Conferences and Workshops
The Child Development Institute is actively involved in outreach activities that include collaborating with local public school districts to help establish continuing professional development opportunities for teachers and administrators; presenting workshops around the New York area on educational topics; and expanding the CDI office as a resource center for teachers and other professionals. We have a connection with the B.E.P.T. Teacher Center, and have collaborated with the Jewish Board of Family and Children’s Services, the Westchester Association of the Education of Young Children (WAEYC), the Yonkers Early Childhood Initiative, and the Alliance for Childhood, among others.
Past conferences sponsored by the Child Development Institute include:
2005: Confronting the Crises in Education
Dr. Edward F. Zigler, Director of Yale's Center in Child Development and Social Policy and Sterling Professor of Psychology Emeritus at Yale University, delivered the keynote address, America’s Move to Universal Preschool Education. Four successive panels comprised the program: Early Education: Problems and Prospects; Issues of Equity, Standards, and School Policy; Class, Race; and Ethnic Identities; and Revisioning Schools.
Read the write-up of Confronting the Crises in Education that appeared in the May 2005 edition of Education Update.
1993: Revisioning Multiculturalism in Education
Co-sponsored with the Michael Harrington Center, Queens College, CUNY. Troy Duster, Ph.D., and Maxine Greene, Ph.D., keynote speakers.
1991: Visions in Education
Thomas Sobol, Ed.D., and Diana T. Slaughter-Defoe, Ph.D., keynote speakers.
1989: Childhood and Social Policy
Edward Zigler, Ph.D., and T. Berry Brazelton, M.D., keynote speakers.
1987: The Child and the Environment: Home, School and Neighborhood
Brian Sutton-Smith, Ph.D., Roger Hart, Ph.D., and Leanne Rivlin, M.D., keynote speakers.
Margaret S. Mahler, M.D., John B. McDevitt, M.D., and Anni Bergman, Ph.D., keynote speakers.