We invite you to join hundreds of early childhood professionals from across North Carolina at the 51st Annual Advancing Skills and Knowledge (A.S.K.) Conference. We have designated all workshops as one of the nine subject areas required by NC licensing standards. All workshops impacting teacher classroom practice are aligned with the
We invite you to join hundreds of early childhood professionals from across North Carolina at the 50th Annual Advancing Skills and Knowledge (A.S.K.) Conference. We have designated all workshops as one of the nine subject areas required by NC licensing standards. All workshops impacting teacher classroom practice are aligned with the North Carolina Foundations for Early Learning Development Standards (NC FELD).
We invite you to join hundreds of early childhood professionals from across North Carolina at the 50th Annual Advancing Skills and Knowledge (A.S.K.) Conference. We have designated all workshops as one of the nine subject areas required by NC licensing standards. All workshops impacting teacher classroom practice are aligned with the
Child Care Services Association (CCSA) is proud to offer two education-based salary supplement programs in North Carolina. The Child Care WAGE$® Program issued its first checks in 1994 in one county and as of 2023, is available in 63 counties across the state with funding from local Smart Start partnerships that choose to participate and the Division of Child Development and Early Education. Funding partnerships determine compensation amounts and some of the program’s eligibility requirements, and supplements are issued to qualifying educators working with children birth to 5. Infant-Toddler Educator AWARD$® started in 2018 and expanded eligibility in July 2023, rebranding as Infant-Toddler Educator AWARD$® Plus. Funded solely by the Division of Child Development and Early Education, the supplements are available in all 100 counties to qualifying educators working with children birth through age 2 at least 30 hours per week.
Additional federal funds have arrived. Guidance documents are now available. It’s time to expand the partnerships necessary to ensure young children in families experiencing homelessness have access to high-quality child care and housing. It’s doable. It’s time to prioritize it.
It’s no surprise that LaTida Adams has been the director of A Brilliant Beginning Daycare in Durham, N.C., for 22 years. Her journey in the early child care field started when she was in the sixth grade and wrote in her journal, “I’m going to own my own daycare.” What she might not have anticipated was the path she would take to get there.
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