Dear Staff:
Welcome to HEAD START of Greater Dallas’ 2009 Pre-Service Training Conference: Head Start Meeting the Challenges of Our Community and Our Nation! Please join us in our opportunity to serve over four thousand children and their families. We share a unique career where we have the opportunity to make a difference in the lives of young children and their families. Let’s look forward to our goal of fulfilling this obligation and feeling the satisfaction it brings.
Many challenges face Head Start of Greater Dallas and the nation. The first is the flat funding that the program has experienced over recent years. The agency continues to work hard to ensure that this does not hamper any day-to-day center operations. We appreciate your patience during these trying times. All of us hope the economy has started its journey on the road to recovery. We also call upon you to help generate and continue to enter nonfederal in our database system. Let’s call upon ourselves to work not only harder, but smarter, and take advantage of our technology.
We are updating our long-range plan that covers 2007-2009 We must embrace the goals and objectives of this plan and make sure that each one of us understands his or her role and responsibility to accomplish the goals and objectives. We are measuring accomplishments on a quarterly basis and ask you, at your locations, to do the same measures.
Our mission:HEAD START of Greater Dallas provides children with thefoundation of skills and knowledge they need to be successfulin school and life and fosters self-reliant families and communities.
Our Vision:A strong community of healthy, self-reliant families actively engaged in giving children hope, direction and skills to succeed in school and life.
Let’s work on ensuring that both are accomplished throughout our agency.
Sincerely,
Wanda J. Smith
Chief Executive Officer
/ Welcome to the 2009 Spring Break Training ConferenceTo HSGD Staff:
Welcome to our 2009 Spring Break Training Conference. I hope that these three days prove to be an exciting, informative, and motivational experience for you.
This training opportunity is provided to all of us to help us excel in mastering the latest and greatest concepts and skills needed to provide the services that we offer to our children, their families, and each other. This is essential for us. We have been challenged by the new Improving Head Start for School Readiness Act and President Obama to prove that we are worth the tax dollars that are invested in Head Start.
We have an agency that is rich in talented staff, a community loaded with resources, and a history of excellence. Our goal is to be THE model of child and family care. Our goal must be reflected from every classroom and office in our agency. If excellence exists in only 183 of our 184 classrooms; that is not enough. If only 59 of our 60 Family Advocates can prepare a dynamic family action plan; that is not enough. We have all that it takes to get the 184 classrooms and the 60th Family Advocate.
I ask each of you, “Take it to next level. Go the extra mile.” We cannot reach and maintain excellence with a “that’s good enough” attitude. Tune into the sessions available to you during this conference. Find out how to get to the next level. Ask challenging questions.
I look forward to sharing these three days with you.
Sincerely,
Kenneth Gilbert,
Head Start Director
How fantastic is This?!!!
At this conference you have an opportunity to learn from the best. We have 31 of our teachers from Gannon, Jerry Junkins, Lancaster-Kiest, Mesquite, and West Garland leading sessions. Here is a list of our teachers who no doubt have gone the extra mile.
Wanda Jefferson, Rosario Romero, Talisha Tucker, Kelly Eatmon, Hortense Daniels, Thu Thuy Nguyen, Latonya McCullough, Rena Orange, Debbie Brown, Sonya Dunn, Evangelina Serrato, Guadalupe Gallegos, Blanca Esparza, Maria Scully, Pamela Green, Donna King, Sandra Washington, Kimberly Branch, Sheneka Denmark, Margaret Epps, Mary Sessions, Elizabeth De los Santos, Robintine Roberson, Mary Hammond, Char Burton, Vernell Upshaw, Thelma Rosewell, Melissa Webster, Laure Jendry, Evelyn Meija, & Veronica Johnson
From all the rest of us – Thank YOU!!
Do we have some good teachers or what?!
Conference Guidelines and Behavioral Expectations
1. Sign-In and Time Clocks
Sign-In Sheets will be placed on tables in the Conference Headquarters area between the times 7:30 – 8:30 a.m. (Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday) removed at 8:30.. Once Sign-In sheets have been removed you must clock in.
All staff who sign in will not have to sign out. All staff who clock in, must clock out and will only be paid for time on the clock.
All names of the conference Sign-In log must be verifiable during the day by also being on Session Sign-In Sheets.
Anyone who is not accounted for on the conference Sign-In Sheets and Session Sign-In sheets or the Time Clock did not attend the conference.
2.Dress Code
Dress Code for the conference is Business Casual. This is defined in our Personnel Policies Handbook. Anyone not dressed accordingly will be asked to leave the conference.
3.Professional Behavior
Attendance of conference sessions is required.
Please be early for sessions. Some sessions will fill very quickly, and once all the chairs are taken, late comers must find another session. No one may move chairs from one room to another. Chairs in sessions cannot be saved. Any chair that does not have a body in it is available. Sitting on the floor or standing because all chairs are taken is not permitted.
Any instructor or conference worker can ask a participant to leave the conference or any session if the participant is being disruptive or distracting to other participants in the session. If this is done, the person or people asked to leave must leave at once. This is not open to discussion. If there are any objections from the participant, this is to be taken to the conference Headquarters.
No one is to sign someone else’s name on any Sign-In Sheet.
Coffee, break drinks and snacks are only available to conference participants before the conference starts and during break times. Between 8:15 – 9:45, 10:15 – 11:45, 1:15 – 2:45, and after 3:15 this area is closed.
4.Staff ID numbers
All participants must use their staff ID numbers on Session Sign-In Sheets. If a participant does not use this number, their training will not be documented in their staff training records.
If you do not know your ID number, check at the conference Headquarters for this information.
5.Session attendance and mobility
If you sign the Sign-In sheet for a session you must complete that session or remove your name from the Sign-In Sheet. If you sign in for an all morning or all afternoon session, please do not go to another session after the morning or afternoon break. You are committed to stay in the session in which you sign in.
Monday, March 16, 2009, 8:15 -9:45Room C001 / Room L114 / Room L117 / Room D230 / Room B111
Goal Setting
(All morning – Family Advocates)
Instructor: Cora Jackson / Social Development
(all morning)
Instructor: Nancy Beaver / Is Your Classroom Causing Behavioral Problems – 1
Instructor: Sandra Scott / The Train Has Left the Station: Are You the Caboose or the Engine? – 1
Instructor: Wanda Smith / Classroom Management – 1
Instructor: Susan Wyatt
Room B110 / Room D205 / Room B212 / Room C028 / Room C002
Career Development and Resume Writing – 1
Instructor: Leslie Thompson / Staff/Parent Communication Breakdowns – 1
Instructors: Sharon Parker, Chimere Hammond, & Tamika Lockett / Creating Environments & Curriculum
(EHS Staff – all afternoon)
Instructor: Dolie Brown / Dealing With Difficult People – 1
Instructor: Rhonda Jackson / Getting Down and Dirty: Creative Art for the Young Child – 1
Instructor: Dawne Hathaway
Room B125 / Room B109 / Room A201 / Room C025 / Room C026
Emotional Development Ages Three to Five – 1
Instructor: Karen Marshall / How to Set Measureable and Achievable Goals – 1
Instructor: Samuel Burnette / Discipline: A Process not an Event - 1
Instructor: Stephanie Besier / Every Child Ready to Read – 1
Instructor: Patricia Essig / The Overweight Child – 1
Instructor: Wendy Howard
Room B120 / Room C006 / Room B112 / Cafeteria
Bilingual Testing / Living Healthy Texas Style: Cooks Group 1
(all day)
Instructor: Expanded Nutrition Program Staff / Living Healthy Texas Style: Cooks Group 2
(all day)
Instructor: Expanded Nutrition Program Staff / Conference Headquarters & Break Room
Open 7:30 – 4:30
Health Staff will meet at Gannon Computer Lab, all day.
