Resources
Conscious Discipline
We equip educators to integrate social-emotional learning, discipline and self-regulation so they spend less time policing behavior and more time teaching vital life skills.
Quality Care Connections
Quality Care Connections is Lane County's Child Care Resource and Referral Agency. We support the local child care and early learning workforce through consultation, coaching, and training.
Oregon Department of Early Learning and Care
Whether you are seeking to care for children, support in your classroom, looking to explore other roles in the early childhood field, or in need of information on scholarships and financial support, you can find the information on this page.
Portland State University
Free online video courses for early childhood educators using the latest science-backed childhood development techniques. Complete courses for credits.
Cox Campus
OCCD offers several online training sessions specific to Oregon childhood care and education. Courses include those which may be required for licensing by the Department of Early Learning and Care's Office of Child Care and the Oregon Department of Human Services
CDC
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.
This 1-hour, 4-module course
Early Childhood Investigations
Early Childhood Investigations is an ongoing series of conference-quality free webinars for early childhood educators. Our goal is to offer professional development opportunities that transcend the obstacles of distance, time, and money by offering conference-quality early childhood webinars.
NAEYC
Professional Development
Gain professional learning experiences to support your professional advancement, wherever you are in your career.
Childrens Learning Institute
Early Childhood Investigations is an ongoing series of conference-quality free webinars for early childhood educators. Our goal is to offer professional development opportunities that transcend the obstacles of distance, time, and money by offering conference-quality early childhood webinars.
BKC OnDemand
Professional Development
Better Kid Care's distance education program assists early care and education professionals in obtaining research-based professional development.
Ed X
Early childhood experiences have a significant impact on brain development, influencing learning and behavior into adult years. Learn about child development with online courses delivered through edX.
ECLCK
Parent, Family, and Community Engagement Simulation
Explore and practice everyday strategies to develop Positive Goal-Oriented Relationships with a family. These relationships are key to our work with children and families, including the journey toward school readiness.
ChildCareTraining
Here you’ll find a catalog of courses in all knowledge base domains, courses required of all new early childhood professionals by Child Care Licensing, and courses that are part of Montana’s STARS to Quality system.
Sesame Workshop
Courses and Webinars
Be a life-long learner! Explore these resources created just for the caring adults who work with children.
ChildCareTraining
Here you’ll find a catalog of courses in all knowledge base domains, courses required of all new early childhood professionals by Child Care Licensing, and courses that are part of Montana’s STARS to Quality system.
Care Courses
The Care Courses School (we usually go by just "Care Courses®") has been a distance learning school specifically for early childhood professionals since 1990.
ORO
The Oregon Registry Online is a project of the Oregon Center for Career Development in Childhood Care and Education.
Learn more about our programs at www.pdx.edu/occd