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A Child's Eye View: Inspiring Wonder through Environmental Design
A Play on Literacy
A Sense of Place: Human Geography in the Early Childhood Classroom
Achieving Quality Standards in Early Education
Acknowledge, Ask and Adapt: Supporting Infant and Toddler Families
Active Bodies, Active Minds
Active Supervision for Center Staff
Active Supervision for Family Child Care
Activities for the Culturally Diverse Classroom
Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs) & Trauma Informed Care
All Children Are Gifted
An Introduction to ASQ-3 and ASQ Online - 3 hour
Anti-Bias Cultural Competence Awareness
Ants in Their Pants: Teaching Children Who Must Move to Learn
Art plus SEL = Strong Classroom Management
Asthma , Allergy and Anaphylaxis Prevention and Management Training
Autism Spectrum Disorder: A Child's Perspective
Avoiding Burnout in a Demanding Occupation
Baby Blocks: Helping Infants & Toddlers Grow
Baby Picasso: Process Art Experiences for Infants and Toddlers
Basic Health & Safety Training with Supporting Breastfeeding in Child Care
Basic Health and Safety Training
Becoming Aware of Cultural Issues
Behavior Guidance for Infants and Toddlers
Beyond Counting: Games and Activities to Support Preschool Math
Beyond Management: How to Be An Effective Leader
Beyond Mr. Yuk: Poison Safety and Prevention
Big Anxiety, Small Child
Bottoms Up! Tummy Time Fun
Building Caring Communities
Building Classroom Communities
Building Oral Language in the Early Childhood Classroom
Building Resilience in Young Children
Building Strong Teams Through Understanding Personality Types
Building Your Parent Handbook and Contract
Building Your Resilience
Business Bootcamp for Family Child Care
Business Foundations in Family Child Care: Module 1 – What to Know about Business
But It's Mine! Redirecting Toddlers (Developing Social Emotional Competencies)
Calm in the Chaos: Tools to Increase the Peace
Capturing Child Development Through Portfolios
Car Seat Safety
Caregiving as Curriculum: Using the Caregiving Time to Build Executive Function in Infants and Toddlers-
Caring for Little Ones: Using Sign Language to Communicate
Celebrating Culturally Diverse Early Childhood Classrooms
Center Aide Orientation
Center Aide Orientation (2023)
Character Development in Preschool
Character Development in Preschool (2hrs)
Chatting with Children: Interactions That Go Places
Child Development and Developmental Delays (2 hour)
Child Development and Developmental Delays (3 hour)
Circle Time: You Can Make It Developmentally Appropriate
Classroom Schedules and Transitions: Tricks and Tips to Help Your Day Run Smoothly
Collaborative Partnerships: Professional Development Through Coaching
Coloring Outside the Lines
Combining Living and Learning
Community Collaboration & Learning Around the Town
Conflict Resolution Strategies
Conflicts Arise; Proven Strategies Resolve
Connecting Assessment to Curriculum and Instruction
Connecting Child Care, Families and Community
Cooking Across the Curriculum
Counting on Math in Early Childhood Education
CPR and First Aid
Creating a Compassionate Classroom: Bullying
Creating a Stress Reducing Environment for Children of All Ages
Creating a Trauma-Informed Culture of Care for Young Children
Creating a Writing Center from Dollar & Thrift Store Find
Creating Culturally Rich Environments with Loose Parts
Creating Preschool Coding Stories and Games
Creating Success in an After School Program
Critical Competencies
Cross-Cultural Support for Grieving Children and Families
Crunch, Rustle, Explore! Fall Activities for Young Children
Cultivating Creative Problem Solvers
Cultural Competency in Early Childhood Education
Culture, Development and Learning - PITC
Customizing Your Contract
Developing a Community Resource File
Developmental Delays
Developmentally Appropriate Practice with Infants and Toddlers
Developmentally Appropriate Practice: Recognizing the Essentials
Developmentally Appropriate Supervision
Discipline is Teaching Positive Strategies to Reduce Challenging Behaviors
Discipline is Teaching: Positive Strategies to Reduce Challenging Behavior (3 hour)
Discipline vs. Guidance: Teaching Strategies that Engage Children and Reduce Challenging Behavior
Discoveries of Infancy: The What and How of Learning
Early Childhood STEAM
Early Intervention Coaching in Child-Care Settings—Creating an Infants and Toddlers Dream Team
Early Learning Assessment Training
Educational Equity: Culturally Responsive Teaching
Elevate and Empower: Training Teachers as Young Scientist Mentors
Emergency & Disaster Preparedness
Emotions Matter!
