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2010 Stand and Celebrate Schedule of Events

Thursday, August 12th, 2010 Sessions

All classes to be held in the Wold Physical Science Center (PS) at Casper College.

You can get maps of the Casper College campus here.

10:00-11:45 AM
  • Sensory Integration Dysfunction
    • Hours and Core Area: 2.0 UCA
    • Location: PS 103
    • Sensory integration pertains to the use of our senses which allows our brains to organize information and respond appropriately, which affects many children with a variety of disabilities. In this interactive session, information and strategies about common sensitivities and symptoms will be shared, with tips on how to recognize sensory issues of children and how to make the child care and home environment more friendly to them.
    • Trainer: Betty Carmon
  • Fire Safety Jeopardy
    • Hours and Core Area: 2.0 HSN
    • Location: PS 117
    • This will be a fun way to learn about the dangers of fire and about how to prevent fire. You will learn what the fire inspector will be looking for and why these things are important. Team work is critical in this fire safety game.
    • Trainers: Brad Carroll
  • “Nature-ly Kids” Projects WET, WILD and Learning Tree
    • Hours and Core Area: 2.0 ALE
    • Location: PS 109
    • This session will use activities from Projects WET, WILD and Learning Tree to investigate how water, animals, and forests are a part of our everyday lives. We will learn why water is important, how animals share our world, and how forests can teach us many things.
    • Trainers: Evert and Tammy Brown
  • Medication Administration
    • Hours and Core Area: 2.0 HSN
    • Location: PS 202
    • Participants will receive training to meet the licensing requirements for medication administration.
    • Trainer: Jen Seurer
  • Oh The Places You’ll Go! What the Market Rate Survey Can Do For You
    • Hours and Core Area: 2.0 P
    • Location: PS 209
    • “There is fun to be done! There are games to be won! And the magical things you can do with that ball will make you the winning-est winner of all!” Come see what a little data can do for you and get a free copy of the Dr. Seuss classic.
    • Trainers: Linda Crowder and Theresa Williams
  • The Amazing Brain of a Baby
    • Hours and Core Area: 2.0 CGD (Infant Credit)
    • Location: PS 216
    • The amazing brain! The human brain begins developing before we are even born. Come and learn how children’s brains develop and how that development affects their ability to learn and grow.
    • Trainer: LiEnisa Martinez
  • Tina the Training Fairy
    • Hours and Core Area: 2.0 PM
    • Location: PS 214
    • Are you struggling to find the right training? Let Tina the Training Fairy help you learn ways to access high quality training across the state.
    • Trainer: Deanna Frey
  • SIDS: Prevention is Key
    • Hours and Core Area: 2.0 HSN (Infant Credit)
    • Location: PS 222
    • An introduction and discussion of Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS) including risk factors, prevention recommendations, and safe sleep programs. The discussion will also cover the most current recommendations, sleep blankets (sacks) and community partnerships for safe sleep in Wyoming.
    • Trainer: Jennifer Davis
  • Come Dance With Me
    • Hours and Core Area: 2.0 FR (Infant Credit)
    • Location: PS 317
    • Through educational activities participants will gain a basic understanding of partnering with the parents of infants and toddlers. Participants will learn how the relationships between a parent and a child are like a dance and how as caregivers the provider can extend the dance into their daily routines.
    • Trainer: Kim Lamb
11:45 AM to 1:00 PM

