Ronald V. McGuckin and Associates

It is time to plan your PD for Back to School in August and September! Reach out for in person and virtual sessions with us on a range of topics for staff including: Supervision of Children, Professionalism, Communication Skills, Appreciation in the Workplace, Working with Outside Therapists and Special Care Needs Children, Documenting Behavior etc.

Also, if you are looking for in person or virtual training sessions for Indigenous People/Columbus Day or Veteran’s Day we still have speakers available!

Email Dawn: [email protected] to get something booked!

Join me tomorrow for our second Leader’s Lens webinar session.

It's not too late to sign up for The Leader's Lens: "Job Descriptions: The Most Versatile Employment Document in Your Program"

Join us tomorrow to learn why a well-written job description is one of the most important tools in your HR toolkit.

We'll explore how accurate job descriptions can help define expectations, support performance evaluations, strengthen hiring practices, and reduce legal risk. If your employees' daily responsibilities don't match what's on paper, this session is for you.

Register today!
https://www.tymthetrainer.com/leaders-lens/

Looking forward to this new event hosted by AELL in September! As always great content will be delivered in a beautiful and relaxing setting. We hope to see you there.

ECE Business Symposium Mr. McGuckin is a graduate of Duquense Law School and is the owner of Ronald V. McGuckin and Associates Law Firm, which represents child care agencies in Pennsylvania, and has consulting agreements with child care agencies across the country, including several large Head Start programs. Because of h...

Last chance to register for our 12:30 central session today!

Last chance to register for The Leader's Lens, May 27th at 12:30 PM! 🔍

Today, the use of center management platforms, parent/teacher communications applications, email, online subscriptions, and portals is deeply entrenched in all operational and administrative processes of a modern ECE program. Comprehensive policies regarding ownership and access to these must be clear and enforced to protect and preserve those records.

Live on Zoom, we will discuss policy language explaining ownership of accounts created and used by staff, along with practical procedures for maintaining records of logins, account passwords, and preservation.

We hope to see you there!
🔗 https://www.tymthetrainer.com/leaders-lens/

The downward displacement of reading skills is something that has concerned Early Education Leaders for decades. The US treats reading early as a parent fitness competition where parents proudly boast their 3-4-5 year old can read…but we miss the result that by about 4th grade when we shift from learning to read to reading to learn, that elementary school children often express feelings of despair and disinterest in books which then makes middle school and high school a drudge when most learning happens through reading.

Carlsson-Paige, Nancy; McLaughlin, Geralyn Bywater; Almon, Joan Wolfsheimer work in conjunction with the Alliance for Childhood to release a new report "Reading Instruction in Kindergarten: Little to Gain and Much to Lose." In the report they concluded that Common Core reading requirements for kindergarten are inappropriate and not well-grounded in research.

Download full report here:
https://files.eric.ed.gov/fulltext/ED609172.pdf