Early Education (EE) Workshop
November 14, 2025 8:30 AM to 3:30 PM
Hernando, MS
Lunch choices from Subway included in the registration:
- Roast Beef Sub, Chips, & Cookie
- Cold Cut Combo Sub, Chips, & Cookie
- Subway Salad w/Turkey Breast, Chips, Cookie
- $90 through May 31, 2025
- $99 through Oct. 31, 2025
- $129 beginning Nov. 1, 2025
Non-member rate:
- $120 through May 31, 2025
- $129 beginning June 1, 2025
Workshop Topic:
Nurturing Creativity and Joyful Learning Through Play and Art
Children are naturally wired to explore and create. As educators, our role is to provide engaging, hands-on, play-based learning experiences that spark curiosity and deepen understanding across all learning domains.
Experience the restorative power of play—for your students and yourself—through dynamic, self-reflective learning.
Come be inspired, equipped, and encouraged to create a classroom where faith, play, and purpose come alive!
Location
Longview Point Day School
Hernando, MS
Sessions & Schedule
Nurturing Creativity and Joyful Learning Through Play and Art
🎨 Embrace Process-Oriented Creativity
Discover the benefits of open-ended art and play and how they boost creativity, language development, and critical thinking.
🧠 Align Play with Learning Standards
Learn practical strategies to integrate playful, research-based methods while meeting early childhood education goals.
📚 Boost Language + Literacy
Incorporate songs, rhymes, and movement to build vocabulary and early literacy in a fun, interactive way.
👐 Engage in Reflective, Hands-On Sessions
8:30 Session 1 – Exploring the Power of Play
10:30 Break
10:45 Session 2 – The Power of Play: Cultivating Joyful Learning
12:15 Lunch (included in registration)
12:45 Session 3 – Expanding Creativity Through Process-Oriented Art
2:15 Break
2:30 Session 4 – Supporting Language and Literacy with Songs and Rhymes
3:20 Closing
Speakers
Carly Bedard
Carly Bedard, M.A.Ed., has over 24 years' experience in Early Childhood Education. She formerly taught as a preschool teacher and served as an early childhood program director at a Christian Preschool. She is an adjunct professor at Biola University and an educational consultant providing training and coaching grounded in adult learning theory and designed to integrate research-based strategies into transformed classroom practices. Additionally, she has authored ECE courses with WestEd. Carly is a Master Play Coach with the Institute for Self-Active Education. As a passionate play advocate, she has presented the play experience to educators and families in the United States, Cambodia and India.