See How They Grow: Building Brains & Bodies

This is A ZERO to THREE Professional Development Training Program and Curriculum for Early Learning Professionals: For Dayhome, daycare and preschool educators, directors and managers and early learning care professionals. All early learning educators and professionals are welcome to register.

This training program has been cross walked with the CSSP Strengthening Families and Protective Factors Framework! And has been approved with the Alberta Childcare Grant Funding Program.

CONTACT: Susanne Harach-Vatne, Founder of See How They Grow. For questions and group training requests can be sent to Susanne by email seehowtheygrow.ca@gmail.com OR call: 403 589-5473 LinkedIn Profile

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Enter the COUPON "EDUCARE-2-FOR-1" when you register to reduce the registration fee to $55 from $110!

TRAINING DETAILS for this ON-LINE Workshop Series:

• DATE: WEDNESDAY, December 11th is Unit 2: Factors Affecting Brain Growth and Development & The 5 Rs of Healthy Brain Development
• DATE: WEDNESDAY, January 15th is Unit 5: Supporting Emotional-Social Development, the development of self-regulation and learn about the areas of the brain involved in the expression of EMOTIONS, THOUGHTS & FEELINGS
• TIME: 6:30 to 9:30 PM Facilitated live, on-line sessions. ZOOM ROOM will OPEN at 6:15 PM
• FACILITATOR: Susanne Harach-Vatne, ZERO to THREE Certified Trainer of Growing Brain & Critical Competencies for Infant & Toddler Educators

INCLUDED with each UNIT ZTT Growing Brain PD Workshops are DIGITAL copies of the ZTT Growing Brains Units 2 & 5.

• Please look for these LINKS to the digital copies in the confirmation registration email receipt.
• ZTT Growing Brain Participant Manuals Unit digital PDF. A digital PDF with color graphics designed by ZERO to THREE for application of practice, WITH: learner content, reflection questions, a reference of key terms and definitions, and parent handouts
• Learners receive a ZERO to THREE Certificate of Completion" for each Growing Brain Unit completed.

***Developed by ZERO to THREE as a significant group effort involving leading experts in early child and brain development, researchers, doctors, developmental psychologists, psychiatrists, senior content training specialists and early child development specialists.

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This is an approved PD FUNDED Training Workshop for reimbursement with Alberta Childcare Grant Funding Program: To certified staff working in licensed: childcare and ECE preschool programs, and with family dayhome agencies. A Child Care Grant Funding professional development application form is completed for reimbursement of registration fees + staff are paid for their time in a PD Workshop through the Release Time Grant. Information is provided by See How They Grow to enter into the application form - to apply for reimbursement for this PD Workshop.

To learn more about the Alberta Child Care Grant Funding Program, click HERE.

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ABOUT THE ZERO to THREE Growing Brain – Birth to Age 5 Professional Development Training Program

• “The Growing Brain curriculum translates complex concepts in a way that is digestible, is meaningful and relevant, and provides a range of interactive exercises that enable participants in this training to integrate and apply these concepts in their daily work supporting young children – in short -it engages the participants’ brainpower in active learning! “
• “A consistent focus throughout TGB is on the growing field of – the science of emotions and the brain – “affective neuroscience” – and how the earliest interactions shape lasting patterns of relatedness. “
• “Throughout the seven units, particular attention is paid to the role of caregiving relationships and emotional regulation.  Participants are encouraged to pause, watch, and notice how the child’s responses to their world, and a child’s behavior is one of the best windows into brain functioning.”
• “The Growing Brain is a cohesive curriculum of seven units -- that science has firmly established that all areas of a child’s development are interconnected – each affecting the other.”  Bohlander, A. Lerner, C., & Thompson, R. (Eds.). (2017) The growing brain: from birth to 5 years old: A curriculum for early childhood professionals. Washington, DC: ZERO TO THREE  

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COMPLETE DESCRIPTIONS of all the ZERO to THREE GROWING BRAIN UNITS:

UNIT 1: The Basics - Learning objectives: Learn how the brain grows from conception to 5 years old and the parts of the brain involved in social-emotional development, language and literacy, thinking, planning and memory - and how the brain develops from the BOTTOM-UP.

