Brain Science & You:
Advanced Hands-on Workshop
Session Description
In this advanced workshop, we’ll review the key components impacting behavior, development and growth. Then jump directly into a three-part hands-on exercise with you collaborating, brainstorming, and learning with your peers. You’ll walk away with ideas and insights to help you navigate the situations you face each day.
You'll Learn
- Identify how individuality, development, past memories, and environment inform a child’s behavior and growth.
- Observe and plan for the environmental and sensory impacts on a child’s memories, behavior, and learning.
- Collaborate and identify environmental adjustments that will promote the child’s growth and learning.
Intended Audience
Child Care Professionals and Early Childhood Educators:
Family Child Care, Day Care, Preschool, Nanny, Au pair
Anyone who works directly every day with children and/or supports other Child Care Providers
Level
Recommended, but not required, to have previously attended a session that introduces BioSocial Cognition, such as Opportunity and Impact of Child Care Providers, Raising a Child to Thrive, or Brain Science and You: You Make a Difference Every Day.
Time
Workshop Sessions are 90 min
Customized In-Depth Trainings range from 2-4 hours, depending on the audience needs
Available Formats
Conferences
Small Group Training
Custom Training for your Organization
1:1 & Family
What to Expect
Using the audience's input, questions, and real world examples, your presenter, Thomas C. Rector, connects the content with what you as a child care provider do every day, and how that influences memories and your impact.
Interactive audience exercises are used to help you visualize what's happening inside the brain to create memories, decision, and reactions, and better be able to apply it with the children and families you serve.
What Past Participants Say
"The hand-outs & activity were practical and inspiring. You provided valuable resources and information."
- Jacqueline H.
National Association for Family Child Care Conference, 2025
“It was informative. He had me thinking how memories are who we are."
National Association for Family Child Care Conference, 2025
"It was very helpful to get information on how to collect data & what to do with data after collected"
- Frances J.
National Association for Family Child Care Conference, 2024
"Thank you for valuable information that I will use daily in my support of children and early childhood educators."
- Lori T.
National Association for Family Child Care Conference, 2024
Presenter: Thomas C. Rector
As a father of five, adoptive parent, a foster care mentor and trainer, CASA, and board member for child advocacy organizations, Thomas C. Rector brings a unique perspective to child advocacy and parenting.
He is a CEO, national speaker and presenter on BioSocial Cognition theory, and founder of Accrescent Institute, as well as the former Executive Director for CASA of Del Norte and Vice President of the NFPA Board of Directors.