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Schedule: Pre-Conference Programming
Pre-Conference Programming for the 2025 LEARN Conference
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Serious about your professional development? We have just the thing. Our Pre-Conference Programming provides you with the space and time to roll up your sleeves, dig a little deeper and LEARN alongside an intimate cohort of your peers.
*Pre-Conference Forums are available as an add-on on Page 2 of the registration process.
Are you serious about making a difference and growing your career?
We have just the thing!
Our Pre-Conference Programming opportunities provide you with the time and space to roll up your sleeves, go a little deeper and take away impactful strategies you can immediately apply to your practice. Dive deeper, connect more, and enrich your professional journey with tailored sessions designed for early childhood professionals seeking advanced development opportunities.
Higher Education Faculty Institute: DC:0–5™
Dive into the only diagnostic classification system focused on mental health for infants and young children, birth to 5 years old. DC:0–5™: Diagnostic Classification of Mental Health and Developmental Disorders of Infancy and Early Childhood is a multiaxial, culturally grounded, relationship-based, and developmentally appropriate classification system (or nosology) to guide the diagnostic process with infants, young children, and their families across diverse settings.
This session equips you to confidently introduce the fundamentals of the DC:0-5 nosology in your teaching. You’ll gain practical resources, strategies, and hands-on practice to help your students understand the approach to diagnosis in the Infant and Early Childhood Mental Health (IECMH) field. Learn how to introduce this empirically derived and clinically meaningful diagnostic system in a way that highlights its importance and application. Set your students up for success by deepening their understanding of DC:0–5 and its role in transforming IECMH practice.
Higher Education Faculty Institute: Critical Competencies
Transform teacher-child interactions with the essential skills needed to optimize social-emotional, cognitive, and language and literacy development—the ZERO TO THREE Critical Competencies for Infant-Toddler Educators™ (Critical Competencies). They address the knowledge-to-practice cycle gaps that promote high-quality care and education for infants and toddlers in group settings (center-based and family child care homes). The Critical Competencies also include considerations for dual-/multi-language learners and populations facing multiple risk factors. These specialized competencies build on and are aligned with other professional criteria for the early childhood education field (e.g., NAEYC, CDA, and more), are cross-walked with state core knowledge and competency areas, align with observation tools (e.g., ITERS and CLASS), and the Head Start Early Learning Outcomes Framework.
Join this session to explore and gain the Critical Competencies’ robust resources ready for your immediate use in planning and teaching higher education courses and programs of study—from course frameworks, to syllabi, presentations, activities, multi-media files, knowledge assessments, and textbooks available in English and Spanish.
Higher Education Institutes include a networking lunch and 1 CEU
Early Childhood (EC) educators and Infant and Early Childhood Mental Health (IECMH) professionals play a vital role in supporting young children, their families, and their communities. However, they often face significant challenges, including demanding workloads, limited resources, and a lack of professional recognition. These difficulties have been exacerbated by the COVID-19 pandemic, with top stressors including effectively managing adult relationships and addressing children’s challenging behaviors. These stressors heavily impact staff well-being, retention, and job performance—key factors in the success of EC programs and the sustainability of the EC workforce.
While these challenges can feel overwhelming, proven strategies exist to address them and create a healthy workplace culture. Are you looking for practical, actionable ways to support the wellness of EC educators, IECHM professionals, and the culture of your workplace?
Join us for this engaging forum to explore the latest research and effective methods for supporting well-being. Together, we’ll discuss strategies to:
- Foster collaboration, respect, and a positive workplace culture;
- Effectively support children with challenging behaviors; and
- Implement innovative, evidence-based wellness models.
Leave this forum equipped with actionable strategies to strengthen your team, improve workplace well-being, and contribute to the resilience and wellness of the broader EC community.
This dynamic forum unites early childhood professionals—administrators, supervisors, direct service providers, policymakers, and more—to explore innovative strategies for fostering deep, meaningful, and equitable partnerships with families and communities. Emphasizing their inherent wisdom, commitment, and pathways to healing, this session features interactive activities, opportunities to connect with expert faculty and peers, and plenty of fun!
Gain valuable insights into building enduring, collaborative relationships that strengthen the well-being of children, families, communities, and yourself. Join us to exchange ideas, discover innovative practices, and develop plans to fortify these vital connections with your families and communities.
Pre-Conference Forums include a networking lunch and .5 CEU
To Register for a Forum:
Complete your LEARN Conference Registration and add your selected Forum on Page 2 of the Registration Form.
LEARN: Early Childhood Professional Development
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Earn CEUs from ZERO TO THREE
ZERO TO THREE is pleased to offer free early childhood CEUs to for a variety of learning events and early childhood professional development.
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