Community Coaching Signature Presentation:
Coaching and Mentoring Family Child Care:
Understanding This Unique Journey in ECE
Presented by Patricia Dischler & Donna Fowler
This session will outline the stages of family child care as part of an Early Care and Education career. When coaches and mentors identify and support family child care professionals at the stage they are currently in, with strategies for moving to the next stage, they are better equipped to move quality forward. Participants will leave with strategies for building successful relationships and fresh approaches to the professional development and quality improvement opportunities they offer family child care professionals.
Other Presentations:


Early Childhood & Child Care
If you are working in the early childhood and child care field, what an amazing opportunity! You have the power to change the life of a child. And I want to ensure that happens for you. I offer a variety of tools for helping you be the best you can be in this field, to improve the effectiveness of your teaching, your relationships with the families you serve, the success of your child care business, the success of your association, and help you build the skills that will make you a leader!
If you only know what you’re struggling with but don’t know what the solutions are, then contact us to set up a consulting call and I’ll help you make a plan for change!
If you know what help you need, check out my books, products, articles, blog, newsletter and speaking topics to see which solutions is the best fit for you!
Schools
JUST WHAT YOUR STUDENTS NEED!
An engaging speaker, inspirational role model, and former teacher, author Patricia Dischler can deliver a presentation that brings out the writer in each student in your school! From inspiring Kindergarteners by demonstrating how a children’s book is made to motivating Middle-School and High School students to pursue publishing. Every presentation provides guidance on how students can expand their writing skills, where to find inspiring topics, how to build on ideas, create more descriptive writing and use editing to their advantage.


Parenting
Looking for fun activities to do with your child? Or maybe a more positive approach to discipline? Or maybe you’re looking into adoption and could use some guidance? Patricia shares her years of experience of providing child care, along with her personal experience as a birthmother, in her many articles, books and training programs to help support parents. Learn how to make memorable experiences with your child and build a relationship built on trust and love!
Universities and Colleges


Associations & Agencies
Adoption
Patricia Dischler is a nationally recognized speaker and author who inspires audiences with her creative ideas and inspiring presentations. Her personal story of placing her son in a ground breaking open adoption in 1985 and the lessons learned apply to all adoptions. Her book Because I Loved You has been hailed as a “roadmap to open adoption” and endorsed by five national adoption agencies including the Adoption Institute. Patricia identifies key concepts that every member of the adoption triad can benefit from and helps parents, birth families and counselors find their own path to success by focusing on what is best for the child. As Patricia says, “You can never have too many people love a child.”


YOU Make a Difference
TOGETHER We Make a Difference
Does your association need to grow stronger? Bigger? Smarter? Motivate your membership and guide your Board of Directors to create a solid structure for decision making and goal setting, and most importantly: how to get things done! Members want to know that they are a part of an organization that accomplishes the mission so Patricia customizes this presentation to include your organization’s mission and reach your specific audience on how to get involved and get excited about the work you do!


Growing Leaders
Strategic Doing
This segment helps guide your board into real work, taking your strategic plan and building from it policies that will support the work, a work plan that will track accomplishments, and operating procedures to facilitate communications during role changes. Learn how to create a system that not only starts getting things done now, but helps your organization stay consistent in it over time and throughout position changes.


Organizational Planning: Who Do We Want to Be?
Policy Governance Model
The John Carver Policy Governance Model can serve as a breath of fresh air for a stagnant organization. Patricia guides your association board through policy choices that focus on the outcomes and separates the work versus the vision so everyone’s roles are clear and things get done!
