2007 National Smart Start Conference
2007 Workshop Handouts.
Listed below is a numerical listing of all the presentations that were made
at the 2007 National Smart Start Conference. Below each presentation title
are the handouts or presentations that we have received from the speakers
in each presentation. If there is nothing below the title, it means that
we have not received copies of heir presentation. We will continue to update
this site as we receive copies of other presentations and hope you will
find it useful.
530. Getting "On Board": Board Member Roles and Responsibilities
531. Engaging Families: Getting Families to Want to Work with You
532. Signing with Young Children
533. Playgroups Curriculum: Moving Beyond Freeplay
535. Encourage Your Kids to Become “Be Active Kids!”
536. Creative (and affordable) Ideas for Preschool Literacy at Home
537. The Child Care WAGE$® Project: How Does it Really Work?
539. Challenges & Opportunities for Child Care Programs Operating State Prekindergarten Programs
540. Using Research to Advocate for Strong Child Care Assistance Policies
541. Rural North Carolina Early Literacy Program Follow Up
543. The Challenges of Women Working with Women
544. Increasing Access to Education for Child Care Teachers: Durham's Learner Link
545. Individualization: The Cornerstone of Curriculum Planning
546. Climbing the Steps to Acceptance: How Service Providers Can Help Families
548. This Isn't Your Average Discipline Class - An Introduction to Conscious Discipline ®
549. Effective Governance: Not the Most Exciting Concept... Only the Most Critical
550. Early Education As A Critical Economic Factor: The Business Community Makes the Case!
552. Creative Centers of Excellence
553. Beyond the Monkey Bars: A Collaborative Approach for Statewide Change in Outdoor Learning
554. How to Compete for Federal Discretionary Grants
555. "We're In It Together": A Community Approach to Mental Health Service Delivery
