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Investing ARP and PDG Funds to address Early Childhood Workforce Shortage
Relationships with the important people in a baby's life build the architecture of the infant's brain. Responsive teachers help to create and strengthen the brains of babies and toddlers. If you're all about high quality infant-toddler early learning, here's how Early Educator Central can help.
Inspire infant-toddler educators to gain degrees and credentials.Career Pathways
No matter what your infant-toddler career pathway is, you’ll find resources organized by your role to build competency and your impact. On track for a Child Development Associate (CDA™) for yourself? Go to Teachers. Looking to strengthen your skills as an administrator, coach, trainer or consultant? Go to Administrators or Trainer/Coaches. Designing curriculum? Go to Professional Development (PD) System Leaders.
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Teachers
All Teachers - Child Care, Early Head Start, EHS-CC Partners, center or home-based -
Administrators
Directors, Education Coordinators, Instructional Leaders -
Trainers/Coaches
Trainers, Coaches, Consultants, Specialists, Technical Assistants who support teachers and programs to deliver quality infant-toddler services -
PD System Leaders
Higher Education, Curriculum Designers, Policymakers
Teaching Supports
Know! See ! Do! Improve! That’s our critical framework for those who are working to improve the competencies of infant-toddler teachers.
- Check out the coursework for the infant-toddler career pathway Browse Coursework
- If you’re developing courses to support infant-toddler teachers and others, use the course framework as a helpful guide Course Framework
- Find an open-source, digital teacher observation tool Online Digital Observation Tool
- Want access to video clips of infants, toddlers and their educators for use in training and coursework? Infant-Toddler Video Clips
If you would like to see more, take a look at all of our Teaching Supports
System Supports
Essential tools for leaders building all aspects of the infant-toddler career pathway including a Professional Development (PD) System Cost Analysis Brief and model articulation agreements for use in higher education.
PD System Cost Analysis BriefArticulation Agreements
For additional tools, view all of our System Supports.