Thursday, September 10, 2015

Welcome to the Early Childhood Directors Group blog


Our next meeting on Thursday, September 24thwill focus on your ideas and suggestions for staff compensation and benefits and supporting your teachers' growth as professionals and leaders.


Special Marketing Training Opportunity
for Center Directors


On October 7th, join trainer, author, and advocate Tom Copeland, JD, for:


The New Face of Marketing: What You Can Do
To Increase Your Child Care Enrollment
 
Wednesday, October 7th, 10 - Noon 
Think Small at 10 Yorkton Court, Saint Paul, 55117


2 in-service hours   -   Training fee is $22


Tom will discuss the tools that parents use to find quality child care and the many cost-effective ways child care programs can promote your programs online. Learn about marketing on Facebook, Craigslist, child care forums, Google+, Pinterest, and more.


This training will also cover privacy and confidentiality issues on the Internet and how providers can protect themselves from an online negative parent review. 


REGISTER TODAY!  PRE-REGISTRATION IS REQUIRED.


Call the Think Small Registration Line:  651-641-3549




Policy Hour is back! 


You are invited to attend monthly Policy Hour meetings for early childhood and school-age care professionals to connect with each other and learn about current policy issues in an informal setting, hosted by Minnesota’s Future .
 
Join us on Tuesday, October 6 from 12:00-1:00 p.m. at Think Small at 2021 East Hennepin Avenue, Suite 250, Minneapolis, MN 55413.  We will hear several early childhood policy experts talk about how far we’ve come in the last decade and look to the future.

Policy Hour is open to all. Meetings are held the first Tuesday of each month, October 2015-June 2016, from Noon-1:00 p.m. and we meet at Think Small, 2021 East Hennepin Avenue, Suite 250, Mpls, 55413.