Inclusion Starts with "I" Training Series- Participants will learn how to define inclusion, make adaptations in the classroom and accommodate all children in the early childhood learning environment. There will also be an opportunity to learn more about intervention services for children with disabilities and how to collaborate with intervention team members, including the family.
In Person Format: 3 GaPDS hours OR Virtual Format: 3 GaPDS hours

Inclusion Starts with "I" Training Series: Access- An introduction into defining inclusion. Participants will learn how to define inclusion and what it means in relation to all early childhood settings.
In Person Format: 1 GaPDS hour

Inclusion Starts with "I" Training Series: Participation - Focuses on adapting environment and routines to ensure inclusion of all children in the early childhood setting.
In Person Format: 1 GaPDS hour

Inclusion Starts with "I" Training Series: Supports - Reviews supports and resources aimed at helping to be included in their natural environment. Participants will explore resources to build their inclusion toolkit.
In Person Format: 1 GaPDS hour

Engaging All Children: Igniting Fires that Cannot be Extinguished - Focuses on how to provide instruction using universal design for learning and developmentally appropriate practice, so that no matter how children process information, the lessons will be engaging for all. Participants will learn how concepts like universal design for learning (UDL) show children and teachers that there are multiple ways to be successful, multiple ways to solve problems, and multiple ways to learn. This training will also focus on developmentally appropriate practice (DAP) and methods that promote each child's optimal development and learning through a strengths-based, play-based approach to joyful, engaged learning. Participants will be challenged to examine how they can support children's engagement in learning by looking through the lens of these two frameworks.
In Person Format: 1 or 2 GaPDS hours OR Virtual Format: 1 GaPDS hour

Nurturing Positive Relationships - - Participants will discuss the importance of building relationships with children, families, and colleagues, and how those relationships impact children's behavior and developing sense of self. Through nurturing and responsive relationships, early learning professionals can promote every child's success and greatly reduce challenging behavior. In this training participants will reflect on their current practice and develop a plan for intentionally strengthening their relationships with children, families, and colleagues.
In Person Format: 1 or 2 GaPDS hours OR Virtual Format: 1 GaPDS hour

Supportive Environments that Promote Engagement - Participants will uncover strategies for creating early care and learning environments that support children's social emotional competence and promote engagement. From classroom arrangement and physical design to material selection, to environmental cues and embedding child choice, this module offers strategies that can support every early learning professional. When early learning environments support and promote children's engagement and social emotional competence, they also significantly reduce challenging behavior.
In Person Format: 1 or 2 GaPDS hours OR Virtual Format: 1 GaPDS hour

Creating Daily Schedules and Routines - Participants will uncover strategies for developing and teaching schedules and routines that support children's social emotional competence and promote engagement. From identifying the main activities of the day, to teaching the routines within the schedule, this module offers strategies that can support every early learning professional. When schedules and routines are identified and taught throughout the child's day to support and promote children's engagement and social emotional competence, they also significantly reduce challenging behavior.
In Person Format: 1 or 2 GaPDS hours OR Virtual Format: 1 GaPDS hour

Making the Most of Transitions - Participants will uncover strategies for transitioning children during daily routines that support children's social emotional competence and promote engagement. From using transitional songs to using visuals throughout transitions, this module offers strategies that can support every early learning professional. When transitions are taught throughout the child's day to support and promote children's engagement in moving from one activity to another, they also significantly reduce challenging behavior.
In Person Format: 1 or 2 GaPDS hours OR Virtual Format: 1 GaPDS hour

Introducing Expectations and Rules - Participants will identify the importance of teaching social emotional skills and how to teach them using stories and visuals. The training dives more into how to enhance emotional literacy skills, through different strategies to encourage children to express emotions using strategies such as visual supports, social stories, book nooks, and many more.
In Person Format: 1 or 2 GaPDS hours OR Virtual Format: 1 GaPDS hour

Promoting Emotional Literacy through Visuals in the Classroom - Participants will identify the importance of teaching social emotional skills and how to teach them using stories and visuals. The training dives more into how to enhance emotional literacy skills, through different strategies to encourage children to express emotions using strategies such as visual supports, social stories, book nooks, and many more.
In Person Format: 1 or 2 GaPDS hours OR Virtual Format: 1 GaPDS hour

Supporting Children’s Self-Regulation - Participants will learn strategies to help children learn about their feelings and coping skills when they become angry. This training has numerous ideas about how to help children find solutions to problems that may arise during their day in the early childhood environment.
In Person Format: 1 or 2 GaPDS hours OR Virtual Format: 1 GaPDS hour

