Kathy is spot on. There is a blatant racist history to the low wages and lack of access to post secondary degrees for early childhood educators. DC leading the way once again. washingtonpost.com/opinions/2022/…

Love to see this. How we talk about big, hairy problems is key in building momentum to solve big, hairy problems.

If I had a dime for every encounter I had with a breast is best advocate. My husband and I still laugh about the night I hurled the breast pump across the room at 2am. There has to be room for honest stories.

This is the stuff nightmares are made of. If we want the government to play a strong role in funding child care as a public good this cannot happen. Providers have enough to deal with let alone not getting paid by the public sector. ny.chalkbeat.org/2022/10/25/234…

In case you are still not convinced that the complexity of learning and development starts w the babies…here is a great example of physics with preschoolers…

This.

Okay, this is hilarious…

When there are 30% under enrolled in poor communities and there are waiting lists in wealthy communities that is more than the COVID effect. Those are design flaws. We have so many lessons learned from K-12. Let’s avoid a repeat. We know too much. subscriber.politicopro.com/article/2022/1…

Pay attention to system design flaws—hundreds of millions in missing payments and UPK that guts child care for infants and toddlers to start. This isn’t our first rodeo. Bankrupting child care programs through bureaucratic ineptness is unconscionable. bloomberg.com/news/articles/…

Consider joining our team as the executive director at the first center in Lorton, VA.

Big day for BrynmorEarlyEd. Coming soon signs are up and we enrolled our first children. More later on our historic site that was a maximum security federal penitentiary for 100 years that will become an early childhood education program in just a few short months. Onward!

Shira is the Executive Director of Mason’s NAEYC accredited child development center. Congratulations Shira!