Live Trainings for
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Upcoming Live Trainings
Childcare Professional Development
Do you have an upcoming
professional development day for your staff and you're looking for high
quality training? In addition to purchasing bulk on-demand courses, IMPACT
offers live childcare professional development. Our live trainings are led
by experienced early childhood educators and include resources,
interactive activities, discussions, and hands-on learning experiences.
We also offer the option to have our trainers come to your school for on-site training.
Prices start at $780 for a virtual live training. Select "Request Live Training" to learn more.
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“I want to share- this is a very WELL DONE training, between the visual, the presenters, and the education and engagement. I have taken so many trainings and it can be hard to stay alert and engaged and I have not wanted to look away from this training once. Thank you!!”
Participant in "Beyond the Sensory Table: Classroom Strategies for Sensory Play"
Currently offered live trainings on inclusive early learning topics:
Recommended duration of each live IMPACT training is indicated below. Training durations may be flexible and can be adjusted for your needs. Live trainings are based on the same foundation as online courses but include additional interactive learning activities. All training topics are also offered on our online, on-demand platform.
To reserve a live training, 6 weeks notice is recommended to secure your spot. Pricing and availability will be shared by an IMPACT team member once you submit the Request Live Training form.
Live trainings are offered virtually via Zoom nationwide. On-site trainings are available and additional travel surcharges will apply. Please submit a Live Training Request form for fee structures.
To reserve a live training, 6 weeks notice is recommended to secure your spot. Pricing and availability will be shared by an IMPACT team member once you submit the Request Live Training form.
Live trainings are offered virtually via Zoom nationwide. On-site trainings are available and additional travel surcharges will apply. Please submit a Live Training Request form for fee structures.
Shorter Trainings (1-2 hours)
Beyond the Sensory Table: Classroom Strategies for Sensory Play
Description:
In this sensory training, learn how to use sensory play to promote learning and development in all children.
In this course, you will:
This course is perfect for: child care providers, early childhood educators, teachers, parents, and anyone who works with young children.
Complete the form below for next steps and to see if this training is a good fit for your needs.
In this sensory training, learn how to use sensory play to promote learning and development in all children.
In this course, you will:
- Learn about the eight senses and how they develop from infancy through childhood
- Explore experiential activities that bring our sensory systems to life
- Discover how to incorporate sensory play into all classroom routines
- Get over 50 fun sensory activities to do with your class
- Find new ways to jazz up your sensory table with toys and materials that get kids excited to use it.
This course is perfect for: child care providers, early childhood educators, teachers, parents, and anyone who works with young children.
Complete the form below for next steps and to see if this training is a good fit for your needs.
BYE-BYE BITING! STRATEGIES FOR PREVENTION & RESPONSE
Description:
Biting is common, especially in early childhood. This challenging behavior training will provide practical strategies to prevent biting, how to respond to bites, and communicate with families effectively.
Features:
• Learn about the causes of biting and how to prevent it
• Design a plan for responding to bites calmly and effectively
• Practice communicating with families about biting in a clear, respectful, and supportive way
This training offers valuable opportunities to learn how to address biting in a safe, supportive, and effective way.
This training is perfect for early childhood educators, child care providers, and parents.
Complete the form below for next steps and to see if this training is a good fit for your needs.
Biting is common, especially in early childhood. This challenging behavior training will provide practical strategies to prevent biting, how to respond to bites, and communicate with families effectively.
Features:
• Learn about the causes of biting and how to prevent it
• Design a plan for responding to bites calmly and effectively
• Practice communicating with families about biting in a clear, respectful, and supportive way
This training offers valuable opportunities to learn how to address biting in a safe, supportive, and effective way.
This training is perfect for early childhood educators, child care providers, and parents.
Complete the form below for next steps and to see if this training is a good fit for your needs.
power struggles
Description:
Are you ready to thrive in your classroom instead of constantly putting out fires? This course is packed with the strategies you need to decrease power struggles, increase cooperation, and build connection with kids who challenge you the most. Get the information you need to understand why power struggles happen and what to do about them. After this course you’ll feel confident responding to power struggles in the heat of the moment and learn easy-to-follow strategies that prevent them from happening in the first place.
Are you ready to thrive in your classroom instead of constantly putting out fires? This course is packed with the strategies you need to decrease power struggles, increase cooperation, and build connection with kids who challenge you the most. Get the information you need to understand why power struggles happen and what to do about them. After this course you’ll feel confident responding to power struggles in the heat of the moment and learn easy-to-follow strategies that prevent them from happening in the first place.
