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Launching into Literacy and Math 2016
January 23, 2016








ANGEL STODDARD, MS /
Instructor and Program Developer:  Center for Early Childhood Professional Development & Leadership, UW Milwaukee

Learning is…Second Nature!

There’s a world right outside your door waiting to embrace young children—with their sense of wonder, imagination, and enthusiasm—and to impart its treasures. This keynote invites you to explore this world with children in ways that will waken their enjoyment and appreciation of nature, nurture their emotional development, enhance their cognitive growth, spark their creativity, and help them discover how we all—people, animals, plants—are connected.

There is much research to confirm the connections between nature play and children’s health, both physical and social/emotional, as well as their cognitive development.

Part poetry to nature, part irresistible invitation to teachers, Angel will awaken and renew your own joy in nature—and move you to experience it with young children.

Learning through nature, with nature, in nature, about nature!


Angel’s passion to support early childhood professionals in their pursuit of excellence is evidenced by her career path (teacher, center director, collaboration coordinator, mentor/consultant, trainer, and instructor). With a Master’s degree in Administrative Leadership, Angel teaches full-time for UW Milwaukee’s Center for Early Childhood Professional Development and Leadership. Her presentations are part story-telling, part poetry, and part academic research as she weaves lessons learned with new trends in early childhood, neuroscience, and the natural world. Angel’s engaging presentations resonate with audiences both personally and professionally.



February 20, 2016    

Daniel Hodgins, Early Childhood Consultant

Integrating Language Experiences: More Than a Library Corner

 Oral language development is the foundation of all literacy development.  What does a good language experience look like? How do you plan for these?  How will we know if the experience has been successful?  “All children should laugh, gasp, curl their toes, empathize, sympathize, feel sadness, weep, or shiver during a language experience.” 

 But, how do we support the development of an integrated language approach that supports oral language development for young children, birth – 5?  The session will discuss how all of us, as important adults with young children, develop experiences that encourage language, vocabulary, storytelling, and children’s ownership over their language development.  Many concrete activities will be shared that can be implemented immediately!

Daniel Hodgins is an exceptional presenter and author of two popular released books titled:  Boys:  Changing the Classroom, Not the Child and a new book  titled: GET OVER IT, Relearning Guidance Practices.   As a consultant he has a unique grasp of children and family issues learned from over 36 years of experience working as a teacher, director, educator and parent in both private and public sector.  Much of his work involved children at risk;  special needs populations and families with diverse challenges.  Daniel’s interactive style is both informative and entertaining.  In addition to his work as a consultant, Daniel has worked as a Director of Child Development Center; Parent Child Cooperative Nursery School Teacher; Teacher in Elementary School and retired as Coordinator of Early Childhood Education at Mott Community College, in  Flint, Michigan.  He has given keynotes, seminars and presentations in over 42 states and Canada.




March 12, 2016



Miriam Beloglovsky and Lisa Daly


Using Loose Parts to Support Emerging Language and Literacy Development

Loose parts are natural or synthetic found, bought, or upcycled materials that children can move, manipulate, control, and change within their play. Alluring and captivating, they capture children's curiosity, give free reign to their creativity & imagination, and motivate learning!

 And these “Loose Parts” nurture a culture of language and literacy development. Fascinating stories and captivating photographs will be shared of how children (infants through preschool) use loose parts as props to engage in rich conversations, more complex language, and storytelling with peers and adults.  Participants will gain a deeper understanding of how ample, continuous use of loose parts helps children improve their memories, vocabularies, and literacy. Inspiring and meaningful language arts experiences with loose parts will be revealed. 

Miriam Beloglovsky and Lisa Daly are professors of early childhood education in the Sacramento area, child and family advocates, authors, consultants, and presenters.  They have co-authored Early Learning Theories Made Visible, Loose Parts:  Inspiring Play in Young Children, and Loose Parts 2:  Inspiring Play in Infants and Toddlers (April 2016 release) with Redleaf Press. They have conducted reflective practice institutes with teachers and presented at numerous conferences including being featured presenters at the 2015 CAEYC conference.