Developing Friendship Skills in Preschool - Participants will identify skills needed to make friends and how to teach and support friendship skills among the children in their care. Participants will learn strategies for identifying key social skills that can be taught to ensure that children interact with each other.
In Person Format: 1 or 2 GaPDS hours OR Virtual Format: 1 GaPDS hour

Behavior Communicates: Are You Listening? - Designed to build the participant's understanding of the definition of challenging behavior and the importance of using data collection methods to support classroom strategies and evidence-based interventions with young children.
In Person Format: 1, 2, or 4 GaPDS hours OR Virtual Format: 1 GaPDS hour

SEEDS for Storytime: Making Books Sprout for Young Learners - This session will extend understanding of best practices for story reads and how to use them to promote language development, vocabulary, and comprehension. Participants will review the "ingredients" to captivate interests of young learners during story time and best practices for promoting oral language through story reads. Participants will also learn about resources that will extend learning from books through activities and explore ways to engage families with story time.
In Person Format: 1 GaPDS hour OR Virtual Format: 1 GaPDS hour

Essential Practices for Promoting a Positive Classroom Environment - In this session, we will identify "red flags" classroom practices that need to be addressed to create a classroom where children develop social emotional skills. Red flags include practices such as environmental arrangement, transitions, schedules, and routines. Participants will learn about the Pyramid Model and classroom practices that promote social emotional skills in the learning environment.
In Person Format: 2 GaPDS Hours OR Virtual Format: 2 GaPDS hours

Unpacking the Pyramid Model Kit - Designed to give participants a review of the Pyramid Model Kit and take a deeper dive into the five components of the kit that will enhance social emotional classroom practices in the early childhood classroom.
In Person Format: 1 GaPDS hour

Responsive Relationships for Infants and Toddlers - Participants will discuss the importance of building relationships with children, families, and colleagues. Participants will identify the ways that relationships with children and families can impact a child's development and behavior. Through responsive relationships, early learning professionals can promote every child's success and greatly reduce challenging behavior.

Understanding Temperament in Infants and Toddlers - This training helps teachers to apply knowledge of children's individual temperaments to adjust their interactions and practice to promote engagement and responsive caregiving.
In Person Format: 1 or 2 GaPDS hours OR Virtual Format: 1 GaPDS hour

Responsive Environments and Routines for Infants and Toddlers - Participants will uncover strategies for creating responsive environments that promotes social emotional competence in Infant and Toddlers. Participants will also learn about creating responsive routines and schedules.
In Person Format: 1 or 2 GaPDS hours OR Virtual Format: 1 GaPDS hour

Developing Social Emotional Skills in Infants and Toddlers-Emotional Literacy - Participants will learn to promote ways to help children identify their emotions in themselves and others. This training also explores the nature of feelings and the developmentally appropriate ways they can be expressed.
In Person Format: 1 or 2 GaPDS hours OR Virtual Format: 1 GaPDS hour

Developing Social Emotional Skills in Infants and Toddlers-Self-Regulation & Friendship Skills - Participants will explore self-regulation in infants and toddlers and identify strategies to support developing this skill and learn new ways to support social play and friendship skills.
In Person Format: 1 or 2 GaPDS hours OR Virtual Format: 1 GaPDS hour

Behavior Expectations and Classroom Rules - Understanding children's behavior and how that relates to setting clear behavior expectations and creating classroom rules to promote positive behaviors.
Online Self-Paced Format: 2 GaPDS hours
Available in Spanish

Understanding the Daily Schedule, Routines, and Transitions - Understanding the Daily Schedule, Routines, and Transitions course is to help Georgia's early learning professionals create and implement the daily schedule, routines, and transitions to reinforce positive behaviors and support high quality learning environments for young children.
Online Self-Paced Format: 1 GaPDS hour

Nurturing Responsive Relationships - Presents research-based best practices related to creating safe, secure, responsive, and nurturing relationships in early childhood learning environments.
Online Self-Paced Format: 2 GaPDS hours
Available in Spanish

Count Me In - Provides early care and education professionals with general information on how to successfully include all children in their learning environments. It will introduce the profession's definitions for inclusion and outline the type of practices and supports necessary to achieve high quality inclusion. Laws that support inclusion will be explained, as well as how to seek additional support for children who may qualify for Babies Can't Wait or Preschool Intervention program.
Online Self-Paced Format: 2 GaPDS hours
Available in Spanish