Understanding Challenging Behavior Through Data Collection
Description:
Are there challenging behaviors in your classroom that make you scratch your head and wonder “what’s going on?” Have you tried a bunch of strategies and the behaviors keep happening? Even the most experienced teachers sometimes struggle with challenging behaviors even though they know that all behavior is communication and it’s our job to understand the messages that children are giving us. Kids with challenging behavior are good kids who just need our support to learn and thrive. This course will give you the tools you need to understand what behaviors are communicating and why they keep happening. You’ll leave with everything you need to identify antecedents and consequences for behavior, collect data using ABC charts and scatterplots, and the skills to analyze behavior data to uncover patterns. Once you understand the function of behavior you can identify effective strategies that meet the needs of the children in your classroom and set them up to be successful.
Are there challenging behaviors in your classroom that make you scratch your head and wonder “what’s going on?” Have you tried a bunch of strategies and the behaviors keep happening? Even the most experienced teachers sometimes struggle with challenging behaviors even though they know that all behavior is communication and it’s our job to understand the messages that children are giving us. Kids with challenging behavior are good kids who just need our support to learn and thrive. This course will give you the tools you need to understand what behaviors are communicating and why they keep happening. You’ll leave with everything you need to identify antecedents and consequences for behavior, collect data using ABC charts and scatterplots, and the skills to analyze behavior data to uncover patterns. Once you understand the function of behavior you can identify effective strategies that meet the needs of the children in your classroom and set them up to be successful.
Longer Trainings (2-3 Hours)
ADHD: Strategies for increasing attention and decreasing hyperactivity
Description:
Are you ready to feel confident supporting kids with Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD)? Teachers need strategies for kids who have a high energy level, struggle to pay attention, and who know the rules but can’t seem to follow them. This course will help you understand the inattention, hyperactivity or impulsivity that’s behind these behaviors and give you practical strategies and effective solutions, so these kids thrive in your classroom.
In this course, you’ll learn:
Are you ready to feel confident supporting kids with Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD)? Teachers need strategies for kids who have a high energy level, struggle to pay attention, and who know the rules but can’t seem to follow them. This course will help you understand the inattention, hyperactivity or impulsivity that’s behind these behaviors and give you practical strategies and effective solutions, so these kids thrive in your classroom.
In this course, you’ll learn:
- How kids with ADHD process information differently
- How to give directions so kids will actually listen
- Why fidgeting is a solution rather than a problem
- Which fidgets and active seating options are best
- And how to tap into the power of play to build self-regulation skills
Autism Spectrum Disorder: Language and Communication Strategies
Description:
Are you ready to expand your knowledge of practical strategies for helping children with autism build their vocabulary? Do you wish you had techniques to communicate more effectively with your students?
This training will teach you how to:
• Decide what words to teach first to meet your individual students’ learning goals
• Use songs for language learning
• Implement visual strategies like sign language, visual schedules, and First/Then schedules
• Apply proven techniques for supporting language development to the unique way children with autism process language
By the end, you will be able to:
• Expand your knowledge to help children with autism build their vocabulary
• Communicate more effectively with your students
• Implement visual strategies to reinforce language development in children with autism
This high-quality autism training is perfect for early childhood professionals, child care providers, parents, and people interested in supporting language development in children with autism.
Complete the form below for next steps and to see if this training is a good fit for your needs.
Are you ready to expand your knowledge of practical strategies for helping children with autism build their vocabulary? Do you wish you had techniques to communicate more effectively with your students?
This training will teach you how to:
• Decide what words to teach first to meet your individual students’ learning goals
• Use songs for language learning
• Implement visual strategies like sign language, visual schedules, and First/Then schedules
• Apply proven techniques for supporting language development to the unique way children with autism process language
By the end, you will be able to:
• Expand your knowledge to help children with autism build their vocabulary
• Communicate more effectively with your students
• Implement visual strategies to reinforce language development in children with autism
This high-quality autism training is perfect for early childhood professionals, child care providers, parents, and people interested in supporting language development in children with autism.
Complete the form below for next steps and to see if this training is a good fit for your needs.
Challenging Behaviors: Collecting Data & Creating Behavior Support Plans
Description:
Are there challenging behaviors in your classroom that make you scratch your head and wonder “what’s going on?” Have you tried a bunch of strategies and the behaviors keep happening? Even the most experienced teachers sometimes struggle with challenging behaviors. This course will give you the tools you need to understand why behaviors keep happening and a step-by-step guide to creating a plan with strategies that will actually work. You’ll leave with everything you need to complete ABC charts and analyze behavior data for students in your classroom. We’ll walk you through real-life behavior support plans and give you a customizable template of your own, so you feel confident writing a plan and putting it into practice.
