Beginning your journey in early childhood can feel overwhelming, especially with recent changes to how CCFT Foundational Courses are accessed through the Professional Development Network (PDN).

This free orientation is designed to help participants confidently navigate the Professional Development Network, locate the required CCFT Foundational Courses, understand registration procedures, prepare for successful course completion, and become familiar with expectations for online learning.

Participants will also receive guidance on creating a plan for completing Wisconsin's required foundational coursework while avoiding common registration and navigation challenges.

This orientation does not replace any required CCFT Foundational Course.

Beginning your journey in early childhood can feel overwhelming, especially with recent changes to how CCFT Foundational Courses are accessed through the Professional Development Network (PDN).

This free orientation is designed to help participants confidently navigate the Professional Development Network, locate the required CCFT Foundational Courses, understand registration procedures, prepare for successful course completion, and become familiar with expectations for online learning.

Participants will also receive guidance on creating a plan for completing Wisconsin's required foundational coursework while avoiding common registration and navigation challenges.

This orientation does not replace any required CCFT Foundational Course.

From Meltdown to Connection: Co-Regulation Strategies for Early Childhood explores how responsive relationships and intentional adult interactions support young children's developing regulation skills. Participants will examine the educator's role in co-regulation, explore serve-and-return interactions, identify early signs of emotional overwhelm and practice practical strategies for responding to children experiencing big feelings. Participants will learn to recognize behavior as communication, become a “calm anchor,” name and validate emotions, provide appropriate choices, and use simple co-regulation activities within everyday classroom routines. Participants will apply the concepts presented by developing an individualized co-regulation response plan that can be implemented in their own early childhood setting.

Beginning your journey in early childhood can feel overwhelming, especially with recent changes to how CCFT Foundational Courses are accessed through the Professional Development Network (PDN).

This free orientation is designed to help participants confidently navigate the Professional Development Network, locate the required CCFT Foundational Courses, understand registration procedures, prepare for successful course completion, and become familiar with expectations for online learning.

Participants will also receive guidance on creating a plan for completing Wisconsin's required foundational coursework while avoiding common registration and navigation challenges.

This orientation does not replace any required CCFT Foundational Course.

Participants will explore Early Learning Matters (ELM), a comprehensive early childhood curriculum available to early care and education programs at no cost. Participants will learn how ELM is organized, locate and navigate curriculum resources, examine activity plans and implementation supports, and identify ways ELM can be incorporated into their own classrooms or programs. Through hands-on exploration and planning activities, participants will select ELM resources appropriate for the children they serve and develop a practical plan for putting ELM into action in their own setting.