Hi all, Please see CSCCE’s recent research on ECE well-being emotional and physical well-being. See here:The Emotional and Physical Well-Being of Early Educators in California - Center for the Study of Child Care Employment
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I agree that we need to find pathways for early childhood administrators to earn a TK-12 administrator credential, to allow individuals with early childhood expertise to oversee TK and CSPP programs in LEAs.
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Agree and would suggest that we consider multilingual and multicultural. Many of our families and providers know more than 2 languages and/or have multiple cultural identities.
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perhaps a 1:8 ratio is what should stand for CSPP regardless of age of children, but perhaps we cap the class size when there are a majority of 3 year olds; e.g. 20 for 4s and 16 for 3s
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completely agree that having ECE background is vital for leadership of high quality prekinder settings.
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We are now moving into a session on Parent Perspectives.
Since an adult ed equivalency is a pathway to an administrator credential, I think we should look at a parallel equivalency for those with a CD director permit and administrative experience.
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We can consider honoring and accepting CD permit equivalency as compared to LEA administrative credential.
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In response to Dr. Herota’s , yes, many administrators are looking at the PPS or the Education Services credentials as a way to meet the preliminary credential requirement in a way that would not require student teaching. Unfortunately, that would still require ECE administrators to go back to school, get the preliminary credential, and then continue in the Administrator Credential programs. My recommendation is for a pathway to be created that will honor the Child Development Program Director Permit with administration/ leadership experience as a preliminary credential making Child Development Administrators eligible to complete Administrator Credential Programs
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We are now in our final discussion session.
This is an important comment…I only further the suggestion by removing “bi” as a preface in our language we encourage the use of "multi-cultural, multi-lingual, " etc.
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Yes, respect their deep professional experience and pedagogy, administrative skill set, and overall on the ground practice. Please do not insult their expertise and ask them to do one more thing to prove their worth and value. Simply, wave unnecessary administrative credential.
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Further thoughts and clarifications after hearing workgroup colleagues:
My desire was to uplift the concept of more than what is assumed with the word “bilingual” - I said Bicultural to broaden our thinking AND ABSOLUTELY AGREE mulit-lingual and/or multi-cultural are BETTER ALTERNATIVES to ensure make it to the recommendations. Let’s remove bilingual and consider multi-lingual AND multicultural.
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That makes sense @ccrolotte …thanks for adding to that point referencing the “when possible supporting bi-lingual classrooms” - appreciate that thinking, also
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I appreciate Elsa’s comments and the fact that she had taken the time to gather additional feedback from such a diverse group that support the change in ratio. I agree with her and the revised recommendations.
Re- ratios
If we are having children with special needs in our programs than the 1:10 needs to be looked at in more detail
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@Tony- same. Lower ratios should ideally prevail for inclusion classrooms.
Thank you to everyone for your time and committment to the workgroup. I really have enjoyed hearing and learning from all of you over the course of the last year. I am going to have to sign off early from this meeting today because I am at a conference and need to check out of my hotel. But, really want to thank everyone for your ongoing committment to California’s children, their families, and the workforce of providers and educators who care for them.
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if majority threes and class size is capped, then an adjust factor for the earnings for the 3 year olds could off-set the revenue lost for serving fewer children
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I also want to lift up that the reimbursement rate for 3s has increased significantly in the past years. I agree with Donna that for budgeting purposes, it would make sense for this higher adjustment rate to last the full school year.
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