NAEYC is proud to announce our brand-new Learning Lab: Annual Conference Edition! For a limited time, NAEYC is providing virtual access to NINE sessions originally presented at our 2022 Annual Conference. These sessions have been specially curated to provide an engaging and exciting virtual learning experience.

If you attended the conference, here’s an opportunity to see sessions you may have missed! And if you didn’t attend the conference, here’s a taste of what you missed, and a preview of what to expect at future meetings!

Learn from individual sessions or get access to all nine at a discounted price!

Session Pricing
         •    $30 each or $245 for 9 sessions (member)
         •    $35 each or $285 for 9 sessions (nonmember)

Don’t delay! This special offer is for a limited time only. 

Sessions Offered

Re-thinking the challenges of Circle Time and Transitions 

Presenter: Beth Trammell  
Topic Track: Guidance/Challenging Behaviors 
Description: This session will focus on evidence-based behavioral strategies rooted in age-appropriate preschool development that minimize the likelihood of challenging behaviors from preschoolers. 
Price: $30 members/$35 nonmembers
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The Why and the How of Teaching Emergent Writing: Birth through Kindergarten 

Presenters: Colleen Whittingham and Emily Hoffman  
Topic Track: Language & Literacy  
Description: This session will describe developmentally appropriate writing instruction for infants, toddlers, preschoolers, and kindergarteners, sharing ideas for multimodal composing and appropriate uses of technology.
Price: $30 members/$35 nonmembers
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Worms, Ramps, & a New Chair for Baby Bear: Preschool Science & Engineering

Presenters: Carrie Cutler and Linda Zhang 
Topic Track: Science  
Description: This session will show how with intentional planning, teachers can leverage existing centers and design science and engineering experiences that provide the development of problem-solving skills and reasoning through kid-friendly contexts.   
Price: $30 members/$35 nonmembers
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Honoring Every Child: A Culturally Responsive Approach to the Classroom

Presenters: Kelce Eckhardt and Char Norris  
Topic Track: Diversity & Equity  
Description: This session will unpack the importance of why honoring every, individual child leads to impactful learning; participants will have the opportunity to understand the need for culturally relevant practices and how they can apply those in their classroom through hearing stories from the field. 
Price: $30 members/$35 nonmembers
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Inquiring Minds: Investigating STEM with Infants and Toddlers

Presenters: Sonia Yoshizawa and Sherri Peterson 
Topic Track: Science 
Description: This session will describe a model for how infants and toddlers engage in inquiry learning and will provide educators with ideas for exploring STEM learning opportunities in order to support inquiry for the youngest learners.​​​​​​
Price: $30 members/$35 nonmembers
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Messes, mixups, and mistakes: Embracing the gift of failure and building resilience in children in a world that loves perfection

Presenter: Ryan Huber 
Topic Track: Social/Emotional Development
Description: This session will discuss ways to implement creative intentionality in lesson planning and enable a space where students are free to fail and make mistakes; participants will feel empowered to walk alongside their class and teach them effective ways to work through their feelings.  
Price: $30 members/$35 nonmembers
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Where the magic happens: Bringing play-based learning outdoors

Presenter: Christina Davis 
Topic Track: Nature/Outdoor Education
Description: This session will highlight data that support the importance and efficacy of outdoor learning but most importantly will empower teachers, early childhood education staff, owners, and directors to identify the best ways to apply this research to their own programs.
Price: $30 members/$35 nonmembers
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America’s early childhood education crisis: Examining the problem from a macro and micro perspective 

Presenters: Sarah Vanover and Jennifer Washburn 
Topic Track: Advocacy/Public Policy   
Description: This session examines the challenges of America's early childhood education crisis from a state system's perspective and from the perspective of an early childhood center director.
Price: $30 members/$35 nonmembers
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Toddlers as investigators: Making a shift from thematic curriculum to inquiry-based learning: developing an emergent curriculum in toddler programs  

Presenter: Melissa Pinkham 
Topic Track: Curriculum—Theories & Approaches  
Description: This session will focus on implementing emergent practices with toddlers, including the art of listening and observing, developing curriculums focusing on toddlers' inquiries, demonstrating the sources of emergent practices, and sharing methods of documentation and assessment.
Price: $30 members/$35 nonmembers
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Purchase Entire Series!

Can’t decide on just one session? By purchasing this package, you will have access to all NINE specially curated sessions at a discounted rate.  
Price: $245 members/$285 nonmembers 
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