Debbie Mays

Just a preschool teacher passionate about making a difference

[Debbie Mays @debmays1966]

@nafcc Great team!!

[Debbie Mays @debmays1966]

@KATVNews @SarahHuckabee Good morning! Education is important! In the early years we focus on social and emotional growth and I hope this is honored with our new administration. Let’s celebrate childhood and save the academic push for when it’s developmentally appropriate. #letthembelittle

[Debbie Mays @debmays1966]

@CrumblCookies :/ husband tested positive for covid. Quarantining

[Debbie Mays @debmays1966]

@nafcc Exciting start to NAFCC

[Debbie Mays @debmays1966]

Yes ! Quality care is education. Education is quality care. One should not exist without the other.

[Albert Wat @albert_wat]

Do you think #ChildCare is also education? I have some thoughts about that - and how developing different #PreK policies can help (and not hurt) that goal.

[Conscious Discipline @ConsciousD]

"It's perfectly sensible to worry about academic setbacks during the pandemic. But our obsessive need to measure academic progress and loss to the decimal point is also woefully out of tune with the moment." Read more from Edutopia here: https://t.co/NKF5dE0Xyd #iHeartCD

[Debbie Mays @debmays1966]

Essential workers cannot be at work without child care.

[First Five Years Fund @firstfiveyears]

It’s been months since Congress passed new COVID-19 relief legislation, and major industries are in crisis as a result. Here's why it would be a mistake for lawmakers to provide any relief this year that leaves out the #childcare industry. #SaveChildCare https://t.co/DSoV0jU0WK

[Debbie Mays @debmays1966]

No one else will elevate family childcare. ❤️

[NAFCC @nafcc]

"It’s our responsibility to wave our flag and be recognized for ALL the things going right, and because of what’s going right…we get noticed! We have to celebrate ourselves, elevate ourselves… nobody is going to shout about the good things you do like you!" @debmays1966

[Debbie Mays @debmays1966]

Voters Want to See Congress Act A majority of voters want to see Congress include funding for child care in the next coronavirus relief package, according to an @amprog survey. [@MEMBEROFCONGRESS] must act now to support working families and #SaveChildCare.

[Debbie Mays @debmays1966]

@AsaHutchinson @ArkActAssn Yes you did. I suggest getting some people together that know about child development and make sure that our public pre-k’s are doing the right thing too. High school students can have contact sports but 4-5 year-olds have to social distance and cannot share markers? 😡

[Debbie Mays @debmays1966]

@KATVChrisMay @ArkEducation Hey Chris could you get some clarification on why funded preschool classrooms are being asked to have individual boxes for children with toys in them so there are no shared materials - yet we can have contact sports?

[Debbie Mays @debmays1966]

I have been a fan of @AsaHutchinson until today. As an ABC preschool teacher I am appalled that I have to strip my classroom of many things that children enjoy and need for proper development yet football can proceed. 😡😡😡

[Debbie Mays @debmays1966]

@JimHendren1 Communities will value childcare more realizing without support for childcare people cannot return to work.

[Debbie Mays @debmays1966]

@4029news ask the governor how businesses can return without attention to the childcare industry. We keep Arkansas working !

[Debbie Mays @debmays1966]

@AsaHutchinson Economic recovery can’t happen without addressing childcare. Where is our representation?

[Jamie Morrison Ward @jamietmw]

@AsaHutchinson Will the child care industry be represented on this new economic task force? About 1/2 are closed based on recs to close schools as well as parents and providers who were concerned about health risk. All industries rely on quality child care.

[Debbie Mays @debmays1966]

@PriscillaShirer #lessonsfromGideon #ifnotyouthenwho

[Debbie Mays @debmays1966]

@PriscillaShirer #lessonsfromGideon God handpicked imperfect Judges . I wish we had modern day judges to bring unity.

[Debbie Mays @debmays1966]

@PriscillaShirer #lessonsfromgideon #notjustamom #notjustateacher #myassignmentmatters

[Debbie Mays @debmays1966]

#Lessonslearnedfromgideon @PriscillaShirer -week 1. Day 2. 1. Selective disobedience is still obedience 2. Do I have to forget and forgive ? 😝 3. Always trust the plan completely 4. I’m never wiser than God 5. Even little things you think don’t matter can spur distraction.