Lunch! Provided in Roberts Common

1:00 to 2:45 PM
  • The Picture of Neglect
    • Hours and Core Area: 2.0 P
    • Location: PS 107
    • Participants will learn about the types and nature of child neglect and the impact on young children. Participants will learn how to report child neglect and abuse and how to promote educational and preventative materials and services to their program families. (Instructor proposed this class saturates the biennium requirement of child abuse and neglect)
    • Trainer: Betsy Schmick
  • How to Help Grown-Ups Learn Too
    • Hours and Core Area: 2.0 P
    • Location: PS 109
    • If you find yourself teaching workshops or courses for parents or other adults, this workshop will help you understand the basic differences between adult education and traditional education. It will help you put together instruction designed for adults.
    • Trainer: Jim Boyd
  • Come Dance With Me
    • Hours and Core Area: 2.0 FR (Infant Credit)
    • Location: PS 317
    • Through educational activities participants will gain a basic understanding of partnering with the parents of infants and toddlers. Participants will learn how the relationships between a parent and a child are like a dance and how as caregivers the provider can extend the dance into their daily routines.
    • Trainer: Kim Lamb
  • Growing People and Programs
    • Hours and Core Area: 2.0 P
    • Location: PS 111
    • Professional Development has never been more important in the field of early childhood. This session will discuss the importance of professional development, help participants indentify learning styles and motivation, and outline specific steps in preparing and implementing a professional development plan.
    • Trainer: LaNelle Martin
  • Teaching Young Children to Resist Bias, What Parents and Providers Can Do
    • Hours and Core Area: 2.0 UCA
    • Location: PS 315
    • Over the course of the preschool years, children develop their own self-identity and their ideas about others. Children gradually come to understand that they are similar to, as well as, diverse compared to others. Children’s learning experiences in these early years can help them form a strong, positive self-concept and grow up to respect and interact comfortably with people who are different from themselves.
    • Trainers: Troy Barnett
  • Accessing State Money for Training Through the Department of Workforce Services
    • Hours and Core Area: 2.0 PM
    • Location: PS 214
    • This class is intended to familiarize attendees with the WY Quality Counts! Program, outline program services and processes with an easy-to-understand way and to educate about the importance of human resource investment.
    • Trainers: Nicole Novotny and Denise Steele
  • Autism
    • Hours and Core Area: 2.0 UCA
    • Location: PS 119
    • In the past few years, autism has become the fastest growing diagnosis of children with special needs. This workshop will define the symptoms and characteristics of the Autism Spectrum, and offer tips and strategies on working with and supporting children with autism.
    • Trainer: Betty Carmon
  • Guided Play: An Approach to Cognitive Development of Young Children
    • Hours and Core Area: 2.0 ALE
    • Location: PS 209
    • Play is an important vehicle for cognitive development. Based on a Dutch curriculum, this workshop focuses on guiding gross motor play in a manner that enhances cognitive development. Through songs, dancing and handling manipulative young children are guided toward a growing understanding of some of the more abstract prerequisites for later learning.
    • Trainer: Regien Hasperhoven
  • Infant and Toddler Language Development
    • Hours and Core Area: 2.0 CGD (Infant Credit)
    • Location: PS 216
    • In this class, participants can expect to learn how to foster infants and toddlers language skill development that will help them do better in school and throughout their lives.
    • Trainer: Penny Hotovec
  • Fire Safety Evacuation Demonstration
    • Hours and Core Area: 2.0 HSN
    • Location: PS 117
    • This class is a mix of practical tips and information on evacuation from your child care facility and the difficulties that can arise but also we will conduct a evacuation drill. Fun for all!
    • Trainer: Brad Carroll
2:45 to 3:15 PM

Break!

