What's your Superpower?

This year’s early childhood conference celebrates the extraordinary strengths educators bring to their work every day. Centered on the theme “What’s Your Superpower?”, the conference highlights how compassion, creativity, resilience, and expertise shape young children’s lives and strengthen families and communities.

Through engaging keynotes, interactive workshops, and peer-to-peer learning, participants will explore how their individual “superpowers” show up in classrooms—whether through building secure relationships, supporting social-emotional growth, fostering inclusive environments, or inspiring curiosity and joy in learning. Sessions emphasize practical strategies for sustaining quality teaching, navigating challenges, and valuing the professional skills that often go unseen but make a lasting difference.

Info: As educators, we have a mission—a calling—to keep our boots on the ground and continue the work that shapes the future. What is our mission, you ask? It’s simple yet profound: to set the foundation for every child, preparing them for success in life.

Join me on this journey as we unveil the ABCs of your EDUCATOR’S SUPERPOWER, a guide to inspire, empower, and transform the way we impact children every single day.

Info: We will explain the importance of building positive, loving, and nurturing relationships with children in the classrooms and with parents. Examples will be modeled including using transitions to promote relationships.

Info: Participants will explore methods for incorporating opportunities to learn literacy skills throughout the day using practical, simple, and engaging routines and activities. This workshop will include a make-and-take activity to use with students in the classroom.

Info: Whether you are a director, assistant director, teacher or assistant teacher in a child care center, there are certain strengths/superpowers you bring to your job and share with your team. In this workshop you will learn to recognize and embrace these strengths, as well as the strengths of your co-workers. This workshop will include time for personal reflection, shared conversation, team building, and self-renewal.

Info: This presentation will explore the five early literacy practices, Sing, Talk, Read, Write and Play, identified by the Association for Library Service to Children (ALSC) as foundational activities that support children from birth to age five in building the early-literacy skills they need to succeed in school. It will explain how and why they matter, and offer practical strategies for integrating them into daily routines in classrooms, or at home. By embracing these simple, research-based practices, caregivers, teachers, and early childhood educators can play a powerful role in helping children develop language, vocabulary, narrative skills, print awareness, and a love of books — laying the groundwork for lifelong reading success.

Info: In this workshop we will explore professional collaboration on the everyday struggles and strategies in an Infant/ Toddler classroom. We will focus on identify your strengths and interests and discuss how to incorporate them in your classroom to create a stellar team.

Info: “Sticks and Stones may break my bones, but words will never hurt me” a phrase that has been used for many years spreading a false sentiment. Research has shown that the words we use in the classroom as early childhood professionals have lasting effects on a child’s cognitive and social-emotional development. We often find ourselves reminding students to “use their words” or “we only use kind words”, but are we being mindful of the words we are using? This training focuses on informing, reflecting on, and providing strategies that support teachers in using intentional language and tones that support the healthy development of the students in their care.

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