Welcome to the 2012 AEYC Early Childhood Education Conference! This year's theme is Profession of Play: Celebrating 30 Years of Early Childhood Education in Southeast Alaska. That's right, AEYC is turning 30. And what better way to celebrate than to host a conference focused on play? Thanks for joining us!
We are pleased to welcome this year's guest speakers: Dr. Thomas Moore, Holly Elissa Bruno and Dr. Marjorie Fields. Many thanks to the presenters who will be hosting additional break-out sessions.
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For more information concerning training hours, events and cost of the conference, please check out the "Details of Events" link (located on the left side of the page).
Read on to find out more about our guest speakers!
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Dr. Thomas Moore is nationally recognized as an early childhood consultant, keynote speaker, workshop leader, and children's recording artist. He has given more than 800 speeches and workshops in the United States and abroad. Moore earned his Bachelor of Music from Manhattan School of Music, and his Master's and Ph.D. degrees in early childhood education from Indiana State University. In his varied career, Moore has given a solo voice recital at Carnegie Recital Hall, hosted a children's television show, taught preschool, directed a children's choir and composed two symphony pieces for children. Moore's 10 recordings for children are used in classrooms and homes nationwide. He is currently Associate Professor of Elementary and Early Childhood Education at Benedict College in Columbia, South Carolina.
Friday, March 30th
8:30am Creating a Caring Community of Learners Through Music and Movement
10:15am Celebrating Differences Within a Community-Building Classroom
1:00pm Building a Music and Movement Toolbox
6:00pm Come Sing and Dance with Us!
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Holly Elissa Bruno, MA, JD, author, attorney and acclaimed keynote speaker hosts online radio program: Heart to Heart Conversations on Leadership: Your Guide to Making a Difference on BAMradionetwork.com.
Holly Elissa served as Assistant Attorney General for the state of Maine and Assistant Dean at the University of Maine School of Law. While working as Associate Professor and Dean of Faculty at the University of Maine-Augusta, Holly Elissa was selected "Outstanding Professor".
An alumna of Harvard University's Institute for Educational Management, she teaches leadership and management courses for The McCormick Center for Early Childhood Leadership and Wheelock College.
Holly Elissa’s books include What You Need to Lead an Early Childhood Program: Emotional Intelligence in Practice (NAEYC, 2012), Leading on Purpose: Emotionally intelligent Early Childhood Administration (McGraw-Hill, 2008), and two upcoming books: Dowsing brush fires before the wind picks up: Preventing legal hot spots from flaring up in early childhood programs (Teachers Press, 2012) and Lessons in Leadership (Redleaf Press, 2013).
A frequent contributor to Child Care Exchange and NAEYC's Young Children journal, Holly Elissa interviews can be heard on NAEYC, National Head Start Association, National Association of Child Care Professionals and National Association of School Principals radio stations.
Holly Elissa's keynotes receive stellar audience reviews from Reykjavik to Phoenix, Tulsa to Tampa and Washington, DC to Anchorage, Alaska. To “recovering attorney” Holly Elissa, life is a joyous daily adventure.
Saturday, March 31st
8:30am - Play’s the Thing: Using Humor and Fun to Build Lasting Teams
10:15am - Hearing Parents in Every Language: Partnering with Families Unlike Your Own
1:00pm -Your Calling or Just a Job: Reclaiming Your Passion for Everyday Work
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Dr. Marjorie Fields is retired from teaching after over 30 years working in the field of early childhood education. She taught kindergarten and first grade before spending most of her career teaching teachers. Thanks to her own children and grandchildren, she also had extensive experience in cooperative preschools and child care. She is now an active volunteer in her grandchildren's classrooms. Marjorie has a doctorate in early childhood education with research in parent involvement.
She is the author of two early childhood teacher education textbooks used in colleges and universities for over 25 years. Let's Begin Reading Right: A developmental approach to emergent literacy is now in its 6th edition, and Constructive Guidance and Discipline: Preschool and Primary Education has just been revised for its 6th edition. Constructive Guidance and Discipline has been translated into several languages including Chinese and Korean. Other publications include a book for parents about beginning literacy, articles in many professional journals, and two teacher activity books published by Scholastic presss.
Marjorie has long been active in early childhood professional organizations at the national and local levels. She began with serving as the first president of the Southeast Alaska NAEYC affiliate and as a board member for the Alaska state affiliate before moving on to the NAEYC national governing board. She is also the immediate past president of the National Association of Early Childhood Teacher Educators. She previously served as a vice-president and as a board member of that organization. In addition, Marjorie serves on the editorial board of several early childhood education journals.
Saturday, March 31st
3:00pm - Spoonful of Sugar: Teachers as Playful People (at A&B Hall)
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