3:15 to 5:00 PM
  • Making “Sense” of Behavior Management
    • Hours and Core Area: 2.0 G&D
    • Location: PS 107
    • Behavior Management in the #1 challenge for staff in the early childhood profession. This session will review the relationship between sensory integration and the development of challenging behaviors and provide specific strategies to help children regulate their own behavior.
    • Trainer: Betsy Schmick
  • Caregiver Styles and Classroom Culture
    • Hours and Core Area: 2.0 UCA
    • Location: PS 109
    • Learn about your style and your strengths as they relate to promoting cultural sensitivity and relationships amongst early child educators, children and family members. A fun, interactive session that promises to invigorate!
    • Trainer: Tiernan McIlwaine
  • Statewide Training and Resource System: Your Personal Guide
    • Hours and Core Area: 2.0 PM
    • Location: PS 117
    • You have heard of it and you’ve even used it somewhat: but what is STARS really all about? Come and see for yourself how to navigate and utilize STARS to maximize your class opportunity potential! Ease your mind with learning how to strategically plan for STARS hours and what we can do for in your business plan!
    • Trainer: Sheila Ricley
  • Storytelling
    • Hours and Core Area: 2.0 ALE
    • Location: PS 119
    • Understanding the importance of storytelling and unique ways to tell stories is a fun and exciting way to incorporate activities that allow children achieve individual learning goals.
    • Trainer: Penny Hotovec
  • Will your legacy be a hole or a smooth transition to the future? Sustainability for Child Care Center Directors.
    • Hours and Core Area: 2.0 PM
    • Location: PS 202
    • Will your legacy be a hole or a smooth transition to the future? Sustainability is more than money! Have you planned for your organization to succeed without you? This class is restricted to child center directors who have been in-place at least five years and who are interested in developing a plan to support the successful operation of their child care center after they leave or retire. Class size will be restricted to 12 participants in order to support in-depth discussion and development of a planning outline.
    • Trainer: Rose Kor
  • Interagency Agreements/Memorandums of Understanding: A Handshake or a Written Document?
    • Hours and Core Area: 2.0 PM
    • Location: PS 209
    • This workshop will cover the advantages and possible disadvantages of having written interagency agreements (IA) or memorandums of understanding (MOU), the elements of an IA/MOU to see what constitutes a good plan.
    • Trainer: David Haines
  • After Hours Fun: When Parents are Engaged, Kids Win
    • Hours and Core Area: 2.0 FR
    • Location: PS 111
    • A hands-on class designed to give you an understanding of how to plan, create, and set-up "Family Nights" within your program. Increase your students’ interactions with their family members through games and activities. The key to a successful program is parent support! This class is designed to help you and your parents.
    • Trainers: Jennifer McDonald and Jennifer Zook
  • I Am A Child First - Benefits of Incorporating Special Quest Approach and Materials
    • Hours and Core Area: 2.0 UCA
    • Location: PS 216
    • Participants through educational activities and discussion will gain a different perspective as they come to see the child with a disability as a child first and feel comfortable creating a welcoming environment for all children. The participant will engage in activities that will increase their comfort level and ability to serve young children with disabilities and their families.
    • Trainer: Kim Lamb and Cheryl Kolesien

Friday, August 13th Sessions

All classes to be held in the Wold Physical Science Center (PS) or the Strausner Student Center (CE) at Casper College.

