Research has found that the credit-based education of child care providers is an important factor linked with high-quality early education programs. Unfortunately, with high turnover, low compensation, and increasing higher education costs, it is difficult for the early education workforce to gain these credits. In a recent paper by Wisconsin Early Childhood Association and Wisconsin [...]
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Higher Education Entry through Credit for Prior Learning
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged child care, child care and degree obtainment, credit for prior learning, Early Childhood Education, ECE Professionals, Wisconsin Council on Children and Families, Wisconsin Early Childhood Association, Wisconsin Technical Colleges on June 30, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Child Care Wellness Grant Opportunity- Group Child Care Programs
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged CACFP, child care, Child care grant opportunity, DPI, Early Childhood Education, ECE Professionals, wellness grant on June 21, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Wisconsin Child and Adult Care Food Program (CACFP) Child Care Wellness Sub-grants are now available and will be awarded to CACFP child care institutions (child care group centers, emergency shelters, at-risk sites, outside of school hours sites) through a competitive application process. Grant applications will be accepted until July 21, 2011 at 4:00 p.m. This grant [...]
Let’s Move! Child Care has Launched
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged child care, early childhood anti-obesity effort, Early Childhood Education, ECE Professionals, First Lady Michelle Obama, let's move, let's move! child care, physical activity in child care on June 15, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Last week came the announcement of the “Let’s Move! Child Care” initiative, launched by First Lady Michelle Obama. Click here for more information about the initiative, ideas and resources for early educators, healthy eating tips, and physical activities for infants and toddlers! The initiative has set the following five goals for all caregivers (parents, guardians, [...]
Internet Access Grant Opportunity- City of Milwaukee Child Care Programs!
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Celebrate Children Foundation, child care, Child care grant opportunity, Early Childhood Education, ECE Professionals, internet access grant on June 10, 2011 | 2 Comments »
The Public Service Commission (Commission) of Wisconsin has awarded a grant to the Celebrate Children Foundation (CCF) to help fund internet connectivity to child care centers in the city of Milwaukee. CCF will reimburse programs for internet expenses so that programs have more money to purchase things like curriculum materials, teacher training, and healthy food for [...]
YoungStar Training is Here!
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged child care, Department of Children and Families, Early Childhood Education, ECE Professionals, YoungStar, YoungStar Consortium, YoungStar training on June 8, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Training designed to help you prepare to be rated for YoungStar, or for anyone wishing to learn ways to improve the quality of your child care program. WECA MIlwaukee is sponsoring trainings on… • YoungStar Overviews to get you started • Wisconsin Model Early Learning (WMELS) • SEFEL Pyramid Model for Developmental Social Emotional Competence [...]
New Video from the First Five Years Fund
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged child care, Early Childhood Education, ECE Professionals, first five years fund, investment in early education, James Heckman, ROI for early education on May 24, 2011 | 1 Comment »
Celebrate AmeriCorps Members this Week
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged AmeriCorps, AmeriCorps week, child care, Early Childhood Education, WECA AmeriCorps, Wisconsin Early Childhood Association on May 13, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Beginning in October 2010, Wisconsin Early Childhood Association began the WECA AmeriCorps program in Milwaukee. This program seeks to improve the education of child care providers, offer skill development opportunities to Corps members, and boost the quality of Milwaukee area child care centers. Our current WECA AmeriCorps members provide consistent, affordable coverage for child care [...]
Happy Provider Appreciation Day!
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged child care, Early Childhood Education, ECE Professionals, provider appreciation day on May 6, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
In honor of provider appreciation day today, May 6th, the Governor has signed a proclamation acknowledging all the hard work early childhood professionals do every day in Wisconsin. There will also be a public service announcement running on radio stations across the state with the following message: Child. Care. Two words that, because of you, [...]
Celebrate Worthy Wage Day 2011
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged child care, Early Childhood Education, early education, Wisconsin Early Childhood Association, worthy wage day on May 2, 2011 | 1 Comment »
May 1st is recognized each year as National Early Educator Worthy Wage Day. On this day, early childhood professionals- and the organizations that support them- work together to inform the public about the importance of high quality early education. Despite the critical role they play in children’s lives, the early childhood workforce continues to be [...]
Early Education Fares Well in the 2011 Federal Budget
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Budget, CCDBG, child care, Early Childhood Education, ECE Legislation, Head Start, President Obama on April 28, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
The original House version of the Federal 2011 budget would have cut $1 billion, or 15%, of the national Head Start budget, and would have cut the child care budget by $39 million. Fortunately, early care and education got a significant victory in the final compromise package worked out by the House, Senate and President [...]
