Using the five policy areas from the Center for the Study of Child Care Employment’s (CSCCE) Early Childhood Workforce Index as a framework, this series activates early childhood leaders to strengthen the early care and education (ECE) workforce through innovations in policies, programs, working conditions, compensation, and professional development.
Informational Webinar
Learn more about the Foundational Technical Assistance Webinar Series.
Part 1: History of the Early Care and Education Workforce
In this first webinar in the series, participants:
- Heard about the origins of the ECE workforce, disparities, and current context
- Learned about why leaders matter in transforming the ECE workforce
- Listened to a collaborative partner and state examples from the field
Part 2: Data Matters
In the second webinar of the series, participants learned about the five essential policy areas that support the ECE workforce, different types of data on the ECE workforce, and what you can do with the data on ECE workforce.
Part 3: Building Effective Cross-Systems Change for Workforce Begins with Listening
This third webinar in the series aimed to:
- Support leaders in intentionally using the collective wisdom, agency, and priorities of the ECE workforce in effectively reshaping and rebuilding responsive and equitable ECE systems
- Support leaders in using strategies (e.g., networks, listening sessions) to develop ways to learn from the ECE workforce and to partner with the workforce and others to bring about needed changes
- Learn from program partners how actions and initiatives that are developed by and with the workforce and cross-sector partners (such as apprenticeship programs) can strengthen outcomes for the workforce
Part 4: Networks to Advance Work Environments and Qualifications & Educational Support
In the fourth webinar of this series, participants thought about application and action in two policy areas—Work Environments and Qualifications & Educational Supports. The webinar discusses how to support ECE leaders to use their roles, responsibilities, and authority to develop policies, practices, and programs to increase opportunity and remove barriers in the two policy areas.
Participants applied processes, strategies, and tools to Work Environments and Qualifications & Educational Supports and considered multiple levels of change and how to build effective networks, use data, listen to the workforce, and strengthen cross-systems work in these two policy areas.
Part 5: Networks to Advance Compensation and Financial Relief
In the fifth webinar of this series, participants discussed:
- What needs to be considered to influence compensation and financial relief policies that intentionally and effectively remove inequities related to race, ethnicity, and other factors associated with discrimination
- Sustainability of the policy, practice, and system changes leaders make to advance workforce compensation parity and financial relief benefits across all ECE sectors
- The work of our program partner, the National Association for Family Child Care (NAFCC), that supports family child care educators and addresses key policy areas, including compensation.
Part 6: Financial Infrastructure
In the sixth and final webinar in this series, participants learned about:
- Financial resources policies that intentionally and effectively remove inequities related to race, ethnicity, and other factors associated with discrimination
- Sustainability of the policy, practice, and system changes leaders make to advance financial resources policies intended to benefit the ECE workforce across all sectors
- The work of our program partner, Start Early, that supports the early childhood workforce and addresses key policy areas, including financial resources
