Running a child care program is hard enough without spending your day fighting your software.

Join Danielle Credeur, Vice President/CFO of Sugar 'n Spice Children's Academy, as she shares practical strategies for reducing administrative stress, streamlining daily operations, and creating more time to focus on your staff, families, and center. Drawing on more than 35 years of leadership experience, Danielle will discuss how the right systems can support—not distract from—your leadership.

Whether you're looking to simplify your workflow, empower your team, or spend less time behind a desk, you'll leave with actionable ideas you can put into practice right away.

Whether you're a child care center, preschool, Montessori program, or private school, your online visibility plays a huge role in filling your classrooms. In this practical workshop, enrollment marketing expert Meg Lisagor-Trezise will help you uncover the hidden issues that may be preventing prospective families from finding—and choosing—your program.

You'll learn how to:

• Identify what's making your program harder to find online

• Complete a simple School Visibility Check for your website and online presence

• Prioritize the five biggest improvements that can increase visibility and enrollment

Join former child care owner and educator Dr. Tamar Andrews as she breaks down real tour scenarios, reveals the subtle mistakes that cost enrollments, and coaches one attendee live.

Christen West has been running Precious Pumpkins Daycare in Maryland for years. She knows what it's like to manage billing, family communication, and licensing compliance without the right tools holding it together.

In this live Q&A, she'll walk through exactly what her program looked like before Playground, why she made the switch, and what's actually different now. No pitch. No slides. Just a real director talking through her experience.

If you're wondering whether Playground is worth the change, this is the conversation to hear first.

The smoothest back-to-school seasons start with strong enrollment systems built before August chaos begins.

Here’s what you’ll learn:

• How to streamline enrollment forms, waitlists, and family onboarding workflows

• Ways to reduce incomplete paperwork and last-minute follow-up with families

• How to prepare tuition setup and enrollment operations for a smoother fall season

Many child care directors are hesitant about implementing AI in their business, while others are running full steam ahead and shaving hours off of their weekly tasks. 

In this free webinar, we’ll review the results of Playground’s exclusive “AI Use in the Child Care Industry” survey to get a clear picture of how many child care providers are actually implementing AI in their work – and how. 

We’ll also discuss and demonstrate ways you can start using AI to streamline your business operations, and best practices to help reduce risks according to the most common AI concerns among child care providers.

Join your peers and find new ways to leverage the latest technologies to your benefit.

The centers that feel most prepared in September usually build their staffing and operational systems during the summer.

Here’s what you’ll learn:

• How to prepare staffing schedules and ratio coverage before enrollment increases

• Ways to improve visibility across staffing, attendance, and classroom operations

• How to simplify billing and operational workflows heading into the busiest season of the year

Strong operational systems make compliance, licensing, and family record management far easier during back-to-school season.

Here’s what you’ll learn:

• How to organize family records and required documentation before fall enrollment increases

• Ways to prepare for licensing reviews and reduce last-minute compliance stress

• How to simplify document tracking and operational visibility across your center