EMS CPR and First Aid Combo Class
EMS Safety Basic First Aid
EMS Safety Infant/Toddler/Adult CPR Certification
Encouraging Imaginative Play
Engaging Indoor Activities for Inclement Weather
Engineering with Simple Machines in the Preschool Setting
Enjoying Special Moments with Infants and Toddlers
Everybody Plays, Everybody Wins: Strengthening Children's Lives with Successful Physical Activity Expereinces
Exploring Scientific Thinking and Inquiry with Children's Literature
Exploring Social Studies Concepts with Children’s Books`
Exploring the Great Outdoors in Autumn
Express Yourself! Discovering How to Extend Children's Natural Forms of Self Expression to Promote Early Literacy Skills
Family and Community Partnership
Family First: Communication and Collaboration with Families
Family-Provider Partnerships
Fine Arts for Young Children
Fit from the Start
Fostering a Father Friendly Environment
Free Art: Nurturing Young Children's Creativity
Fun with Found Materials
Gender Identity in Early Childhood Education
Get Up, Get Out! Preschoolers in Motion
Growing STEM Minds - 3hours
Growing Vegetable Soup: Connecting Children to Healthy Foods
Hands in the Soil: The Basics and Benefits of Gardening with Young Children
Hands-On Art for Twos
Healthy Bodies Inside and Out
Healthy Children Through Nutrition and Physical Activity
Healthy Kids Move!
Healthy Lifestyles Lead to a Healthy You
Helping Boys Blossom: Strength-Based Approaches for Teaching Boys
Helping Children Cope: Recognizing and Responding to Childhood Trauma
How to Construct a Meaningful Community Service Project with Children
How to Create a Meaningful Lesson Plan
How to Develop Critical Thinking Skills in Children
How to Expertly Navigate Conflict in the Workplace
I Am Full of Emotions: Why Social and Emotional Skills and Emergent Literacy are Important
I Can Pretend Too! Dramatic Play Experiences for Toddlers & Twos
I Want My Baby to Read
I’m Not Biased, Am I? Implicit Bias: What is it and What Can I Do about it
Imagine After School Spaces That Work
Imagineering in the Classroom
Improving Transitions in Your Program
Including All Children and the Americans with Disabilities Act
Inclusion Strategies for School-Age Programs
Indoor & Outdoor Nature Based Learning for Infants & Toddlers
Infant and Toddler STEM
Infants and Toddlers Developing a Sense of Self
Interactive Storytelling
Introduction to Healthy Beginnings
Introduction to NAFCC Accreditation
Introduction to Observation and Assessment of Children Birth through Twelve
Introduction to the Maryland Credential
Introduction to the Maryland Credential (3hour)
Introduction to the Pyramid Model
It Takes A Whole Village
It's a Simple Story, Tell It
It's Conference Time
Jumping Into Science
Jumping Into Social-Emotional Development-
Keys to Success: Improving Outcomes for Preschoolers with Special Needs
Kids In Motion! Music and Movement Activities for the Whole Child
Kindergarten Readiness for the Child Care Community
Language in the Multicultural Child Care Setting
Learn to Move, Move to Learn
Learning Math with Dollar & Thrift Store Finds
Lego On: Building Your Preschooler One Colorful Brick At A Time
Lesson Planning for Family Child Care
Lesson Planning for Preschool Classrooms
Lessons to be Learned from the Bowerbird and Nature
Let's Move! Child Care
Let's Move! Child Care (II)
Literacy Activities from the Mobile Literacy Lab
Little Boy Blues
Lively Arts for Preschoolers
Living the Protective Factors: Taking Care of Yourself
Looking at Quality from a Business Administration Perspective
Lovable Ones
Make Time Happen: Time Management Tips
Making Contracts and Policies Work for Your Family Child Care
Making Families Welcome: Positive Partnerships with Families
Making Meaningful Connections: Building the Foundation of the Young Brain
Making the Most of Your Circle Time
Managing Stress at Any Age
Managing Your Family Child Care
Marketing for Business Growth
Marketing Your Family Child Care Business
Marvelous Math
Maryland EXCELS Training : Super Saturday
