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Don Monopoli, The Learning Station
Don Monopoli is the lead performer, songwriter and presenter for national children’s recording artists, The Learning Station. He has personally published 300 children’s songs, and has produced and recorded children’s music releases for KIDS FIRST/University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, Kimbo Educational and The Bureau For At Risk Youth. In his life's dedication to children’s music, he has presented over 500 motivational keynote, feature and workshops presentations across the nation.
He has graced the stages for family concerts in just about every state, bringing smiles to millions of children's faces. He has received only the highest accolades from leaders in the educational community and has been honored with the “Louisiana Friends of Children” award for his support of children and education in this region after the devastating hurricanes, “Good Will Ambassador” from the North Little Rock AEYC for his heroic conference effort made after 9/11, and a ceremonial bestowal and recognition from Newfoundland, Canada.
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Holy Elissa Bruno, MA, JD, Director's Seminar Speaker
Holly Elissa Bruno, MA, JD, author, teacher, keynote speaker and radio host describes herself as a "recovering attorney".
She served as Assistant Attorney General for the state of Maine and Assistant Dean at the University of Maine School of Law. While working as Associate Professor and Dean of Faculty at the University of Maine-Augusta, Holly Elissa was selected as "Outstanding Professor".
She is an alumna of Harvard University's Institute for Educational Management. She teaches leadership and management courses nationwide for Wheelock College.
Her ground-breaking textbook, Leading on purpose: Emotionally intelligent early childhood administration was published by McGraw-Hill.
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Dr. Joe Thompson, MD, MPH, Center Director, Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Center for the Prevention of Childhood Obesity
Director, Arkansas Center for Health Improvement (ACHI)
Surgeon General for the State of Arkansas
Associate Professor in the Colleges of Medicine and Public Health at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences
Practicing General Pediatrician at Arkansas Children’s Hospital
In addition to his leadership role for the Center, Dr. Thompson is responsible for developing health policy, research activities and collaborative programs that promote better health and health care in Arkansas. This has included vanguard efforts in planning and implementing health care financing reform, and tobacco- and obesity-related health-promotion and disease-prevention programs. He was the lead architect of the Tobacco Settlement Act of 2000, has been at the forefront of Arkansas’s efforts to prevent childhood obesity and instituted the Arkansas Health Insurance Roundtable. Under Dr. Thompson’s watch, ACHI helped pass the Clean Indoor Air Act of 2006, documented the state’s success in halting progress of the childhood obesity epidemic and helped implement ARHealthNetworks, Arkansas’s health care benefits waiver for low-income workers.
Dr. Thompson will be speaking at the Public Policy Luncheon
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Dr. David T. Tayloe, Jr., MD, FAAP, Immediate Past President, American Academy of Pediatrics
Dr. Tayloe is a full-time general pediatrician. He founded a solo practice in Goldsboro, N.C., in 1977, after completing medical school at the University of North Carolina and pediatric residencies at St. Christopher’s Hospital for Children and North Carolina Memorial Hospital. He helped establish the very successful child health system in North Carolina that includes the NC Universal Childhood Vaccine Distribution Program, the physician-directed Medicaid managed care initiative, and the NC Health Choice Program (SCHIP).
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Rae Pica, Children's Movement Specialist
Rae Pica has been a children’s physical activity specialist since 1980. A former adjunct instructor with the University of New Hampshire, she is the author of 18 books, including the text Experiences in Movement, the award-winning Great Games for Young Children and Jump into Literacy, and A Running Start: How Play, Physical Activity, and Free Time Create a Successful Child, written for the parents of children birth to eight. Rae is known for her lively and informative workshop and keynote presentations and has shared her expertise with such groups as the Sesame Street Research Department, the Head Start Bureau, Centers for Disease Control, the President’s Council on Physical Fitness and Sports, Nickelodeon’s Blue’s Clues, Gymboree, and state health departments throughout the country. Rae also served on the task force of the National Association for Sport and Physical Education (NASPE) that created national guidelines for early childhood physical activity and is a member of several advisory boards. As co-creator and host of Body, Mind and Child, an Internet radio program for parents and educators, Rae interviews experts in the fields of education, child development, play research, the neurosciences, and more.
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Featured Sessions |
 Helping Preschool Children Get Healthy and Fit
by Dr. Dianne Lawler and Dr. Jim L. Stillwell
Co-authors of the SECA book Preventing Childhood Obesity: Helping Preshool Children Become Healthy and Fit
Join Dr. Lawler and Dr. Stillwell for an interactive session that will help participants become familiar with nutritional requirements for young children, recipes that are 'health friendly' and fun, and exercises that young children and staff can do together.
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