http://nichcy.org/espanol

PACER Center (Parent Advocacy Coalition for Educational Rights)
www.pacer.org/translations/spanish.asp

Traduzca un Web Page

Babel Fish Translation
www.babelfish.altavista.com

Websites with Child Care Information in Hmong

California Department of Social Services: Family Child Care Self-Assessment Guide (Some specific things are required only in California, but many general criteria apply anywhere)
http://ccld.ca.gov/Res/pdf/CCAPSelfHmong.pdf

Center for Disease Control and Prevention: Germ Stopper posters
www.cdc.gov/germstopper/materials.htm

Child and Adult Care Food Program: Meal Benefit Forms
www.fns.usda.gov/cnd/Care/Translations/hm-Hmong.htm

PACER Center (Parent Advocacy Coalition for Educational Rights)
www.pacer.org/translations/hmong.asp

Reading Rockets: Scroll down to Family Guide and Parent Tip Sheets
www.readingrockets.org/guides/readingrockets

Resources for Child Caring: Record Keeping and Taxes Multilingual Materials
www.resourcesforchildcaring.org/index.cfm?page=Record%20Keeping%20and%20Taxes%20Multilingual%20Materials

Technical Assistance Alliance for Parent Centers
www.taalliance.org/publications/hmong.asp

University of Minnesota Extension: Positive Discipline
www.extension.umn.edu/distribution/familydevelopment/DE8094.html

Wisconsin Department of Children and Families: Child Care Information for Parents
http://dcf.wi.gov/childcare/xov.htm

Wisconsin Department of Children and Families: Wisconsin Shares
http://dcf.wi.gov/publications/pdf/dcf_p_dwsw10971h.pdf

Wisconsin Department of Health Services: Communicable Disease Fact Sheets
http://dhs.wisconsin.gov/communicable/factsheets

Wisconsin Model Early Learning Standards
www.collaboratingpartners.com/docs/EarlyLearningStandardsHM.pdf

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