The New York City Association for the Education of Young Children
invites you to
Conference 2012
The NYCAEYC 2012 Conference will be held on February 10 and 11, 2012. The Friday night reception, “Inspired Towards Excellence,” will be held at the ACA Gallery, 529 West 20th Street, New York City (Google map). The Saturday Keynote and Workshops will be held at the Food and Finance High School, 525 West 50th Street, New York City (Google map).
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Keynote InformationFriday Night Event: “Inspired Toward Excellence”
Saturday Featured SpeakerList of ExhibitorsSponsorsWorkshop Descriptions
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Keynote Information
Faith Ringgold is the author and illustrator of fourteen children’s books including the timeless Tar Beach, winner of a Caldecott Honor and the Coretta Scott King award. The book Tar Beach is based on the story quilt Tar Beach, from Ringgold’s “The Woman On A Bridge” series of 1988, and is in the permanent collection of the Guggenheim Museum in New York City. Read about and/or purchase Ms. Ringgold’s children’s books.
A painter, writer, speaker, mixed media sculptor, and performance artist, Faith Ringgold is the recipient of more than 75 awards, including 22 Honorary Doctor of Fine Arts degrees.
Ringgold’s art has been exhibited in museums and galleries in the USA, Europe, Asia, South America, the Middle East, and Africa. Ms. Ringgold supports the talent, effort, dedication, and creativity of emerging artists. For more information about Faith Ringgold and her body of work, view her Web sites: www.faithringgold.com or faithringgold.blogspot.com.
Faith Ringgold will be personalizing pre-signed books from 10:15 a.m. to 10:45 a.m., immediately following her keynote address. Pre-signed books can be purchased in advance at www.faithringgoldbooks.com or before the keynote address. If you pre-purchase your book, you can pick it up the day of the conference and have Faith personalize it! Conference participants are welcome to bring their own copies of their Faith Ringgold books to be signed. Pre-signed books will also be sold at the Friday night “Inspired Toward Excellence” event. This book signing is being sponsored by 
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Book trailer for Tar Beach by Faith Ringgold |
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Clip from the video Faith Ringgold: Paints Crown Heights |
Friday Night Reception: “Inspired Toward Excellence”
New York City Association for the Education of Young Children believes in the importance of celebrating excellence and honors individuals who have made extraordinary contributions to the field of early care and education. This year our focus is to honor those whose efforts have significantly raised the standard of care and education for New York City’s youngest children.As part of the NYCAEYC 2012 Conference, the Friday night reception, “Inspired Toward Excellence,” will honor Maria Benejan, New York City’s associate commissioner for Program Development at the Administration for Children’s Services—Division of Child Care and Head Start. The reception will also honor newly accredited programs located within the city and a NYCAEYC member who, through a nomination process, will receive the NYCAEYC Service to the Field Honor. Congratulations to Ann Kjellberg, 2012 Service to the Field Honoree.
The reception will take place at ACA Gallery from 6:30 to 8:00pm and will feature hor d’ouevres and the art of Faith Ringgold, our Conference 2012 Keynote Speaker.
Saturday Featured Speaker
Ann Lewin-Benham is a celebrated author and educator. She has been teacher educator, school founder, and children’s museum pioneer. Recently she became an author. Her first two books, Possible Schools (2006) and Powerful Children (2008), tell the story of the urban Reggio-inspired school she founded and directed. Her current book (2010), Infants and Children at Work (2010), shows creative uses of hundreds of common materials and, using recent neuroscience research, explains how they support brain development.
Ann Lewin-Benham’s presentation will be given on Saturday morning at 10:30 a.m. and at 1:00 p.m. Ann will also be signing books in the exhibitor area at lunch time.
Featured speaker sponsored by Discount School Supply.
List of Conference 2012 Exhibitors
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Allison’s Montessori Bank Street College of Education Barefoot Books Bilingual Birdies Child Care Food Community Playthings Discount School Supplies Gesell Institute Handwriting Without Tears HITN – Project LAMP Kaplan Early Learning Company |
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Lakeshore Learning Materials Los Niños Services Monkey Monkey Music NYC Day Care Council/NYC Child Care Resource NYC Early Childhood Professional Development Institute Red Rabbit School Chapters Teachers College Press Teaching Strategies Walden University |
NYCAEYC Thanks Our Sponsors!
Workshop Descriptions
See the complete Descriptions of Workshops (PDF).