557. Family Support Services Coordination in a Rural Area
559. Train the Trainer - Workplace Harassment
560. Recruitment and Retention
561. Research Review and Program Design Ideas for a Comprehensive Early Literacy Initiative.
563. Ready, Set, Ask: How to Prepare and Make In-Person Requests for Donations
566. Finding Resources for Children With Special Needs: Accessing and Assessing Information
567. Family Involvement Consultant-Style!
568. Effectiveness of Licensing Enforcement
569. Communication Skills to Inspire, Develop and Change the Behavior of the People Around You
570. The Preschool Outdoor Environments Measurement Scale (POEMS)
573. Parenting Across the Autism Spectrum: Unexpected Lessons We Have Learned
577. Save the Children from the Tube: Improving Child Development through Reduced TV Time
578. SOS for SOT: Staff Orientation Training!
580. Supporting Families with Children Who Have Special Needs
582. Power, Politics and Children: Organizing for Lasting Change
583. Real World Ready School
586. Developing Effective Leaders for Improved Service Delivery
587. The Family Passport: A Story-telling Model for Family and Community Enrichment
588. Assuring Better Child Health and Development in Primary Care and Your Community
590. Kids Are Not the Problem
591. Promoting Social-Emotional Learning in the Classroom
592. Using T.E.A.C.H Early Childhood, Higher Education & Smart Start Resources
594. Grant Writing: Where to Begin and When to Say No
597. Leave No Child Indoors
600. More Significant Than Sombreros: Tools for Supporting Culturally-Responsive Early Childhood
601. Beyond Hola! Building Effective Partnerships with Culturally and Linguistically Diverse Families
602. Principles of Developmental Surveillance: Partnering with the Medical Home
603. PBIS, Outcomes, Counts, Purpose Service Codes: Smart Start's Paradigm for Measuring Success
604. Making the Most of the NC Rated License Assessment Process
605. Triple P System of Positive Parenting: A Flexible Multi-Level Evidence-Supported Approach
607. Using Public PreK as an Engine for Positive Change in Early Care and Education
608. Transition Planning: Surviving the Planned and Unplanned Loss of the Executive Director
610. Sustaining Evidence Based Programs for Families with Young Children
611. Building Bridges to Diversity: Plan, Prepare and Present Effective Group Meetings
612. Enhancing the Lives of NC's Infants and Toddlers with Early Learning Guidelines
614. Families Experiencing Infant Loss: The Impact on Parents and Other Children in the Family
615. Highly Effective People - The Peoplemap Way!
616. Communicating with Employees from Entry to Exit
617. Why Performance Appraisals Don't Impact the Bottom Line
619. Managing the Payroll Accounting Process
620. Americorps Service Program - Improving Quality of Child Care and Teacher Education
621. And a Child Shall Lead Them: What Children Teach Us About Organizational Developmen
622. The Period of Purple Crying: A Shaken Baby Syndrome Prevention Program
623. Dads Wanted: How to Successfully Communicate with Fathers and Get Them Involved
626. Engaging Parents as Partners
627. Community-Based Strategies for Building Ready Schools
628. Using Tax Credits to Pay for Child Care: Tools for Educating Families
629. Research Connections: One-Stop Access to Research and Data on Child Care and Early Education
630. Children's Future Hillsborough, FL: A Model of Collaboration for Early Childhood Services
633. Adult Readiness for Multiculturalism: Hearing Parents in Every Language
634. Gossip-Free Zones: Transforming Workplace Power Dynamics
635. Crossing the Bridges to Literacy 636. Community Early Learning Groups: Supporting Children Not in Child Care
637. Documenting Your Programmatic and Financial Monitoring Work
638. Integrating Outcomes into the Child Care Subsidy System
639. Technology As A Tool For Impact
640. Strategic Planning: Easy as PIE
641. Timely Tips for Effective Time Management
642. Taking the Stress Out of Managing Stress
644. Endowments: Do You Want or Really Even Need One?
645. Getting Children Ready for School
646. Pathways to Ready Schools
648. System Building: Convergence or Collision of the Old with the New
651. It Takes a Village to Improve Outcomes for Young Children
652. Transition from Infant-Toddler to Preschool Services: What's the Big Deal?
654. Quality Rating System: Transforming a Community and Two States
657. NAEYC’s New Early Childhood Program Standards and Accreditation Criteria
658. Community Based Strategic Planning in a Rural Community
659. Family Book Clubs
660. North Carolina's Monitoring Activities for the Subsidized Child Care Program
661. Bringing New Staff on Board
663. You Know I'm Only Scheduled to Work Until 5pm, Right?
664. Monitoring and Evaluation: Why Do We Do Both?
665. READ TO ME: Parents in Prison Learn to Read with Their Children
667. Are Boys Really Failing??
668. Strategies for Providing Business Training to Family Child Care Providers
669. Starting Off Right: Promoting Child Development from Birth in Early Care and Education
670. Nuts and Bolts of Starting a Child Care Health Consulting Program
671. Emergency Preparedness/Response in Child Care
673. Medication Administration in Child Care
675. Prenatal Development: How Nature's Own Head Start Program Works
678. Reaching All Children: Promoting Early Care and Education Among Immigrant Families
680. Every Child Ready to Read at Your Public Library
681. Understanding Latino Children and Families
682. Parents as Teachers: Quality Standards
684. Inclusion in Community Child Care: The Inclusion Resource Project
685. Supporting Emergent Literacy with Parents as Teachers
686. NC's Two-Component Rated License: Raising the Bar on Quality
687. Supporting Literacy with Preschoolers - Appropriately and Intentionally
688. The Education Begins at Home Act: Federal Funding for Home Visitation Programs
690. The Latest News from the NC Office of School Readiness
691. The Birth to Five Policy Alliance: Shifting the Odds
692. Building from the Ground-Up: Colorado’s Early Childhood System
694. PME Does a Board Good!
695. Medical Home: Every Child Deserves One!
696. Integrating Family Support Training into Personnel Preparation
698. Quality Enhancement in Child Care: What's Working? What's Not?
