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Listen, I get it. A lot of our accrediting bodies want us to hire staff with bachelors or more advanced degrees to keep funding – so we tend to push our less seasoned staff to go back to school. Sometimes that’s great, they’re able and ready and can handle that, no worries. Sometimes though, it’s…
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Advocates – we need your help! Congress is talking taxes…and we can turn this into an opportunity for child care! What: An in-depth conversation for advocates hosted by First Five Years Fund (FFYF), Child Care Aware of America (CCAoA), and the National Association for the Education of Young Children (NAEYC) about how the upcoming tax…
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I’m not saying this is true of any one particular person or school or program, but I think we can all agree there’s been a time or two when the countdown was in the final seconds and an employee wound up attending a professional development session that maybe wasn’t quite the right fit for that…
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I felt compelled to reach out to the world of early childhood warriors after I interacted with a Facebook post this morning from a … frustrated… parent. I can’t say for certain how this parent was feeling of course but the post included the teachers name and the school and essentially it boiled down to…
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As I was grading coursework for the Best Practices course that I teach, I was inspired by one student’s submission in which they reflected on teachers stepping out of their comfort zone to implement an emergent curriculum. It made me pause and reflect on just how true that is, for every aspect of living as…
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