Arkansas State University Childhood Services

05/30/2026

🌿 Step outside, spark curiosity, and bring early learning to life! ☀️

We’re launching two brand-new, stand-alone courses for educators working with children ages 2 ½ to 8. This season, we are taking our inspiration directly from the natural world! 🦋✨

Each course is uniquely designed to fit your schedule and teaching style. You'll attend one live webinar, try out a flexible takeaway activity of your choice, and complete a quick online reflection journal to earn 2.5 hours of PDR credit! 🙌📋

🔍 Part One: Math & Science
Discover the extraordinary connections between math and science in the natural world. We’ll celebrate children’s innate curiosity and consider how nature invites meaningful explorations of pattern and change.
🗓 Webinar Choices: June 9 (6:15-7:45 pm) or June 10 (9:00-10:30am or 3:30-5:00pm)
⏱ Credit Deadline: June 19

📖 Part Two: Literacy & Social Studies
Consider ways that literacy and social studies come to life as children engage with their outdoor world. Going outdoors naturally motivates children to communicate, connect, explore, and find out more!
🗓 Webinar Choices: June 16 (6:15-7:45 pm) or June 17 (9:00-10:30am or 3:30-5:00pm)
⏱ Credit Deadline: June 26

💡 Ready to head outside? Choose the session times and takeaway activities that work best for you.

🔗Click here to register today! https://bit.ly/OLSummerSeries

05/28/2026

✨Start your summer with a spark!😎

📆June 2 - 3
📍Bentonville

Join early childhood leaders and educators from around the state to deepen our thinking about emergent learning through open-ended materials, authentic resources, and the real world right outside our classroom doors!

We'll explore a bit of Bentonville and launch our own mini-projects while reflecting on our roles as enthusiastic co-learners with children.

We'll leave with a heightened understanding of our actions and interactions that spark curiosity and extend meaningful learning.

https://sites.google.com/view/chscuriosity-guided?usp=sharing

05/27/2026

✨ Big news for our infant, toddler, and twos community! ✨

Are you looking for fresh, playful ways to spark learning and strengthen your daily connections with the littlest learners? Our Playful Learning Webinar Series kicks off this week! 🚀

Designed specifically for educators and administrators working with mobile infants, toddlers, and two-year-olds, this Zoom series dives deep into the meaningful adult-child interactions that make all the difference in healthy development.

Plus, you'll earn 1.5 hours of PDR credit for every single session you attend! 📝

🗓 Mark your calendars for Thursday evenings (6:15 - 7:45 PM):

▪️May 28 (PDR # 84009): Fostering Physical & Cognitive Development (Let’s talk schema play!)
▪️June 4 (PDR # 84010): Establishing Identity (Building individual & classroom community)
▪️June 11 (PDR # 84155): Strengthening Communication (Serve-and-return in action!)
▪️June 18 (PDR # 84011): Playful Math, Literacy, and More (Learning throughout our day)

Let’s think, learn, and grow together. 🌱

🔗 How to join: Register directly on PDR or reach out to Marcy White at [email protected] for more details!

04/28/2026

✨ Rediscover the wonder of learning through a child's eyes! Join us in Bentonville on May 2nd for an incredible hands-on workshop designed just for infant and toddler educators. We'll be exploring over a dozen different play experiences and discussing how to build responsive, joyful interactions. 🧸 Reconnect, create, and have FUN! Register today https://bit.ly/WWFW-Landing

04/27/2026

04/27/2026

🧸 You don't want to miss May 2nd in Bentonville: a day of play, connection, and over a dozen hands-on learning experiences, specifically designed for the infant and toddler educator! Join us for this one-of-a-kind event! Register now: https://bit.ly/WWFW-Landing

04/25/2026

Infant and Toddler Educators: Are you looking to elevate your practice and reconnect with the core of why you love this work? 🌟 Join the Arkansas State University Childhood Services team for 'What a Wonder-Full World,' a play event focused on the power of discovery.

This one-of-a-kind event on May 2nd will cover responsive adult-child interactions and provide you with over a dozen practical play experiences to bring back to your classroom (for ages 0-3).

Invest in your professional growth and register or find out more at: https://bit.ly/WWFW-Landing