Mastering Time: Strategies for Effective Time Management
Math Activities Using Children's Literature
Math and Literacy: The Perfect Pair
Math and Science Board Books for Babies
Math and Science for Infants and Toddlers
Medication Administration
Mental Health First Aid
Messing Around with Science
Mindfulness and Yoga for Adults and Young Children
More Than A Fence: Reimagining Outdoor Spaces for Young Children
More than Running Around: Connecting the Mind and Body
More than Twinkle Twinkle: Using Music with Infants and Toddlers
MSDE Accreditation Orientation
Multiple Intelligences: Discovering Gifts & Empowering Children
National Safety Council Basic First Aid
National Safety Council Infant/Child/Adult CPR
Nurturing Amazing, Brainy Babies
Nurturing Brain Development
Nurturing Brain Development - 2.5 hrs
Nutrition and Active Learning
Nutrition and Wellness for Child Care
On Track: All Aboard for Developmental Progress Overview
Once Upon a Storytime
Open-Ended Art for the Preschool Child
Outdoor Environment Design for Infants & Toddlers
Overview of the Environmental Rating Scales
Pancakes, Pancakes!
Parent Handbook
Parent Involvement + Family Engagement = Success
Planning the Day for Infants and Toddlers
Planning Yoga Experiences for Early Childhood Classrooms
Playful Minds: Encouraging Creativity Through Imaginative Play
Playground Safety
Policies That Protect
Positive Child Guideance & Discipline Theory
Positive Words for Positive Actions
Preparing for Emergencies in Child Care
Prioritizing Outdoor Play
Priority Standards for Language Arts
Priority Standards for Math
Professional Presence: Communication in All Roles
Professionalism in Child Care
PURPLE Tears: Adults' Impact on Infant Emotional Intelligence
Put on Your Thinking Cap: Executive Functions of the Mind in Early Childhood
Pyramid Model for Preschool Classrooms – Module 1: Building Nurturing & Responsive Relationships and Creating Supportive Environments
Pyramid Model for Preschool Classrooms – Module 2: Targeted Social Emotional Supports
R.E.S.P.E.C.T. – What Infants and Toddlers Want
Raindrops on Noses and Toes in the Dirt: Infants and Toddlers in the Outdoor Classroom
Rally Around Child Care Advocacy
Reading Aloud
Reality Bites
Recognizing and Reporting Child Abuse & Neglect
Recognizing and Responding to Challenging Behaviors
Redesign Your Circle Time
Reducing Stress and Burnout for Those Caring for Kids
Reporting Child Abuse and Preventing Bullying
Resiliency and Adverse Childhood Experiences
Resolving Conflicts with Young Children
Resources & Tools for Your Body as the Basis of Stress
Resources That Guide Daily Planning
Respecting All Family Structures
Restorative Practices
Rethinking the Environment to Spark Curiosity using Creative Containe
Rooted in Place: Nurturing Children's Connection to Their World
Routines and Cultures
Schedules and Routines
Science, STEM, Technology in the Early Childhood Classroom
Science, Technology, Engineering and Math (STEM) in the Early Childhood Program: Discover STEM
Science, Technology, Engineering and Math (STEM) in the Early Childhood Program: Infuse STEM in Your Program
Science, Technology, Engineering and Math (STEM) in the Early Childhood Program: It's the Questions Not the Answers
Science, Technology, Engineering and Math (STEM) in the Early Childhood Program: Supporting STEM through Play
Scientific Minds: Inquiry Based Science-
Scribbles Count! Emergent Writing
Sensory Play for Infants and Toddlers
Show Me What I Can't Hear
SIDS, SUID and Other Sleep-Related Infant Deaths
Signing with Young Children
Simple Strategies for Staying Healthy During Trying Times
Small World Play: Building Imagination in Children
SO What Are PAUs and How Do I Get Them
Social Studies - All Around Me
Story Stretchers for Infants and Toddlers
Storytime for Infants and Toddlers
Stranger Danger
Stress in Early Childhood: Helping Children Cope
Stretching Your Dollars: Budget-Friendly Meals Kids Will Love
Success Over Stress: Gain Control of Your Life
Successful Relationships Begin with You!
