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"I Love You" Rituals and Other Routines for Infants and Toddlers
2021 Block Party 2: Building a Mindful Community
2021 Block Party 3: Building an Inclusive Community
2021 Block Party I: Building a Virtual Community
A Place for Me
A Play on Literacy
A Rainbow of Languages for Infants and Toddlers
A Sense of Place
ABC's of Yoga
Accommodating Children with Autism and Other Diagnoses in the Classroom
Accreditation Orientation
Accreditation Support
Achieving Quality Standards in Early Education
Ackowledge, Ask and Adapt: Supporting Infant and Toddler Families
Active Bodies, Active Minds
Addressing Common Language Standards Using a Thematic Approach
Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACES) and Trauma Informed Care
Age and Developmentally Appropriate Supervision
All Children Are Gifted
Ants in Their Pants: Teaching Children Who Must Move to Learn
Attachment: Growing Bonds with Children
Autism Spectrum Disorder: A Child's Perspective
Autism: What You Need to Know
Avoiding Burnout in a Demanding Occupation
Baby Blocks: Helping Infants and Toddlers Grow
Baby Picasso: Process Art Experiences for Infants and Toddlers
Basic Health and Safety Training With Supporting Breast Feeding in Child Care
Behavior Intervention for the Holidays
Behavior Strategies for Children with Special Needs
Beyond Management: How to be an Effective Leader
Bibliotherapy: Helping Children Heal Through Books
Big Anxiety, Small Child
Block Party 1: Building Language "Talking is Teaching"
Block Party 2: Building Infant and Toddler Centers
Block Party 3: Building Outdoor Play and Community
Bottoms Up: Tummy Time Fun
Branches of Inclusion: Developing Supportive Systems for Inclusive Practice
Building Caring Communities
Building Muscles
Building Resilience in Children
Bullying No More!
Business Foundations in Family Child Care Module 2 - What to Know About Setting up Your Business
Business Foundations in Family Child Care Module One - What to Know About Business Structures
Business Foundations in Family Childcare Module 3 - What to Know About Business Finances
Business Foundations in Family Childcare Module 4 - What to Know About Marketing and Pricing
But It's Mine! Redirecting Toddlers (Developing Social-Emotional Competencies)
Capturing Child Development Through Portfolios
Caring for Little Ones: Using Sign Language to Communicate
Celebrate Art and Nature with the Ward Museum
Center Aide Orientation
Character Development in Preschool
Child Abuse and Neglect
Child Care as a Profession
Child Development and Developmental Delays
Childhood Disorders
Childhood Obesity: A Growing Problem
Childhood Speech and Language Development
Children of Incarcerated Parents in Child Care
Children's Aggression
Children's Gifts That Keep On Giving
Classroom Arrangement and Adaptation
Community Collaboration & Learning Around Town
Computer Skills for Maryland EXCELS
Conflict Resolution: How to Talk to Co-Workers When You Disagree
CPR and First Aid
Creating a Compassionate Classroom: Bullying
Creating a Trauma-Sensitive Classroom
Creating an Effective Parent Handbook
Creating Culturally Rich Environments with Loose Parts
Creating Developmentally Appropriate Schedules
Creative Connections for Infants and Toddlers
Creative Connections: Young Children and the Arts
Crisis Intervention and Prevention: Promoting Wellness and Nurturing Our Children in an Unpredictable World
Crunch, Rustle, Explore! Fall Activities for Young Children
Cultivating Creative Problem Solvers
Cultural Competence
Cultural Competency in Early Childhood Education
Culturally Responsible Practices in Early Childhood Education
Developmental Screening Overview
Developmentally Appropriate Supervision
Discipline is Teaching: Positive Strategies to Reduce Challenging Behavior
Discoveries of Infancy: The What and How of Learning
Discovering the Autism Spectrum
Diving into Domains
Early Childhood Conference 2018
Early Childhood Conference: Books and Beyond
Early Intervention Strategies to Help Young Children with Challenging Behaviors
Eating Healthy on a Budget
Effective Teaching: How to Create a Meaningful Lesson Plan
Effective Teaching: Resources That Guide Daily Planning / How to Create a Meaningful Lesson Plan
Effectively Communicating Special Concerns with Parents and Caregivers
Effects of Media on Children
Emergency Preparedness for Child Care Providers
Emotions Matter
Empowering Infant & Toddler Understanding Through Discovery
Engaging Indoor Activities for Inclement Weather
Enhancing Rituals and Routines
Enjoying Special Moments with Infants and Toddlers
