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Social Emotional Day Keynote Address with Tweety Yates

March 26, 2022

Join us for the Keynote Address for our Social Emotional Learning Day! Saturday, March 26, 2022 9:00am – 10:00am

Keynote speaker: Tweety Yates

Tweety Yates is a Research Associate at Vanderbilt University in the Department of Special Education. She is retired from the Special Education Department at the University of Illinois. She was Co-Project Coordinator for the Center on the Social Emotional Foundations for Early Learning (CSEFEL) where she developed training materials as well as provided training on the promotion of young children’s social emotional development and prevention of challenging behavior. She has continued this work as faculty on the Pyramid Model Consortium. She has also continued her work on the development and implementation of PIWI: Parents Interacting with Infants, a model for supporting development of infants and toddlers through parent-child interaction. Dr. Yates has coordinated projects focused on early intervention credentialing, parent-child interaction, literacy and social emotional development. She is a past President of the Council for Exceptional Children’s Division of Early Childhood. She has provided consultation and training in early childhood for over 35 years.

Agenda can be viewed by clicking on “Live Training Schedule” after clicking on the link to the Arizona Department of Education’s page.

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