Monday, March 16, 2009, 10:15 -11:45Room C001 / Room L114 / Room L117 / Room D230 / Room B111
Goal Setting
(All morning – Family Advocates)
Instructor: Cora Jackson / Social Development
(all morning)
Instructor: Nancy Beaver / Is Your Classroom Causing Behavioral Problems – 2
Instructor: Sandra Scott / The Train Has Left the Station: Are You the Caboose or the Engine? – 2
Instructor: Wanda Smith / Classroom Management – 2
Instructor: Susan Wyatt
Room B110 / Room D205 / Room B212 / Room C028 / Room C002
Career Development and Resume Writing – 2
Instructor: Leslie Thompson / Staff/Parent Communication Breakdowns – 2
Instructors: Sharon Parker, Chimere Hammond, & Tamika Lockett / Creating Environments & Curriculum
(EHS Staff – all afternoon)
Instructor: Dolie Brown / Dealing With Difficult People – 2
Instructor: Rhonda Jackson / Getting Down and Dirty: Creative Art for the Young Child – 2
Instructor: Dawne Hathaway
Room B125 / Room B109 / Room A201 / Room C025 / Room C026
Emotional Development Ages Three to Five – 2
Instructor: Karen Marshall / How to Set Measureable and Achievable Goals – 2
Instructor: Samuel Burnette / Discipline: A Process not an Event - 2
Instructor: Stephanie Besier / Every Child Ready to Read – 2
Instructor: Patricia Essig / The Overweight Child – 2
Instructor: Wendy Howard
Room B120 / Room C006 / Room B112 / Cafeteria
Bilingual Testing / Living Healthy Texas Style: Cooks Group 1
(all day)
Instructor: Expanded Nutrition Program Staff / Living Healthy Texas Style: Cooks Group 2
(all day)
Instructor: Expanded Nutrition Program Staff / Conference Headquarters & Break Room
Open 7:30 – 4:30
Health Staff will meet at Gannon Computer Lab, all day.
Monday, March 16, 2009, 1:15 -2:45Room C001 / Room L114 / Room L117 / Room D230 / Room B111
Positive Classroom Management
(all afternoon)
Instructor: Sandra Scott / Behavior Management – 1
Instructors: Helen Boyd& Jeanine Cox / Art in the Classroom – 1
Instructor: Nancy Beaver / The Possible vs. The Impossible: Accountability, Professionalism, and Ethics. – 1
Instructor: Kenneth Gilbert / Classroom Organization – 1
Instructor: Susan Wyatt
Room B110 / Room D205 / Room B212 / Room C028 / Room C002
Networking and Job Research – 1
Instructor: Leslie Thompson / Gender Role Development - 1
Instructor: Tim Devaney / “Stick Like Glue” As A Team Player – 1
Instructors: Pheobe Snell & Sharee Curley / Dealing With Difficult People – 3
Instructor: Rhonda Jackson / Professionalism for the Early Childhood Educator -1
Instructor: Cynthia J. Small
Room B125 / Room B109 / Room A201 / Room C025 / Room C026
Art in the Classroom – 1
Instructor: Karen Marshall / Adult Nutrition – 1
Instructor: Cyndi Shaw / Effective Communications: Teacher/Child/Parent – 1
Instructor: Stephanie Besier / Financial Emergency Kit – 1
Instructor: Jane Jolley / Asthma: What Teachers Ought to Know – 1
Instructor: Amy Rangel
Room B120 / Room C006 / Room B112 / Cafeteria
Bilingual Testing / Living Healthy Texas Style: Cooks Group 1
(all day)
Instructor: Expanded Nutrition Program Staff / Living Healthy Texas Style: Cooks Group 2
(all day)
Instructor: Expanded Nutrition Program Staff / Conference Headquarters & Break Room
Open 7:30 – 4:30
Health Staff will meet at Gannon Computer Lab, all day.
