Staff Professional Development Update
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Care profession, Director Candice DealBartell been able to experience first-hand challenges that programs serving young children face. These challenges not only have tremendous impact on programs, but also on children, families, and employees within early education communities. She has made a choice to commit to working on these issues in various ways. One way that she is currently working on these deeply rooted issues is by taking the seat of a learner. Last November, she was accepted to Vanderbilt University's Doctor of Educational Leadership (Ed.D) program. Her objective in completing this program is to continue to help drive system change for the early education field, specifically redefining the model for community based child care programming. We will not give up until we see change for families, child care providers, and communities.
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Infant Program is currently going through a researched based observations that aligns with Pyramid Model, administered by our Early Education Coordinator. Laura has gone through certification to administer this research based tool. It's a two hour observation, half an hour interview, and wrapped up with a meeting to go over results and to set classroom goal. By the end of our Professional Development Day on March 25th all teachers and assistants have to complete 20 hours of professional development curriculum. The 20 hours of training is through Teaching Strategies, this will cover the Creative Curriculum and GOLD assessment.
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