Spotlight Gallery

Data-Driven Family Engagement Tools for Head Start and State Preschools

Learning Genie is an app for ECE educators and family service workers for Distant Learning and Family Engagement including tracking in-kind. During the COVID-19 crisis, Learning Genie offers free tools till the end of 2020 under a grant (or in-kind) to support all ECE agencies for Distance Learning and track school readiness outcomes.

PRESCHOOL PORTFOLIO APP- LEARNING GENIE

Learning Genie also provides a useful application for portfolio-building. The portfolio tracking and tagging systems could be readily applied to DRDP 2015, Florida VPK, Head Start (HS), Early Head Start (EHS), Montessori, and other state or private-backed assessment tools.

Benchmarks for Successful Rating Periods – Using the Learning Genie Dashboards

Mar 11, 2020 02:00 pm Julia Childs (Senior Education Coordinator) Agency: Neighborhood House Association

Julia Childs of Neighborhood House Association (California) shares best practice on continuous program improvement through creating benchmarks for ratings. She will discuss how to use the Learning Genie Dashboard to monitor classes and strategies to support classes which are not meeting the benchmarks. In addition, she will cover how to detect and correct data that may be missing or incorrect on the Rating Excel File, and the Rating and Attributes Validation file, in order to ensure a successful import to DRDP Online. Read more>> Watch Recorded Webinar

How a positive parent child relationship can prevent Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACE’s) in your family.

April 21st, 2020 2 pm PST
Katharine Bensinger Founder and CEO, ParentTeach (an evidence-based parenting
curriculum on Adverse Childhood Experiences)

Katharine Bensinger is the founder of ParentTeach (previously know as Parenting Fundamentals since 1996). With over 25 years of community education efforts and tracking data, at ParenTeach, her primary goal is to de-stigmatize, normalize, and build awareness of parenting education in order to reduce the adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) and create a healthier, safer and more productive society. Read more>>

Encore Presentation of Social Emotional Learning for the 21st Century

April 17 at 11:30 am PST Alicia Cherry (Center Director and Family Advocate) Agency: CAPCA (Central Arkansas)

Alicia Cherry, Center Director and Family Advocate for CAPCA (Central Arkansas), will share her best practices on social emotional learning. She will discuss not only the importance of teaching and parenting children according to their development, but also share ways to coach families and teachers to identify and appropriately address children’s individual development. Read more>>

Quick, Effective Engagement: How to Build it into your Daily Routine

April 6, 2020 1:00 pm PST April McMullen (Infant Toddler Teacher at Early Head Start) Agency: South Central Human Resource Agency (Tennessee)

April McMullen from South Central Human Resource Agency in Tennessee will share her best practice for creating quick, effective family engagement, and building this habit into your daily routine. From calendars to photos–with her tips you will learn how to easily engage families without taking more time out of your busy day. Read more>> Watch Recorded Webinar

Social Emotional Learning for the 21st Century

Mar 24, 2020 1:00 pm PST Alicia Cherry (Center Director and Family Advocate) Agency: CAPCA (Central Arkansas)

Alicia Cherry, Center Director and Family Advocate for CAPCA (Central Arkansas), will share her best practices on social emotional learning. She will discuss not only the importance of teaching and parenting children according to their development, but also share ways to coach families and teachers to identify and appropriately address children’s individual development. Read more>> Watch Recorded Webinar

Parents as Partners: Hearing Families’ Voices

Feb 26, 2020 12:00 pm Jennifer Soule (Head Start Family Services Manager) Agency: Mahube-Otwa CAP (Minnesota)

Family Services Manager at Mahube-Otwa CAP, shares best practices in partnering with families; including building relationships and communication; coaching families; meeting families where they are; developing, working on, and measuring progress toward goals; improving child outcomes through in-kind activities; and much more. Jennifer will also be inviting a parent to discuss her experience with engagement, and what has been working well for her. Read more>> Watch Recorded Webinar

Truly Paperless Family Engagement

Feb 7, 2020 10:00 am Bekki Parsons (Home Visitation Coordinator) Agency: Northeast Kansas Community Action Partnership

This webinar focuses on the initiative from Northeast Kansas CAP to go fully paperless for our Family-Engagement Operations. Flyers, forms, and daily communications have been all sent to the parent digitally. Best practices using notifications, and reminder features, as well as in-kind and data-dashboard in Learning Genie, will be shared to showcase how to improve agency operation efficiencies and enhance better family engagement outcomes. Read more>> Watch Recorded Webinar