The Early Childhood Education Career Training Program provides entry-level training and job experience for people interested in starting a career as early childhood educators.

Participants enroll in an online early childhood education course and complete a paid internship in Cambridge. People who successfully complete all the program requirements will earn the Child Development Associate® (CDA) Credential and be an EEC (Early Education and Care) certified teacher in Massachusetts.

May 13, 2025 

 The Healey-Driscoll Administration today announced a series of community visits across Massachusetts throughout the spring and summer to spotlight innovative preschool programs supported by the Commonwealth Preschool Partnership Initiative (CPPI) and celebrate communities expanding access to high-quality early education for children and families.

May 9, 2025

The Healey-Driscoll Administration brought together over a hundred students, educators, school counselors, industry leaders, families, and community members over the past two days at Roxbury Community College to highlight the positive impacts that Early College programs have on students’ academic and career success.

May 7, 2025

The Healey-Driscoll Administration announced today that registration is open for a new teacher training opportunity, called Literacy Launch Institutes, that is focused on Pre-K through third grade literacy. As a core component of the administration’s Literacy Launch: Reading Success from Age 3 through Grade 3 initiative, the Departments of Elementary and Secondary Education and Early Education and Care are offering free four full days of training in August for 600 educators. Participants will learn about evidence-based early literacy instructional practices that meet the unique needs of all students and can be incorporated into teaching. 

Friday, May 2, 2025 

The Healey-Driscoll Administration announced today that it is awarding $371,660 to a total of 11 colleges and 13 school districts to promote the early literacy instructional skills of prospective and existing teachers. These partnerships provide Pre-K–12 educators and educator preparation faculty with opportunities to share effective practices, learn from each other, and better prepare educators in evidence-based early literacy, resulting in elevated early literacy instruction at the school, district, and higher education level. 

April 30, 2025 Today, Lieutenant Governor Kim Driscoll visited the Department of Children and Family's Harbor Area Family Resource Center (FRC) in Chelsea where she presented the administration’s official proclamation declaring April Child Abuse Prevention Month. The visit highlighted the important role that Family Resource Centers play in supporting families and preventing child abuse and neglect.  “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.”

May is Asian/Pacific American Heritage Month – a celebration of Asians and Pacific Islanders in the United States. While no one book (or even hundreds of books!) could fully reflect the diversity of the Asian American experience, we hope that this selection of recent releases will highlight current Asian American representation in print.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.

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.