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Email: ccic@dpi.wi.gov Internet: http://dpi.wi.gov/rll/ccic
Finding Continuing Education and
Professional Development Opportunities in Wisconsin
Calendars
DHFS Approved Entry Level Training for Child Care Workers
The Registry Professional Credentials
DPI Teacher Licensing
Wisconsin Technical College System Early Childhood Education Courses
Wisconsin Early Childhood Statewide University Courses
Wisconsin Online Training and Degree Programs / Independent Home Study Programs
Nationwide Online Training and Degree Programs
Wisconsin Conferences
Wisconsin Workshops
Onsite Training by Outside Experts
In-Service Training Created by Center Staff; Mentoring; Independent Reading or Video Viewing - Using Resources from ...
Calendars
Wisconsin Training Network (to find training with Registry barcodes): http://www.t-net.org
Department of Public Instruction Education Calendar: http://dpi.wi.gov/eis/calhome.html
Wisconsin Education Council Quality Educator Initiative: http://qei.wisconsin.edu/opportunities.cfm
Waisman Center Special Education Calendar: http://www.waisman.wisc.edu/cedd/SIG/ECC_Intro.HTML
UW-Madison: http://www.today.wisc.edu
DHFS Approved Entry Level Training for Child Care Workers
http://dhfs.wisconsin.gov/rl_dcfs/ApprovedEntryLevelTraining.htm
The Registry Professional Credentials
http://www.the-registry.org/Credential.htm
DPI Teacher Licensing http://dpi.wi.gov/tepdl/index.html
Wisconsin Technical College System Early Childhood Education Courses
http://systemattic.wtcsystem.edu/Instruction/transfer/early_childhood_education_transfer/default.htm or
http://www.witechcolleges.com/career_prog_search.htm (Click on E, then on Early Childhood Education.)
Early Childhood Statewide University Courses
http://www.waisman.wisc.edu/cedd/SIG/ECC_Intro.html
Wisconsin Online Training and Degree Programs/ Independent Home Study Programs
http://dpi.wi.gov/ccic/ccichome.html
Nationwide Online Training and Degree Programs
Directory of Online Degreed ECE Programs: http://www.ccie.com/edu_online/directory.php
Distance Learning in Early Childhood Education: http://nccic.acf.hhs.gov/poptopics/distancelearning.html
Resources for Child Caring Learning Center offers online family child care business training via interactive web-based courses, some taught by Tom Copeland. Contact Redleaf National Institute, 1-800-423-8309, http://www.rcclearningcenter.org
Other Distance Education Resources: http://www.uwex.edu/disted/desites.html
Wisconsin Conferences - such as those sponsored by ...
The Registry: http://www.the-registry.org/
UW-Extension: http://www.uwex.edu/ces/flp/conference/index.cfm
Wisconsin AfterSchool Association (WAA) http://dpi.wi.gov/sspw/wan.html
Wisconsin Child Care Administrators Association (WCCAA): 1-866-472-4453
Wisconsin Council on Children and Families (WCCF): http://www.wccf.org
Wisconsin Early Childhood Association (WECA): http://www.wecanaeyc.org
Wisconsin Early Childhood Collaborating Partners (WECCP): http://www.collaboratingpartners.com
Wisconsin Family Child Care Association (WFCCA): http://www.wisconsinfamilychildcare.org
Wisconsin Head Start Association: http://www.whsaonline.org
Various colleges, see http://www.t-net.org
Wisconsin Workshops - such as those offered by ...
16 regional Child Care Resource & Referral Agencies: http://www.wisconsinccrr.org
Child and Adult Care Food Program (CACFP): http://dpi.wi.gov/fns/training.html
UW-Extension: http://www.uwex.edu/topics/course-catalogs/
Wisconsin Council on Children and Families (WCCF): http://www.wccf.org/projects/beginnings.html
Wisconsin Early Childhood Association (WECA): http://www.wecanaeyc.org/training
Wisconsin Model Early Learning Standards (WMELS): http://www.collaboratingpartners.com/training.htm
Wisconsin Women's Business Initiative Corporation (WWBIC): http://www.wwbic.com/be.htm
Private trainers such as the DHFS Approved Agencies offering non-credit courses:
http://dhfs.wisconsin.gov/rl_dcfs/pdf-ppt-docs/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: http://www.wisconsinccrr.org
Family Resource Centers: http://wctf.state.wi.us/home/FRC.htm
Libraries: http://www.publiclibraries.com/wisconsin.htm
YMCAs and YWCAs: http://www.ymca.net or http://www.ywca.org
Churches, synagogues, hospitals and health centers all may offer trainings in your area. Phone them for dates and locations.
Onsite Training by Outside Experts - such as ...
