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.

GRANTEE SPOTLIGHT

Our IHE Partnership grantee Salish Kootenai College was featured in the Bipartisan Policy Center’s webinar series on American Indian and Alaska Native Early Childhood programming. With grant funding from The Collaborative and the W.K. Kellogg Foundation, Salish Kootenai is strengthening a robust, rigorous, and uniquely integrative Indigenous Early Childhood Teacher Preparation Program. BPC’s latest webinar in the series explored how the Salish Kootenai College Tribal Child Care Center provides quality care while also passing down native culture and continuing traditions. Learn more and access the recording here.