For over 30 years, WAEYC has provided the state conference Looking Through the Kaleidoscope.

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To receive a 2010 Conference Brochure when available, call (253) 854-2565 x10 or email your mailing address to WAEYC.

2010 Keynote Speakers:

Each fall our Annual Conference offers nationally known keynoters. This year's keynote speakers are:

Thursday, October 14
Researcher, co-author, and internationally renowned expert on infant and child development, Dr. Andrew Meltzoff, who is the Job and Gertrud Tamaki Endowed Chair and the Co-Director of the University of Washington's Institute for Learning & Brain Sciences

(I-LABS). His discoveries about infant imitation have revolutionized our understanding of early cognition, personality, and brain development.

Friday, October 15
Author, lecturer, and researcher Micahel Gurian, who is also a New York Times bestselling author of twenty five books in twenty one languages and co-founder of the Gurian Institute. His work spans neurobiology, brain science, and the ways in which boys and girls learn.

Saturday, October 16
Children's author, recording artist, and bilingual educator José-Luis Orozco, who helps Spanish language, Latin American culture and musical heritage come alive for children and adults through books and music.

Why attend Conference?

Click "play" to view Debra Sullivan's response.

**if video doesn't appear,

click here to view it on YouTube.

Other Training Opportunities:
View our Professional Development Calendar for other training opportunities.

Join us October 13-16, 2010 in Spokane!

Each fall our Annual Conference, Looking Through the Kaleidoscope, offers nationally known keynoters, over 100 sessions, in-depth seminars, coordinated tracks, exhibits, curriculum and resource displays, program tours and networking opportunities.

STARS, college credit and clock hours are available.

This year, conference will be a collaboration between WAEYC, WSASCD and OSPI. Collaboration means space for all of the following is limited; please apply early.

CALL FOR PRESENTERS

We hope you will consider presenting at this year's conference and encourage your colleagues to do the same!

2010 Presenter Proposal

As do our attendees, we welcome and appreciate both familiar friends and new voices.

We are especially eager to receive proposals for advanced topics that will meet the needs of experienced learners.

Last year's experiment was well-received. If you are interested in offering an extended session (a 2-part session with the same group) please contact WAEYC.
We will accept a limited number of shorter (1.5 and 3 hour) sessions. Submit early to increase likelihood of acceptance.
For each session, there is the option of selecting donation, registration credit or honorarium. An earlier version of the proposal form is in circulation and that version listed the honorarium as $95. The current economic climate and the budget constraints that are affecting all of us individually and organizationally have required us to maintain last year’s honorarium rate of $90 (which did include a 6% increase from the year prior). We apologize and thank you for your understanding.

Thank you for your support. Here’s to another fantastic year!

Downloads:

2010 Community Resource Fair Application

2010 Exhibitor Application Packet

Hotel Reservations

This year's conference hotel is the Doubletree Hotel Spokane-City Center. Click here to visit their website and click on "Book a Room" to book your reservation with the WAEYC group rate of $127/night (plus tax) for single or double occupancy. Because space may be limited, we also encourage you to make your Doubletree reservations early.

Sponsors

WAEYC sincerely thanks each of the sponsors listed here. Without your help, our conference would not be possible.

Kaleidoscope Constructor ($4,000+)

OSPI Early Childhood Inclusion Project

Department of Early Learning

Bridge Builder ($1,000-$2,499)

Foundation for Early Learning

Thrive by Five Washington

Friends and Advocates

Adults Teaching Adults, Candy Benteu, Bright Horizons, Children's Institute for Learning Differences, Clif Bar and Co., CRAB (Culturally Relevant Anti-Bias) Group, Early Childhood Teacher Preparation Council (formerly WAEPECP), Educational Training Partners, Renee Huizenga, Kaplan Early Learning Company, KCTS 9, Lakeshore Learning Materials, Little Acorn Sprouts & Day School, National Endowment for the Humanities, OPEP (Organization of Parent Education Programs), Praxis Institute for Early Childhood Development, Puget Sound ESD, South Sound AEYC, Spokane Regional Convention & Visitors Bureau, Stroum Jewish Community Center, Talaris Institute, TEC (Trainer & Educator Conference), The Growth Coach Owners® of Washington, WAEYC Affiliate Council, WSA (Washington State Association of Head Start & ECEAP).
(current as of 9/29/09)

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