The Growing Brain: From Birth to 5 Years Old
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Professional Development and Learning Opportunities
Empowering early childhood professionals to create lasting change for infants, toddlers, and families
Whether you’re looking for new skills to boost your career, feel energized or investigate new possibilities, we can help.
Our early childhood trainings and events elevate the knowledge, skills, and abilities of the early childhood workforce and meet ever-changing industry requirements with competency-based professional development and technical assistance.
What We Offer
Evidence-based, Field-tested Books & Tools
The products you need for early childhood work, all in one place.
Cutting Edge Trainings & Events
Learning that fits your work, from webinars, to online courses, to in-person experiences, all built by experts in the field.
Extensive Library of Resources & Membership Community
Insights, real-world stories and guidance from renowned voices in the field.
Training Calendar & Upcoming Events
We offer professional development on early brain science, infant and early childhood mental health, and early childhood education. Our workshops, conferences, virtual events and group trainings are tailored to elevate the collective expertise of teams.
Our primary professional development courses:
LEARN Conference
October 27-29 | Portland, OR
November 2-3 | Washington, DC
For more than a decade, the ZERO TO THREE LEARN Conference has brought together thousands of early childhood professionals from around the world for a premier multidisciplinary experience in professional development.
Content & Resources
Explore trusted, research-based books, toolkits, handouts, and professional resources from the ZERO TO THREE Bookstore, designed to support everyone who cares for and works with babies and toddlers.
From Reflective Supervision and Leadership to family-friendly resources like Behavior Has Meaning and the Milestones & More Kits, the bookstore offers practical tools to strengthen practice, deepen knowledge and support healthy early development.
Inspire your whole team to evolve, together.
Experience the power of quality practice together – with group training courses designed to challenge, inspire and support your team to implement your learning.
Benefits and Outcomes
Thousands of professionals have benefited from our early childhood education and training programs.
ZERO TO THREE is here to support you so you can support young children. Our programs help professionals stay up with the latest research, connect with others in the field and earn Continuing Education Units (CEUs). If you want to be inspired, read more of our Members’ testimonials and get excited about making a difference.
Ava, an early childhood professional, shared this after her training:
“I looked at the baby in my arms and saw that he was looking right at me. He had always been looking at me. I suddenly realized that all the babies I had fed over the years were looking at me and that I had missed those opportunities.
I felt so sorry to have missed those moments and vowed to never miss another. Thank you for creating this training that helped me to see this.”
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Become a Member
Enjoy free monthly virtual events, discounts on trainings, bookstore items and Conference, and more.
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Meet Our Professional Development Team
Get the latest from our experts in early childhood professional development.
We’ve been in your shoes; we know the work and the challenges because our expert faculty averages more than 25 years of experience in educating professionals and in direct service.
Our team has worked across all early childhood settings and disciplines—from state and national organizations and agencies, higher education, public and private early childhood organizations, early childhood education programs (classroom- and home-based, including Head Start/Early Head Start), as well as home visiting.
Sarah LeMoine
Senior Director, Professional Innovations
Sarah leads our professional development innovations and is a thought leader in early childhood professional development. Committed to innovation and social justice, she works across disciplines to remove workforce barriers and aspires to match her daughter’s wisdom and empathy.
Katrina Macasaet
Senior PD Manager, Professional Innovations
Katrina leads our Critical Competencies and The Growing Brain professional development options. In addition to being a bilingual, cake-loving yoga instructor, she is an amazing listener – connecting to trainers, coaches, and educators in the field with compassion, honesty, and real-world solutions.
Noelle Hause
Senior PD Manager, Infant and Early Childhood Mental Health
Noelle leads our DC:0-5 and Infant and Early Childhood Mental Health (IECMH) professional development offerings. She is passionate about strengthening caregivers, early childhood professionals, organizations, communities and systems to deliver quality mental health supports for infants and young children.
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DC:0–5™ Manual and Training
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ZERO TO THREE Critical Competencies for Infant-Toddler Educators™
The ZERO TO THREE Critical Competencies for Infant-Toddler Educators™ suite of professional development products and services helps educators build the essential knowledge and skills they need, in flexible and user-friendly formats.
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Upcoming Events with ZERO TO THREE
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Member Resources: Tools and Support for Early Childhood Professionals
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Earn CEUs from ZERO TO THREE
ZERO TO THREE is pleased to offer free Continuing Education Units for a variety of learning events and early childhood professional development.
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Don't miss our early childhood conference.
Join us for idea-sharing, actionable takeaways, new inspiration and old friends. Together, we will move the early childhood field forward.