The Center for the Child Care Workforce offers 4 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
Web: http://ccw.cleverspin.com/publications_trainings.html
High/Scope Educational Research Foundation
Contact: High/Scope's Workshop Coordinator, 734-485-2000, ext. 218
Web: http://www.highscope.org/TrainingConferences/homepage.htm
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
World Wide Web: http://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
Web: http://www.wccip.org/consult.html
Some of the DHFS approved agencies offering non-credit courses also offer onsite training.
http://dhfs.wisconsin.gov/rl_dcfs/pdf-ppt-docs/AgencyList.pdf
In-Service Training Created by Center Staff; Mentoring; Independent Reading or Video Viewing - using resources from organizations such as ...
Child Care Information Center (CCIC mails free articles and brochures and also loans books and videos statewide for only the cost of return postage.): http://dpi.wi.gov/ccic
Earlychildhood NEWS Professional Development Program with UW-Stout:
http://www.earlychildhoodnews.com
EdPro Distance Learning: http://www.edpro.com/distancelearning
Exchange Out of the Box Training Kits: https://secure.ccie.com/catalog/cciecatalog.php?cPath=44
Videatives http://www.videatives.com
Your local library: http://dpi.wi.gov/pld/lib_dir.html
Magazines such as ...
Child Care Information Exchange: http://www.childcareexchange.com
Childhood Education, a publication of the Association for Childhood Education International:
http://www.acei.org
Early Childhood Today: http://teacher.scholastic.com/products/ect
ECNEWSlink online magazine: http://www.earlychildhoodnews.com/teacher_resources/newslink.aspx
Educational Leadership, a publication of the Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development:
http://www.ascd.org
Everyday TLC, Teaching Learning Caring: http://www.everydaytlc.com
School Age NOTES: http://www.schoolagenotes.com
Texas Child Care: http://www.childcarequarterly.com
Young Children, a publication of the National Association for the Education of Young Children:
http://www.naeyc.org
Zero to Three: http://www.zerotothree.org
Newsletters from organizations such as ...
Center for the Child Care Workforce: http://www.ccw.org
Child Care Information Center: http://dpi.wi.gov/rll/ccic
Children's Hospital of Wisconsin: http://www.chw.org/display/PPF/DocID/20175/router.asp
Community Playthings:
http://www.communityplaythings.com/c/Subscriptions/Collage/2006/AChildsGarden?source=collage
Ellyn Satter Associates: http://www.ellynsatter.com/newsletter.htm
(Interpreting the news and research about feeding and eating.)
The Grantsmanship Center http://www.tgci.com/magazine/archives.asp
Healthy Child Care: http://www.healthychild.net
High/Scope ReSource: http://www.highscope.org/About/mailinglist.htm
PACER Early Childhood Connection: http://www.pacer.org/parent/childhood/index.htm
(Information and resources for parents of young children with disabilities.)
Prevent Child Abuse Wisconsin: http://www.preventchildabusewi.org/$spindb.query.listallpub.pcawview
Redleaf E-News: http://www.redleafpress.org/client/client_pages/rl_newsltr.cfm
Resources for Child Caring: http://www.resourcesforchildcare.org
UW-Extension: http://www.uwex.edu/ces/flp/families/childcare.cfm
Wisconsin Council on Children & Families: http://www.wccf.org
Wisconsin Early Childhood Association: http://www.wecanaeyc.org
Wisconsin Initiative for Infant Mental Health: http://www.wiimh.org/newsletter.htm
Internet websites such as ...
National Child Care Information Center: http://www.nccic.org
National Network for Child Care: http://www.nncc.org (Click on Articles & Resources)
Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development: http://www.ascd.org/portal/site/ascd/menuitem.51d81290deb240a98d7ea23161a001ca/
Center for the Child Care Workforce: http://ccw.cleverspin.com/index.html
Child Care Aware: http://www.childcareaware.org
Earlychildhood NEWS: http://www.earlychildhoodnews.com
Family Involvement Network: http://www.gse.harvard.edu/hfrp/projects/fine/resources/guide/guide.html
National Association for Family Child Care: http://www.nafcc.org
National Association for the Education of Young Children (NAEYC): http://www.naeyc.org
National Association of Child Care Resource and Referral Agencies: http://www.naccrra.org/tfq/?a=options
National Black Child Development Institute (NBCDI): http://www.nbcdi.org
National Head Start Association (NHSA): http://www.nhsa.org
Parents' Action for Children (formerly the I Am Your Child Foundation): http://www.parentsaction.org
Search Institute: http://www.search-institute.org/assets/assetlists.html
Zero to Three: http://www.zerotothree.org
Internet websites focusing on ...
