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Workshop Sessions
Click the links below to view all workshop sessions offered at the 2017 Fall Institute!
*All workshops subject to change
Hotel Reservations
Attendees can make hotel reservations at the Prairie Meadows Hotel and receive a special discounted rate. Click the link below to book and use the room block code 09212017IAA. Or call 515-957-3000 to make a reservation over the phone. Group rates are valid until Monday, August 28 at 5:00 pm.
Workshop Highlight Flyers
Keynote Address
Making and Tinkering
in Early Childhood: It’s Serious Play!
Cate Heroman is passionate about helping young children become successful learner and socially competent. She is an early childhood consultant with 40 years in the field as a teacher, Louisiana state early childhood administrator, trainer, keynote speaker, corporate vice president and author. She has authored numerous early childhood publications including The Creative Curriculum® for Preschool, Teaching Strategies GOLD®, Coaching to Fidelity, Building Your Baby's Brain, Helping Children Rebound, and more. She is especially interested in the maker education movement and is author NAEYC’s most recent publication called Making and Tinkering with STEM: Solving Design Challenges with Young Children. Cate previously served on the NAEYC Consulting Editor Panel and has been guest author for blogs on their website. She is currently volunteering as Board Education Chair and Vice Chair of Knock Knock Children’s Museum, an emerging museum for children birth to age eight in Baton Rouge, Louisiana.
Additional Featured Speakers:
Rhian Evans Allvin Gigi Schweikert Chip Donohue
Kimberly Robson Ted Bovey Ron Roybal
Pre-Institute Workshops - Thursday, September 21
The Power of Peers: Using peer-mediated strategies and embedded routines within routines to foster and support children’s social-emotional development.
Sponsored by the Iowa Department of Education
Child Care Grant and Proposal Writing
Sponsored by First Children’s Finance
Shaping Healthy Children with Nature Explore and Farm to Early Care
Sponsored by ISU Extension and Outreach and Iowa AEYC Farm to Early Care Program
Winning Ways to Becoming a Better Supervisor
Sponsored by United Way of Central Iowa
Coming to Our Senses: Applying Sensory Processing Knowledge to Your Everyday Practice
Sponsored by Iowa Head Start Association