• Understand how brain connections are made through the everyday experiences young children have - that make connections between and across areas and regions of the brain where sensory experiences, emotions, memory, thinking and planning skills happen.
• Learn about brain neuroplasticity and how the earliest experiences that come from relationships and the environment shape the brain, and when the brain is the most plastic, and receptive to change. 

UNIT 2: Factors Affecting Brain Growth and Development - Focuses on the key factors that affect brain development. Learn objectives:

• Describe and learn strategies supporting healthy brain development
• Understand how stress affects brain development
• Discuss what secure and insecure attachment may look like
• Learn about -the 5 R's – strategies developed by Zero to Three supporting healthy brain development.

UNIT 3: Communication & Language – Explores how communication and language skills develop in the first 5 years.

• Learn about the brain's role in the development of communication and language skills;
• About specific communication milestones, when they typically emerge and how this relates to brain development.
• Learn strategies for supporting early communication skills and language skills,
• And gain an understanding of how multilanguage learning occurs, and how to support diversity in learning environments.

UNIT 4: Cognitive Development & Executive Function - Through engaging activity and discussion-based learning, learn how these areas of development are heavily intertwined and support each other. Learning Objectives:

• Recognize how cognitive development unfolds in young children and what these milestones look like from birth to age 5
• Learn about the development of memory from birth to age 5, how it grows through experiences and the areas of the brain involved.
• Understand the role of executive functioning skills in cognitive development, how it is intertwined with other brain regions and how to promote this area of brain development.
• Learn strategies and discuss on how environments and relationships support the development of thinking skills.

UNIT 5: Social-Emotional Development, Emotional Reaction & Self-Regulation – Learn  how social-emotional development unfolds in the first 5 years and the areas of the brain involved. Learning Objectives:  

• Learn how the of role relationships and attachment become fundamental experiences promoting early brain growth from birth to age 5; that is early relational health
• Discuss how and when empathy develops, what this looks like and experiences promoting this area of brain growth and development
• Learn more about “What is stress?”; negative, tolerable and positive stress, and understand the effect of stress on brain development - and behavior.

UNIT 6: Understanding Behavior and Strategies for Helping Children – Learn how children's behavior is influenced by the developing brain. Learning Objectives:  

• Learn about key factors that influence behavior and effective strategies to address behaviors that challenge.
• Identify the influence of temperament, the age and stage in development, and how the environment can affect a child's behavior.
• Understand the root causes of challenging behaviors and talk about effective strategies to address them.
• Learn about growing connections between areas of the brain and how this is expressed through behavior.

UNIT 7: Everyday Play & the 6 Stages of Play - Focuses on the stages and types of play that unfold in early childhood and the role of the brain in this process. Learning Objectives:

• Explore and discover how play builds children’s capacities in all areas of development, and how these experiences build brain connections
• Identify the difference between free and guided play and stages of social interaction
• Discuss and learn ways to promote the "6 Core Skills" children develop through play and strategies to promote these skills. 

THE ZERO to THREE Growing Brain training program is built on professional criteria and is cross walked with: The Center for the Study of Social Policy Strengthening Families Protective Factors Framework, and The National Association for the Education of Young Children's (NAEYC) Standard for Early Childhood Preparation and other professional criteria. This program aligns with the Alberta Ministry of Children Services: "Well-being and Resiliency: Framework for Supporting Safe and Health Children and Families"

For all learning sessions provided by PD Trainer Susanne Harach-Vatne, participants are connected to additional evidence-based resources including:

• The Alberta Health Services "Healthy Parents Health Children - The Early Years" provincial resource, “AHS Talk Box”, “Infant & Early Mental Health Promotion”, “AFWI - How Brains Are Built" resources and videos, "AFWI Brain Story Certification", “Parachute Canada-Injury Prevention”, “The Developing Child Harvard”, “Public Health Canada - Resources for Parents & Support”, "Canadian Pediatric Society - Caring for Kids, and more.