Essential Skills for School and Life
Explorations in Science
Exploring Math Concepts with Children's Books
Exploring Scientific Thinking and Inquiry with Children's Literature
Exploring Social Studies Concepts with Children's Books
Exploring the Art, Science and Motion of Birds and Insects
Exploring the Great Outdoors in Autumn
Fall Make and Take
Family and Community Partnerships
Fit From the Start
Flip It! Transforming Challenging Behavior
Fostering a Father-Friendly Environment
Free Art: Nuturing Young Children's Creativity
Freedom to Move:Understanding the Connection Between Movement and Academic Success in Infant/Toddler Care
From Crawling to Leaping and More: Physical Development Skills
Fun with Math
Get to Know Your Computer
Get Up, Get Out! Preschoolers in Motion
Go With the Flow: Classroom Schedules and Transitions
Growing Strong Kids from the Inside Out: Social Emotional Development
Growing Vegetable Soup: Connecting Children to Healthy Foods
Healthy Beginnings
Healthy Meals for Infants and Toddlers
Helping Children Heal
How Infants and Toddlers See the Amazing World Around Them
I Am Full of Emotions: Why Social and Emotional Skills and Emergent Literacy are Important
I Can Pretend Too! Dramatic Play Experiences for Toddlers & Twos
Improving Transitions in Your Program
Including All Children and the Americans with Disabilities Act
Individualized Intensive Intervention with Infants and Toddlers
Indoor and Outdoor Nature-Based Learning for Infants and Toddlers
Infant & Toddler Language Development and Communication
Infant and Toddler Routines and Culture
Infant and Toddler STEM
Infant/Toddler 45 Hour Preservice
Infants and Toddlers Developing a Sense of Self
Introduction to Computers for Child Care Providers
Introduction to Environmental Rating Scales
Introduction to the Maryland Credential
It's a Simple Story. Tell It.
It's Conference Time
Jumping Into Social Emotional Development
Keeping Children from Jeopardy
Leadership Training: Early Childhood Management Issues and Answers
Learning at Home: Fun Activities for the Family
Learning with Blocks
Let's Move Child Care
Lively Arts for Preschoolers
Loose Parts
Magical Math Moments
Making Books with Kids
Making Meaningful Connections: Building the Foundation of the Young Brain
Making Microsoft Word and Excel Work for You
Making the Most of Your Circle Time
Maryland Child Care Credential
Maryland Child Care Credentialing Overview
Maryland EXCELS and You
Maryland EXCELS: Moving to Level 3
Math Activities Using Literature
Math and Literacy: The Perfect Pair
Math and Science Board Books for Babies
Math and Science for Infants and Toddlers
Math is Fun!
Medication Administration
Membership 2023
Mindfulness and Yoga for Young Children
Mirror Mirror on the Wall: Putting Reflective Leadership into Practice
MMSR
More Bang for your Buck
More Than Running Around: Connecting the Mind and Body
More Than Twinkle Twinkle: Using Music with Infants and Toddlers
Moving up to Quality Rating 3
Mud Pies and Butterflies
Mulitple Intelligence
Music and the Young Child
Myths About Infants and Toddlers
Nutrition and Active Learning
One Child, Two Diagnoses: A Look at Dual Diagnoses
Outdoor Environment Design for Infants & Toddlers
Partnering with Parents of Special Needs Children
Passive vs. Active Screen Time: Policy and Planning
Planning for Mixed Aged Groups
Planning the Day for Infants and Toddlers
Playground Safety and Supervision
Positive Words for Positive Actions
Professionalism: The Impact on Children, Families, Colleagues and the Community
Promoting Health Eating, Active Learning, and Positive Coping Skills in Young Children
PURPLE Tears: Adults' Impact on Infant Emotional Intelligence (IT)
R.E.S.P.E.C.T.- What Infants and Toddlers Want
Raindrops on Noses and Toes in the Dirt
Reality Bites: Understanding and Addressing Biting
Recognizing and Responding to Challenging Behaviors
Resiliency and Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs)
Resources that Guide Daily Planning
Respecting All Family Structures
Responsive Routines, Environments and Strategies to Support Social/Emotional Development
Room Arrangement: Making the Most of the Space that You Have
Roots of Inclusion: Establishing a Solid Foundation for Inclusive Practice
Rubber Band Man
Schedules and Routines
Scribbles Count! Emergent Writing
Sensory Play for Infants and Toddlers
Show Me What I Can't Hear
Singing, Dancing and Moving to the Groove with Infants and Toddlers
Social Emotional Development Within the Context of Relationships
Social Foundations: Are They Really More Important than Reading and Mathematics?
