Project Resources
Kits, publications, videos, and core documents to build awareness of the work to advance early childhood education as a profession - and why it matters.
Flyers, Social Posts, and Toolkits
Social Media Assets To Use And Share
Social Posts: Teaching And Learning Through Play
Tiles showing how early childhood educators use play to help children learn about themselves and their world.
Social Posts: "I Am An ECE"
Quotes from Vermont workforce members about what it means to be an early childhood educator, with photos of Vermont early childhood educators at work.
Social Posts: Audacious Vision + Identity
Social tiles featuring key components of the Audacious Vision for the Profession of Tomorrow and its roles and responsibilities. Text from The Unifying Framework.
Social Posts: Most Popular
This initiative’s most affirming, most liked, and most shared social media posts.
Flyers
All current Advancing as a Profession flyers available to download, print, post, and share.
Toolkit: Using Your Digital Voice
A toolkit to support early childhood educators as digital advocates on social media. Developed by Let’s Grow Kids in partnership with VTAEYC.
Toolkit: Professional Identity Implementation
Samples, examples, and resources to support implementing our professional identity as early childhood educators in the early childhood education profession.
Consensus Documents
The Task Force's Publications on How Vermont Aligns With the Recommendations in The Unifying Framework
Information Sessions & Professional Development
Recordings and Recaps
Virtual Advancing as a Profession professional development sessions are saved to our Youtube playlist after we no longer offer that session. Most are available in both full-length and 20-minute brief versions. You can explore all past offerings in our playlist.
The videos here are info sessions, some of which are embedded in current and past professional development sessions:
“The Legislative Process” Understanding how model legislation eventually becomes law with Let’s Grow Kids’ Chief Policy Officer Sarah Kenney.
“The Role of Higher Ed in Advancing as a Profession” Dr. Kaitie Northey describes how ECE preparation programs support the initiative through a study group created to improve collaboration and alignment with NAEYC’s Professional Standards and Competencies.
“Minimum Compensation Standards” A presentation from Sherry Carlson on the Design Team’s compensation research and recommendations.
Five-Minute Videos
Brief Videos On Core Concepts of The Unifying Framework
VTAEYC publishes short videos to help illustrate core concepts of The Unifying Framework. View our playlist of short videos, which also includes short videos celebrating the early childhood educators leading the effort.
Core Documents
Publications That Inform Our Work
- The Unifying Framework for the Early Childhood Education Profession, Power to the Profession, 2020
- Professional Standards and Competencies for Early Childhood Educators, NAEYC, 2019
- Increasing Qualifications, Centering Equity: Experiences and Advice from Early Childhood Educators of Color, NAEYC, 2019
- Transforming the Workforce For Children Birth Through Age Eight: A Unifying Foundation, Institute of Medicine and National Research Council, 2015
- Code of Ethical Conduct and Statement of Commitment, NAEYC, revised 2005, reaffirmed and updated 2011
- “You can’t have professionals without a profession,” (New America Weekly) and other research, posts, and presentations by Stacie Goffin
- “Early Childhood Education Professional Recognition Act: Summary of ECE Professional Licensure Legislation and Regulations,” Commission on Professional Excellence in Early Childhood Education, 2023
Publications Informed By Our Work
- Vermont Early Care and Education Financing Study: Final Report, RAND Corporation, 2023
- “Implementing an ‘Audacious Vision’: A Collaborative Approach Across Vermont Higher Education Programs”, Young Children, Summer 2023 [written by Kaitlin Northey and Susan Titterton; NAEYC membership required to read]
Looking For Supports?
VTAEYC offers career supports, scholarships, grants, and bonuses and can connect you with additional opportunities.
No- or low-cost credential opportunities, combined with your experience can help you transition to ECE I, II, or III.