Monday, March 16, 2009, 3:15 -4:45Room C001 / Room L114 / Room L117 / Room D230 / Room B111
Positive Classroom Management
(all afternoon)
Instructor: Sandra Scott / Behavior Management – 2
Instructors: Helen Boyd & Jeanine Cox / Art in the Classroom– 2
Instructor: Nancy Beaver / The Possible vs. The Impossible: Accountability, Professionalism, and Ethics. – 2
Instructor: Kenneth Gilbert / Classroom Organization – 2
Instructor: Susan Wyatt
Room B110 / Room D205 / Room B212 / Room C028 / Room C002
Networking and Job Research – 2
Instructor: Leslie Thompson / Gender Role Development - 2
Instructor: Tim Devaney / “Stick Like Glue” As A Team Player – 2
Instructors: Pheobe Snell & Sharee Curley / Dealing With Difficult People – 4
Instructor: Rhonda Jackson / Professionalism for the Early Childhood Educator -2
Instructor: Cynthia J. Small
Room B125 / Room B109 / Room A201 / Room C025 / Room C026
Art in the Classroom – 2
Instructor: Karen Marshall / Adult Nutrition – 2
Instructor: Cyndi Shaw / Effective Communications: Teacher/Child/Parent – 2
Instructor: Stephanie Besier / Financial Emergency Kit – 2
Instructor: Jane Jolley / Asthma: What Teachers Ought to Know – 2
Instructor: Amy Rangel
Room B120 / Room C006 / Room B112 / Cafeteria
Bilingual Testing / Living Healthy Texas Style: Cooks Group 1
(all day)
Instructor: Expanded Nutrition Program Staff / Living Healthy Texas Style: Cooks Group 2
(all day)
Instructor: Expanded Nutrition Program Staff / Conference Headquarters & Break Room
Open 7:30 – 4:30
Health Staff will meet at Gannon Computer Lab, all day.
Tuesday, March 17, 2009, 8:15 -9:45Room C001 / Room L114 / Room L117 / Room D230 / Room B111
Effects of Substance Abuse on Children (The New Connections Programs) - 1
Instructor: Emily West, Catherine McCarty & Toosje Van Beveren / R.E.S.P.E.C.T.
This is What It Means to Me – 1
Instructors: Juan Rodriguez / Special Quest
(All Morning– EHS staff only)
Instructors: Mary Lynn, Alice Pernell, & Lisa Lyman / How to Avoid Burnout
(all afternoon)
Instructor: Sandra Scott / TeamBuilding – 1
Instructor: Dennis Tademy
Room B110 / Room D205 / Room B212 / Room C028 / Room C002
Coping with Teacher Burnout, Depression and Stress Management – 1
Instructors: Lauren Tyler, Andrew Sigman, and Susan Fragale / Training the Trainer – 1
Instructors: Cinithia Melton & Deneeco Young / Dramatic Play - 1
Instructors: Dawn Hallman & Denise Collins / Parent Communications – 1
Instructor: Dannele Pinson / Transportation: The Mechanics of the System - 1
Instructor: Albert Old Crow
Room B125 / Room B109 / Room A201 / Room C025 / Room C026
Interpersonal Styles of Communications - 1
Instructor: Kimberly Hunt / Taking Care of You So You can Take Care of Them – 1
Instructor: Cynthia J. Small / Alphabetic Principles in Action – 1
Instructor: Nikisha Jackson / Recycle; Make-it-Take-It – 1
Instructors:Wanda Jefferson, Rosario Romero, and Talisha Tucker / Child Abuse: Signs and Symptoms – 1
Instructor: Amy Rangel
Room B120 / Room C006 / Room B112 / Cafeteria
Job Description Training
(Invitation only)
Instructor: Marcus Saldana / Living Healthy Texas Style: Cooks Group 1
(all day)
Instructor: Expanded Nutrition Program Staff / Living Healthy Texas Style: Cooks Group 2
(all day)
Instructor: Expanded Nutrition Program Staff / Conference Headquarters & Break Room
Open 7:30 – 4:30
Self Defense Training in the Gym (all Morning), limited to 40 participants
Health Staff will meet at Central Office, Room #2, all day.
Tuesday, March 17, 2009, 10:15 -11:45Room C001 / Room L114 / Room L117 / Room D230 / Room B111
Effects of Substance Abuse on Children - 2
Instructor: Emily West & Toosje Van Beveren / R.E.S.P.E.C.T.
