Lillio (formerly HiMama)

🚨 New feature alert: We’re excited to announce our new Enrollment Projections dashboard! Tracking future enrollments used to be time consuming, but with our new Lillio Enrollment Projections dashboard, you can save time and easily see: ⭐ Your desired capacities against projected enrollments ⭐ All waitlist and registration information without switching screens ⭐ When you are over your desired capacity #enrollment #earlychildhoodeducation #ece #registration #earlylearning Book a demo to find out more: https://bit.ly/3ysEGh3

🤩 It's the recap post you've been waiting for! Our 2024 Back to School Early Learning Summit was packed with three informative days of over 20 sessions presented by 15+ keynote speakers – all around early childhood education best practices, insights, and professional learning opportunities. Thousands joined to gain insights and earn CEUs, and now you can read all about it and access the recordings, too! 📚🤓 Check out this recap to find out what we covered, and keep your eye out for deep dives on specific sessions still to come! https://bit.ly/3LPIfkc #BTS #earlylearning #backtoschool #summitrecap

Childcare expansion: 5 things to consider when expanding your child care center Childcare expansion takes specific considerations for success.🤔 We recently sat down with Grafton Milne of Menlo Group Commercial Real Estate, and dove into these considerations, as well as strategic insights to help child care providers expand while maintaining quality child care. 🏘️ 🏫 Read the article here: https://bit.ly/4doIqiq #childcare #realestate #expansion #centermanagement

We’re excited to introduce Building Blocks, the Lillio Early Learning Blog! Everything you need to know about the building blocks of high-quality childcare - now with a brand new look! We’ll continue covering the latest on early childhood education, childcare center management, family engagement, professional development, and more. Find the latest on trends, innovations, inspiration, and best practices in the early childhood education industry: https://lnkd.in/guVaVTFn #blog #earlylearning #ece #childhoodeducation #centermanagement #familyengagement #earlylearningnews #professionaldevelopment

⭐ That’s a wrap on our 2024 Back to School Summit! ⭐ 🙏 A huge THANK YOU to all our guests, presenters, panelists, and staff that made the past three days such a big success. It was truly amazing to have so many early childhood educators join us for such an engaging and impactful event. 💛 Thank you for your participation, inspiring chats, and dedication to early childhood education. Your presence, support, and contributions helped shape this week's summit and we hope it was as fantastic and informative for you as it was for us hosting it. 🎬 All recordings will be made available, so you’ll be able to relive and refer to your favorite moments and most informative sessions: https://lnkd.in/gXbWdddv #backtoschool #earlylearning #ece #centermanagement #thankyou

⭐ The last day of our Back to School Summit brought a close to our three days of best practices and insights! Here’s what happened: ✨ We started with a morning mentorship session hosted by Antoinette Dela Cruz, Nicole George, and Jessica Tremblett, where seasoned educators had the opportunity to connect with new educators to share stories and offer inspiration to build an impactful career in early education. ✨ Next up, Teresa Narey presented on how to create a culture of learning among center staff, offering tools and practices that both improve learning transfer and foster a culture of reflective practice. ✨ This was followed by a panel all about recruiting and retaining qualified staff, hosted by Jackie Tom. Panelists Jessica Tremblett and Sarah Rhodebeck offered actionable strategies from the field to find, attract, engage, and keep talented staff. ✨ These informative sessions were followed by a series of Lillio product tours. We had Ellen Hardy, Tess Millar, Debbie Kaiser, Laura Bridgewater, Ria Reive, Danielle Loken, and Amy Conner leading our product tours, as well as Kayla Warburton chatting about how to get the most out of Lillio and Heather Wiederstein providing a product roadmap update for customers. ✨ Jumping back into sessions, we joined Masrur Mahmoud, Tyler Milford, and Steve Dumais to learn about IT and security basics for center directors and owners. This was a focus on the foundations of IT and data security requirements to know and consider in making technology decisions. ✨ From here, we moved on to billing and payments, with a session hosted by Danielle Loken and Robyn Cannon, demonstrating how Lillio helps centers be more profitable, and providing a sneak peek of exciting new features coming soon. ✨ And finally, we joined Kai-leé Berke and Ria Reive in their session about understanding and addressing child behaviours that challenge us, offering strategies that help educators respond rather than react, aiming to build a positive classroom community that reduces instances of challenging behaviors, supports children’s social and emotional development, and creates an enjoyable, effective, and nurturing learning environment. 🎬 Recordings will be made available after the summit: https://lnkd.in/gXbWdddv #backtoschool #earlylearning #ece #centermanagement

Day two of our Back to School summit provided great opportunities to learn, and more is yet to come! Join us for our final day, as we dive into Lillio and its features. Curious? Be sure to attend! #earlylearning #lillio #centermanagement #ece https://bit.ly/3VBv0rU

⭐ Day two at our our Back to School Summit provided more great learning opportunities! Here's how it went: ✨ We started the day with Teresa Narey, who shared inclusive practices to support learning engagement for all children. Teresa talked about practices that educators can use to support all learners with a focus on relationships with children and families. ✨ Up next, Heather Wiederstein hosted panelists Thrush Dave, Dr. Kenneth Kunz, Evelyn Cabrera, and Allie Zambia, exploring how to engage families as partners in learning and development. This candid conversation focused on best practices that demonstrate the value of high-quality care by helping families understand what’s happening in the classroom, why it’s important, and how they can support learning with simple steps at home. ✨ For our third session of the day, Kayla Warburton and Wendi Munhall explored a “day in the life” of a Lillio Customer, sharing insights from a Lillio power customer about how they save time, streamline operations, and make things easier with Lillio! ✨ Finally, we closed down the day with Heather Wiederstein, sharing expertise around the science of reading, providing an introduction for early childhood educators and discussing the foundations of language and literacy as it develops in the early years. Tomorrow is the final day of our Summit, and we’re looking forward to diving into the product and how to get the most out of Lillio! 🎬 Recordings will be made available after the summit: https://lnkd.in/gXbWdddv #backtoschool #summit #earlylearning #ece #lillio

The first day of our Back to School Summit was great, but we're not finished yet! Join us this afternoon for more great sessions and an opportunity to earn CEUs! #BTS #earlylearning #CEU #ECE https://bit.ly/3VBv0rU

⭐ Thanks to all who attended day one of our Back to School Summit! ⭐ ✨ We kicked off the summit with Kai-leé Berke sharing the importance of self-care for educators. Kai-leé talked about the science of the stress response as it relates to early childhood educators and shared some great self-care practices to support a regulated nervous system. ✨ Session two was all about the US ECE field in 2024 and beyond, where we welcomed panelists Bela Moté, Miriam Calderon, and Shawneequa Blount. The panel shared expertise around learnings from the unprecedented challenges brought on by the end of COVID-19 funding for early education, and what we can do to affect change through local efforts. ✨ Up next, Teresa Narey spoke about an actionable approach for building a classroom community. Teresa emphasized the importance of a framework for our relationships and how to establish a blueprint for creating effective communities. ✨ And last but not least, Jackie Tom and Candice Jackson Long hosted a session on how to market your center to grow enrolment and engage your community, providing great insights into practical marketing methods for your business. Looking forward to day two! 💥 🎬 Recordings will be made available after the summit: https://lnkd.in/gXbWdddv #backtoschool #summit #earlylearning #ece #lillio