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We are excited to announce our new grantee partnerships!
The Collaborative awarded $9M in grants to Colorado Department of Early Childhood, the District of Columbia Office of the State Superintendent of Education, and Louisiana Policy Institute for Children to support systems innovations increasing compensation for the early childhood education workforce.
Professional educators.
Professional compensation.
Prepared children.
About Us
The Early Educator Investment Collaborative’s goal is to accelerate progress in the early childhood education profession and ensure early educators have the supports they need to be well-prepared and appropriately compensated. Learn more.
What’s New
Check out our latest grantee updates, webinars, and news below.
NEWSLETTER
Our December newsletter shares updates, reflections, and photos from our IHE Partnership grantee sessions at the BUILD Initiative’s 2023 Annual Conference. The latest newsletter also highlights two new articles, one from The Hechinger Report and another from Inside Philanthropy, featuring our new Innovation in Early Childhood Education Compensation Grantees. Access both articles here.
NEW GRANTEES
Our November newsletter announced our new grantee partnerships! The Collaborative awarded $9M in grants to Colorado Department of Early Childhood, the DC Office of the State Superintendent of Education, and The Louisiana Policy Institute for Children to support systems innovations increasing compensation for the early childhood education workforce. The new lead grantees will work with their partnership teams to explore unique approaches to boost early educator wages and benefits. Learn more about the grantee teams and their work here.
NEW RESOURCE
Our October newsletter shares a new brief, Advancing ECE Workforce Compensation and Equity: Key Conditions for a National Lead Teacher Certification. The brief summarizes the results of a feasibility study we commissioned to assess the viability of a national lead teacher certification for the ECE workforce. We are excited to share learnings from this study to support investments in workforce compensation and advancing equity for early childhood educators. Learn more about the study results, implications, and recommendations here.
NEW RESOURCE
Our September newsletter shares a new report from School Readiness Consulting featuring the work of our IHE Partnership Grantees: Strategies for Systems Change: Lessons Learned from the Transforming Early Educator Lead Teacher Preparation Programs Through Multi-Partner Innovation Grant Program. The report explores the work of our grantees throughout the first two years of the grant program, paying particular attention to how the IHEs and their partners have made meaningful, systemic changes to address barriers on their campuses, in their communities, and in the field at large. Learn more about our grantees here, and access resources like newsletters and lecture recordings from the grantee Learning Community here.
NEWSLETTER
Our June newsletter shares new resources from Year 2 of the Transforming Early Educator Lead Teacher Preparation Programs Through Multi-Partner Innovation grantee Learning Community. The latest newsletter also highlights two upcoming IHE Partnership grantee presentations at the BUILD 2023 Conference. The first grantee session will focus on recruitment and retention strategies for the ECE workforce, and the second grantee session will explore culturally responsive teacher preparation supports. Learn more about each session here and stay tuned for future newsletters featuring updates and photos from the conference.
WEBINAR
Our April 4, 2023, webinar featured the work of three of The Collaborative’s Transforming Early Educator Lead Teacher Preparation Programs Through Multi-Partner Innovation grantees: North Seattle College, Salish Kootenai College, and the University of Colorado, Denver. The session explored the role of higher education in leveraging philanthropic dollars to build capacity in public ECE workforce systems. VIEW RECORDING.
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