Early Foundations with Dr. Garcia

Early Foundations with Dr. Garcia

Alesi Group presents Early Foundations with Dr. Garcia, a birth through 3rd grade early education podcast based out of Arizona. Dr. Garcia has worked with young children for over 25 years and shares her background, knowledge and philosophy on how to make children's learning real, relevant and meaningful while using strategies that are centered in brain research to support the whole child. To learn more about Dr. Isela Garcia and the Alesi Group Early Childhood Consultants visit: https://www.alesigroup.com/about-alesi-group Follow Alesi Group on Social Media! On Facebook On Twitter Music used by Chillhop Records. Flourish music track by artist Axian, used with Creative Commons rights. Learn more about Chillhop Records that support independent artists at chillhop.com. Podcast produced by Marissa Calderón. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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September 30, 2018 44 mins

Ep. 10. In this podcast, Dr. Garcia talks about administrators that fall into leadership positions without any support or strategy and often come short in knowing how to support their staff. Listen to her advice and insights on how you can authentically support your early childhood staff and program from your leadership position.

This podcast was originally a Facebook LIVE post in the Alesi Group Facebook Page in early September.

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Ep. 9 originally aired on the Alesi Group Facebook Page as a LIVE stream with Dr. Garcia on May 16th. Dr. Garcia discusses sadness in young children.

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Episode 8 continues with Dr. Garcia's series for this past years, Week of the Young Child from her Facebook LIVE posts with Artsy Thursday. The importance of open-ended art expression in the classroom and how artsy similar pre-cut classroom crafts are not open-ended activities for expression and development.

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Episode 7 continues with Dr. Garcia's series for Week of the Young Child with her Work Together, Build Together, Learn Together Facebook LIVE stream session for the NAEYC Theme days.

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Ep. 6 Dr. Garcia shares her thoughts on food experiences for children to celebrate Tasty Tuesday in early childhood programs. The benefits of these experiences and how children and their families can benefit. This is part of the LIVE Streams for Week of the Young Child theme days she did on the Alesi Group Facebook Page.

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Ep. 5 with Dr. Garcia is about Music Monday, a theme day in celebration of the Week of The Young Child(WOYC) from NAEYC. Dr. Garcia discussed the WOYC and music in the classroom as the first installment of the daily Facebook LIVE podcast to give more feedback on appropriate uses of music with children.

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Ep. 3: Dr. Garcia shares some dates for several upcoming virtual sessions on Facebook for Educators and Leaders in the field. She provides some sneak peaks on the content of the specified topics.


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Episode 3: Dr. Garcia talks about telling children to "keep their hands to themselves" and other things we should not tell children and don't actually mean, how we are in the presence of children and saying what we actually mean to children, role-modeling to establish better brain neurons amongst her talk from a Facebook LIVE cast on the Alesi Group Facebook Page.


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Episode 2: In a Facebook LIVE chat, Dr. Garcia discusses behaviors such as hitting in young children and how adults try to support children with consequences.

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Episode 1: Dr. Isela Garcia chats with Christopher Lawrence, Business Development Manager with Teaching Strategies to talk about Best Practices and Formative Assessment in Early Childhood(audio from Alesi Group's Facebook LIVE chat).

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