kids from the inside out

Upcoming and recent sessions

Selected past engagments

City of Phoenix Head Start Pre-service Conference: "The Red Suitcase: Literacy activities and tools to engage all learners"

Seeds of Compassion Conference, Seattle: "Beyond Behavior Management"

Preschool For All, Ventura County Dept of Education: "Inside the minds of those fascinating preschoolers"

Wyoming Child and Family Development: 3-day preservice training "Beyond Behavior Managment"

Brookland Elementary Schools, Arkansas: "Beyond Behavior Management" one-day workshop

Newark Public Schools, Office of Early Education: professional development day "Beyond Behavior Managment"

Teaching Strategies Summer Workshop series, Las Vegas, Chicago, Washington DC: "Social/emotional development and the Creative Curriculum"

NAEYC Professional Development Conference, New Orleans: "Preschool math: Creating paths for professional development with technology and hands-on experiences"

City of Phoenix Head Start 2007 Winter In-service Training: "Resilience-Based Practices"

NAEYC Annual Conference: "Portfolios revisited"

Korea Council of Overseas Schools: "Creating a Positive Classroom Environment for the Young Child"

DoDDS-Pacific Assistant Principal's Conference: keynote

Association for Supportive Child Care and Family Service Agency: "Positive Guidance for Young Children"

Association for Young Children Europe: "Effective Guidance Techniques for Discipline-resistent Children"

The Young Child Conference: "Teaching kids to behave"

NAEYC: "Five class-made books to promote social/emotional learning: teacher-tested and kid-approved"

NAEYC: "From 'all about me' to 'all about us:' a dozen exciting strategies to nuture compassion, cooperation, and community in the preschool classroom"

Delaware Association for the Education of Young Children:keynote

Arizona Department of Education--Early Childhood Institute: "We Can Work it Out: Problem Solving for 2-5 Year Olds"

NAEYC: "Rebounding: How to help children cope after a traumatic event"

VSAEYC: "Lullabies and Lotion: A dozen ways to attach with children to improve behaviors and support their social/emotional development"

City of Phoenix Headstart: "Early Literacy and the Preschool English Learner"

NAEYC Professional Development Conference: "The California preschool online learning network: A distance learning model for early childhood professionals"

Department of Defense Schools, Germany: "Literacy and Social Emotional Development in the Preschool Years"

For more information or to schedule a workshop, contact Jenna Bilmes: