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A program trains participants to complete the family child care licensing process — with support from the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston

A program trains participants to complete the family child care licensing process — with support from the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston

A program trains participants to complete the family child care licensing process — with support from the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston

January 4, 2024

In lots of training programs, a presenter talks to a room full of people, and then, at the scheduled time, everyone goes home. 

But there are some training programs that invite everyone involved to solve big problems, make the world far better than it is, and keep doing so long after the program ends.

That’s what the Family Child Care Entrepreneur Training Program in Fitchburg, Mass., does. Nominally, this program trains participants to complete the licensing process for becoming a family child care provider in Massachusetts.

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Addressing Early Education and Child Care Expulsion

A program trains participants to complete the family child care licensing process — with support from the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston

A program trains participants to complete the family child care licensing process — with support from the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston

From the American Academy of Pediatrics: An important goal of early childhood education is teaching emotional self-regulation within the context of a safe, stable, nurturing environment. Expulsion of young children ignores underlying emotional and behavioral concerns, disproportionately affects children of color (Black or Hispanic), males, children with disabilities, and socioeconomically disadvantaged populations, and has long-term consequences on educational and life success.

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Understanding Racism’s Impact on Child Development: Working Toward Fairness of Place in the United States

A program trains participants to complete the family child care licensing process — with support from the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston

Understanding Racism’s Impact on Child Development: Working Toward Fairness of Place in the United States

From Center on the Developing Child, Harvard University: Our panel of experts across various fields brings their latest research, exploring how racism gets “under the skin” to impact children’s development as well as contributes to unequal access to opportunity in the places where children live, grow, play, and learn. 

Together, we strategize on solutions that promote healthy child development and work to dismantle systemic barriers.

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The National Early Care and Education Workforce Center

The National Early Care and Education Workforce Center

Understanding Racism’s Impact on Child Development: Working Toward Fairness of Place in the United States

“The National Early Care and Education (ECE) Workforce Center is a joint research and technical assistance center. This center builds on the Administration for Children and Families (ACF) of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) broader efforts to support the early childhood workforce by identifying effective policies and strategies through research and evaluation, translating lessons from research for practice, and supporting innovations in states and communities through technical assistance.”

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MA Act Early

The National Early Care and Education Workforce Center

Congratulations to Neighborhood Villages

Massachusetts Act Early aims to educate parents and professionals about healthy childhood development, early warning signs of autism and other developmental disorders, the importance of routine developmental screening, and timely early intervention whenever there is a concern.

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Congratulations to Neighborhood Villages

The National Early Care and Education Workforce Center

Congratulations to Neighborhood Villages

June 16, 2023


Philanthropist MacKenzie Scott donates $2 million to Neighborhood Villages for quality affordable child care

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ECD Lead - Center on the Developing Child at Harvard University

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

ECD Lead - Center on the Developing Child at Harvard University

Healthy development in the early years of life can set the course for lifelong health, behavior, and learning. What can be done to ensure that children have a strong start early in life? The evolving science of early childhood development (ECD) provides powerful insights about how conditions and experiences get inside the body—for better or worse—and what we can do to ensure all children have a strong start in life. 


ECD LEAD program, a 10-week, all remote, learning experience for policy makers and public leaders geared towards strengthening a network of champions for early childhood development (ECD) who have the knowledge, skills, and desire to apply scientific insights to advance their local ECD agenda. 

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Eye on Early Childhood: a new name for our new outlook

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

ECD Lead - Center on the Developing Child at Harvard University

Welcome to the relaunch of Strategies for Children’s blog! We’re excited to change the blog’s name from Eye on Early Education to Eye on Early Childhood because it reflects our emerging approach of looking at children’s lives more holistically.

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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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Play with strangers across the world

Play with strangers across the world

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

We host these massive virtual workshops four times per year for hundreds around the world.


Every attendee has the option of joining workshops that range from movement and music to emotional support. It’s like a multi-lingual conference of play. Our last Global Playshop was attended by people from over 29 countries including China, Nigeria, Ukraine, Serbia, Israel, Peru, and the UK. Will you join to build the movement?

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"Off Mute and Amplified"

Play with strangers across the world

"Off Mute and Amplified"

Watch this live Q&A on the history of ECE activism and the power of educator voice. Featuring creators of the Worthy Wage Movement, CSCCE’s ECHOES project, and current early educators. They talk about their own struggle as early educators and how and why they organized to fight for rights, raises, and respect. They also describe the roots of the struggle for an equitable ECE system, and explain why knowing the history supports today’s organizing efforts.  …

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National News

The National Association of Early Childhood Specialists in State Departments of Education

The National Association of Early Childhood Specialists in State Departments of Education has several position papers available on assessment, standards, and curriculum  

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