Challenging Behaviors: Creating Behavior Support Plans
Description:
Are there challenging behaviors in your classroom that keep happening even though you’ve tried a bunch of strategies? Once you’ve mastered the art of data collection to understand challenging behaviors in young children, this course will give you the skills to take the next step and write a behavior support plan that’s actually effective. We’ll walk you through real-life examples of behavior support plans and give you a customizable template to write a behavior support plan of your own, so you feel confident writing a plan and putting it into practice to support the students in your classroom. In this course you’ll learn how to identify preventative strategies that make challenging behaviors less likely, respond when challenging behaviors do happen. You will also learn how to teach replacement skills and positive behaviors, partner with families around challenging behaviors, and bring it all together in a comprehensive document that gets everyone on the same page.
In this course you’ll learn how to:
- Identify preventative strategies that make challenging behaviors less likely
- Respond when challenging behaviors do happen
- Teach replacement skills and positive behaviors
- Partner with families around challenging behaviors
- And bring it all together in a comprehensive document that gets everyone on the same page
Introduction to Autism Spectrum Disorder
Description:
Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) affects 1 in every 36 children. This means you will likely have a child with ASD in your classroom every 2-3 years.
This autism training will give you the knowledge and skills to understand and support any young child with ASD.
We will cover the following topics:
This training is a suggested pre-requisite for IMPACT's Autism Spectrum Disorder training series.
Complete the form below for next steps and to see if this training is a good fit for your needs.
Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) affects 1 in every 36 children. This means you will likely have a child with ASD in your classroom every 2-3 years.
This autism training will give you the knowledge and skills to understand and support any young child with ASD.
We will cover the following topics:
- What is ASD?
- Signs and characteristics of ASD in children
- How to partner with families
- Quality inclusive practices for supporting children with ASD
This training is a suggested pre-requisite for IMPACT's Autism Spectrum Disorder training series.
Complete the form below for next steps and to see if this training is a good fit for your needs.
Mastering Challenging
Behaviors: The Essentials
Description:
Are you seeking effective early childhood inclusion strategies to address challenging behavior in your classroom?
In this course, you will:
This course is perfect for early childhood educators, child care providers, parents, and people who want to effectively address challenging behavior in an inclusive environment.
Complete the form below for next steps and to see if this training is a good fit for your needs.
Are you seeking effective early childhood inclusion strategies to address challenging behavior in your classroom?
In this course, you will:
- Learn the causes of challenging behavior in young children
- Discover practical, actionable strategies to promote positive behavior
- Reframe how you think about behavior in a way that builds connection and strong relationships with all students
- Understand how trauma affects behavior and identify strategies to support children with sensory seeking or avoiding behaviors
- Master the basics of data collection and ABC charts to pinpoint the root causes of challenging behavior and identify the right solutions
This course is perfect for early childhood educators, child care providers, parents, and people who want to effectively address challenging behavior in an inclusive environment.
Complete the form below for next steps and to see if this training is a good fit for your needs.
Partnering with Families – Strategies for Successful Communication
Description:
Communication and collaboration with families in early education are essential in supporting child development and identifying developmental delays or concerns, promoting learning, and providing a supportive environment for all children.
This resource will help you to:
• Understand the benefits of close collaboration with families
• Identify barriers to family participation and how to overcome them
• Develop communication strategies that promote cooperation with families
• Create a supportive environment for all children
We will cover the following topics:
• The importance of family-centered, quality inclusive practices in early childhood education
• How to build relationships with families
• How to communicate effectively with families
• How to involve families in the classroom
• How to accommodate special healthcare needs
This training is perfect for early learning instructors, child care providers, and anyone working with children.
Complete the form below for next steps and to see if this training is a good fit for your needs.
Communication and collaboration with families in early education are essential in supporting child development and identifying developmental delays or concerns, promoting learning, and providing a supportive environment for all children.
This resource will help you to:
• Understand the benefits of close collaboration with families
• Identify barriers to family participation and how to overcome them
• Develop communication strategies that promote cooperation with families
• Create a supportive environment for all children
We will cover the following topics:
• The importance of family-centered, quality inclusive practices in early childhood education
• How to build relationships with families
• How to communicate effectively with families
• How to involve families in the classroom
• How to accommodate special healthcare needs
This training is perfect for early learning instructors, child care providers, and anyone working with children.
