Thursday Sessions
8:00 – 9:30 AM | ORANGE COUNTY CONVENTION CENTER
124 A Potpourri of Practical Activities to Support the Social and Emotional Development of Young Children
Pamela Kramer Ertel, Middle Tennessee State University
W204AB All Children Social and Emotional Development
125 Using STEM with Infants and Toddlers: They Were Born for This!
Erica Hill, HighScope Educational Research Foundation
W208AB Infants & Toddlers Spotlight Session
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126 Building Relationships, Building Brains: Strengths- Based Strategies for Early Childhood Educators
Renata Correa Gomes, Stanford Center on Early Childhood, Stanford University Graduate School of Education
Kyndal Yada, Stanford Center on Early Childhood, Stanford University Graduate School of Education
W203AB All Children Teaching and Instructional Practices
127 Visions of Children’ s Lives: Observation, Documentation, and Reflection Ron Grady, Harvard University
W311H Preschoolers Teaching and Instructional Practices
128 Handwriting Matters: Practical Strategies to Build Strong Foundations for Early Writers
Liza LaRue, Region 7 Educational Service Center
Kendra Nash, Region 7 Educational Service Center
Buffie Walton, Region 7 Educational Service Center
W312AB Kindergartners Teaching and Instructional Practices
129 Poo-Bot to Robot: Exploring Tangible Technology Integration in a Preschool Classroom Brena Kee, Northern Arizona University Haley Moss, Northern Arizona University
W207C Preschoolers Technology and Digital Media
10:00 – 11:30 AM | ORANGE COUNTY CONVENTION CENTER
FEATURED SESSION
130 Let’ s Listen, Let’ s Talk: Creating Community Without Consensus
Our NAEYC community has a shared mission and vision— but that doesn’ t mean we always agree on how to make progress towards achieving it. For example, when it comes to policymaking, one advocate’ s compromise is another’ s capitulation. This interactive session will feature dynamic speakers sharing their perspectives, decision-making processes, and experiences, while participants will have opportunities to talk together, and will be encouraged to engage and grapple with ideas and strategies they agree with, as well as those they don’ t.
Beth Bye, Connecticut Office of Early Childhood( former) Tiffany Hunter, Metropolitan Community College-Kansas City Michelle Kang, NAEYC Marica Cox Mitchell, Bainum Family Foundation Hanan Osman, Indiana AEYC Nina Perez, MomsRising Norma Schwartz, Florida AEYC
W109A
2025 NAEYC Annual Conference: In this Place, We Learn. For Every Child, We Lead.
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