by jhilgendorf | Aug 24, 2020 | Advocacy, Best Practices, Policy, Workforce
by Paula Drew, Co-Director Wisconsin Early Education Shared Services Network This is the sixth and final post in the series Uncovering Stories from the Early Care and Education Field During the COVID-19 Pandemic: A series which explores the challenges of our essential...
by jhilgendorf | Aug 4, 2020 | Advocacy, Best Practices, Policy, Spotlight, Workforce
by Paula Drew, WEESSN Co-Director I often struggle with how to present the injustices within the early care and education (ECE) sector without making early educators sound like victims because they are anything but. However, inadequate financing of child...
by jhilgendorf | Jul 22, 2020 | Advocacy, Best Practices, Policy, Spotlight, Workforce
by Paula Drew, Co-Director, Wisconsin Early Education Shared Services Network This post is the fourth in the series, Uncovering Stories from the Early Care and Education Field During the COVID-19 Pandemic, based on in-depth interviews of child care providers across...
by jhilgendorf | Jul 13, 2020 | Advocacy, Best Practices, Policy, Spotlight, Workforce
This post is the third in the series, Uncovering Stories from the Early Care and Education Field During the COVID-19 Pandemic, based on in-depth interviews of child care providers across Wisconsin. Economists and the world’s best neuroscientists agree, early life...
by jhilgendorf | Jul 6, 2020 | Advocacy, Best Practices, Workforce
By Paula Drew, Co-Director, Wisconsin Early Education Shared Services Network This post is the second in the series, Uncovering Stories from the Early Care and Education Field During the COVID-19 Pandemic, based on in-depth interviews of child care providers across...
by jhilgendorf | Jun 22, 2020 | Advocacy, Workforce
As the U.S. economy starts a reopening process, the critical need for early care and education is clear. Words like essential and infrastructure are used routinely to describe this field and its utility. At the same time, child care providers are experiencing whiplash...
