Unit 6: Understanding Behavior is part of the ZERO TO THREE Growing Brain Participant Manual series and explores how brain development influences behavior in infants and toddlers. This 42-page digital manual includes presentation highlights, guided reflections, and interactive prompts to help early childhood professionals understand and respond to challenging behaviors in developmentally appropriate ways.

Unit 7: The Everyday Play is the final module in the ZERO TO THREE Growing Brain Participant Manual series, focusing on how play supports brain development in infants and toddlers. This 31-page digital manual includes summaries, reflections, and interactive prompts to help professionals recognize the power of play in fostering cognitive, language, social, and emotional growth.

Unit 7: The Everyday Play is the final module in the ZERO TO THREE Growing Brain Participant Manual series, focusing on how play supports brain development in infants and toddlers. This 31-page digital manual includes summaries, reflections, and interactive prompts to help professionals recognize the power of play in fostering cognitive, language, social, and emotional growth.

This innovative early childhood professional development program provides trainers with practical strategies to support early childhood professionals in creating environments and interactions that foster positive brain development.

Optional Technical Assistance Call — July 14, 2026, 12:30-1:30pm ET

 2 Day Trainer Seminar   

Part 1    — July 15, 2026, 1:00 - 4:00pm ET (Attendance Required)

 Part 2   —   July 16, 2026, 1:00 - 4:00pm ET (Attendance Required)

Wrap up meeting —  July 17, 2026, 1:00 - 4:00pm ET (Attendance Required) 

Our newly designed virtual Training of Trainers combines live online events and self-study to support your journey towards becoming a ZERO TO THREE certified trainer of The Growing Brain curriculum.

Our virtual learning environment provides you with a variety of independent and small group learning experiences. You will engage in a guided self-study of the curriculum, have in-depth discussions about content with a ZERO TO THREE faculty, brainstorm with other adult educators about strategies for delivery, and create activities that meet the learning needs of the early childhood professionals you support!

This innovative early childhood professional development program provides trainers with practical strategies to support early childhood professionals in creating environments and interactions that foster positive brain development.

Our newly designed virtual Training of Trainers combines live online events and self-study to support your journey towards becoming a ZERO TO THREE certified trainer of The Growing Brain curriculum.

Our virtual learning environment provides you with a variety of independent and small group learning experiences. You will engage in a guided self-study of the curriculum, have in-depth discussions about content with a ZERO TO THREE faculty, brainstorm with other adult educators about strategies for delivery, and create activities that meet the learning needs of the early childhood professionals you support!

Introducing LEARN Intensives, a new live virtual event series from ZERO TO THREE. Inspired by the innovation and thought leadership of the LEARN Conference, these interactive deep-dive sessions bring timely topics, emerging research, and leading experts directly to you. 

Professionals working in infant and early childhood mental health carry their own lived experiences into every relationship. In this reflective and experiential session, participants will examine how personal histories, identities, and experiences influence their work with children, families, and colleagues. Through guided reflection, discussion, and creative activities, participants will explore the concept of the “invisible backpack” and strengthen their capacity for reflective, self-aware practice.

Presenter:

• Lindsay J. Pearson, Ph.D.(c), Ed.M., IMH-E®, Assistant Director of Early Childhood Educational Programming, Montclair State University’s Center for Autism and Early Childhood Mental Health 

This all-in-one bundle brings together our full collection of double-sided developmental wheels, with English on one side and Spanish on the other. Featuring Behavior Has Meaning, Born Ready to Learn (0–12 months, 12–24 months, and 24–36 months), and Biting: Before, After, and Preventing Next Time, these interactive tools make child development clear, practical, and accessible. Designed for educators and caregivers, they build confidence in understanding behavior, supporting learning, and promoting school readiness from birth to age three.

Discover how to bring the science of reading to life with a new, free language and literacy curriculum you can use in your daily work—join ZERO TO THREE’s Rebecca Parlakian for this engaging session. 

Strengthen how you support infants’ and toddlers’ social-emotional, cognitive and language development with essential, practice-based skills.

Build your skills across all three Critical Competencies areas as you learn how to support infants’ and toddlers’ social-emotional, cognitive and language and literacy development through everyday interactions. This textbook guides you through reflection, child development, your role as an educator and practical ways to apply what you learn, with added support for high-needs populations and multilingual learners.

The Micro-Course Textbook for Area 1: Supporting Social-Emotional Development, supports faculty and their students as they explore, understand, and practice critical interactions with infants and toddlers that support and nurture their social-emotional development and learning. Each chapter begins with a reflection, followed by a focus on child development, a focus on the educator's role and applying the Critical Competencies, additional considerations for supporting high-needs populations and multi-language learners, and concludes with reflection on the chapter content and application.