699. Resource Mapping in Child Development
700. Job Performance Review Summary: A Performance Appraisal Tool for Early Childhood Programs
701. Navigating the Maze of Staff Education Requirements in NC
706. FAMOSA: A Family Support Program for a Latino Community But Not Only a Latino Affair!
708. Designing and Implementing an Outdoor Learning Environment for Infants and Toddlers
709. Local Decisionmakers and Title I Dollars: Making the Case for Investments Before School
710. Making Connections: Enhancing Family Child Care Quality Through Networks, Hubs, and Systems
711. Beyond Collaboration: Creating Synergy for Systems Building
712. Pathways to Partnership
713. Drawing a Big Picture: Higher Education Partnerships that Really Work
714. LUMMA - A Collaborative Model for Licensing Spanish Speaking Family Child Care Providers
719. Why Don't They Come or Stay? - Effective Parent Involvement Strategies
720. How to List, Map, Track, and Serve ALL Babies from Birth Into School
722. Substitute Support in Child Care Settings
724. SCHOLARSHIPS and INCENTIVES - Professional Development Programs in Early Care and Education
725. It's Never Too Early to Get Ready to Read!
726. Innovative Strategies for Serving Diverse Children and Families
728. Attachment Research & Early Family Support Programs: Connecting What We Know To What We Do
729. Invest Early in Education: Grassroots Advocacy in Arkansas
730. Ideas & Innovations: Using Born Learning Public Engagement Tools in Your Community
731. Operating an Efficient & Effective Professional Development Program
734. Changing Minds: When You're Not Preaching to the Choir!
735. Quality Circle: A New Professional Association for Quality Improvement Professionals
736. Model Work Standards: Building Adult Environments That Help Teachers Do Their Best Work
737. How Can We Help You? The Role of Community Colleges in Improving Child Care Quality
738. North Carolina Wolf Trap: Pre-K Learning through the Arts
739. Reaching Out to Latino Families
740. Building Countywide Investment in School Readiness
741. Building an Effective Board of Directors
742. Professional Development Pays Off
743. Advances in Linking Child Care and Economic Development
744. Tools for Building Community and Strengthening Parenting in the First Three Years
745. Making Parenting A Pleasure (MPAP)
746. Effective Practices Between Public Schools & Private Pre-Kindergarten Programs in Three States
747. Collaborative Efforts of Investigators of Child Abuse/Neglect in Child Care Settings
748. How to Reduce Stress, Survive and Thrive with Humor
749. NAEYC Early Childhood Associate Degree Accreditation: The Process and the Value
750. Year-End Close Training
751. Improving Child Care Quality Together: Community College and Smart Start Collaborations
753. Creating Safe Havens for Children Exposed to Violence
754. Wellness in Stressful Times
755. Wage and Hour Law for Small Businesses
756. Paying Your Employees Fairly and Equitably
757. Promoting Evidence-Based Programs to Strengthen Families: North Carolina's Approach
759. Strong Communities: Where Family Support is a Part of Everyday Life
760. The Family Child Care Environment Rating Scale (Revised Edition): Recognizing High Quality Family Child Care
762. Evaluation Roundtable for Smart Start Evaluators
765. Lessons Learned in Running a Successful Early Childhood Ballot Initiative
766. Ready Schools Initiative
768. Tuesdays for Tots: Variations on a Theme
769. Children's Advocacy in North Carolina: The Big Picture
770. National Early Literacy Panel Results: Implications for Today's Preschool Classroom
771. Meet the Press
772. Public Awareness Network Pre-conference Workshop
774. Developing Champions in Rural Areas
775. FirstSchool-a new vision for early education
776. NC's 3 CCR&R Initiatives: School Age Care, Infants & Toddlers, & Healthy Social Behavior
777. The Courage to Begin: Engaging Families from Showing Up to Fully Participating
785. Friendraising as Fundraising
787. Collaborating for Success on Children's Health Needs in a Rural Community
795. South Carolina: Expanding State Funded Pre-K in the Private Sector
808. Parents as Teachers: Continuous Quality Improvement
827. Professional Development for Technical Assistance Specialists
828. Professional Development Connections
829. Dental Care in NC: Are They Smiling Yet?
830. Addressing the Needs of Grandparents and Other Relatives Raising Minor Children
831. Color Me Healthy
844. Introduction to Foundations: North Carolina's Early Learning Standards
845. Implementing Early Learning Standards: Well, we wrote them. Now what?
850. Family Friend & Neighbor Care: A Key Component of the Early Learning System
851. Supporting the Social and Emotional Development of All Young Children
854. Maternal Depressive Symptoms: More than the Baby Blues
855. Mandated Referrals to Parent Education Activities
856. Becoming an Employer of Choice
857. Smart Start Fiscal Update
858. IRS: Independent Contractor vs Employee
859. The Courage to Begin: Engaging Families from Showing Up to Fully Participating
860. How do states use data to effectively evaluate a statewide comprehensive early childhood system?
861. Family Place Libraries
862. Linking Early Care and Economic Development: Shaping the Message for Local Partnership Boards
63. Create a Dynamic Leader-full Team with the 7 Childhood Treasures
864. Positive Guidance: A Proactive Approach to Understanding and Reducing Challenging Behavior
865. An Introduction to Early Childhood Inclusion
866. Managing for Results: Outcomes for Early Childhod Programs
867. Venture Grant Meeting (by invitation only)
868. Building Comprehensive Early Childhood Systems (by invitation only)
869. How to Get Home Before Midnight: Effective Meeting Strategies and Basic Parliamentary Procedure
870. Irresistible Invitations: Early Literacy Engagements for Preschool Children
871. The Business Case for Work/Life Initiatives
872. Strengthening Our Businesses: Shared Services for the Early Care and Education Industry
873. Child Care Market Forces in a High-Income Community
874. ABC Music & Me
875. Can Preschoolers Learn History? Discovering the Children's Gallery of Black History
876. State Policy Choices to Promote Early Childhood Development