breaking my twitter silence to draw your attention to this potentially VERY exciting news re: access to health insurance vis-a-vis the family glitch.
particularly relevant to early educators!
https://t.co/x0ZEUG5kTu (h/t @ewburak)
Want to find examples of states and districts investing their federal relief $ in smart ways to get students back on track?
This is a good site to explore and bookmark: https://t.co/RMYIoKVSCT
At #WLI22 covering the topic that is on everyone's mind: workforce compensation.
Speaker @aklibetti authored the below research that covers what early ed compensation currently looks like in the US.
this is good news. stipends and bonuses are one of the most common state strategies to increase compensation, even more so with ARPA Stabilization dollars. now imagine what we could do with real, systematic wage increases!
(more state approaches to comp: https://t.co/6VM7eOPsen)
Virginia's Teacher Recognition Program provides $ to support early educators & reduce turnover. We did an RCT and found that $1500 cut turnover among child care teachers in half from 30% to 15% (!!). New w/ @JustinBDoromal@molly_michie @viviancwong1 https://t.co/Sn3dWu8DQf
align preschool and K! align preschool and K!
a crucial takeaway here is that *combined* prek+k early math interventions had longer-term effects on kids.
so pls consider this a formal request to approach prek+k alignment as a must-have and not a nice-to-have.
@MDRC_News
what we're seeing at the national level, concretized in the context of Hyde Park.
"I have families paying $250 a week for me to watch their child. To them, that's a lot of money, but to me, working 12 hours a day, that's nothing."
if you're not paying attention to ECE workforce compensation, you're doing it wrong. come learn concrete details and decisions about strategies currently underway.
paper here:
https://t.co/lJagkGwrIw
"We canโt waste this once-in-a-generation chance on simply trying to scale preschool. We must be clear that what we need to focus on is scaling equity."
https://t.co/lCyr3KK49x via @YasminaNHSA@TheHillOpinion
@Dyrnwyn @PCunningham57 @MQ_McShane@EducationNext if only it didn't require a lawsuit to get to that point. (annnd also abbott is complicated re: actual diverse delivery.) (that's early childhood speak for "choice".)