STEAM File Folder Games
STEAM: Nothing But Water
Story Stretchers for Infants and Toddlers
Storytime Spectacular
Storytime with Infants and Toddlers
Strengthening Business Practices for Family Child Care Module 1: Budgets, Projections and Planning for Family Child Care
Strengthening Business Practices for Family Child Care Module 2: Financial Reports and Internal Controls
Strengthening Business Practices for Family Child Care Module 3: Marketing Your Program for Family Child Care
Stress Reducing Strategies for Early Childhood Programs
Success Over Stress: Gain Control of Your Life
Successful Relationships Begin with You!
Successfully Managing Children's Behaviors: Connecting in Meaningful Ways
Successfully Managing Children's Behaviors: Creating a Supportive Environment
Successfully Managing Classroom Behaviors: Connecting in Meaningful Ways
Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS)
Summer Make and Take
Summer Science Activities for Preschool Children
Super Saturday
Super Saturday Multicultural
Super Saturday: Educating Everyone Every Day
Super Saturday: Literacy Lalapalooza!
Super Saturday: Loose Parts Extravaganza
Super Saturday: Pancakes, Pancakes/Going on a Bear Hunt
Super Saturday: Positive Words for Positive Actions & DAP - The Essentials
Super Saturday: Positive Words for Positive Actions / Unplug and Think Outside the Box
Super Saturday: So What are PAU's / The Changing Face of Child Care
Super Saturday: Who's Coming to Your Program / Building Your Resilience
Supporting Children of Gay and Lesbian Parents
Supporting Children with Disabilities, Delays or Special Health Care Needs
Supporting Maryland's Multilingual Learners: WIDA Early Years Essential Actions Orientation
Supporting Sensory Needs in Little Learners
Supporting STEM Through Play
Supporting STEM Through Play
Surviving Summer with School-Agers
Surviving the Holiday Hullabaloo: A Professional Development Institute
Switch On - Switch Off: Babies and Technology
Take a Look in a Book: Infant and Toddler Emergent Literacy
Take Time to Talk to Infants and Toddlers
Taking Care of You
Taking Learning Outdoors
Taking Learning Outside
Tapping Into Executive Function Skills for School Readiness
Teaching Parents About School Readiness
Teaching Problem Solving Throughout the Day
Teaching STEM Through Play
Teaching with Heart: Celebrating Children's Unique Talents
The Child Care Provider as a Professional
The Power of Parent Involvement
Therapeutic Play for the Classroom
Time for Referral: Tips for Talking with Families
Toddler Patterns of Learning: Play Schemas
Toxic Awareness in Child Care
Transition Techniques
Trash to Treasure: Early Learning Toys
Trauma: Signs, Symptoms and Support
Treat Yourself
Understanding Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder
Understanding Autism Spectrum Disorder in the Preschool Program
Understanding Common Mental Health Diagnoses in Children
Understanding Developmentally Appropriate Practices with Infants and Toddlers
Understanding Oppositional Defiant Disorder
Understanding Temperament: Implications for Working with Young Children
Uniquely Human: Understanding young Children with Autism
Using Assessment to Drive Quality
Using the Arts with Young Children
Vertical Learning: Creative Uses of Classroom Walls
What Happened to the World? Helping Children Cope
What to Do? Ethics and the Early Childhood Educator
Why Play Matters
Winter Make and Take
Winter Play
Wonderful Ones
Working with Mixed Age Groups for Family Child Care Providers
Writing with Preschoolers
Yoga Stories
You Can Do This! Accommodating All Children in Your Program
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Free Art: Nuturing Young Children's Creativity Thursday, Feb 5 2026 6:00PM - 9:00PM
This workshop will engage participants in discussions and activities to delve into the characteristics of art that allows children to experience the process more than the product.
(more details) Price: $15.00
Medication Administration Saturday, Feb 14 2026 9:00AM - 4:00PM
Location ESCCRC Salisbury Office, EC 503
(view map) This class will help child care providers learn how to correctly administer
medication to children in their care.
This class meets the
MSDE criteria for child care. It is NOT a certification for CMTs or other medical staff.
(more details) Price: $60.00 2 Seats Remaining
Wonderful Ones Saturday, Feb 14 2026 9:00AM - 12:00PM
Learning startegies to support young toddler's growth and development.
(more details) Price: $15.00
It's Conference Time Thursday, Feb 19 2026 6:30PM - 8:30PM
In this workshop participants will dive into the benefits and the planning steps to implement successful family/teacher conferences.
(more details) Price: $10.00
Supporting Sensory Needs in Little Learners Thursday, Feb 26 2026 6:00PM - 9:00PM
This workshop helps educators recognize and respond to the sensory needs of young children through supportive strategies, calming tools, and inclusive environments.
(more details) Price: $15.00
