Training for Early Childhood Programs and the People Who Run Them
Training built around how your team actually learns.
Early Ed Essentials offers three ways to meet early childhood training requirements — live virtual sessions, self-paced courses, and full-team training built around what your center needs. Choose the path that fits.
Live sessions, self-paced courses, and full-team training — built by early childhood professionals, for early childhood professionals.
What We Offer
One vendor for your whole team's training.
Live Virtual Trainings
WHO IT'S FOR: Individual Teachers & Directors.
Join a live, instructor-led session from anywhere. Register yourself, attend from home or the center, and walk away with hours that count toward what your state requires — on a schedule you control.
Self-Paced Trainings
WHO IT'S FOR: Individual Teachers & Directors.
Work through training on your own time, at your own pace. Every course is built to be practical and specific — not just hours logged, but tools you can use in the classroom the next day.
Center Needs-Based Training
WHO IT'S FOR: Directors bringing live training to their whole team, built around what their program actually needs.
We start with a conversation about your team — skill gaps, upcoming requirements, whatever's on your radar — and build a live training plan around it. Your whole staff attends together, scheduled around your program.
How It Works
From choosing a path to putting it into practice.
1 — Choose your path.
Live virtual or self-paced if you're building your own hours, or a full-team training built around your center if you're leading a program.
2 — Complete your training.
Attend live, work through a self-paced course, or take part in a session scheduled for your team.
3 — Get your certificate.
Every completed training comes with documentation you can keep, track, and use to meet your state's requirements.
4 — Put it into practice.
Every session and course is built around one question: what will change in the classroom tomorrow.
FREE FOR DIRECTORS & PROGRAM LEADERS
The Director's Lounge
Practical downloadables
Program Management Guides
Templates
Checklists
Tools
— built for the day-to-day realities of running an early childhood program.
Ready to find the right training path?
Whether you're a teacher building your own hours or a director planning for your whole team, Early Ed Essentials has a path built for you.