Early Educators Fellowship Initiative
IMPORTANT INFORMATION FOR 2012 FELLOWS
We ask that you complete the following no later than February 28th. Your timely and complete responses will help us to better prepare for your exceptional learning experience.
-Completion of the pre-survey (all team members must complete the survey) click here
Click here to view survey as PDF
-Completion of QRIS registration- click here to register (having trouble? click here)
-Register to receive College Credit- click here
-A short biography for your team (1 per team please)
-A list of media outlets in your team's community
Please send information to:
earlyeducatorfellowship@cayl.org
fax (617) 354-3823
or
60 Gore Street Suite 201
Cambridge, MA 02141
MEETING INFORMATION
March 10, 2012
10am-3pm
Four Points by Sheraton Leominster
99 Erdman Way
Leominster, Massachusetts 01453
Barbra T. Bowman, Keynote Speaker
We are all early educators from birth to third grade
Barbara Bowman is the Irving B. Harris Professor of Child Development at Erikson Institute and Chief Officer of Early Childhood Education for the Chicago Public Schools.
Barbra Bowman is one of three faculty members who founded Erikson Institute in 1966 and is past president of the Institute She has taught at preschool and primary levels as well as in colleges and universities. She now teaches courses in early childhood education at Erikson Institute and administers preschool programs in the Chicago Public Schools. She has over 50 publications, including articles, book chapters, and edited volumes and over 1000 keynote addresses. Her specialty areas are early education, cultural diversity, and education of at-risk children.
Barbra Bowman has been on a number of professional boards, including the Family Resource Coalition and the National Association for the Education of Young Children, of which she was President (1980-82). At present she is on the boards of the Great Books Foundation, Business People in the Public Interest, and Erikson Institute. She has served on a variety of professional committees for the National Research Council, including the Committee on Early Childhood Pedagogy, which she chaired, on five editorial boards, including Young Children, and on a number of advisory committees. Currently she is on the Illinois Early Learning Council. She holds honorary degrees from Bank Street College, Roosevelt University, Dominican University, Governors State University, and Wheelock College and numerous awards, including the Harold W. McGraw Jr. Prize in Education (2005), the Sargent Shriver Award for Equal Justice (2009), and the Jane Addams Award from the Chicago Historical Society (2011).
April 28, 2012
10am-3pm
Four Points by Sheraton Leominster
99 Erdman Way
Leominster, Massachusetts 01453
Ed Tronick, Keynote Speaker
Early educators supporting the social emotional development of young children
June 2, 2012
10am-3pm
Four Points by Sheraton Leominster 99 Erdman Way
Leominster, Massachusetts 01453
Rebecca Soden, Keynote Speaker
Early educators effectively promoting STEM activities with young children
Rebecca Soden has over fifteen years of experience implementing programs for children birth to five, including Early Head Start, Head Start and Early Reading First. She is responsible for the creation and implementation of a continuous improvement model for using data to effectively plan and monitor early childhood programs within these projects. Currently, she leads one of the ten nationally recognized Head Start Centers of Excellence in Denver, Colorado (Clayton Early Learning) and is a Doctoral Student at the University of Colorado Denver studying Educational Leadership and Equity. She has a special focus on supporting evidence-based programming, including teacher-child interactions, language and literacy development, and the innovative use of technology in early childhood classrooms. Rebecca strives to develop communities of practice within ECE programs in an effort to discover what researchers and teachers can learn from each other.
Questions? Email earlyeducatorfellowship@cayl.org
WHAT IS THE EARLY EDUCATORS FELLOWSHIP INITIATIVE?
The CAYL Institute is pleased to announce its second statewide Fellowship based on the goals of both the Massachusetts Departments of Early Education and Care and Elementary and Secondary Education! There is a widening gulf between promises made and promises realized given the poor alignment between schools and other programs that serve children. The work of education is fractured into parts — Head Start, Family Child Care, Early Intervention, and public school systems – but children are whole.
If we want to create a shared platform for early care and education, all of us as educators must take responsibility for the collective problem solving this work will require. Together, community-based programs and schools will have to do the hard work of collective adaptation – of making decisions and choices about the 21st century characteristics of an educational system that includes all children. The CAYL Institute has designed the “Early Educators Fellowship Initiative” to meet our goal of building high-quality learning environments for our earliest “school-ready” children.
PURPOSE
As a CAYL Institute Fellow in The Early Educator Fellowship Initiative, you will have the opportunity to:
- Hear and learn from national speakers
- Network with other educators from across Massachusetts
- Work with a team of educators from your community
- Focus on goals and strategies that are meaningful to you in your work setting
HOW DOES EEFI WORK?
You will spend three Saturdays focusing in depth on three important questions:
- How can my community have a strong birth through grade three continuum of supports for young learners?
- How can we as early educators promote interest, skill and knowledge about STEM?
- A third area of focus will be determined based on the interests of the EEFI Fellows
More than topical meetings, as a Fellow, you will become part of a statewide learning community with access to national experts and state leaders.
ELIGIBILITY
EEFI is an outstanding opportunity to participate in a very high quality and substantive learning community. All EEFI programs and materials will be offered at no cost to you through a competitive application process based on the following criteria. You are eligible to become an EEFI Fellow if you:
- Lead or administer programs for young children from birth to age eight in any setting
- Commit to attend three Saturday sessions from 9am-3pm on March 10, 2012, April 28, 2012, and June 2, 2012 in Leominster, Mass.
- Want to learn a lot, meet new people and change Massachusetts for the betterment of children!
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Apply with and work with a team of 3 to 5 individuals from your community.
- Teams must have representatives from at least three different kinds of programs such as: Public Elementary School, Head Start, Family Child Care, Center-Based Child Care, home visiting, early interventions, etc.
- All team members must be willing to participate in EEC’s Quality Rating and Improvement System (QRIS). CAYL will assist you in registering if you are not already registered.
- Teams will produce a brief community action plan by the end of June.