Early Years Conference 2024
Welcome!
DR. KRISTIE
PRETTI-FRONTCZAK
INCLUSION THOUGHT LEADER
EDUCATORS’ EDUCATOR
FIERCE PLAY ADVOCATE
A highly sought-after speaker, accomplished author, and educators’ educator. Dr. Kristie Pretti-Frontczak began her career as an early interventionist and then spent 16 years as a tenured professor at Kent State University. Since 2013 she has followed her true passion for designing and delivering transformative professional development. As a result, she has accumulated over 50,000 hours of helping educators and leaders work from a place of compassion, hope, and love in locations from Cincinnati to Singapore.
Session Resources
Shift Your Lens and Lead the Activity Today!
Change perspectives and share the Winnie the Pooh-inspired activity with your team.
Here's everything you need (video, slides, and handouts).
Keynote: November 14, 2024 (click to access)
Leading Change Resources
- Definition of Inclusive Education [pdf]
- The Inclusion Podcost Episode 30: The Recipe for Real Inclusion 9 Must Have Ingredients [podcast]
- The Circle Makers Series [webpage]
- The Inclusive System Change Cycle [pdf]
- The Inclusive System Change Path [pdf]
- Why Are We Still Segregating Students? [YouTube]
- The Inclusion Podcost Episode 31: Understanding LRE and Its Role In Supporting All Students [podcast]
- Checklist of Supplemental Supports, Aids and Services [pdf]
- What is Special Education? The Answer Will Suprise You. [YouTube]
- Inclusion Research Fast Facts [pdf]
- Sharing the Benefits of Inclusive Education: 20 Talking Points for Families [pdf]
- Equity Lens[pdf]
- 22 Ways to Respond to Phrases Like “Inclusion Isn't Fair to the Other Students” [pdf]
- Decision Making Steps [pdf]
- Achieving Inclusion: Strategies for Creating Inclusive Classrooms for ALL Students [pdf]
- One Teach/One Make Multi-Sensory[pdf]
- Access Points [pdf]
- 100 Ways to Adapt Anything [pdf]
- 20 Ways to Provide Invisible Supports [pdf]
- Human Ways of Being [pdf]
- 10 Ways School Leaders Can Shift Mindsets [pdf]
- Restory Ideas for Initial Evaluations [pdf]
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Session: November 14, 2024 (click to access)
Practices to Meet the Needs of Every Child Resources
- Key PPT [pdf]
- Co-Teaching Models [pdf]
- One Teach/One Make Mulit-Sensory [pdf]
- Access Points for Common Activities [pdf]
- 101 Ways to Offer Choice [pdf]
- Circle Makers Series[weblink]
- Human Ways of Being [pdf]
- Strategies for Reducing Directions and Corrections for Early Childhood Classrooms [pdf]
FINALLY! AMAZING INCLUSIVE PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT – JUST FOR EARLY EDUCATORS!
Discover the power of inclusive education from the very beginning of school and unlock the full potential of each and every child. With Circles From the Start, we enhance the co-teaching skills of early childhood professionals, foster play-based learning, and create inclusive experiences that transcend the boundaries of outdated separate special education practices. This innovative and comprehensive professional development series is designed and delivered by renowned ECE inclusive experts, where each session offers an engaging experience that will leave educators inspired, equipped with valuable resources and key strategies, and ready to support their youngest learners inclusively. Circles From the Start will give educators the knowledge and tools necessary to not only help young children love learning, feel included, and help educators find more fulfillment and joy in their own teaching.
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The research is clear: students with disabilities do better academically, socially, emotionally, and behaviorally, and experience better post-secondary outcomes when educated in inclusive settings.
Your go-to source for making inclusive education a reality. Whether you’re a school leader, educator, advocate, parent, paraprofessional, or simply passionate about creating more inclusive school spaces, this podcast is for you.
Topics You Do Not Want to MISS:
1. But Inclusion Isn’t Fair to the Other Students
2. How Inclusion Raises the Scores for ALL
3. The Way to Inclusion:What You Need to Know
4. What the Brain Has to Do with Inclusive Change
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