This 30-hour online course is required of all child care lead teachers, program supervisors, and directors in Washington State. Topics include the basic core knowledge of childhood development, guidance and behavior, health, and safety. The Imagine Institute is the primary organization training Family, Friends, and Neighbors providers in Child Care Basics.
All classes are online from 9:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. You must complete all three days of training to receive your 30 FREE STARS hours.
Imagine is offering DCYF’s Enhancing Quality Early Learning (EQEL) 10-hour live virtual training series, a requirement for all learning professionals hired or opened after August 1, 2019.
EQEL is for all early learning licensed professionals hired or opened after August 1, 2019. As a licensed family child care provider within the SEIU 925 bargaining unit, you are eligible to take the EQEL training through the Imagine Institute at no cost to you*. This 10-hour online training includes foundational best practices about quality environments and early learning that builds on what is introduced in Child Care Basics.
Earn 10 STARS.
You must complete all two days (10 hours) of training to receive your free STARS hours.
10 hours (4 Days)
EQEL is for all early learning licensed professionals hired or opened after August 1, 2019. As a licensed family child care provider within the SEIU 925 bargaining unit, you are eligible to take the EQEL training through the Imagine Institute at no cost to you*. This 10-hour online training includes foundational best practices about quality environments and early learning that builds on what is introduced in Child Care Basics.
Earn 10 STARS.
You must complete all four days (10 hours) of training to receive your free STARS hours.
10 hours (2 Days)
EQEL is for all early learning licensed professionals hired or opened after August 1, 2019. As a licensed family child care provider within the SEIU 925 bargaining unit, you are eligible to take the EQEL training through the Imagine Institute at no cost to you*. This 10-hour online training includes foundational best practices about quality environments and early learning that builds on what is introduced in Child Care Basics.
Earn 10 STARS.
You must complete all two days (10 hours) of training to receive your free STARS hours.
10 hours (4 Days)
EQEL is for all early learning licensed professionals hired or opened after August 1, 2019. As a licensed family child care provider within the SEIU 925 bargaining unit, you are eligible to take the EQEL training through the Imagine Institute at no cost to you*. This 10-hour online training includes foundational best practices about quality environments and early learning that builds on what is introduced in Child Care Basics.
Earn 10 STARS.
You must complete all four days (10 hours) of training to receive your free STARS hours.
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 of anti-racist and trauma informed content is designed specifically for an ECE audience.
Each module is 6 FREE STARS hours.
You may complete any or all Anti-Racist ECE modules but must register for each one separately.
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.
1-day online class. Earn 6 STARS hours.
6 hours (2 Days)
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.
2-day online class. Earn 6 STARS hours. You must attend both days (six hours) of training to receive your free STARS hours.
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.
1-day online class. Earn 6 STARS hours.
1-Day Training
Children begin perceiving attitudes about their racial, cultural, and ethnic identities from the world around them at a very early age. These forces can leave enduring marks on their senses of self and self-esteem, impacting their development and ability to thrive. Early childhood educators can help build safe and affirming spaces for children to grow and learn in order to counteract the toxic effects of racism. Participants will gain a better understanding of structural racism, race, and whiteness, and learn how to shift their personal perspective on race in order to support children’s healthy development.
1-day online class. Earn 6 STARS hours.
1-Day Training
This module discusses the importance of understanding the effects of colonialism and its impacts of our work. This class also discusses decolonization as a way of building resilience, increasing self-esteem and changing the perception children have of their status in society, which is often based on the child’s racial or ethnic identity and the social status of this identity.
1-day online class. Earn 6 STARS hours.
1-Day Training
Children’s awareness of racial differences and the impact of racism begins much earlier than many people realize, often in pre-school. At this age, children may begin excluding their peers of different races from play without understanding their behavior. Because of this, providers are uniquely situated to educate children about these critical and complex issues. An important first step is to work with family to understand their attitudes about race.
1-day online class. Earn 6 STARS hours.
1-Day Training
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.
1-day online class. Earn 6 STARS hours.
1-Day Training
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.
1-day online class. Earn 6 STARS hours.
6 hours (2 Days)
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.
2-day online class. Earn 6 STARS hours. You must attend both days (six hours) of training to receive your free STARS hours.
1-Day Training
This class introduces nuanced meanings of the concepts of consent and body autonomy and encourages participants to consider how and why these concepts are important in early childhood education. It will provide opportunities for participants to formulate practical strategies to include positive consent and boundary messages in their daily interactions with children and parents.
1-day online class. Earn 6 STARS hours.
2-Day Training
In the Examination of Anti-Racism module, learners will explore and deepen their awareness and understanding of a variety of topics that will aid the support of anti-racist practices. This module presents the opportunity for learners to explore bias, how it works, and how to interrupt it. After gaining a deeper understanding of bias, learners will begin an examination of racism and the system of education, leading to what advocacy can look like for young people in schools; the module concludes by exploring the development of racialized identity development and how to nurture its positive growth.
2-day online class. Earn 12 STARS hours.
You must register for classes no later than 48 hours prior to any scheduled training. For weekend classes, you must register no later than Friday, 10AM.
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