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To be an early care and education professional is to be an activist. It is our job and our joy to foster young children’s healthy sense of self and sense of belonging, to teach fairness and empathy. It is also our job to center the voices of Black and Indigenous People of Color whose leadership…
Social Justice Resources for Educators
Early care and education providers seeking to strengthen their social justice practice can start with these resources. NAEYC Advancing Equity Position Statement The Advancing Equity Position Statement describes how early care and education professionals can fulfill their professional obligation to embrace diversity and full inclusion as strengths, uphold fundamental principles of fairness and justice, and…
Now Available: Revised Early Learning Guidelines
The Institute has mailed a copy of the revised New York State Early Learning Guidelines to every licensed center and every early childhood faculty member throughout the state. The revised New York State Early Learning Guidelines is a child development resource for all early childhood educators working with children from birth through age eight. The…
Continuity of Care as a Trauma-Informed Strategy
Over two months into the shut down, we hear from educators in New York City that fewer and fewer young children are showing up for remote learning. That makes sense from a child development perspective. Young children learn in relationships, through interactions with the loving people who care for their individual needs. While video conferencing…
The Child Care is Essential Act
This week, congressional leaders introduced The Child Care is Essential Act. This bill would create a fund to provide much needed relief to the child care sector due to the COVID-19 crisis. With a proposed $50 billion in funding, it would provide grants to child care centers, home based providers, and family child care homes…
Perspectives on Reopening:
An Interview with Cathy Halayko, Co-Director of Bethlehem Preschool, Inc.
As New York State slowly begins to re-open, many early care and education providers are wondering what work will look and feel like when they return to their centers. In the coming weeks, Teaching, Leading and Caring (TLC) will be sharing the perspectives of leaders of programs across the state that have stayed open throughout…
Perspectives on Reopening:
An Interview with Beth Doris, Early Childcare Director of YMCA Capital District, NY
As New York State slowly begins to re-open, many early care and education providers are wondering what work will look and feel like when they return to their centers. In the coming weeks, Teaching, Leading and Caring (TLC) will be sharing the perspectives of leaders of programs across the state that have stayed open throughout…
The Slate School’s Education Idea Lab: A Deep Dive into Learner-Centered Education
In April, the Slate School launched its Education Idea Lab, a virtual event series that features leaders and participants from all sectors of education and innovation. The series is open to the public and is scheduled through May 31, 2020. The Institute’s Executive Director, Sherry Cleary, participated in a panel entitled “A Deep Dive into…
My Bilingual Child
One of the goals of the TLC blog at the Institute is to share a variety of perspectives on teaching, leading, and caring as we all adapt to new and different circumstances. In recognition of the learning that is happening through everyday interactions in loving families, we invited one of our Screening and Assessment Specialists,…
The Institute launched the ECE Employment Network
The Institute’s Early Childhood Career Center has established the ECE Employment Network for employers and professionals at all levels. The goal of the Network is to connect job seekers with available employment in early childhood. Inspired by the early childhood needs created by the COVID-19 Pandemic, the Network will assist New York’s early childhood programs as…
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