Registration will open: 3-2-2026

Registration Deadline: 5-12-2026 at 6 p.m.

The TK/K Exploration Sessions offers engaging, hands-on approaches to research-based professional development, designed specifically for Expanded Learning Staff supporting TK/K Students. 

By the end of this Exploration Session, participants will be able to implement developmentally appropriate practices that support TK/K Students through the following:

• How to construct activities that are developmentally appropriate, play based, includes physical activity and provides students with voice and choice 

• Hands on activity design for TK/K students utilizing math, science and literacy themes

• Collegial Conversations centered on promising practices for activity design and learning

• How to use the Expanded Learning TK/K Program Quality Self-Assessment Tool to design activities that are developmentally appropriate for TK/K students in Expanded Learning Programs