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Tune in for a dynamic mix of topics tailored for early childhood professionals!
Inclusion Matters is also available on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, and Podchaser.
Part 1: Supporting Infants and Toddlers through Routine Separations and Reunions
Listen as Beth Menninga, our CICC Coaching Manager, joins Inclusion Matters and shares key practices to support our youngest learners through common daily separations and reunions.
(Length: 31:02)Part 2: Supporting Quality Play Relationships-Preschoolers
Join in our second part of a discussion on the importance of play with Dr. Sue Starks, Professor of Education and Chair of Early Childhood at Concordia University St. Paul. We discuss the fact that play is a developmental need and that all children show us what they need through play. Quality play is encouraged through the supports, prompts, activities, and experiences that we provide in the early childhood setting. Listen as Dr. Starks encourages us all to play!
(Length: 20:39)Part 1: Supporting Quality Play Relationships-Infants and Toddlers
Listen as our guest, Dr. Sue Starks, Professor of Education and Chair of Early Childhood at Concordia University St. Paul, talks about one of her passions, supporting play in young children. Dr. Starks shares that play is relationship based and your environment matters. How can you align your space to foster early social emotional connection through play? Join us as we explore this important topic.
(Length: 23:15)80x3 Podcast Series: Early Childhood Budgets, Boards, and Brain Development - Part 3
Join our guests, Amanda Ziebell Mawanda, Art Rolnick, and Jamie Bonczyk in this three-part series as they discuss how budgeting decisions in the early childhood education sector translate into positive brain development in young children. Barriers are highlighted as we talk through ways to foster organizational shifts, economic investment, stressing board recruitment and engagement as ways to support your organization’s work.
(Length: 30:18)80x3 Podcast Series: Early Childhood Budgets, Boards, and Brain Development - Part 2
Join our guests, Amanda Ziebell Mawanda, Art Rolnick, and Jamie Bonczyk in this three-part series as they discuss how budgeting decisions in the early childhood education sector translate into positive brain development in young children. Barriers are highlighted as we talk through ways to foster organizational shifts, economic investment, stressing board recruitment and engagement as ways to support your organization’s work.
(Length: 31:09)80x3 Podcast Series: Early Childhood Budgets, Boards, and Brain Development - Part 1
Join our guests, Amanda Ziebell Mawanda, Art Rolnick, and Jamie Bonczyk in this three-part series as they discuss how budgeting decisions in the early childhood education sector translate into positive brain development in young children. Barriers are highlighted as we talk through ways to foster organizational shifts, economic investment, stressing board recruitment and engagement as ways to support your organization’s work.
(Length: 29:24)