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Program Promotes Daycare in Lehigh Valley
Early-childhood educators invited to Penn State Extension symposium on Oct. 10.
They are the five Ps of sustaining a successful daycare business: Passion, Proactive, Promotion, Professionals and Proposition.
And they will be featured in the fifth-annual Penn State Extension Lehigh Valley Early Care & Education Professional Development Day on Oct. 10 at Northampton Community College.
About 300 early-childhood educators from Northampton and Lehigh counties are expected to take part in the symposium, said Forks Township resident Jan Marie Schwartz, Local Education and Resource Network (LEARN) coordinator, Northampton & Lehigh Counties, for the Children's Coalition of the Lehigh Valley.
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Thanks to the sponsorship of Capital Blue Cross, child-care center directors and early-childhood educators will hear keynote speaker Sally Handlon, founder and president of Handlon Business Resources, LLC.
Handlon, who will address the five Ps, has more than 30 years of experience in helping public, corporate, small business and learning environments meet their business goals.
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She will also host an afternoon workshop titled, “What’s In Your Next 90 Days?”
Child-care center directors and owner/operators who attend her workshop will learn to develop and implement a plan for the direction of their centers.
Handlon will also have Sybil Stershic, author of "Taking Care of the People Who Matter Most," speak to participants at this session.
Penn State Extension plays a major role in the ongoing professional development of early-childhood educators and provides an annual conference for this purpose.
The theme of this year’s one-day conference is “Early Education…It’s Everyone’s Business.”
In addition, vendors representing products and services of interest to the participants will be on site during a community resource fair portion of the day.
This professional development day for early-childhood educators was started five years ago through a collaboration with Penn State Cooperative Extension, The Northeast Key, child-care center directors and area non-profits. The goal was to provide the professional development hours required of early-childhood educators during a daylong conference.
To attend the conference you must preregister at http://extension.psu.edu/events and scroll down to “5th Annual Lehigh Valley Early Care and Education Professional Development Day.l” No walk-ins will be accepted the day of the conference.
The $35 registration fee includes continental breakfast, lunch, afternoon refreshments, all sessions and handouts.
The event takes place from 7:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. at Kopecek Hall on the campus of , 3835 Green Pond Road, Bethlehem Township.
For more information, contact Schwartz at 610-253-5376 or by email at jmschwartz@rcn.com.