Our Previous Conferences:
1984 “Something Special”
- Carolyn Cummings, Jean McFadden, Ann Kuhn, Nora Wadlin, David Wright, Governmental Panel
1985 “Something Special”
-Dr. Lendon H. Smith
1986 “Protecting and Enhancing Our Greatest Resource- Our Children”
-Dr Michael K Meyerhoff, Rev Eileen Linder, Rep David Hollister, Dr. Carolyn Logan
1987 “The Professional in Early Childhood Education: Today & Tomorrow”
-David Elkind, Ph.D
1988 “Preparing today’s Children for America’s Tomorrow”
-David P. Weikart, Ph.D.
1989 “Children and Families Investing in the Future”
-David R. Groves, Ph.D, Dan Hodgins, Carolyn Logan
1990 “Children and Families: Nurturing Environments”
-Dr. Stephen Bavolek, Julie Austin
1991 “Transitions from Cradle to Classroom”
-Jim Greenman and Bob Keeshan
1992 “Emerging Issues fro the 21st Century”
-Michael Trout, Anita Olds, Corinne Rockow
1993 “Ready to Learn at Every Age”
-Marge Kostelnik, Bev Bos
1994 “Nature vs. Nuture”
-Mara Krechevsky, James Garbarino, Ph.D.
1995 “Lighten Up! Humor and Hands On”
-Sandy Queen, Robert Rockwell, Janice Fialka, Lois Beardslee
1996 “Making Changes with Children and Families”
-Richard Learner, Samuel Meisels
1997 “Making Memories”
-Bev Bos, Chuck Jackson
1998 “Partners for Children”
-Mark Therrien, Dan Hodgins
1999 “Through the Eyes of the Child”
-Roger Mellot, Margie Carter, Deb Curtis
2000 “Struggles and Cuddles: Finalizing Positive Solutions”
-Becky Bailey, Phillip Hamburg
2001 “Caring for the Family”
-David Austin Sky, Carol Trivette
2002 “Caring Places, Smiling Faces”
-Naomi Griffith, BDD Training Associates
2003 “Hand and Hand: Coming Together, Caring for Children”
-Peter Aslop, Barbara Bowman
2004 “Early Childhood Settings: Play Here, Learn Here, Grow Here”
-Barbara Bowman, Alan Beauchamp, Rita Soltan
2005 “It’s a Jungle Out There”
-Hedda Sharapan
2006 “You Can Swim This Ocean”
-Ross W Greene
2007 “Caution! Under Construction Today’s Child, Tomorrow’s Adult”
-Joshua Sparrow
2009 “Looking Back—Moving Forward”
-Pam Schiller, Daniel Gartrell
2010 “All Aboard! On Track for Early Childhood”
-Karen Nemeth, Don Monopoli
2011 “Oh! The Places We'll Go!”
-Dr George Forman, Mary Jo Huff
2012 “Naturally Nurturing”
-Rusty Keeler and Jeff A Johnson
2013 “Being 'Sense"ational”
-James Coffey, M.Ed., Georgean Johnson-Coffey, M.Ed., and Lisa Murphy
2014 "PLAY: Purposeful Learning Active Young People"
- Jim Gills, Dan Hodgins
2015 "The Busy-ness of Learning"
- Dr. Jean Feldman, Bev Schumacher