You can get maps of the Casper College campus here.

8:00-9:45 AM
  • Storytelling
    • Hours and Core Area: 2.0 ALE
    • Location: PS 111
    • Understanding the importance of storytelling and unique ways to tell stories is a fun and exciting way to incorporate activities that allow children achieve individual learning goals.
    • Trainer: Penny Hotovec
  • Family Connections: How to Build Relationships to Support Child Development
    • Hours and Core Area: 2.0 FR
    • Location: PS 214
    • Learn and share what family relationship building methods work while we explore why communication is vital and the impact it can have on children across all developmental domains. We will answer the questions: what do parents look for? And what can I do to exceed their expectations?
    • Trainer: Sheila Ricley
  • The Five Love Languages of Children
    • Hours and Core Area: 2.0 CGD
    • Location: PS 119
    • Physical Touch, Words of Affirmation, Quality Time, Gifts, and Acts of Service. Each person has one "primary" language that they prefer, and the goal is to figure out what your children’s primary language is and then begin "speaking" to him or her in that language. Positive language in a time children need it the most.
    • Trainer: Troy Barnett
  • STARS & Career Development: Moving from Babysitter to Child Care Practitioner
    • Hours and Core Area: 2.0 P
    • Location: PS 202
    • This class will provide a practical overview of the Wyoming Early Care and Education career ladder and ways to gain additional education and skills including WY Quality Counts funding assistance.
    • Trainer: Rose Kor
  • Fire Safety Jeopardy
    • Hours and Core Area: 2.0 HSN
    • Location: PS 117
    • This will be a fun way to learn about the dangers of fire and about how to prevent fire. You will learn what the fire inspector will be looking for and why these things are important. Team work is critical in this fire safety game.
    • Trainers: Brad Carroll
  • Back to Nature Outdoor Playscapes
    • Hours and Core Area: 2.0 ALE
    • Location: PS 107
    • This class will offer the participants a wide range of ideas for transforming your outdoor play area, multi-use play and discovery areas that offer children a range of physical as well as social and emotional skills. Ideas presented will conform to Wyoming Child Care Licensing Rules.
    • Trainer: Tresa King
  • Reading and Writing Through Play
    • Hours and Core Area: 2.0 ALE
    • Location: PS 109
    • Learning to Read and Write through Play is an over view of the Big Horn Co. School District #1 Pre-K Program developed for 4 year olds to bolster school readiness and social skills for children who have no other preschool options. DAP help children learn to use language, sounds, letters, and numbers in meaningful ways during play.
    • Trainer: Kendy Richards
  • Guided Play: An Approach to Cognitive Development of Young Children
    • Hours and Core Area: 2.0 ALE
    • Location: PS 209
    • Play is an important vehicle for cognitive development. Based on a Dutch curriculum, this workshop focuses on guiding gross motor play in a manner that enhances cognitive development. Through songs, dancing and handling manipulative young children are guided toward a growing understanding of some of the more abstract prerequisites for later learning.
    • Trainer: Regien Hasperhoven
  • Caregiver Styles and Classroom Culture
    • Hours and Core Area: 2.0 UCA
    • Location: PS 222
    • Learn about your style and your strengths as they relate to promoting cultural sensitivity and relationships amongst early child educators, children and family members. A fun, interactive session that promises to invigorate!
    • Trainer: Tiernan McIlwaine
  • Baby Songs: Using Music to Advance Infant Development
    • Hours and Core Area: 2.0 CGD
    • Location: PS 216
    • Trainer: Jan Lawrence
9:45 to 10:00 AM

