300

This course examines topics of leadership, family partnerships and advocacy, legal issues and regulatory, fiscal management, staff management, and marketing for the early childhood program director.

This course investigates personal leadership styles as it relates to leadership concepts and practices specifically in early childhood environments, focusing on developing a philosophy and style of leadership, attending to tasks and relationships with families and community, advocating, creating a vision, setting a tone, handling conflict, overcoming obstacles, and addressing ethics.

This course examines the legalities and licensing standards for early childhood environments as required by regulatory agencies. Included in this course is a discussion of ethics, conflict management, partnerships with families and community, health and safety, minority rights, hiring practices, and insurance liability, and confidentiality.

This course addresses the fiscal responsibilities of a director in early childhood environments, which includes daily management and operations, budgeting, financial reporting, cash flow management, grant writing, and fund raising.

This course explores various supervisory and group facilitation skills that help build a team structure, build consensus, hire and evaluate staff, strengthen group dynamics, resolve conflict, and support career development.

This course provides strategies to create a marketing plan for promoting the enrollment in an early childhood environment, persuading prospective families to enroll, and retaining their enrollment, while maintaining a positive public image to families and community.