Issue Intensive E: Instructional Leadership in Infant and Toddler Settings

Overview

Leading infant–toddler care and education programs during times of uncertainty requires leaning on relationship-based practices more than ever. It also requires flexibility, responsivity, and planning to ensure that leaders support staff and families to maintain and strengthen secure and trusting relationships that promote infant–toddler learning and development. This Issue Intensive will explore what it means to be an instructional leader in an infant–toddler educational setting in 2020. You will learn about leadership strategies that promote effective and responsive teaching practices and learning environments for infants and toddlers inclusive of center-based, home-based, and family child care. The session will also share effective strategies for developing and relying on relationship-based policies and practices that will help you lead with a social justice and equity lens, particularly during uncertain and stressful times.

Faculty & P-5 Competency Domains

Faculty: Allyson Dean, EdD, ZERO TO THREE; Cathy Tsao, PhD, WestEd; Cheryl Williams-Jackson, PsyD, Modesto Junior College

P-5 Competency Domains:

• P-5 (3) Relationship-Based Practice
• P-5 (6) Leadership to Meet Family Needs and Improve Services and Systems

Presenters have affirmed that they do not have proprietary interest in products, instruments, devices, services or materials discussed in this event, and have confirmed that they have not been compensated in relation to this presentation.