Early Foundations with Dr. Garcia

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. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

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. Learn more about Alesi Group at: www.alesigroup.com See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

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. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

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. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

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. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

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. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

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. More about the Facebook Upcoming Virtual Sessions here. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

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. More about Alesi Group: www.alesigroup.comFollow the Alesi Group Facebook Page See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

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. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

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). See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.