Supercharge Professional Development for Early Childhood Educators: 101 Ideas for Designing and Facilitating Engaging Learning Experiences

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Bring new energy into your early childhood professional learning experiences! Supercharge Professional Development for Early Childhood Educators empowers trainers, workshop facilitators, and early childhood program leaders to transform their current professional development practices, offering innovative and concrete ideas for supporting educators. The timely and inspiring resources in this handbook will increase engagement, build collaboration, and enhance all aspects of any professional development program. The wealth of information and guidance in this handbook includes:

• 101 specific strategies, tools, and activities featuring well-researched techniques for engaging all adult learners with respect for the unique needs of individuals from diverse cultures, backgrounds, and experiences.
  
• Original and exclusive inspirational tips and strategies from highly regarded speakers, authors, and researchers, including interviews and video clips available via QR codes, from leading voices in the field including Holly Elissa Bruno, Toni Christie, Leland Clarke, Beth Fredericks, Joelfre’ L. Grant, Luis Hernandez, Debbie LeeKeenan, Karen Nemeth, Jayne Singer, Debra Sosin, and Linda Schumacher.
  
• Suggested resources for designing and implementing professional learning experiences.
  
• Planning tools and templates for designing a variety of professional development experiences.
  
• Examples of workshop activities with adaptations for group size, diverse adult learning styles, and live or virtual events.

Susan MacDonald is the founder of Inspiring New Perspectives, a consulting group focused on empowering school leaders and educators to create learning environments that deeply respect and nurture the possibilities that lie within each teacher, child, and parent. An author and professional speaker and coach, she is the past president of Boston Area Reggio Inspired Network and past vice president of the Massachusetts Association for the Education of Young Children.

Nancy Toso is the founder and director of the Nancy L. Toso Consulting Group, committed to providing relevant and meaningful professional development to early childhood educators and leaders. She has been deeply involved with NAEYC, from establishing the Western Massachusetts affiliate to her current role as governing board member of MAAEYC. Nancy has spent the last thirty years developing and presenting professional development in a variety of settings locally, statewide, and nationally.