Hybrid Trainer Institute - In-Person Launch
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Berkeley, California
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Karla de Guzman
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Janet Gonzalez-Mena
Early Childhood Consultant
Janet Gonzalez-Mena is a writer, trainer, and consultant in early childhood education, with an emphasis on infants, toddlers, and integrating cultural differences into programs. She started as an early childhood education practitioner and later became a community college instructor at Napa Valley College, retiring in 1998.
Gonzalez-Mena is author of the PITC caregiver guide on Routines and has contributed to other PITC guides as well. She has been writing and revising college textbooks and since the
Senta Greene
Founder and Executive Leader
Full Circle Consulting Systems, Inc.
Senta Greene is the founder and CEO of Full Circle Consulting Systems, Inc., an international consulting firm specializing in the science child and adolescent development, transformational leadership, community, and family engagement.
Manual
Manual pedagógico, Módulo I: El crecimiento socioemocional y la socialización, Segunda edición
The Module I Trainer's Manual provides an easy-to-follow guide for effectively presenting materials in the module. Annotated lesson plans outline adult learning activities, support materials, and video content. Prepared text for handouts and overhead transparencies are included in a loose-leaf binder-insert format.
WestEd. (2018). The program for infant/toddler care trainer's manual, module I: Social-emotional growth and socialization (2nd ed.). Sacramento, CA: California Department of Education.
Guide
Infant/Toddler Caregiving: A Guide to Social-Emotional Growth and Socialization, Second Edition
The second edition contains updated approaches to nurturing the social and emotional growth of infants and toddlers. Current research about brain development and its relationship to children's emotional growth and socialization are also discussed. An appendix of the social-emotional development foundations is included. You may order the resource directly from the California Department of Education.
Lally, J. R. (Ed.). (2011). Infant/toddler caregiving: A guide to social-emotional growth and socialization (2nd ed.). Sacramento, CA: California Department of Education.
Manual
Trainer's Manual Module I: Social-Emotional Growth and Socialization, Second Edition
The Module I Trainer's Manual provides easy-to-follow guidelines for effectively presenting materials in the module. Annotated lesson plans outline adult learning activities, support materials, and video content. Handouts are also included. The second edition has been revised to include updated information and guidance on understanding and supporting infants and toddlers social-emotional development. A new section on infant mental health has been added. There is a strong emphasis on including children with disabilities or other special needs in infant/toddler care programs.
WestEd. (2014). The program for infant/toddler care trainers manual, module I: Social-emotional growth and socialization (2nd ed.). Sacramento, CA: California Department of Education.
Guide
El cuidado de los niños de cero a tres años en grupo: Una guía para el desarrollo socioemocional y la socialización, Segunda edición
The second edition contains updated approaches to nurturing the social and emotional growth of infants and toddlers. Current research about brain development and its relationship to children's emotional growth and socialization are also discussed. An appendix of the social-emotional development foundations is included. You may order a hardcopy of the resource directly from the California Department of Education.
Lally, J. R. (Ed.). (2016). Infant/toddler caregiving: A guide to social-emotional growth and socialization (2nd ed.). Sacramento, CA: California Department of Education.
Deborah Greenwald
Senior Program Associate
WestEd
Deborah Greenwald joined WestEd in 2002 as a Senior Program Associate. She is currently the WestEd lead on the federal State Capacity Building Center Infant/Toddler Specialist Network, providing support and guidance to states, tribes, and territories for quality improvement in infant/toddler care settings. She directed the development of California's Infant/Toddler Learning and Development Program Guidelines and is a faculty member of the Program for Infant/Toddler Care Trainer Institutes.
Kadija Johnston
Director
UCSF Infant-Parent Program
Kadija Johnston is the Director of the Infant-Parent Program at the University of California, San Francisco. She has worked in the field of early childhood mental health since 1985, initially coordinating a therapeutic nursery school, and then as an infant-parent psychotherapist, a clinical home visitor and mental health consultant to childcare programs. Johnston developed the program’s Early Childhood Mental Health (ECMH) Consultation component in 1988.
DVD Booklet
Talking Points for Essential Connections: Video Clips for Group Discussion
SOLD IN A PACKAGE OF 50 DVD BOOKLETS.
Lally, J.R., Mangione, P.L., & Butterfield, G.O. (1998). Talking points for essential connections: Video clips for group discussion [DVD Booklet]. Sacramento, CA: CDE Press.