By Nicole Walker, Task Force I’m the Director of Apple Tree Learning Centers, and I joined the Task Force for the Advancing Early Childhood Education as a Profession initiative last year. I attended our latest professional development, Who We Are …
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by Susan Titterton The initiative Advancing Early Childhood Education as a Profession had a busy summer creating a work plan for 2023-24. We’re now headed for an active year of outreach and planning toward implementation. This work is so …
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In 2020, Vermont early childhood educators reached consensus on a professional identity aligned with the Unifying Framework for the Early Childhood Education Profession: the name of the profession is early childhood education, and the name of the professional is …
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by Susan Titterton As we turn the calendar to 2023, it’s time to consider the progress we’ve made toward early childhood education becoming a recognized profession and the next steps we are engaged in. Three years ago at this …
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by Rachel Hunter For three years now, I\’ve led dozens of professional development sessions sharing the progress of our work to advance early childhood education as a recognized profession in Vermont. When early childhood educators learn about the project …
by Jenny Stearns Exciting progress with the Vermont Establishing Equivalence Pilot Study! I am coordinating the Vermont pilot study on Establishing Equivalence. Our study explores how we can support the transition of experienced early childhood educators into the well-prepared, …
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by Rachel Hunter I\’m the outreach coordinator for the Advancing Early Childhood Education as a Profession project. As I talk with early childhood educators throughout the state, sometimes I hear questions like: \”What does workforce-led mean?\” \”Who else are …
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