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SUMMARY:Certified to Shine: Your Guide to Texas Rising Star Certification
DESCRIPTION:Join us as we dive deep into the Texas Rising Star Program!  Participants will walk away with an understanding of the TRS program!\n\n\nPLEASE NOTE: THIS IS A VIRTUAL EVENT. \n \nJoin us for an exciting virtual event\, Certified to Shine: Your Guide to Texas Rising Star Certification\, where we will review the history of the Texas Rising Star Program. Participants will gain a thorough knowledge of measures relating to the education\, experience\, and training of all staff including directors. Participants will walk away from this session with a complete understanding of the TRS program and staff qualifications. \nThis program is a high-impact initiative that offers step-by-step guidance in completing the Texas Rising Star Certification. Childcare providers will learn how to deal with the high cost of care by accessing your current business model; identifying cost-saving strategies for your center; accessing revenue opportunities through contracts and small business loans; how to hire and retain staff; and build client loyalty and retention. \n \nModule 1 – Introduction to Texas Rising Star/ Category 1-Director and Staff \nQualifications Training \nWe will review the history of the Texas Rising Star Program. Participants will gain a thorough knowledge of measures relating to the education\, experience\, and training of all staff including directors. Participants will walk away from this session with a complete understanding of the TRS program and staff qualifications. \n \nModule 1- Category 1- Introduction to Texas Rising Star \n1.History \n2. Directors Qualifications and Training \n3. Staff Qualifications\, Orientation and Training \n4. Module One Homework Assignment: Complete Facility Assessment Record Form \n \n \nModule 2 – Category 2- Teacher/Child Interactions \nWe will understand measures relating to group size\, staff-to-child ratio\, and quality of interactions between teachers and children in the classroom. We will also discuss assessments that will show progress\, regression\, sustainability in children’s social and \nemotional wellbeing as well as their knowledge\, growth\, providers\, and families can easily understand the outcomes and gain tools through these assessments to create an individualized support plan for each child in their care. \n \nModule 2 will touch on the following elements: \n1.Group Size/ Staff Ratios (Center Base Only) \n2. Warm and Responsive Style \n3. Language Facilitation and Support \n4. Play-Based Interactions and Guidance \n5.Support for Childrens Regulation \n6. Instructional Formats and Approaches to Learning \n4. Module Two Homework Assignment: Complete Classroom Assessment Record Form \n \n \nModule 3 – Category 3: Program Administration \nWe will look at the measures relating to education and involvement of parents and families in the program and how the program is managed. Participants will walk away with tools to create an effective family education program\, family involvement\, and have the best \npractices for program management. \nModule 3 will touch on the following elements: \n1.Family Education \n2. Family Involvement \n3. Program Management \n4. Module Three Homework Assignment: Complete Facility Assessment Record Form \n \n \nModule 4 – Category 4 Indoor and Outdoor Environments \nWe will discuss measures relating to the equipment\, materials\, and arrangement of the indoor and outdoor leaning environments. Engaging centers that show differentiated learning and engagement. Participants will walk away from the final module with the ability to create an indoor and outdoor space that resembles a high-quality early childhood. environment. \nModule 3 will touch on the following elements: \n1.Indoor Learning Environments \n2. Outdoor Learning Environments \n3. Ways to get manipulatives. \n4. Module 4 Homework Assignment: Complete Classroom Assessments \n \n \nModule 5: Access To Capital for Your Center \nWe will discuss funding programs available to grow your business \nPresentation and Module should touch on the following elements: \n1.Contracting with the State of Texas \n2. Small Business Microloans \n3. SBA 504 Loans to Purchase A Daycare \n4. Applying for a Small Business Loan \n \nModule 6: QuickBooks Online for Your Center \nWe will discuss how managing financial management helps your business succeed. Participants will walk away from this session with a keen understanding of the financial cycle and application to their company. \nModule 6 will touch on the following elements: \n1. Introduction to Financial Management \n2. Understanding the Financial Cycle in Your Business \n3. Which QuickBooks Meets Your Business Needs \n \n \nSpace is limited! REGISTER NOW! \n \nPLEASE NOTE: THIS IS A VIRTUAL EVENT. \n \nThe Certified to Shine: Your Guide to Texas Rising Star Certification program is generously funded in part by the Small Business Administration.
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SUMMARY:How to Be Bold: The Surprising Science of Everyday Courage
DESCRIPTION:Move from hesitation to action and walk away with a toolkit for making bolder moves in life\, leadership\, and business with Ranjay Gulati.\n\n\nDisruption is the new normal: shifting tech\, volatile markets\, climate pressure\, social divides. The weight can leave us frozen. But courage isn’t exclusive—it’s a practice every entrepreneur and leader can learn. \nThat’s why we’re bringing you a timely conversation with Ranjay Gulati\, Professor at Harvard Business School and author of the forthcoming How to Be Bold: The Surprising Science of Everyday Courage\, on how to lead\, act\, and grow boldly in the face of fear and ambiguity. \nDrawing from over a decade of research and hundreds of real-world examples\, Gulati offers a science-backed playbook for building individual and collective courage. You’ll learn the 9 C’s that strengthen boldness\, how to train your “courage muscle\,” and what it really takes to act even when you feel afraid. \nYou’ll walk away with science-backed tools to build courage in yourself\, your team\, and your company:  \n\nLearn the 9 C’s (confidence\, coping\, connection\, and more) that anyone can cultivate to lead with courage. \n\n\nDiscover why fear isn’t weakness—and how to turn uncertainty into momentum using stories\, self-efficacy\, and sensemaking. \n\n\nExplore how to build courageous teams and cultures that act with clarity and purpose when it matters most. \n\n \nOUR SPECIAL GUEST \n\n\n\nRANJAY GULATI is the Paul R. Lawrence MBA Class of 1942 Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School. His pioneering work focuses on unlocking organizational and individual potential—embracing courage\, nurturing purpose-driven leaders\, driving growth\, and transforming businesses. He is the recipient of the 2024 CK Prahalad Award for Scholarly Impact on Practice and was ranked as one of the top ten most cited scholars in Economics and Business over a decade by ISI-Incite. The Economist\, Financial Times\, and the Economist Intelligence Unit have listed him as among the top handful of business school scholars whose work is most relevant to management practice. He is a Thinkers50 top management scholar\, speaks regularly to executive audiences\, and serves on the board of several entrepreneurial ventures. He holds a PhD from Harvard University and a Master’s degree from MIT. He is the author of Deep Purpose (2022) and How to be Bold (2025)\, both published by Harper Collins. He lives in Newton\, Massachusetts with his wife and two children. \n\n\n\nThe Nasdaq Entrepreneurial Center is a 501c(3) public charity whose mission it is to make entrepreneurship accessible to all. We deliver free resources\, expert guidance\, and top-tier mentorship to over 100\,000 entrepreneurs worldwide. Your support helps us continue delivering these transformative programs—expanding access to entrepreneurship and driving economic progress for all. Join us and make a gift today to help more entrepreneurs thrive! \n\n\nAll Nasdaq Entrepreneurial Center programs and services are extended to the public on a nondiscriminatory basis. Reasonable accommodations for persons with disabilities will be made if requested at least 48 hours in advance of this event; please send an email to webinarhost@thecenter.nasdaq.org with the subject header ACCOMMODATION REQUEST. For assistance with registration or other technical difficulties\, please contact anna.vanmaanen@thecenter.nasdaq.org
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