Early Childhood Resource Center (ECRC)
The Early Childhood Resource Center (ECRC) is an innovative and experiential training and community-building program.
We host weekly workshops on Thursday evenings from 6:00-7:30pm from September through June. All workshops are free and open to any early childhood educator from the Greater New Haven area. All workshops are bilingual (translated live into Spanish).
Some workshops will be held online on Zoom, and other workshops will be held in person at the Connecticut Children’s Museum at 22 Wall Street. A light dinner will be served at all in-person workshops.
April Events
Bilingual professional development events on Thursdays from 6:00-7:30 pm every week
Mix of virtual (Zoom) and in-person sessions
April 4, 13, 20, and 27
Tue, Apr 04Connecticut Children's MuseumSpeaker: Lizzy Rockwell – Award-Winning Children's Book Author and Illustrator
Thu, Apr 13Connecticut Children's MuseumSpeakers: Allison Batson – Hamden Early Learning, and Anne Olcott – Teacher, Westville Community Nursery School
Thu, Apr 20Connecticut Children's MuseumSpeaker: Tennille Murphy, M.Ed. – Founder & Health Educator, Kidz Kook Association, Inc.
Thu, Apr 27ZoomSpeaker: Arietta Slade, PhD. – Professor of Clinical Child Psychology in the Yale Child Study Center, Co-Director of Minding the Baby
Workshop Guidelines
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All workshops are free and open to any early childhood educator from the Greater New Haven area.
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All workshops are bilingual (translated live into Spanish).
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Some workshops will be held online on Zoom, and other workshops will be held in person at the Connecticut Children’s Museum at 22 Wall Street.
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A light dinner will be served at all in-person workshops.
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ECRC Curriculum Boxes will be available to borrow at in-person workshops.
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For online workshops, you will receive the Zoom meeting registration link and password through Constant Contact in your email each week. Each participant must log into the Zoom meeting no later than 6:00 PM and must stay in the meeting until 7:30 PM to receive a certificate of participation.
Curriculum Boxes
We also have curriculum boxes, which are available to borrow through the ECRC:
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Choose the boxes you would like to borrow from the list on the left, or click on this link: Curriculum Boxes.
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You can borrow 2 boxes at a time for up to 2 weeks.
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Text Carmen Santiago at (203) 809-9409 to arrange pickup and drop off at the Connecticut Children's Museum.
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Have a wonderful time teaching with an ECRC Curriculum Box!
