UNK-Community 2024 Early Childhood Conference

September 27 & 28, 2024

Friday 8:00 – 3:45 and Saturday 7:30 – 1:00

Register

Registration Deadline - September 15, 2024

Conference Location

University of Nebraska at Kearney
Nebraskan Student Union
1013 West 27th Street
Kearney, NE 68849

This year's conference, the 8th Annual UNK-Community Early Childhood Conference, is themed: Promoting Knowledge and Well-being for Children, Families and Educators.  Friday’s session will feature speaker Cari Ebert, focusing on Building Executive Function Skills Through Play Based Learning and The Power of Play in a High-Tech World. Saturday's session will feature Alexa Yunes-Koch - Mondo Method. Mondo method is a way of using neuroscience to understand our stress, behaviors, motivations, and interactions to bring about tangible change.

Parking

Parking is available to conference attendees free of charge on Friday and Saturday during the conference in lots 3, 4, and 6 only. Please do not park in other campus parking lots as you could be ticketed. View the parking map.

Who should attend?

  • Childcare Providers: home-based, center-based, and administrators
  • Teachers: Pre-K thru 3rd grade
  • Head Start/EHS and Sixpence staff
  • Early Interventionists / ECSE Teachers
  • University Faculty
  • Students
  • All community members interested in early care and education

**In-Service Hours for Licensed Child Care Providers:

  • Friday: 5 hours available
  • Saturday: 4 hours available