Break!

10:00 to 11:45 AM
  • Director’s Training Part 1: Finding the Staff You Want and Need
    • Hours and Core Area: 2.0 PM
    • Location: CE 217
    • Trainer: Tracey Ballas
  • Parent Leadership Training Institute- A Taste of PLTI
    • Hours and Core Area: 2.0 P
    • Location: PS 214
    • Understanding the past in order to shape the future is a major theme in the PLTI. This course is designed to help parents perceive themselves as the change agents and to understand obstacles to leadership while understanding the importance of using language.
    • Trainer: Ann Siebert
  • “Nature-ly Kids” Projects WET, WILD and Learning Tree
    • Hours and Core Area: 2.0 ALE
    • Location: PS 109
    • This session will use activities from Projects WET, WILD and Learning Tree to investigate how water, animals, and forests are a part of our everyday lives. We will learn why water is important, how animals share our world, and how forests can teach us many things.
    • Trainers: Evert and Tammy Brown
  • Understanding Infants and Toddlers: What is their Behavior Telling You?
    • Hours and Core Area: 2.0 CG&D (Infant Credit)
    • Location: PS 111
    • Participants will review the major milestones of growth and development during the first three years and explore the latest brain development research with what impacts brain growth. Come learn and practice a 3-step approach to understanding challenging behavior and discuss the impact of quality child care environments on infant and toddler development.
    • Trainers: Betsy Schmick and LaNelle Martin
  • Back to Nature Outdoor Playscapes
    • Hours and Core Area: 2.0 ALE
    • Location: PS 107
    • This class will offer the participants a wide range of ideas for transforming your outdoor play area, multi-use play and discovery areas that offer children a range of physical as well as social and emotional skills. Ideas presented will conform to Wyoming Child Care Licensing Rules.
    • Trainer: Tresa King
  • Reflections on Early Childhood Education
    • Hours and Core Area: 2.0 CGD
    • Location: PS 119
    • Come explore practices that have been proven to help teachers, caregivers and parents strengthen relationships with students resulting in better classroom management and higher employee, family and child satisfaction.
    • Trainer: Tiernan McIlwaine
  • Silly Willies: Incorporating Exercise to Promote Health and Combat Childhood Obesity
    • Hours and Core Area: 2.0 HSN
    • Location: PS 117
    • n a room filled with children have you ever turned on some music and just watched what happens? Children have a natural affinity to music and movement, and by scheduling this into your daily routine you can expect to teach them lifelong skills of healthy living, promote gross motor development, channel their "abundant" energy in positive ways, AND combat childhood obesity! So what are you waiting for? Let’s Dance!
    • Trainer: Sheila Ricley
  • Cradling Literacy by Zero to Three- Part 1
    • Hours and Core Area: 2.0 ALE
    • Location: CE 207
    • The main focus for this course will be on early language and literacy development and the importance of cultural differences and family relationships. Cradling literacy curriculum developed by zero to three is designed to enhance the skills of child care providers as they support early language and literacy development in children from birth to five years.
    • Trainer: Sherry Salmon
  • Positive Guidance: Building Relationships and Supportive Environments Part 1
    • Hours and Core Area: 2.0 G&D
    • Location: PS 209
    • This session will focus on promoting the social emotional development of young children birth to age 5. Participants will be introduced to an effective approach to support children’s appropriate behavior and preventing challenging behavior. Part 2 of this class will be presented from 1:00-3:00.
    • Trainer: Laurie Westlake and Judy Stewart
  • After Hours Fun: When Parents are Engaged, Kids Win
    • Hours and Core Area: 2.0 FR
    • Location: PS 222
    • A hands-on class designed to give you an understanding of how to plan, create, and set-up "Family Nights" within your program. Increase your students’ interactions with their family members through games and activities. The key to a successful program is parent support! This class is designed to help you and your parents.
    • Trainers: Jennifer McDonald and Jennifer Zook
  • Love and Logic: An Overview for Caregivers
    • Hours and Core Area: 2.0 G&D
    • Location: PS 109
    • This seminar gives helpful strategies to work with even the most challenging behaviors. By using empathy along with consequences, children learn to regulate their own actions and emotions, and feel in control without tantrums.
    • Trainer: Kathleen Farstad
  • Tina the Training Fairy
    • Hours and Core Area: 2.0 PM
    • Location: PS 216
    • Are you struggling to find the right training? Let Tina the Training Fairy help you learn ways to access high quality training across the state.
    • Trainer: Deanna Frey
11:45 AM to 1:00 PM

