by Paula Drew | 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 Paula Drew | 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 Paula Drew | 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 Paula Drew | 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...
by Ruth Schmidt | Jun 5, 2020 | Advocacy, Policy, Press Release
The killing of Mr. George Floyd, and the loss of far too many Black and Brown lives, have left the early childhood community and the entire nation anguished and outraged. These premature deaths are a result of the on-going and systematic racism that seeps through...
by Paula Drew | May 12, 2020 | Advocacy, Policy
By Paula Drew, WEESSN Dane County Project Manager, WECA Faced with a pandemic that has shut down the economy, belief that early care and education (ECE) is essential and not expendable is solidifying across the county. This blog post reviews two recent national...
