The Professional Learning Institute (PLI) is a professional development initiative for early childhood educators. As an organization, you can become a PLI member, which allows you to send any of your staff to any of our PLI workshops and trainings. Our trainings are interactive and rich with information to help your educators bring back hands-on tools and skills to their classrooms. We are passionate about increasing the number of high-quality childcare programs available in our community and it all starts with our teachers!
Training session topics include:
Creating secure attachment through play
Managing challenging behaviors
Developmentally appropriate practices
CPR and First Aid
Having difficult conversations with parents
Navigating trauma as a teacher
and more!
Onboarding trainings are available when you hire new staff members. These sessions cover foundational principles that all early childhood educators should know!
Specialty trainings are available to any of your staff. We offer at least 12 hours of professional development each year, but average anywhere from 24-30 hours per year. Both in-person and hybrid courses are available!
Membership Fees
PLI membership is currently only available to providers operating in Delaware County.
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Providers with fewer than 20 children enrolled have access to both specialty and new employee onboarding trainings for $99/year. Register here.
Onboarding trainings include topics like:
CPR and First Aid certification*
Developmentally appropriate practices
Managing challenging behaviors
Communicating with parents and co-teachers
*certification is an additional $40/person for the certification process
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Home providers, Centers, and Ministries with 20 or more children are eligible for onboarding and/or specialty trainings provided by BY5.
For $149/year, providers can send any number of employees from their organization for only specialty trainings. Register here.
For $200/year, providers can send any number of employees from their organization for new employee onboarding trainings. Register here.
For $299/year, providers can send any number of employees from their organization to both new employee onboarding trainings and specialty trainings. Register here.
Onboarding trainings include topics like:
CPR and First Aid certification*
Developmentally appropriate practices
Managing challenging behaviors
Communicating with parents and co-teachers
*certification is an additional $40/person for the certification process
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Youth-serving organizations can have access to any of our specialty trainings for $399/year. With this membership, you can send any number of teachers within your organization to any of our specialty trainings. Register here.
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Local education agencies, like school corporations, can have access to any of our specialty trainings for $399/year. With this membership, you can send any number of teachers within your organization to both our onboarding and specialty trainings. Register here.
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Regional organizations in East Central Indiana are eligible to send any number of their staff to our specialty trainings for $599 per year. Register here.
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Not seeing a good fit for your organization in our offerings? We'd love the opportunity to connect with you about the professional development needs that your organization or early childhood educators may need in order to provide quality education to the children in your community.
Registration
See the calendar below for a schedule of onboarding trainings. Clicking the name of the training will take you to a link for registration!
