Helping
Early Educators
Thrive
Helping Early Educators Thrive
Inspiring growth, making an impact.
The most impactful investments in early childhood education support and uplift the heart of the field: early educators. Rather than focusing solely on evaluation, professional development investments should both inspire educators with relevant, practical instruction, and provide actionable, job-embedded data. In short, PD should help educators thrive: inspiring growth while also helping them stick around.
Free Webinar:
The Right Way To Invest in Early Childhood Educators
July 30 at 1:00pm ET
What really works in supporting the early childhood workforce? Let’s explore together. We’ll start by learning what inspires educators to improve, and what helps them thrive. Then we’ll explore how targeted, supportive PD that focuses on what matters to educators leads to greater job satisfaction, better retention, and improved outcomes.
We’ll also examine how job-embedded data can make PD more impactful. Through actionable data, transparency, and timely feedback, we get a roadmap for success and a clear return on our investment.
In collaboration with leaders from the Council for Professional Recognition and across the early childhood industry, this conversation is for everyone invested in the future of early childhood education — for program leaders, classroom teachers, and policy or funding decision-makers. Join us as we explore how to inspire educators to do their best work.
Meet Our Panel
Lindsey Santarelli
Katorra Enoch-Longshore
Director of Community Engagement and Impact,
Council for Professional Recognition
Rhodus Riggins, Jr.
Quality Enhancement Coordinator,
University of North Carolina at Greensboro
Ms. Mildred Evans
Family Child Care Provider
Mahdyeh Phillips
Quality Improvement Coach
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Resources to Support ECE Educators
Classroom Ratios + Conversational Turns
Teacher-child ratios — the number of teachers vs. children in a classroom — are a major factor in classroom quality.
How OCCRRA Scaled Their LENA Grow Quality Initiative Statewide in Ohio
In Ohio, LENA Grow fits into a wide-ranging ecosystem of investments that OCCRRA
has made to address early childhood education and out-of-school quality, capacity, and workforce development.
Promoting Healthy Social Behavior, School Readiness, and Teacher Retention
With their LENA Grow program, Porter-Leath has produced clear results, including higher i-Ready® kindergarten readiness scores.