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Wait List: Empowering and Promoting Leadership in Your ECE Team

This is a multi-day workshop. Please ensure you are available for all the dates listed below:

Online March 23 & 24, 2022 from 10:00 AM to 12:00 AM

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Within each educator there lies a passion, experience and knowledge. How do we tap into this and support educators to grow in their own practice and mentor, support and coach others? This workshop will discuss how to engage educators in decision making practices through reflecting, wondering and working collaboratively and encourage them to utilize their skills, interest and what excites them. The pedagogy of listening must extend to our co-workers, our families, not just children. Reflective practice is a way of being in all our relationships, and each conversation should be approached with an open heart and mind. Together we can explore administrative practices that foster collaborative dialogue, and acknowledge the competent educator. We will explore the following pathways:

  • What does it mean to be in reciprocal relationships with children, families, and colleagues?

  • What brings me joy in my work? Can I create ways to extend and build on this joy?

  • Democracy means making space for many opinions and views, not necessarily agreeing. How can I create a culture in which different opinions and views for both adults and children are accepted, welcomed, and valued?

  • Dialogues can bring tensions and disagreement. How do I create a culture where disagreement is a positive force?

This workshop is just $10 and is generously funded by a grant from The Federation of Community Social Services of BC.

Note: Participants must bring a copy of BC’s Early Learning Framework.

Living Inquiries: 

  • Well-being and belonging.

  • Identities, Social Responsibility and Diversity.

Pathways:

  • Joy in relationships with people, place, materials and ideas.

  • Safety and respect.

  • Democratic practices.

Suitable for early care and learning adult instructors/administrators, intermediate and experienced professionals working in programs for children of all ages, from infants/toddlers to school age children, including children with extra support needs.

Facilitator(s): Jacqueline Ewonus

Jacqueline is the Program Director at SFU Childcare, overseeing 15 programs. She has been practicing in the childcare field in different capacities over the past 32 years. She is currently a mentor educator, through the ECE Professional Development Bursary Fund working in Communities of Practice with CCRR facilitators across the province.

  1. Requests for cancellations must be received at least 3 business days prior to the workshop/course date to get a refund, minus any Administration Fees.
  2. All refunds are subject to a $10 Administration Fee, except for workshops/courses that are $100 or more, which have a $25 Administration Fee.
  3. No monies will be refunded or credits offered once the workshop/course starts, or if it’s missed.
  4. Westcoast may cancel a workshop/course at any time. Registrants will be notified and receive a full refund.
  5. If a class is missed, registrants forfeit their fee and there will be no refund or credit.

By registering for a workshop / course participants declare they have read, understood and agree with these policies.

  1. It is the participants’ responsibility to read the workshop/course description and objectives and make sure the training selected is suitable for their learning needs.
  2. Camera's must be on during the workshop to receive a certificate.
  3. Only Vancouver CCRR Registered LNRs or Vancouver Licensed Family Child Care Providers qualify to pay the FCC Fee and will need to state this when they create their account on our website and be approved for this access. When you are an approved CCRR Registered LNR or Vancouver Licensed Family Child Care Provider, these reduced fees will automatically be applied to your registration for all applicable workshops.
  4. Participants must be 19 years of age to work with children.
  5. Minimum Grade 8 high-school English understanding, written and oral skills or equivalent are necessary to actively participate in class.
  6. Participants must stay for the full workshop/course to receive a certificate.
  7. Doors close 15 minutes after start time in respect to the presenter and participants.
  8. We are unable to accommodate children during workshop/course time. Please make childcare arrangements.
  9. Payment must be made at the time of registration to confirm a seat.
  10. Receipts are available on your account at wccrc.ca/login
  11. Handouts (if any) are sent by email.
  12. Certificates can be reprinted or downloaded from your account at any time after you complete the full workshop or course.
  13. Everyone in the class must abide by the Classroom Code of Conduct.
  14. These are non-credit workshops/courses, meaning they cannot be applied towards the completion of a university or college certificate, diploma or degree.
  15. If you have questions about a certificate being accepted by the ECE Registry, please contact them at 1-888-338-6622 or look on their website here: https://www2.gov.bc.ca/gov/content/education-training/early-learning/teach/training-and-professional-development/become-an-early-childhood-educator/renew-maintain-ece-certification

By registering for a workshop / course participants declare they have read, understood and agree with these policies.

We are all guests in the training room. In an effort to maintain a safe and welcoming environment, we ask that we follow these guidelines:

  1. Respect people’s choices, experiences and feelings.
  2. One person speaks at a time.
  3. Participate actively by including your voice and make space for other voices to be heard.
  4. Respect confidentiality, what is said in the group, stays in the group. Speak in private with the instructor if necessary.
  5. Assume the best intent. This is a space to learn and sometimes that means making mistakes.
  6. Take care of yourself, whatever that may look like.
  7. Mute your microphone to reduce background noise and unmute it for group discussions, to comment or ask questions.

By registering for a workshop / course participants declare they have read, understood and agree with these policies.

By registering for a workshop/course participants declare they have read, understood and agree with all policies.

In keeping with our eco-conscious goal of reducing paper use, handouts, resources and certificates will be sent by email. In this way, participants will have a resource that can be saved and viewed across various devices, shared and printed anytime.

We may take some photographs (including a Zoom group picture) during workshops/courses with the purpose of promoting our training. By registering you consent to allow us or others attending to take your photograph. If it’s okay with the facilitator, you may photograph materials, slides, books, etc., but not film the workshop.

Early Childhood Educators (ECEs) require a minimum of 40 hours of professional development to renew a certificate to practice. Select topics you would like to expand on or that you’re passionate about.

Registered Family Child Care Providers (RLNR) are required to complete at least 4 hours of professional development before their annual renewal date.

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Professional Development Team
Westcoast Child Care Resource Centre
pro-d@westcoastfamily.org
604-709-5661 EXT 1221