This is What It Means to Me – 2
Instructors: Juan Rodriguez / Special Quest
(All Morning – EHS staff only)
Instructors: Mary Lynn, Alice Pernell, & Lisa Lyman / How to Avoid Burnout
(all afternoon)
Instructor: Sandra Scott / TeamBuilding – 2
Instructor: Dennis Tademy
Room B110 / Room D205 / Room B212 / Room C028 / Room C002
Coping with Teacher Burnout, Depression and Stress Management – 2
Instructors: Lauren Tyler, Andrew Sigman, and Susan Fragale / Training the Trainer – 2
Instructors: Cinithia Melton & Deneeco Young / Dramatic Play - 2
Instructors: Dawn Hallman & Denise Collins / Parent Communications – 2
Instructor: Dannele Pinson / Transportation: The Mechanics of the System - 2
Instructor: Albert Old Crow
Room B125 / Room B109 / Room A201 / Room C025 / Room C026
Interpersonal Styles of Communications - 2
Instructor: Kimberly Hunt / Taking Care of You So You can Take Care of Them – 2
Instructor: Cynthia J. Small / Alphabetic Principles in Action – 2
Instructor: Nikisha Jackson / Recycle; Make-it-Take-It – 2
Instructors:Wanda Jefferson, Rosario Romero, and Talisha Tucker / Child Abuse: Signs and Symptoms – 2
Instructor: Amy Rangel
Room B120 / Room C006 / Room B112 / Cafeteria
Living Healthy Texas Style: Cooks Group 1
(all day)
Instructor: Expanded Nutrition Program Staff / Living Healthy Texas Style: Cooks Group 2
(all day)
Instructor: Expanded Nutrition Program Staff / Conference Headquarters & Break Room
Open 7:30 – 4:30
Self Defense Training in the Gym (all Morning), limited to 40 participants
Gannon Computer Lab: Basic Excel (10:15 – 11:45), Outlook & File/Folder Organization (1:15 – 2:45), and Basic PowerPoint (3:15 – 4:45) – Preregistration is required to attend any of these sessions. Preregister by emailing Lisa White.
Health Staff will meet at Central Office, Room #2, all day.
Tuesday, March 17, 2009, 1:15 -2:45Room C001 / Room L114 / Room L117 / Room D230 / Room B111
Interviewing Clients
(All afternoon, Family Advocates)
Instructor: Instructor: Leslie Thompson / Dealing with Job Burnout – 1
Instructor: Billie Arbuckle / Math/Science in the Classroom – 1
Instructor: David Brown / Being a Team Player – 1
Instructor: Dennis Tademy / Stress Management - 1
Instructor: Tom Bono
Room B110 / Room D205 / Room B212 / Room C028 / Room C002
MOVE It! Move It! Move It; Music, Movement, and Make-Believe! - 1
Instructor: Christine Benson / How to Get Along, … teacher to teacher – 1
Instructor: Amber Banks / Math in the Classroom - 1
Instructors: Dawn Hallman & Denise Collins / The Multicultural Literacy Classroom – 1
Instructor: Sandra Scott / Make-It-Take-It Science – 1
Instructors: Kelly Eatmon, Hortense Daniels, Thu Thuy Nguyen, Latonya McCullough, Rena Orange, & Debbie Brown
Room B125 / Room B109 / Room A201 / Room C025 / Room C026
Employee Motivation - 1
Instructor: Kimberly Hunt / RelationshipBuilding – 1
Instructor: Judy Purcell / Emotional Intelligence: A Manager’s Guide - 1
Instructors: Bonnie Buchanan & Kathy White / Attention Span: Can We Stretch It? - 1
Instructors: Zahira Khimji & Kathryn Sianan / Bibliotherapy: Literature for Children in Crisis – 1
Instructor: Amy Rangel
Room B120 / Room C006 / Room B112 / Cafeteria
Program Quality: Keeping It Consistent – 1
Instructors: Mary Holiday & Tom Valant / Living Healthy Texas Style: Cooks Group 1
(all day)
Instructor: Expanded Nutrition Program Staff / Living Healthy Texas Style: Cooks Group 2
(all day)
Instructor: Expanded Nutrition Program Staff / Conference Headquarters & Break Room
Open 7:30 – 4:30
Self Defense Training in the Gym (all Afternoon), limited to 40 participants