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5 Essential Building Blocks for Quality Interactions Within the Early Childhood Environment
Thursday, October 24, 2024 @ 5:00 pm EDT - 6:00 pm EDT EDT
Presented by Kamye Hugley, SEEDS Development Manager, Collaborative Classroom; Dr. Nereyda Hurtado, Implementation Research Manager, Collaborative Classroom; and Emily Grunt, Program Director, Collaborative Classroom
Sponsored by Collaborative Classroom
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Quality, as an adjective, is subjective, so how do you ensure your teaching team is fostering the optimal environment for quality interactions with children? Join early childhood educators and researchers in an exploration of just what it means to provide quality interactions. Learn how your environment can create space for child choice and agency while using teacher influence for planned experiences that meet learning objectives for each child’s development.
If your goals include increasing equitable outcomes, developing child confidence and capability, and expanding teacher efficacy through positive relationships then this edWebinar is for you!
Learn the impact of quality interactions and steps you can take to maximize quality interactions in your preschool or TK learning environment. You leave with concrete steps to support a sense of security and belonging while providing a root system to strengthen cognitive, social, and emotional development through high-quality interactions in any early childhood learning environment.
This recorded edWebinar is of interest to PreK and TK teachers, tutors, administrators, district leaders, and community-based organizations.
About the Presenters
Kamye Hugley, SEEDS Development Manager at Collaborative Classroom, is a passionate education professional who works to support student-level impact in order for all students to receive an equitable education. Kamye has served as a Head Start Teacher with Broward County Public Schools and as an Intensive Reading Teacher for grades 9, 11, and 12 with the School District of Palm Beach County. As a nonprofit leader, Kamye has coached and trained AmeriCorps members serving across multiple grade levels in delivering quality literacy and math interventions to students. A self-proclaimed bibliophile, she believes early literacy rooted in equity can cultivate young children’s curiosity and positive identity development. Kamye earned her Bachelor of Arts degree in English from the University of Florida and a Master of Science degree in reading (K-12) from Barry University.
Dr. Nereyda Hurtado, Implementation Research Manager at Collaborative Classroom, is a dedicated and meticulous early childhood education professional committed to ensuring all children gain the skills they need to succeed in school and life. Dr. Hurtado started her career as a researcher at Stanford University, where she conducted studies on language development and parenting practices with bilingual and Spanish-speaking families in the Bay Area. After a decade, she transitioned to the nonprofit sector, where she supported her organization with program development, management, implementation, and evaluation in early childhood education, family partnerships, early math, adult education, and others.
Dr. Hurtado developed and opened two separate California state-funded preschool programs in addition to an infant/toddler program, supporting the educators as the program supervisor and director for several years. Dr. Hurtado holds a double Bachelor of Arts degree in psychology and anthropology and a Ph.D. in educational psychology from the University of California, Santa Barbara.
Emily Grunt is the Program Director for SEEDS at Collaborative Classroom. Emily has over 18 years of experience in education, including teaching in TK and kindergarten classrooms, coaching and training for SEEDS of Learning™, and serving as Program Director for FluentSeeds, which became part of the Collaborative Classroom family of resources in 2024. Emily participated in the 2022 Promising Ventures Fellowship and is currently a 2022-2024 Dial EE Fellow, with a focus on continuous improvement and program quality in the TK early childhood environment. She has been a SIPPS-certified trainer since 2018 and holds an administrative credential from Reach Institute for School Leadership and a K-8 BCLAD credential from Cal State University Long Beach. Emily resides in the Bay Area with her husband, two children, and rescue pup, Meggie.
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Collaborative Classroom is a mission-driven, nonprofit organization committed to ensuring that all students become readers, writers, and thinkers who learn from, care for, and respect one another. Collaborative Classroom recently merged with FluentSeeds to serve educators and other adults responsible for nurturing children’s language, literacy, and social and emotional learning from birth through grade 8.
FluentSeeds provides the SEEDS of Learning™ professional learning framework designed for all adults who serve children ages 3–5, including educators, tutors, caregivers, site leaders, and coaches. Using a unique combination of training, coaching, and professional learning communities, SEEDS of Learning empowers adults with the knowledge to develop oral language, emergent literacy, and social and emotional skills in all three- to five-year-olds, setting them up for success in kindergarten and beyond. With flexible in-person, virtual, and e-learning training options, SEEDS meets the varying needs of adult learning communities and works with any early childhood program.
