Additional Training Opportunities
Note: The opportunities listed on this page are professional development offerings from outside organizations. ECELS is sharing them as a courtesy to the early childhood education community but does not develop or officially endorse these trainings. Please review each opportunity to determine if it meets your professional development goals or requirements.
Live & Upcoming Events
Growing Farm to ECE in Head Start: What Successful Implementation and Support Look Like
ASPHN Farm to ECE
Wednesday, July 22, 2026
2:00 PM
"Join us on July 22nd to learn about the synergy between Head Start and Farm to ECE. Hear how states can support Farm to ECE programs in Head Starts from both Head Start educators and state Farm to ECE leads."
Presenters:
Tina Routh, Director of the Mississippi Band of Choctaw Indians Department of Early Childhood
Edy Dingus, Programs Coordinator, Farm to Early Care & Education Specialist
Mississippi Farm to School Network
Sarah Flores, Program Director of Community Initiatives and Systems, Illinois Public Health Institute
Emia Oppenheim, Consultant, Association of State Public Health Nutritionists
On-Demand & Self-Paced Learning
Bite-Size Learning: Microlearning Sessions & Recorded Webinars
PA Key
From the PA Key: Our microlearning sessions and recorded webinars are designed to be completed in 30 minutes or less—making professional development accessible and efficient. Created specifically for early learning educators, these sessions offer practical insights, tools, and strategies to build your skills and stay ahead.
Perfect for individual learning or as a shared resource during staff meetings, these flexible, on-demand resources are available anytime, anywhere—whenever learning fits best.
Booster Seats and Seat Belts Basics - Mini-Course (free eLearning)
Child Passenger Safety, a program of the National Safety Council (NSC)
(2025) Self Paced: "Booster Seats and Seat Belts Basics—Mini-Course is a free e-learning course that takes about 30 minutes to complete. Learn to keep children safe in cars as they grow by completing this course on booster seat and seat belt use.
Car Seat Basics is a copyright of the National Safety Council.
NOTE: This introductory training does not qualify for child passenger safety CEUs."
Car Seat Basics (free eLearning)
Child Passenger Safety, a program of the National Safety Council (NSC)
Self Paced: "Car Seat Basics is a free e-learning course that takes about 60 minutes to complete. Learn to keep children safe in cars as they grow by completing all or specific modules on rear-facing and forward-facing car seat use, as well as booster seat and seat belt use.
Car Seat Basics is a copyright of the National Safety Council.
NOTE: This introductory training does not qualify for child passenger safety CEUs."
Child Care Aware® of America Webinars
Child Care Aware® of America
Offered live and on-demand throughout the year, featuring a wide variety of ECE topics, issues and best practices.
Clean Air in Schools Course
U.S. Green Building Council, Inc.
Hosted by the Center for Green Schools and co-developed with EPA, this free, online course focuses on the technical aspects of assessing and improving ventilation, filtration, air cleaning and monitoring IAQ in schools.
Early Learning Professional Development Credit
Better Kid Care
Better Kid Care's distance education program assists early care and education professionals in obtaining research-based professional development.
Head Start Talks Podcasts
Head Start
Head Start Talks features training and technical assistance (TTA) podcasts from the Office of Head Start (OHS). Home visitors, child care providers, directors, teachers, and other staff can access and learn valuable information about a variety of early childhood-focused topics. The Head Start Talks app makes audio/visual TTA content easy to find and manage on the go.
Healthy Indoor Environments in Schools: Plans, Practices and Principles for Maintaining Healthy Learning Environment -- On-Demand Webinars
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
"The Indoor Air Quality (IAQ) Tools for Schools Program remains fully committed to our stakeholders who are working to ensure that schools are healthy places to work and learn.
Find a set of webinars below about best ventilation and cleaning practices, intended to help school staff in responding to concerns in their facilities."
Integrated Pest Management Training Program
UCSF-CCHP
The Integrated Pest Management Training Program from UCSF’s Child Care Health Program provides a structured set of courses to help child care providers implement effective IPM practices. The program includes six one-hour trainings covering core IPM concepts, germ management, and strategies for managing common pests such as ants, cockroaches, and rodents, as well as guidance on working with pest management professionals. While designed to meet California’s Healthy Schools Act requirements, these courses offer practical, accessible training options that can support providers in any setting.
Keeping Children Safe: Injury Prevention in Early Care and Education Settings - 2026
American Academy of Pediatrics
Early care and education (ECE) providers play a major role in preventing injuries by creating safe, responsive environments where young children can learn, grow, and explore. This course equips ECE professionals with practical strategies to recognize, prevent, and respond to common injuries across indoor and outdoor settings. Through three focused modules, learners will strengthen their understanding of safety best practices, develop skills to identify and reduce hazards, and gain confidence in reporting and managing injuries when they occur.
Note: The AAP courses do not currently offer Professional Development credit to PA Child Care Providers.
NAEYC Trainings & Webinars
National Association for the Education of Young Children (NAEYC)
NAEYC offers engaging, interactive and practical online modules that are self-paced and designed to fit your needs and schedules as early childhood educators.
Responsive Feeding Course
Healthy Kids, Healthy Future (Nemours Children's Health)
The Responsive Feeding module is a highly interactive online course for early care and education providers (Head Start and Early Head Start teachers, family child care providers, child care providers) that educates on responsive feeding best practices, and on how to implement responsive feeding best practices in ECE settings and includes knowledge assessments throughout to support learning. The module was field tested with 30 center and family child care providers and reflects evidence based best practices as outlined in the 2017 Healthy Eating Research report “Feeding Infants and Toddlers: Using the Latest Evidence in Child Care Settings”.
The module takes approximately 40 minutes to complete or users can complete one chapter at a time. The Responsive Feeding course works best on a desktop or laptop in Chrome, Firefox, or Safari browsers.
There is a certificate of completion available to print out at the end of the module in addition to lists of supplemental resources.
Sesame Workshop Courses and Webinars
Sesame Workshop
Be a life-long learner! Explore these professional development resources created for all caring adults who help children thrive.
Teacher Training Module: Supporting Grieving Students in Schools
Coalition to Support Grieving Students
The Coalition to Support Grieving Students is a collaboration of education and school professional organizations dedicated to ensuring grieving students receive support and care. The coalition offers free professional development presentations on supporting grieving students.
- Part 1: Helps staff understand the experience of the grieving student and includes information about how children understand death and express their grief.
- Part 2: Presents practical suggestions about how school staff can initiate the conversation and offer support to the grieving student.
- Part 3: Shares practical guidance about how to coordinate resources and manage special issues while you support the grieving child.
- Combined Abbreviated Module: Combines highlights of Parts 1-3 to offer an abbreviated training opportunity.
Watch Me! Celebrating Milestones and Sharing Concerns
CDC
As an early care and education provider, you play a critical role in the health and wellbeing of children. You are also very well positioned to help identify children who might need extra help in their development. This FREE, online training course, Watch Me! Celebrating Milestones and Sharing Concerns, helps you fulfill this role by providing tools and best practices for monitoring the development of children in your care and talking about it with their parents. FEES: No fees are charged for CDC's CEU activities.
This 1-hour, 4-module course focuses on:
- Why monitoring children's development is important
- Why you have a unique and important role in developmental monitoring
- How to easily monitor each child's developmental milestones
- How to talk with parents about their child's development