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Manage Holiday Closings with Care |
Holiday closings are both a welcomed break and a break in the flow of your child care facility. Leading up to closings for holidays require effective and constant communication with your staff and parents. The best way to minimize the questions and anxiety that can occur around holiday closings is to plan and communicate up front.
These tips will help you smoothly transition in and out of holiday closings:
- Specify your holiday closings in your parent and staff manuals. This gives parents and staff time to prepare for closings.
- A few weeks prior to the closings hold a staff meeting or meet one-on-one with your team to remind them of your expectations and desires for the upcoming closings and answer any questions they may have.
- Have curriculum and class plans/activities to be developed in advance of closing. This can alleviate stress of having to plan in the midst of changing class sizes and ensures that programming meets the standards you have set for your child care facility.
- OVER Communicate closings to parents. Fliers on the walls, notes by sign-in forms and notes home with the children help parents plan their holiday times as well.
- Have a strategy in place to help keep staff energy up before and after the closings.
- Make sure your contact information is provided and that you make yourself available to staff, colleagues and families during this time.
By planning ahead and valuing staff and families your holiday closings can run smoothly with limited disruption to the flow of your facility. |
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Upcoming Camp Fire USA Classes |
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Click on a class title to learn more.
Please note our new fax number 817-806-5150 that delivers your registration directly to our registrar.
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CEU Price Change in 2010! |
| Camp Fire wanted to give you some information to better manage your training and education budgets. The University of Texas at Arlington alerted us that the price for providing CEU certificates will change in 2010. This is the first price change that has occured since 2003 when UTA began providing our CEU certificatates.
In January CEUs will cost $10 and begining in September 2010 they will cost $15.
If you are currently taking clasess and gathering CEUs for your Childhood Development Associate (CDA) Renewal you might want to consider enrollment in the CDA renewal courses and pay only one certificate fee.
Contact Barb at 817-831-2111 ext. 113 or Barb@CampFireFW.org for more information on CDA Renewal opportunities. |
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EXTRA, EXTRA! |
Due to the overwhelming popularity and interest in the transportation training classes, Camp Fire USA has added an additional date.
As a reminder, if you transport children this class is a MUST for you!
State licensing has added a mandatory transportation requirement for any licensed child care center or registered family child care staff that transports children. This two hour class must be completed by December 31, 2009.
Join us on December 14 from 7-9 p.m. at the Camp Fire Education Center on Meacham Boulevard. For more information and to register call Elizabeth at 817-831-2111 ext 143 or email, Elizabeth@CampFireFW.org. |
Child Care 
credentialling program is a great resource for owners too. If you are, or work with, a child care center owner or investor who is new to the child care profession, this training is an excellent opportunity to learn more. From staff management and recognition to state licensing requirements - ECMI provides the knowledge and understanding of managing a child care facility.
