The subject matter of the conference skill-building sessions are aligned with the three domains of Whole Leadership: Administrative Leadership, Pedagogical Leadership, and Leadership Essentials:
  • Administrative Leadership: Coordinating work and mobilizing people to ensure the organization remains stable and continues to grow. Subject matter: Advocacy, community engagement, strategic planning, organizational climate, financial management, systems development, public relations, and marketing
  • Pedagogical Leadership: Leading the art and science of teaching with an emphasis on educator dispositions and high-quality interactions with children. This includes ensuring fidelity to curricular philosophy, assessing children’s development and learning, using data for evaluation, and optimizing learning environments. Subject matter: Instructional leadership, family engagement, coaching and mentoring skills, child development, adult learning, and assessment
  • Leadership Essentials: Foundational competencies and individual qualities necessary for leading people that are expressed in personal leadership styles and dispositions. Subject matter: Reflective practice, self-awareness, mindfulness, communication, team-building, motivation of self and others, trends and history of the early childhood profession, and ethics
BREAKOUT SESSION FORMAT
The 2019 conference will have a variety of session lengths, including 90 minutes, 2 hours, and 3 hours.

SELECTION CRITERIA
Accepted proposals will demonstrate a focus on knowledge and skill-building through interactive facilitation and audience participation. You are welcome to submit multiple abstracts.

PRESENTER LIMITATIONS AND HONORARIUM
Each session will have a lead presenter who will receive a complimentary full-conference registration. The lead presenter has the option of having one co-presenter. No complimentary conference registration will be extended to the co-presenter. One will need to be purchased.

PROMOTING PRODUCTS AND SERVICES
The focus of skill-building sessions is to share wisdom and content. If you have books, resources and/or other services that you would like to sell or display at the conference, this must be done as a vendor in our exhibit hall/Marketplace. Vendor table and/or booth registrations are availble and range in price. We also offer the option of working with our conference book store to sell your books and schedule author book signing times.

SUBMISSION DEADLINE
August 30, 2018 - Extended to September 5 (midnight (CST).

SUBMISSION
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