Curriculum Instruction and Inclusion 

Explore innovative supports for programs in providing high-quality early education and child development services promoting children's cognitive, social, and emotional growth for later success in school to include recognizing and responding to individual diversity in learners and on the dynamics of teaching supporting children with special needs. Presentations should assist programs with implementing responsive and effective teacher-child interactions, best practices for instruction, research-based curriculum, and screening and assessments to support individualized growth and development. Also, presentations in this theme should provide innovative, developmentally appropriate ideas for technology use in preschool classrooms. This theme also reaches beyond the preschool classroom to include presentations on technology innovations, organizational leadership (i.e., fiscal management in early learning, governance, recordkeeping, and ongoing monitoring) that assist with program service delivery of all performance standards, and ongoing quality improvement and delivering high-quality services.

• School Readiness & Parent Engagement practices that support curriculum
• High-quality early learning & socialization activities in home-based programs
• Effective Teaching Practices and Environments 
• Transition to Kindergarten
• Curriculum: Approaches to learning, content areas, and standards alignment (to me this includes content areas, effective teaching practices, and standards alignment)
• Curriculum fidelity
• Engaging practices for early learners
• Bilingual and Multilingual learners and supports
• Digital Technology and Early Learning
• Challenging Behaviors
• Disabilities/early detection and intervention
• Data-driven decision making
• Strategic planning

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