Podcast

Our guest Sarah Hawley of Minnesota Child Care Health Consultants is back again for another episode to support healthy child care settings.  Priscilla Weigel and Sarah discuss the common illnesses that require exclusion from child care settings and why.  Policies and communication with families and staff are also discussed as well as illness that does not require exclusion. 

Join us for this special episode of Inclusion Matters as we talk with Margaret Mahowld, Director of Calvary Child Care.  She shares her path to hope in the staffing crisis detailing her step by step plan to keep her child care setting open and able to continue to support families.

Priscilla Weigel wraps up this three part series highlighting the CICC coaching process with guests, Dana Ellingson and Jackie Johnson, both CICC coaches.  They review the coaching model and discuss the way a coaching partnership wraps up.  Relationships of support are emphasized throughout the coaching process so the three converse about how those essential relationships are sustained and how the CICC Continuous Quality Improvement Plan plays a major role in building long term sustainability of new skills and strategies.

In part two of her conversation with CICC coaches Dana Ellingson and Jackie Johnson, Priscilla Weigel asks about goal setting and mapping out the plan for success in the coaching relationship. The CICC Continuous Quality Improvement Plan is highlighted. 

Priscilla Weigel begins a three part conversation with two CICC coaches, Dana Ellingson and Jackie Johnson. They discuss the CICC coaching process in both a center-based and family child care setting and how the first connections build a supportive partnership.

Conflict can happen when adults spend time together. What are the practices that you follow to support your teaching team when issues arise? This podcast addresses ways to create space for conversation in a respectful manner that helps clear the air so the team can function properly and positively.