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The Infant/Toddler & School-Age Child Care Institute
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System-Level Strategies To Strengthen the Workforce
Baltimore, MDMay 23, 2018
Presenters
Ellen GannettNational Center on Afterschool and Summer Enrichment (NCASE)
Holly WilcherChild Care State Capacity Building Center (SCBC)
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Session Goal
Participants will share frameworks and explore approaches for creating to a continuum-based approach to professional development systems from birth through age 12.
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Agenda Space for sharing &
learning State PD Plans and
Systems Your own action
planning
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Action Plan
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System Level Components
Supporting staff and leadership capacity Focusing on workforce conditions Compensation Recruitment and Retention
Building career pathways Credentials Role of higher education
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Instructions
GOAL: To get people to talk about issues which are important to them
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Process: Four Principles
Whoever comes are the right people Whatever happens is the only thing that could
have Whenever it starts is the right time When it is over, it is over
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Source: Harrison Owen (1997). Open Space Technology: A User’s Guide
Process: One Law
The law of 2 feet (you are responsible for your own learning) You might be a butterfly: hover at particular
flowers You might be a bee: come and go or pollinate
the conversation
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Source: Harrison Owen (1997). Open Space Technology: A User’s Guide
Process: Guiding Questions
Is your state supporting staff and leadership capacity?
Does your system focus on workforce conditions? Compensation Recruitment and Retention
Are there career pathways across the age continuum? Credentials Role of higher education
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Wrap Up
What was your “big AHA!”
Time for your own Action Planning
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Action Plan
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Resources Early Childhood Career Pathways Policy Statement
http://www.acf.hhs.gov/ecd/early-childhood-career-pathways Transforming the Workforce Birth through Age 8: A Unifying Foundation.
https://childcareta.acf.hhs.gov/ncase-resource-library/transforming-workforce-children-birth-through-age-8-unifying-foundation
State of Afterschool: Promoting Professionalism. https://childcareta.acf.hhs.gov/ncase-resource-library/state-afterschool-quality-promoting-professionalism
NAA Core Knowledge and Competencies for Afterschool and Youth Development Professionals. https://childcareta.acf.hhs.gov/ncase-resource-library/national-afterschool-association-naa-core-knowledge-and-competencies
Strengthening the Early Childhood and School-Age Workforce https://childcareta.acf.hhs.gov/resource/strengthening-early-childhood-and-school-age-workforce
Worthy Work, STILL Unlivable Wages: The Early Childhood Workforce 25 Years After the National Childcare Staffing Study, Executive Summary https://childcareta.acf.hhs.gov/ncase-resource-library/worthy-work-still-unlivable-wages-early-childhood-workforce-25-years-after
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Additional Resources Build it better: Indicators of progress to support integrated early childhood
professional development systems. http://www.naeyc.org/files/naeyc/Build%20It%20Better_For%20Web.pdf.
Early Childhood Career Pathways: Research-to-Policy Resources https://www.researchconnections.org/childcare/resources/33005/pdf
Early Childhood Professional Development Systems Toolkit, With a Focus on School-Age Professional Development. https://childcareta.acf.hhs.gov/resource/early-childhood-professional-development-systems-toolkit-focus-school-age-professional
Workforce designs: A policy blueprint for state professional development systems www.naeyc.org/policy/ecwsi#blueprint
Professional Development Overview: Support for Practitioners https://childcareta.acf.hhs.gov/sites/default/files/public/20130815_pdwcenter_pdoverviewsupportforpractitioners.pdf
The big picture: A planning guide for cross-sector early childhood professional development systems. http://npdci.fpg.unc.edu/resources/planning-and-facilitation-tools/NPDCI_Big-Picture-Planning-Guide_2008.pdf
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THANK YOU!
Visit the NCASE website at:https://childcareta.acf.hhs.gov/national-center-afterschool-
summer-enrichmentTo contact NCASE, please email us at:
[email protected] contact SCBC, please email us at:
