Everyday Innovation for Early Learning Leadership and Practice

As dedicated and resilient professionals, early education leaders and practitioners have an opportunity to leverage their considerable skills and abilities to help drive positive and meaningful change and to spark everyday innovation for progress. Throughout this program, we will explore what it means to engage in everyday innovation – transformative approaches that offer new solutions to persistent problems. With expertise and insights from a diverse group of speakers and facilitators, this program will provide participants with concrete tools and hands-on support to leverage their own expertise and generate creative, actionable solutions to the challenges facing today’s young children, their families, and their early learning environments.

Tuesday October 29, 2024
Registration: 8:00 - 9:00 a.m.
Program: 9:00 a.m. - 3:00 p.m.
Innovation Challenge: 4:00 - 5:30 p.m. (optional)

Wednesday October 30, 2024
Program: 9:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m.

During this program, participants will:

• Explore “everyday innovation” in early education – what it is and why it’s needed.
• Learn how innovative thinking can help address everyday challenges in early learning settings.
• Learn from innovators on the ground who have developed effective strategies and mindsets to spark change in their settings and communities.
• Practice using an iterative, innovation-focused approach to identify and address a pressing problem of practice in their setting or community

• Directors of early education centers or programs
• Leaders of early education service organizations across the mixed delivery system
• Principals, directors, administrators, and coaches in public school pre-K programs
• Teachers who take on leadership roles, and aspiring leaders
• State early education leaders
• Grantmakers and advocates

This program welcomes registrations from both individuals and teams. First-time registrants need to create a Professional Education account to register.

Individuals: Click the "Register" button at the top of this page to log into your Professional Education account and access the registration page. Proceed with the individual form until submission. Invoices will be immediately available upon the submission of the form.

Teams:

Step 1: Designate one participant or an administrative staff member as the Coordinator.

• The Coordinator should click the "Register" button at the top of this page to log into their Professional Education account and access the registration page.
• Proceed with the team form, including providing the name, email address, and job title of each participant in your team.
• The Coordinator can choose to receive a team invoice
• The invoice will be immediately available upon the submission of the form. Contact us if you are eligible for the group discount. 
• Contact us if you need to make any changes to your team after submitting the form.

Step 2: Upon the submission of the team application, all team members will receive an email notification with a link to their personal registration form. Team members should complete their forms promptly to access the program’s Community Group for updates and Canvas course access. 

Professional Education is excited to offer Continuing Education Units (CEUs) for your successful participation in this program.

The Continuing Education Unit (CEU) is a nationally and internationally recognized unit of measurement for non-credit continuing education programs. As an IACET Accredited Provider, Professional Education offers IACET CEUs for its learning events that comply with the ANSI/IACET Continuing Education and Training Standard.

Requirements to be eligible to earn CEUs:

• Attend or view all program sessions.
• Complete program evaluation.
• Successfully complete all program requirements.

Upon successfully meeting all requirements outlined above, you will be notified via email that you have A) earned the certificate of completion for the program and B) are now eligible to earn CEUs. This email will contain the link to complete the required reflection assignment if you wish to receive CEUs, along with a submission deadline, and time frame for receiving your CEUs. After submitting your reflection assignment, we will notify you via email of your CEU status, and if you have met all requirements, you will be able to download and view your CEU certificate at this point in time.

This program is eligible for 0.5 CEUs.

Note: Professional Education is accredited by the International Accreditors for Continuing Education and Training (IACET) and offers IACET CEUs for its learning events that comply with the ANSI/IACET Continuing Education and Training Standard. IACET is recognized internationally as a standard development organization and accrediting body that promotes quality of continuing education and training.