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The High Quality Early Learning Project created a new video set –Going to School During the COVID-19 Pandemic to honor all of the educators who have persevered in serving children and families during the COVID-19 pandemic. It features the educators and children of the Child Care Center at Lehman College at The City University of New York,…
Special Needs Consultations for Home-Based Child Care Providers
The Institute’s Special Needs Unit of the Informal Family Child Care Project has been supporting home-based family child care providers caring for children with special needs since 2011, providing technical assistance to the City and caregivers. The Unit also designs and facilitates professional development to help providers meet the needs of the children they serve,…
Learning about Gender and Sexuality
I have been working at the NY Early Childhood Professional Development Institute at CUNY for over a year and a half. Here, I have had the opportunity to work with teachers, providers, and directors by offering different types of training to support their work with young children and families. Almost two months ago, I was…
Lessons in Leadership Spotlight: Kim Stewart
The Leadership Initiative invited its members to reflect on different aspects of leadership, bringing to light unique pathways, approaches, challenges and lessons learned. TLC hopes that through this series you get to know these diverse individuals and take away an appreciation for their journeys and leadership skills and its impact on the lives of children,…
What are the Benefits of Long Term Coaching Relationships?
The arc of a coaching conversation, which is the basic structure for our work, takes time for both the coach and the coachee to learn and use to maximum effect. The following steps comprise the arc of a coaching conversation (Aguilar 2013): check in and chat; create a plan for the conversation; check in on prior…
#KidsAreEssential
The Institute is proud to share a new movement, #KidsAreEssential, a group of organizations committed to the success of children that calls on our leaders to invest in children and their families as early as possible, and address the economic, racial, and health disparities that were made worse by the pandemic. As the nation attempts…
A Reflection on the Value of Long-Term Coaching Relationships
For three years, it has been my great pleasure to work in the Early Childhood Education field as a Leadership Coach. At the NY Early Childhood Professional Development Institute, I serve as a coach with the Leadership Initiative and am able to support leaders across New York City. Specifically, what makes this work even more…
NYS Early Childhood Advisory Council Spotlights
The Institute is pleased to share a resource from our partners at the NYS Early Childhood Advisory Council (ECAC). The ECAC released a new set of Local, State and National Spotlight Interviews that highlight innovative early childhood initiatives. The Institute’s Diana Diaz, Director of the Aspire Registry, is featured in her role as President of…
The Moms. We are Slowly Breaking.
Early childhood educators are mostly women and many of us are mothers or caregivers for elderly relatives, or both. After a December jobs report in which all of the jobs lost were women’s jobs, with women losing 156,000 jobs and men gaining 16,000, there has been more discussion of the experience of working mothers during…
Your Weekend Watchlist from Our Gender, Sexuality and the Family Team
If your pandemic winter is dragging on, and there’s nothing new on Netflix, consider using some viewing time to learn about the experiences and perspectives of LQBTQIA+ children and teens. Catalina Schliebener, an artist and trainer on the Institute’s Gender, Sexuality and the Family in Early Childhood team, put together this watchlist for you. Note…
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