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The Imagine Institute’s MATRIX Self-Paced Courses are designed for early learning professionals who want flexible, high-quality training opportunities that fit their schedule. Each course provides interactive content, real-world examples, and reflection activities that help you apply new skills directly to your work with children and families.
This training series is a sample of our innovative PREPARE for Care program, which provides an anti-racist and trauma-informed framework for early childhood educators aimed at mitigating the impacts of racism on children and increasing kindergarten readiness. This series is four of PREPARE’s 10 modules of anti-racist and trauma informed content designed specifically for an ECE audience.
Each module is 6 STARS hours
Self-Paced
Relationships are the center of all children’s early learning and development, especially for children who have experienced trauma. Supporting healthy relationships with children and their families is the child care provider’s most important role. Child care providers can develop their ability to build not only healthy relationships, but truly healing relationships. In this module, participants will explore essential foundations in relationship-building and practice three relationship-building tools that can help. Following the module, participants will be able to explain and apply these tools and discuss how they are important in their work.
Earn 6 STARS hours
Self-Paced
Providers will begin to understand the impact of Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACES) on developing children and how to recognize and identify the impacts of childhood trauma.
Earn 6 STARS hours
Self-Paced
Racial trauma has long-lasting impacts on developing children and impacts achievement gaps between children of color and their white peers. Children receive information about their value and the value of others in their community through media and social attitudes. Providers can modify practices in their care environments to increase cultural pride so that children feel that their contributions are valued.
Earn 6 STARS hours
Self-Paced
Promoting resilience in young children begins with the childcare providers identifying and allowing their own resilience to build upon reflection. Childcare providers can then make connections and move towards goals where they can begin to nurture a positive view of themselves and both children and families.
Earn 6 STARS hours
Self-Paced
In this module, educators will acquire new knowledge and skills on how to build, repair, and support stronger relationships and communication with families to promote family stability and healthy foundations for their children.
Earn 6 STARS hours
Participants will learn how to establish effective contracts and policies and enforce their agreements with parents.
Each module is 3 STARS hours
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Self-Paced
Participants will learn how to establish effective contracts and policies and enforce their agreements with parents.
Other topics include:
3 STARS hours
This training is designed to walk the licensed provider through marketing and branding their child care business.
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Self-Paced
This training is designed to walk the licensed provider through marketing and branding their child care business. We will navigate logos, choosing colors, media, photos and creating a website. You will receive hands-on training in the creation of your brand and website.
This class is self-paced. Classes are available in English, Spanish, and Somali. Earn 2.5 STARS Hours. This course does not qualify for a training incentive.
Self-Paced
This training is designed to walk the licensed provider through marketing and branding their child care business. We will navigate logos, choosing colors, media, photos and creating a website. You will receive hands-on training in the creation of your brand and website.
This class is self-paced. Classes are available in English, Spanish, and Somali. Earn 2.5 STARS Hours. This course does not qualify for a training incentive.
This class will explore a child care provider’s role in monitoring children’s development while strengthening the understanding of developmental milestones
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Self-Paced
Exploring a child care provider’s role in monitoring children’s development while strengthening the understanding of developmental milestones with attention to effectively engaging with parents about their child’s development.
Earn 4 STARS hours
This advanced class is designed to help early learning providers learn how to recognize appropriate curricular components and create individualized lessons for the specific group of children they serve.
3 STARS hours
Self-Paced
This advanced class is designed to help early learning providers learn about how to recognize appropriate curricular components and create individualized lessons for the specific group of children they serve.
You will receive 3 STARS hours
Participants will learn ways to help children foster enthusiasm for reading.
Each module is 5 STARS hours
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Self-Paced
This curriculum is designed to offer ways to magnify children’s learning through reading. This training is divided into three main parts that will identify reading techniques and utilize role play to explain ideas and concepts. Participants will learn ways to help children foster enthusiasm for reading.
Earn 5 STARS hours
This curriculum is designed to offer an overview of Science, Technology, Engineering and Math (STEM) as it applies to teaching young children.
Each module is 5 STARS hours.
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Self-Paced
This class introduces the concept of the reduce, reuse and recycle concept to children and participants new to the idea. Participants will explore the impact of waste on our environment, increase their use of recycling services offered by their municipalities and develop activities that teach sustainable practices at school and in the family home.
Earn 5 STARS hours
Self-Paced
This class introduces the importance of connecting to local sources, culturally relevant practices in our early learning programs. Participants will explore ways to teach concepts around locally sourced food to young children, encourage family participation and build sustainable practices in their program.
Earn 5 STARS hours
Self-Paced
This class introduces the importance and connectedness of our ecosystems. Participants will explore ways to teach concepts to young children, encourage family participation and build sustainable practices in their program.
Earn 5 STARS hours
Self-Paced
Participants will gain an understanding of typical child development development, recognizing areas of concern and how to engage families in initial conversations of support.
Self-paced online course. You will receive 10 STARS hours. Self-paced online courses are not approved for cash bonuses – no cash bonus will be applied for this class.
Self-Paced
These courses are designed to offer early learning providers a foundational knowledge of common behaviors of children with special needs, as well as basic observational and assessment skills to plan for the individual needs of children. Through games, hands-on activities, reflection and exploring prior knowledge, this training will connect best practice and techniques to develop skills in understanding the basics of working with children with special needs.
Self-paced online class. You will receive 10 STARS hours. Self-paced online courses are not approved for cash bonuses – no cash bonus will be applied for this class.
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