@ehaspel Perhaps this means that a more inclusive and effective child care system includes clear and funded options for families - BOTH early childhood education programs AND “trusted caregivers”.
wevisionearlyed.org/news/clear-and…
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Marica Cox Mitchell
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Marica Cox Mitchell
@mcoxmitchell
Passionate about early ed, educator voice and leadership, panAfrican cultures, eBay bidding and thrift stores. All opinions are my own.
Sumali Mart 2020
162 Sinusundan504 Mga Tagasunod
Compensation is tied to quality. We know that the well-being and expertise of early childhood educators who care for young children have an impact on the quality of services children receive. This has been reemphasized through the data from the @wevisionearlyed
initiative.
Bainum Family Fdn@BainumFdn
Early childhood educators — we hear you and we stand with you. As a funder focused on creating a society where all children thrive, equitable compensation for early childhood educators has and will continue to be a priority for us. Read our full statement here: bainumfdn.org/bainum-family-…
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QRIS & state systems won’t fund educator compensation or professional org accreditation, but fund raters & coaches from private companies. Who’s profiting off state systems? What is their proximity to young children and the profession? Proximity comes with a pay & power penalty.
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Lack of accessible child care costs the nation $120 billion and Virginia $3.1 billion annually in foregone wages, lost productivity, and unrealized tax revenue.
The Hunt Institute@Hunt_Institute
It’s time to talk #EarlyEd! After @DavidBulova’s opening remarks, @mcoxmitchell sits down with @CindyCisneros8, @AmySDoran, and Jason El Koubi to unpack the business case for early childhood investment. #VES23 @BainumFdn
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TOMORROW at 12:30pm! We’ll be joining the Campaign for Grade-level Reading in a #F2F webinar conversation engaging in dialogue around the role philanthropy can play in supporting early childhood educators. Join us! Register ➡️ow.ly/oIcO50PMf8y
Bainum Family Fdn@BainumFdn
Join us alongside @readingby3rd, @trustfrlearning, @fcdusorg + Heising-Simons Foundation for a #F2F webinar 11/21 at 12:30pm for a conversation about strategies for bolstering the vital Early Learning Workforce. Register ➡️ ow.ly/oIcO50PMf8y
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Excited to be the keynote speaker for Boston University's Institute for Early Childhood Well-Being 2023 Keynote Lecture!
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If we are really rethinking QRIS, perhaps we should also be open to questioning its existence. Other industries/professions don’t have QRIS because they are expected and funded to meet their industry-led/profession-defined standards. These standards are the baseline for all.
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@JulieKashen @llhogan7 @NAEYC @nafcc @Egroginsky That fuzzy feeling you get when you see some of your favorite ECE colleagues pushing to make the ideal child care real.
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@ehaspel @KatieAlbitz @EarlyLearnNatn Indeed! We have to decouple labor participation and child care; and it’s more like forced labor participation for families using child care subsidies. Certainly child care (like 3rd grade) supports labor participation, but this is not the primary purpose of child care.
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NEW: My latest @EarlyLearnNatn column shows why employer-sponsored child care benefits may feel like a tempting road to go down, but it is folly that will only make creating a rights-based universal system much much harder.
earlylearningnation.com/2022/11/elliot…
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ECE advocates - Nearly every profession has industry standards. It’s hard to co-create & unite under them, but it’s impossible to deliver consistent quality & demand respect w/out them. Without industry standards, professions (& those they serve) are play-dough for the powerful.
GIF
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There’s a shortage of truck drivers with CDLs. Let’s hire cyclists since they know how wheels & brakes work. Insane idea, isn’t it?🤯 Just as insane as hiring non-teachers to fill teacher vacancies instead of using policies & public funding to fix the teacher pipeline issues.🙄
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@LBornfreund Precisely…or influence family choice for that matter.
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@mcoxmitchell And these systems do not help to improve quality.
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QRIS can destabilize the early ed sector it’s funded to support by 1) supplanting early ed standards & codes, 2) paying the rating industry well & educators poorly, 3) giving a few govt staff the most power to define & assess quality, 4) constantly shifting for new trends.
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@Volcoucou @lynette_fraga @lisagklein Great panel indeed👏🏽. The conversation today shows that there’s lots to learn from VT. That closest to the pain & power quote is my favorite from Ayanna Pressley.
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@lynette_fraga "A win for VT is a win for the nation"
@mcoxmitchell "The people closest to the pain should be the closest to the power"
@lisagklein "(c)3 advocacy gets in the red zone & (c)4 the touchdown"
Chris Nelson "It is not about outcomes, but abt changing children lives"
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Honored to join today a panel w/@LetsGrowKids, the fabulous advocacy org in Vermont, for a discussion on addressing the *solvable* child care crisis w/ quality solutions for all families.
Vermont is leading the nation on universal child care, w/ a focus on quality & workforce.
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Thank you! “Child care”, “daycare”, and “providers” oversimplify the intellectually, physically, and emotionally complex work that early childhood educators do. These labels also oversimplify child development. Reimagining or fixing “child care” means reframing the language.
Dan Wuori@DanWuori
Read an unfortunately framed news story this morning about inflation’s effect on #childcare costs. Like many recent stories, the piece makes extensive use of the term “daycare” and includes a prominent reference to the rising price of “watching your child.” 🧵
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@SaraLang This is why using workforce productivity as the *sole* rationale for supporting early ed makes me cringe.
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I went down a TikTok rabbit hole of the ethics of sending your child to daycare while you aren't explicitly working (i.e. you have the day off from work so choose to go to the gym and deep clean the house, or you wrap up work an hour early and use the time to cook dinner)
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Telling early childhood educators to practice “self-care” w/out giving them what they’ve asked for (like planning time, wellness & PD days, compensation & benefits, autonomy & respect) is gaslighting. Ain’t no amount of candles & tea will do what policies & public $ ought to do.
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@idaroseflorez You’re reminding me about what I miss most about ECE conferences. The opportunity to unravel these complexities and the mental models that reinforce inequities….over carbs and a drink, or two.😉
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@mcoxmitchell 🤔 That’s a fascinating answer. So government “overreach” sets conditions for distrust? Or is distrust a condition that provokes government overreach? Who distrusts whom? How do we help people in #ECE policy (primarily liberals) rely less on government?
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On one hand “child care systems” have limited $$ & can’t pay educators. On the other hand, they duplicate national profession-driven systems, accreditation, certifications & standards…then fund “crosswalks” to show the duplication and fund research that reveal the same gaps.😵💫
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@idaroseflorez It’s complex. Distrust, overreach and disrespect lead to government policies displacing profession-driven systems. This is not the case in other professions where gov’t policies defer to profession-driven systems & standards on matters related to professional practice.
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@mcoxmitchell Yes. 😵💫 Let’s start asking: what existing conditions allow this 😵💫 situation to emerge/continue? What conditions would lead instead to wellness & thriving for young children & their families? What needs to happen to set those new conditions?
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