Monday, January 30, 2006
“Caring for a Lifetime” Child Care Conference…
The annual child care conference sponsored by Child Care Choices will be held on Saturday, March 25th, 2006 at the Sartell Middle School in Sartell, Minnesota (near St. Cloud).
This promises to be an excellent conference. The keynote speakers are Charlie and Maria Girsch, who are award winning toy inventors, master toy makers, and authors. They will be presenting a keynote entitled “Lessons form the Toy Box”. I have seen Charlie and Maria present in the past and am looking forward to seeing them again. Learn more about Charlie and Maria at their website.
Also featured at the conference is Tom Copeland, author, attorney & child care advocate. Tom is director of the Redleaf National Institute (RNI), a division of Resources for Child Caring, a nonprofit organization located in St. Paul, Minnesota. RNI works closely with Redleaf Press, another division of Resources for Child Caring, which publishes business resources and other materials for child care professionals. Founded in 1992, RNI is committed to improving the quality of family child care by helping providers successfully manage their businesses. We also offer support to trainers of providers, tax preparers, and organizations (CCR&R agencies, family child care associations, food program sponsors, military bases, and state and national child care organizations) who assist providers with their business.
Tom will be presenting a couple of workshops: “Reducing the Risk in Family Child Care” and “Taxes and Recordkeeping”. If you have not taken on of Tom’s classes, I urge you to do so. The information that you will gain from him alone will be worth the price of the conference. Tom is one of the foremost experts on tax and law issues with family child care providers. He is an excellent speaker and a wonderful person, who has been a help to me several times over the years. His expertise is one of the main reasons that I am a member of RNI and I would urge you to consider doing the same. (We’ll probably revisit this issue in the future.)
There are many other workshops to choose from, including sessions on storytelling, crafts, the food pyramid, identity theft, literacy, injury prevention, and more. Lastly, if you can’t find anything else that interests you, I will be presenting a couple of workshops: “The Role of Positive Communication” (a summary of the popular “Power of Positive Communication”) and “What’s Wrong With the World: What Kids Notice” (a class about multicultural differences and how kids respond to them).
Yes, I may be a bit biased. (I am on the board of Child Care Choices.) But all in all, I believe that this will be a great conference and one that you (if you live nearby) shouldn’t miss. You can find out more information and view a conference brochure online at http://www.childcarechoices.net/Conferences.html
Hope to see you there. Stop by and say hello sometime during the day…
The annual child care conference sponsored by Child Care Choices will be held on Saturday, March 25th, 2006 at the Sartell Middle School in Sartell, Minnesota (near St. Cloud).
This promises to be an excellent conference. The keynote speakers are Charlie and Maria Girsch, who are award winning toy inventors, master toy makers, and authors. They will be presenting a keynote entitled “Lessons form the Toy Box”. I have seen Charlie and Maria present in the past and am looking forward to seeing them again. Learn more about Charlie and Maria at their website.
Also featured at the conference is Tom Copeland, author, attorney & child care advocate. Tom is director of the Redleaf National Institute (RNI), a division of Resources for Child Caring, a nonprofit organization located in St. Paul, Minnesota. RNI works closely with Redleaf Press, another division of Resources for Child Caring, which publishes business resources and other materials for child care professionals. Founded in 1992, RNI is committed to improving the quality of family child care by helping providers successfully manage their businesses. We also offer support to trainers of providers, tax preparers, and organizations (CCR&R agencies, family child care associations, food program sponsors, military bases, and state and national child care organizations) who assist providers with their business.
Tom will be presenting a couple of workshops: “Reducing the Risk in Family Child Care” and “Taxes and Recordkeeping”. If you have not taken on of Tom’s classes, I urge you to do so. The information that you will gain from him alone will be worth the price of the conference. Tom is one of the foremost experts on tax and law issues with family child care providers. He is an excellent speaker and a wonderful person, who has been a help to me several times over the years. His expertise is one of the main reasons that I am a member of RNI and I would urge you to consider doing the same. (We’ll probably revisit this issue in the future.)
There are many other workshops to choose from, including sessions on storytelling, crafts, the food pyramid, identity theft, literacy, injury prevention, and more. Lastly, if you can’t find anything else that interests you, I will be presenting a couple of workshops: “The Role of Positive Communication” (a summary of the popular “Power of Positive Communication”) and “What’s Wrong With the World: What Kids Notice” (a class about multicultural differences and how kids respond to them).
Yes, I may be a bit biased. (I am on the board of Child Care Choices.) But all in all, I believe that this will be a great conference and one that you (if you live nearby) shouldn’t miss. You can find out more information and view a conference brochure online at http://www.childcarechoices.net/Conferences.html
Hope to see you there. Stop by and say hello sometime during the day…
// posted by Tammy Wachter @ 5:27 PM 