Lunch! Provided in Roberts Common

1:00 to 2:45 PM
  • Director’s Training Part 2: Supervision and Training that Builds Capable Staff
    • Hours and Core Area: 2.0 PM
    • Location: CE 217
    • Trainer: Tracey Ballas
  • Positive Guidance: Building Relationships and Supportive Environments Part 2
    • Hours and Core Area: 2.0 G&D
    • Location: PS 209
    • This session will focus on promoting the social emotional development of young children birth to age 5. Participants will be introduced to an effective approach to support children’s appropriate behavior and preventing challenging behavior.
    • Trainer: Laurie Westlake and Judy Stewart
  • The Clash of Cultures
    • Hours and Core Area: 2.0 UCA
    • Location: PS 103
    • Learn what happens when a dominant culture imposes its values and institutions on a minority culture.
    • Trainer: Father Michael Oleska
  • “Not Another Staff Meeting!”
    • Hours and Core Area: 2.0 PM
    • Location: PS 111
    • Have you or your staff ever dreaded going to a staff meeting? Are they a "waste of time"? Come and explore was to keep your staff meetings on track and to make them something other look forward to coming to!
    • Trainer: Betsy Schmick
  • Hitting the Target: Tips for Training Adults
    • Hours and Core Area: 2.0 P
    • Location: PS 109
    • When you are used to working with children, training adults can present new challenges. This session will discuss the things that adults need for a successful learning experience and will provide tips for making sure those needs are met.
    • Trainer: LaNelle Martin
  • Designing Living and Learning Environments
    • Hours and Core Area: 2.0 ALE
    • Location: PS 107
    • Facing barriers and negotiating change in our living and learning environments is difficult but possible with a positive attitude, goal setting, and commitment. Come and learn how and be prepared for some new joy and satisfaction in your work!
    • Trainer: Sherry Lyons
  • You are Here (Brain Based Research, Theory, Philosophy and You #Me # Everybody)
    • Hours and Core Area: 2.0 G&D
    • Location: PS 317
    • How brain base research merges with the observations of Erikson, Piaget and the like. Giving an emphasis on how the knowledge base plays into philosophy as well as the practical, "guidance and disciple" and# what does, Kohlberg have to say about it?
    • Trainer: Troy Barnett
  • Cradling Literacy by Zero to Three- Part 2
    • Hours and Core Area: 2.0 ALE
    • Location: PS 103
    • The main focus for this course will be on early language and literacy development and the importance of cultural differences and family relationships. Cradling literacy curriculum developed by zero to three is designed to enhance the skills of child care providers as they support early language and literacy development in children from birth to five years.
    • Trainer: Sherry Salmon
  • Seizure Disorders: An Informative Introduction for Child Care Providers
    • Hours and Core Area: 2.0 HNS
    • Location: PS 202
    • Seizure training for child care providers will provide participants with general information about seizures and epilepsy including specific information about the various seizure types. Participants will also learn appropriate first aid for seizures and how to recognize when a seizure is an emergency. Epilepsy treatments, medications, and documentation of an episode as well as writing a seizure plan will also be discussed.
    • Trainer: Janelle Porter
  • Reflections on Early Childhood Education
    • Hours and Core Area: 2.0 CGD
    • Location: PS 119
    • Come explore practices that have been proven to help teachers, caregivers and parents strengthen relationships with students resulting in better classroom management and higher employee, family and child satisfaction.
    • Trainer: Tiernan McIlwaine
  • After Hours Fun: When Parents are Engaged, Kids Win
    • Hours and Core Area: 2.0 FR
    • Location: PS 222
    • A hands-on class designed to give you an understanding of how to plan, create, and set-up "Family Nights" within your program. Increase your students’ interactions with their family members through games and activities. The key to a successful program is parent support! This class is designed to help you and your parents.
    • Trainers: Jennifer McDonald and Jennifer Zook
2:45 to 3:15 PM

Break!

3:15 to 5:00 PM
  • Director’s Training Part 3: Motivate or Terminate
    • Hours and Core Area: 2.0 PM
    • Location: CE 217
    • Trainer: Tracey Ballas
  • "Did You Mean What I Thought You Said?" The Art of Communication
    • Hours and Core Area: 2.0 P
    • Location: PS 111
    • he art of communication is difficult and con often be very frustrating. What they heard in not what you thought you said! Come and learn strategies for effectively communicating to staff and families and how to avoid those exasperating blunders!
    • Trainers: Betsy Schmick and LaNelle Martin
  • Love and Logic: An Overview for Caregivers
    • Hours and Core Area: 2.0 G&D
    • Location: PS 109
    • This seminar gives helpful strategies to work with even the most challenging behaviors. By using empathy along with consequences, children learn to regulate their own actions and emotions, and feel in control without tantrums.
    • Trainer: Kathleen Farstad
  • NAEYC Accreditation Process: Commitment to DAP
    • Hours and Core Area: 2.0 PM
    • Location: PS 107
    • NAEYC Accreditation Process: Commitment to Developmentally Appropriate Practices will inform participants as to the ten Early Childhood Program Standards and Accreditation criteria, working within the NAEYC Code of Ethical Conduct. Developmentally Appropriate Practices will be outlines with attention to the active learning environment.
    • Trainer: Martha Howard-Sembert
  • Cradling Literacy by Zero to Three- Part 3
    • Hours and Core Area: 2.0 ALE
    • Location: CE 207
    • he main focus for this course will be on early language and literacy development and the importance of cultural differences and family relationships. Cradling literacy curriculum developed by zero to three is designed to enhance the skills of child care providers as they support early language and literacy development in children from birth to five years.
    • Trainer: Sherry Salmon
  • What Are We Learning? A Make and Take Experience
    • Hours and Core Area: 2.0 ALE
    • Location: PS 117
    • Not your everyday make-and-take. Come join us to discover how everyday items can help enhance children’s self-directed play and learning.
    • Trainers: Tara Golterman and Sarah Feeney
  • The Three Definitions of Culture
    • Hours and Core Area: 2.0 UCA
    • Location: PS 103
    • Your culture comes from 3 different influences: The Way You See the World, The Game of Life as You Play it, and the Story of Life Into Which You Were Born. This fascinating workshop will help you understand your specific culture.
    • Trainer: Father Michael Oleska
  • STOP and ?
    • Hours and Core Area: 2.0 CGD
    • Location: PS 119
    • Participants will explore and do hands on activities that will enhance the process for appropriate developmental skills in the learning domains, physical, social/emotional, language, and cognitive.
    • Trainer: Theo Powers

Saturday, August 14th Conference

All Saturday sessions to be held at the Casper Events Center.

Here’s a map.

  • 8:30 to 8:45
    • Welcome/Opening: Tony Lewis, Director, Department of Family Services
  • 8:45 to 10:05
    • Dr. Allen Mallory (1.5 CGD) -- Laugh and Learn. A unique, fast paced presentation of preschool child development principles delivered in both a humorous and serious manner by one of America’s most respected child advocates, Dr. Mallory explores (as only he can!) subjects such as discipline, self concept, staff relations, parents, curriculum areas and motivation. Dr. Mallory has been a day care aide, head teacher, director, owner, Head Start director, consultant, author and parent. His "Bill Cosby" approach to these experiences have led hundreds of directors to say that his workshop had a more positive and lasting influence on them and their staff than any...ever!
  • 10:05 to 10:25
    • Break
  • 10:25 to 11:45
    • Tracey Ballas (1.5 PM) -- Coming Together to Make a Difference for Children and Families. Tracey’s career has been far-reaching, taking on roles that ranged from president of the National After-School Association to advisor to former Vice President Al Gore on the Welfare to Work Committee. She is a frequent trainer and public speaker in national demand on issues related to after-school care. Tracey is also the former statewide coordinator of the Ohio Project on Out of School Time and the former director of the Ohio Child Care Resource and Referral Association. She served as director of Child Care Services for the YMCA of Central Ohio and was the director of the Zanesville City Schools Before and After School Programs.
  • 11:45 to 1:15
    • Lunch (Includes Celebrations!)
  • 12:15 to 1:10
    • Celebrations! (1.0 P)
  • 1:15 to 2:45
    • Father Michael Oleksa (1.5 UCA) -- Culture and Communication. What’s a culture? What’s your culture? Do you have a culture? Everyone does. The best definition of culture is "the way you see the world." But you can’t SEE the way you see the world. Your own culture is always invisible to you. We can look at other people’s cultures and note how they differ from our own, but we can’t articulate our own very well. Father Oleksa offers a fascinating insight into how the different tempos, musical tones, distance, volume settings and politeness styles of our cultures effect communication. This workshop is guaranteed to provide those "Aha"! moments!
  • 2:45 to 3:05
    • Break
  • 3:10 to 4:30
    • Christopher Novak (1.5 P) -- Conquering Adversity is an inspiring reminder that there is a hero inside each of us and that we are stronger than any challenge. Against a backdrop of extreme adversity, Novak offers six strategies--affirmation, expectation, communication, locomotion, collaboration and celebration--that help us excel at work and at home. This powerful, real-world experience includes insights on dealing with change, building relationships, communicating for impact, taking initiative, balancing priorities and more. Interactive and personalized, this presentation offers participants tangible takeaways and materials that reinforce the message long after the session ends. Based on the book and presented by the author, Conquering Adversity is an experience not to be missed.

2009 Photo Contest Winners!

We would like to thank everyone who participated in the Stand & Celebrate Photo Contest 2009. We received so many wonderful pictures this year it was difficult to select the finalists. The following are the three top place winners of the Photo Contest held on August 1st.

First Place—Ruth Williams, Rock Springs, WY First Place--Lana Shambaugh

Bubble Magic

Second Place—Lyndsay Rush, Pinedale, WY Second Place--Nikki Schmaltz

Can You Hear Me Now?

Third Place—Becky Erpelding, Cheyenne, WY Third Place--Jennifer Morrison

Once Upon a Time