Complete the form below for next steps and to see if this training is a good fit for your needs.
Sensory Strategies and the brain: promoting self-regulation and learning
Description:
Do you want to learn how to recognize and support individual sensory needs in the classroom?
This course supports you to:
• Identify sensory-seeking and sensory-avoiding behaviors
• Understand the brain-based science of sensory regulation
• Create a sensory-rich classroom environment
• Design individualized sensory plans for your students
• Help get children regulated and ready to learn
We will also provide you with a printable Sensory Matrix template you can customize and use in your classroom.
This resource is perfect for early childhood educators, child care providers, families, and people interested in learning more about sensory regulation and how to cater to sensory needs in the classroom.
Complete the form below for next steps and to see if this training is a good fit for your needs.
Do you want to learn how to recognize and support individual sensory needs in the classroom?
This course supports you to:
• Identify sensory-seeking and sensory-avoiding behaviors
• Understand the brain-based science of sensory regulation
• Create a sensory-rich classroom environment
• Design individualized sensory plans for your students
• Help get children regulated and ready to learn
We will also provide you with a printable Sensory Matrix template you can customize and use in your classroom.
This resource is perfect for early childhood educators, child care providers, families, and people interested in learning more about sensory regulation and how to cater to sensory needs in the classroom.
Complete the form below for next steps and to see if this training is a good fit for your needs.
Transforming Group Mealtimes: Strategies for Picky Eating & Food Exploration
Description:
Are you looking for ways to help the picky eaters in your classroom? Do you have any students who eat only one or two favorite foods?
In this course, you will:
Are you looking for ways to help the picky eaters in your classroom? Do you have any students who eat only one or two favorite foods?
In this course, you will:
- Learn strategies to promote food exploration and make the most of group mealtime in your program
- See videos of real-world classrooms using family-style dining
- Discover actionable steps for involving kids in mealtimes
- Explore the sensory aspects of eating and how predictability impacts kids' willingness to try new foods
- Learn how to effectively respond to common challenges like throwing and dumping food
- Identify ways to individualize mealtime to successfully include all children and abilities in mealtime
This course is perfect for early childhood educators, child care providers, parents, and anyone who want to build their toolbox to support picky eaters and promote food exploration in young children.
Complete the form below for next steps and to see if this training is a good fit for your needs.
Prices start at $780 for a virtual live training. Select "Request Live Training" to learn more.
Early Learning Professional Development
IMPACT's live training
is perfect for anyone who works with young children, including teachers,
directors, administrators, and family childcare providers. Our
courses are designed to help you build your skills and knowledge
so that you can provide the best possible care for the young children
in your program.
is perfect for anyone who works with young children, including teachers,
directors, administrators, and family childcare providers. Our
courses are designed to help you build your skills and knowledge
so that you can provide the best possible care for the young children
in your program.
Inclusive Early Learning Training
We also offer a variety of
training on inclusive education, creating a learning environment
that is welcoming and accessible to all children. Our inclusive
early learning training will help you learn how to create a more inclusive
setting or program and how to support children with special needs, disabilities, and challenging behaviors.
training on inclusive education, creating a learning environment
that is welcoming and accessible to all children. Our inclusive
early learning training will help you learn how to create a more inclusive
setting or program and how to support children with special needs, disabilities, and challenging behaviors.
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Inclusion-Focused Training Topics
All of our training content has a focus on the inclusion of children with challenging behaviors and disabilities.
Introduction to Inclusion in Early Learning
“The presenters are clearly skilled and passionate about working with challenging behaviors and helping others to learn effective strategies. They kept such a pleasant pace on an enormous topic. Their graphics, references, video clips were are highly effective too. Loved the Closed Captioning.”
- Childcare Provider
Our professional development resources are grounded in research, evidence, and quality inclusive practices in early childhood education, child development, infant and early childhood mental health, behavioral health, attachment theory, trauma-informed practices, and early childhood therapeutic services.
Courses are provided with a goal of embracing, affirming, and promoting neurodiversity. While all course and live training materials are developed based on gathered current evidence and input from advocates, information is always evolving. Every effort is made to incorporate new thoughts, experiences and perspectives as course content is updated.
Courses are provided with a goal of embracing, affirming, and promoting neurodiversity. While all course and live training materials are developed based on gathered current evidence and input from advocates, information is always evolving. Every effort is made to incorporate new thoughts, experiences and perspectives as course content is updated.
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