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    • Home
    • IEPD Online Learning
    • Update from IEPD
    • IEPD New Training Topics
    • IEPD Training Events
    • IEPD Monthly E-News
    • IEPD StrongStart Events
    • EEC Info & ECE Resources
    • Training In Action
    • In the News!
    • CDA Success!
  • Home
  • IEPD Online Learning
  • Update from IEPD
  • IEPD New Training Topics
  • IEPD Training Events
  • IEPD Monthly E-News
  • IEPD StrongStart Events
  • EEC Info & ECE Resources
  • Training In Action
  • In the News!
  • CDA Success!

In the News!

We will be posting up-to-date information regarding news releases or training information.  This page will be changing frequently so please check back often to keep current  on "in the news!"

Current Events Taking Place

NAEYC Statement on the Passing of the Inflation Reduction Act August 10 2022

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NAEYC Statement on the Passing of the Inflation Reduction Act August 10 2022

Dear members of the NAEYC community,


This weekend the Senate passed the Inflation Reduction Act without a single dollar for child care.


For months, you joined us in sharing your stories—stories filled with angst as you struggle to keep your early learning programs open despite a record number of educators leaving the sector in search of a thriving wage; stories of how these staffing shortages translate to fewer options for families who are desperately contacting you in search of affordable, high-quality child care; stories that laid bare the systemic inequities that disadvantage a largely unrecognized workforce that does transformational work every day.

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Middlesex Community College Fall 2022 ECE Career Pathways Courses

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NAEYC Statement on the Passing of the Inflation Reduction Act August 10 2022

 Congratulations on pursuing college course work in ECE.  These courses are being offered to enable students to become EEC Certified, and/or continue on their academic pathway towards an Associate's degree or ECE Certificate at Middlesex Community College.  This is the first step in your journey and I am excited to guide you along the way!  Please fill out this form completely, any forms with incomplete answers will not be accepted.  This is a COURSE REQUEST form- filling out this form does not guarantee you enrollment in any courses at Middlesex Community College.  It is each student's responsibility to check their email for correspondence and requests for further documentation.  

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The Genderbread Person | A free online resource for understanding gender identity, gender expression, and anatomical sex.

The Genderbread Person | A free online resource for understanding gender identity, gender expression, and anatomical sex.

The Genderbread Person | A free online resource for understanding gender identity, gender expression, and anatomical sex.

Breaking a complicated concept into bite-sized, digestible pieces. 


So, you want to better understand gender, or need help explaining it to someone else?  


Used by — and contributed to by — countless people around the world and throughout the decades, the genderbread person (and all of the different evolutions of it, and ideas it evolved from) is a wonderful way to start an important conversation.

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The New Federal Investment: A Child Care Entitlement, Universal Pre-k...and What's Next?

The New Federal Investment: A Child Care Entitlement, Universal Pre-k...and What's Next?

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Watch the recording of The New Federal Investment: A Child Care Entitlement, Universal Pre-k...and What's Next? The recording is just over an hour and is available in English and Spanish 


(Click on the language you would like to view in and it will take you to the registration page)

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The New Federal Investment: A Child Care Entitlement, Universal Pre-k...and What's Next?

The Universal Child Care and Early Learning Act

Our Approach to Professional Development:

We work to focus on challenges/tough problems that are important to teachers. We strive to bring you transformational, research-based practices and perspectives, preparing educators to work with diverse groups in an inclusive way and address how students learn at all stages of development.

Ongoing online training. Click below for more information

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The Universal Child Care and Early Learning Act

The New Federal Investment: A Child Care Entitlement, Universal Pre-k...and What's Next?

The Universal Child Care and Early Learning Act

United States Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) and Congressman Mondaire Jones (D-NY-17) today reintroduced the Universal Child Care and Early Learning Act, a comprehensive and bicameral bill that will ensure that every family has access to high-quality, affordable child care and early learning opportunities by establishing a network of federally-supported, locally administered child care options.  

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Project Bread

Project Bread

Project Bread

 Project Bread Legislative Agenda:

  • school meals universally free for all students
  • improve nutrition standards for school meals
  • encourage sourcing from local producers and processors


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In the News!

Current and up-to-date Early Childhood news items will be posted below.  Please check back frequently as news items will change as they become available.

Massachusetts News

New EEC Board Members

Governor Charlie Baker recently appointed to the Massachusetts Board of Early Education and Care Paul Belsito, executive director of the Springfield-based Irene & George Davis Foundation, Jamella Lee, chief people officer at Jumpstart, and Mora Segal, entrepreneur-in-residence at A-Street Ventures. 

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