The following is a statement from Sharron Harrington, Executive Director of the Vermont Association for the Education of Young Children (VTAEYC) and Emilie Tenenbaum, Executive Director of Let’s Grow Kids Action Network (LGKAN): “The 2025-2026 legislative biennium was one […]
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By Sharron Harrington Dear colleagues, This morning, I had the honor of giving a plenary talk to the early childhood educators attending the ECE Institute. What I told them is that the laser focus of VTAEYC is retaining and
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By Victoria Ward Dear colleagues, We’ve redesigned this newsletter just a bit to make it easier to scan. Scroll down for regular updates and resources tailored to your specific needs! I am personally excited about a new training for
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By Sharron Harrington Dear colleagues, I know many of you are concerned with torrential rain coming later today—on the anniversary of last year’s flood. Please stay safe, and take care of yourselves and each other. You may notice our
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By Sharron Harrington and Brenda Schramm Dear colleagues, Sharron Harrington and Brenda Schramm are co-writing this letter: as supervising faculty at Vermont State University (VTSU) in addition to directing VTAEYC’s Career Advancement department, Brenda recently participated in graduation at
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You asked, we listened! We are excited to offer the 2024 Wellness Institute for Family Child Care Home owners and their staff. Please join us for an exciting day full of professional development, self-care giveaways, and connection and rejuvenation
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By Victoria Ward Dear colleagues, I’m pleased to announce the SPARQS team is expanding. VTAEYC is hiring specialists for our Quality Support and Program Assessment teams to keep up with programs’ requests and cut down on wait times. See the
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By Sharron Harrington Dear colleagues, This week, May 5-11, marks the first ever National Youth Apprenticeship Week! Paula Nadeau on our Career Advancement team recently shared the successes of a young person graduating from our Youth Apprenticeship program.
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By Rachel Hunter, Advancing ECE as a Profession Outreach Coordinator Greetings, leaders in Vermont’s work to advance early childhood education as a profession! I heard feedback from several of you that you prefer to get updates about our shared
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By Victoria Ward Dear colleagues, Our SPARQS team has a few months of experience working with Vermont early childhood education programs on assessments, as well as providing coaching and other quality supports. Now we can look across our data
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