If You Love Children…
This blog post provides an overview of several sessions from BUILD’s 2018 QRIS National Meeting from the point of view of a Connecticut participant. One of her main take-aways: “If you love children, you must leverage your view, your voice, and your visibility to improve the systems and quality of services for young children and families.
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Home-based Child Care Voices from the Field: What Policy Makers Need to Know
Blog December 21, 2021
Home-based education leaders Ruth Kimble, DeCarla Burton, Martina Rocha, and Erma Jackson contributed to this fourth blog in the HBCC Voices from the Field Series.
Home-Based Child Care: Supporting HBCC Educators Whose Primary Language is Other than English
Archived Meeting Resources December 17, 2021
This is the slide deck from the November 16 webinar, Home-Based Child Care: Supporting HBCC Educators Whose Primary Language is Other than English. Home-Based Child Care is popular because many providers offer flexible schedules and are more familiar and affordable to families than child care centers. In addition, many families are able to find home-based providers with cultural and/or linguistic backgrounds similar to their own. Nearly one-fifth of the ECE workforce are immigrants, with many educators speaking languages other than English, and close to a quarter of all HBCC providers speaking Spanish. During this webinar, participants learned how states and communities can recognize and support this critical population of educators.
Child Care Compensation Counts: 8 Strategies
Archived Webinar December 15, 2021
This is a recording from the December 13, 2021 Child Care Compensation Counts: Eight Strategies webinar.