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BAS Reliability Training in Lisle, IL Gain in-depth knowledge of Business Administration Scale for Family Child Care (BAS) items and quality indicators, and prepare for assessor certification eligibility. Click here to register now for the October 7-10, 2025 training!
BAS Transformative TA Institute The institute is a six-part virtual series on coaching FCC professionals. The virtual sessions take place October – December 2025. Click here to register now!
Aim4Excellence™ National Director Credential - The Whole Leadership Approach to Online Leadership Development Module 1: Leading the Way This module assists a program leader in understanding the vital role played in creating and sustaining program excellence. Module 2: Recruiting, Selecting, and Orienting Staff This module increases a program leader's understanding of and ability to implement effective, ethical, and lawful employment practices. Module 3: Promoting Peak Performance This module assists a program leader to understand the central role they play in supervising staff and building a learning community by guiding teachers to become reflective practitioners. Module 4: Managing Program Operations This module expands a program leader's understanding of systems thinking to evaluate and implement efficient, strategic, and important management systems to alleviate risk within the early childhood program setting. Module 5: Building a Sound Business Strategy This module introduces the program leader with the decisions regarding the program’s organizational structure, its finances, and the way of caring for existing and prospective customers. Module 6: Designing Indoor and Outdoor Environments This module will strengthen your program and leadership capacity as you plan, evaluate, and improve indoor and outdoor environments for infants, toddlers, pre-K, and school-age children to create the highest quality setting for children, families, and staff to thrive. Module 7: Supporting Children’s Development and Learning This module will build your program capacity to advance children's development and learning by providing leadership to establish and strengthen staff competencies for teaching and caregiving. Module 8: Facilitating Responsive Family Engagement This module will increase your leadership influence, activate strategies to promote family engagement, strengthen connections between family, program, and community resources. Module 9: Evaluating Program Quality for Continuous Improvement This module focuses on the critical role that a program leader provides by modeling for staff and demonstrating to facilities, a program's commitment to ongoing inquiry and quality improvement.