Activity ideas
Born Learning: http://www.bornlearning.org
Discount School Supply - Teachers' Resources:
http://www.discountschoolsupply.com/Community/MyCommunityResources.aspx?MenuID=22
Gryphon House - Free Activities: http://www.ghbooks.com/activity
PBS TeacherSource: http://www.pbs.org/teachersource
Teacher QuickSource: http://www.teacherquicksource.com
Teaching Strategies, Inc.: http://www.teachingstrategies.com
(Click on Infant/Toddler, Preschool, Family Child Care, or Primary & School-Age. Then click on Articles.)
Health and safety
Consumer Product Safety Commission: http://www.cpsc.gov/search.html
ECELS - Healthy Child Care Pennsylvania: http://www.ecels-healthychildcarepa.org
National Program for Playground Safety: http://www.playgroundsafety.org/safety/index.htm
National Resource Center for Health and Safety in Child Care: http://nrc.uchsc.edu
Wisconsin Department of Health and Family Services' Blood Borne Pathogens Training Modules:
http://dhfs.wisconsin.gov/webcast/dph/bbp.htm
Wisconsin Department of Health and Family Services' Communicable Disease Fact Sheets:
http://dhfs.wisconsin.gov/communicable/communicable/factsheets
Infants and toddlers
Healthy Child Care America Back to Sleep Campaign (SIDS prevention):
http://www.healthychildcare.org/section_SIDS.cfm
National Center on Shaken Baby Syndrome: http://www.dontshake.com
Program for Infant/Toddler Caregivers: http://www.pitc.org/pub/pitc_docs/resources.html
Zero to Three: http://www.zerotothree.org/ztt_parentAZ.html
School-age care
Afterschool Alliance: http://www.afterschoolalliance.org
National AfterSchool Association: http://www.naaweb.org
National Institute on Out-of-School Time: http://www.niost.org
U.S. Department of Education 21st Century Community Learning Centers: http://www.ed.gov/21stcclc
Wisconsin Afterschool Network (WAN): http://dpi.wi.gov/sspw/wan.html
Children with special needs
CanChild Centre for Childhood Disability Research: http://www.canchild.ca
MUMS National Parent-to-Parent Network: http://www.netnet.net/mums
National Center on Birth Defects and Developmental Disabilities:
http://www.cdc.gov/ncbddd/autism/actearly/default.htm
National Dissemination Center for Children with Disabilities (NICHCY): http://www.nichcy.org
PACER Center: http://www.pacer.org/
Waisman Center Family Village: http://www.familyvillage.wisc.edu
Research
Centre of Excellence for Early Childhood Development: http://www.excellence-earlychildhood.ca
Child Care & Early Education Research Connections: http://www.childcareresearch.org
Wisconsin Child Care Research Partnership: http://www.uwex.edu/ces/flp/wccrp
Wisconsin's Early Childhood Excellence Initiative: http://www.uwex.edu/ces/flp/ece
Resources in Spanish and Hmong
National Network for Child Care: http://www.nncc.org
National Child Care Information Center: http://nccic.acf.hhs.gov/spanish/index.html
BANANAS Inc.: http://www.bananasinc.org/freePubsResults.php?publangID=2
Born Learning: http://sp.bornlearning.org/default.aspx?id=89
Child Care Aware: http://www.childcareaware.org/sp
Program for Infant/Toddler Caregivers: http://www.pitc.org/cs/pitclib/query/q/2222
Resources for Child Caring: http://www.resourcesforchildcare.org
(Click on the Quick Link East African, Hmong, and Latino newsletters.)
UW Extension Family Living Program: http://www.uwex.edu/ces/cty/dane/flp/ResourcesSpanishHmong.html
Wisconsin Department of Health and Family Services' Communicable Disease Fact Sheets:
http://dhfs.wisconsin.gov/communicable/communicable/factsheets
Wisconsin Model Early Learning Standards / Normas de Aprendizaje Temprano Modelo de Wisconsin:
http://www.collaboratingpartners.com/docs/ELStandards_Sp.pdf
Wisconsin Shares, Ayuda con el cuidado de su niņo cuando es necesario:
http://dwd.wisconsin.gov/dws/programs/childcare/informacion.htm
http://www.wisconsinccrr.org o llame al 1-888-713-KIDS(5437)
Zero to Three: La Magia de la Vida Cotidiana: http://www.zerotothree.org/magic/index.html
Niņos con Necesidades Especiales
National Center on Birth Defects and Developmental Disabilities: http://www.cdc.gov/ncbddd/autism/actearly/spanish/downloads_spanish.html
National Dissemination Center for Children with Disabilities: http://www.nichcy.org/spanish.htm
Additions and corrections to the above list are appreciated. Contact CCIC.
For questions about this information, contact Glenna M. Carter (608) 224-6173
Last updated on 2/28/2008 8:18:07 AM
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