30th Annual Early Learning Conference
Saturday, October 19, 2024
Los Medanos College, Pittsburg
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Conference Overview
30th Annual Early Learning Conference
Embracing Challenging Behaviors Through Co-Regulation
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Keynote Speaker
Ed Center
Founder
Village Well
San Francisco
Ed Center was a kid with big feelings and challenging behaviors. He drove his parents and teachers bonkers. Now he helps grown-ups understand and support these kids. Ed founded The Village Well, an organization that helps parents and educators find more calm, joy, and connection. Ed is Triple P™ certified parenting coach and educator who specializes in working with families of color. His goal is to help people to tap into cultural wisdom while interrupting intergenerational pain. Ed is a queer brown dad who has worked in education for 30 years. He and his husband built their family through foster adoption. The child of a Filipino American mom and White American dad, Ed grew up in Hawai’i, and feels at home there, in the Philippines, in San Francisco, and wherever he smells good barbecue.
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Clases en Español!
Registra ahora para un dia entera de clases en Espanol.
Primer Sesión:
Segundo Sesión:
Tercer Sesión:
El presentacion de la oradora prinicipale, Ed Center, al comienzo de la conferencia tambein va ofrecer traducción simultánea al Español.
Last Year’s Presenters
![Samantha Watson](https://s3-us-west-1.amazonaws.com/cocokids-website/wp-media-folder-cocokids/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/Samantha-Watson.jpg)
Samantha Watson-Alvarado
Director
Early Childhood Mental Health Program
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Michele Bailey
Early Childhood Educator
Old Firehouse School
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Benu Chhabra
President
Bay Area Professional Family Child Care Network
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Juan Huerta Villicana
Assistant Professor
Diablo Valley College
![Sonia Roberts](https://s3-us-west-1.amazonaws.com/cocokids-website/wp-media-folder-cocokids/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/Sonia-Roberts.jpg)
Sonia Roberts
Founder
Sonia Denise Roberts
![Rachel Oneal1](https://s3-us-west-1.amazonaws.com/cocokids-website/wp-media-folder-cocokids-contra-costa-county-child-care-resource-and-referral-services/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/Rachel-Oneal1.jpg)
Rachel O’Neal
Child Health and Nutrition Specialist
CocoKids