Successfully Managing Children's Behavior: Connecting in Meaningful Ways
Successfully Managing Children's Behavior: Creating a Supportive Environment
Summer Science Activities for Preschool Children
Sun Safe: A Program for Child Care Providers
Supporting Breastfeeding in Child Care
Supporting Children of Gay and Lesbian Parents
Supporting Children with Disabilities, Delays or Special Health Care Needs
Supporting Culturally Diverse Familities
Supporting Sensory Needs in Little Learners
Supporting Young English Learners
Surviving Summer with School-Agers
Switch On - Switch Off: Babies and Technology
Take A Look in a Book: Infant and Toddler Emergent Literacy
Taking Good Care of You
Taking Learning Outside
Teaching Parents About School Readiness
Teaching Problem Solving Throughout the Day
Teaching With Heart: Celebrating Children's Unique Talents
Team Building
The Art of Conflict Resolution in Child Care
The Basics: How Children Learn to Think - Explore Through Movement and Play
The Benefits of Play
The Changing Face of Child Care
The Child Care Provider as a Professional
The Importance of Executive Function and Self-Regulation in Early Childhood Education and Care (2hr)
The Maryland Child Care Credential - What Does It Mean for Me?
The Next Step in Emergency Preparedness
The Power of Partnering with Families
The Story's the Thing: A Multipurpose Tool for Social Emotional Learning, Literacy and Engagement
The Window Through Which We Look
Time for Referrals: Tips for Talking with Parents
Time In: Understanding and Preventing Behavior
Tiny Humans, Big Emotions
Toddler Patterns of Learning: Play Schemas
Toilet Training: Catching the Cues of the Potty Dance
Transition Techniques
Transporting Kids Safely
Traumatic Events: Helping Our Children Cope During and After a Crisis
Treat Yourself
Turn It On, Cut It Out-Learn How to Put Your Resource Room to Work for You!
Understanding ADD/ADHD
Understanding and Preventing Bullying Behaviors in Child Care
Understanding Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder
Understanding Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder 3 hours
Understanding Autism Spectrum Disorder in the Preschool Program
Understanding Autism Today
Understanding Linguistic and Cultural Diversity and Language Acquisition
Understanding Playground Safety
Understanding Temperament: Implications for Working with Young Children
Unplug and Think Outside the Box
Using Art to Heal Trauma
Using Assessment to Drive Quality
Using Storytelling to Enhance Children's Development
Using Visual Supports to Promote Independence & Success
Vertical Learning: Creative Uses of Classroom Walls
Watching to Learn
What Happened To The World? Helping Children Cope
What is DAP?
What to Do? Ethics and the Early Childhood Educator
What’s In Their Backpack? The Impact of Trauma
What's the Sign
Who's Coming To Your Program?
Why Do Toddlers Bite?
Why Play Matters
Why Risk It? Managing Risk in Child Care
Working Together: Community & Its Helpers All Around Town
Working Together: The Importance of Community Helpers in Our Daily Lives
Working with Mixed Age Groups
You Can Do This! Accommodating All Children in Your Program
You've Got a Friend: Teaching Friendship Skills
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Why Play Matters
Monday, Apr 27 2026 6:30PM-8:30PM
Class# 2612923
Location Allegany College of Maryland
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This interactive training will seek to build participants knowledge and understanding of the importance of play in the physical, cognitive and social development of children.
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Price: $20.00
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