Saturday, November 21, 2015

Jobs/Roles in the ECE Community:National/Federal Level


 
If I could have any job I wanted in the ECE world the three that I have picked are right below:-)

1. Center Law and Social Polices      http://www.clasp.org/

High-quality child care and early education can build a strong foundation for young children's healthy development and ensure that children have all they need to thrive. This knowledge drives CLASP's work to promote policies that support both child development and the needs of low-income working parents. –

 

JOB QUALIFICATIONS: Policy Analyst, Postsecondary Education/Workforce Development

  • Expertise in federal and/or state postsecondary education policies, particularly student financial aid.
  • Awareness of workforce development and/or adult education policies.  
  • Commitment to improving the circumstances of vulnerable and low-income people and communities of color, particularly low-income and underprepared students.
  • Ability to synthesize and effectively communicate ideas persuasively and creatively to influence diverse audiences.
  • Demonstrated capacity to think strategically and advance a policy agenda.
  • Ability to manage complex and multiple tasks and produce deliverables within required timelines.
  • Ability to identify, understand, and develop responses to technical assistance needs, including translating policy ideas to states and regions and disseminating best practices.
  • Exceptional research, analytical, written and oral communication, and technology skills.
  • Capacity to work both independently and collaboratively as part of a team, with a drive to contribute original work.
  • Ability to analyze, summarize, and interpret complex quantitative and qualitative data is desirable.
  • At least two (2) years of policy analysis experience within relevant content areas is required.
  • Master’s degree in public policy, administration, management, or other relevant field is strongly preferred.  Bachelor’s degree is required.

This would be a dream come true to actually work put my classroom work into action by working for Center Law and Social Polices CLASP .  I want to know as much as possible about the political parts of early education and be a part of policy making.

 

 

 

 

 

 

2. NAEYC  Director   Job and Family Services


The Director of Job and Family Services is an executive leadership position under the direction of the County Administration and is responsible for managing one of the county’s largest agencies. The Director oversees 670 FTEs, manages an annual operating budget of $73.3 million, and has an executive staff of seven employees, which includes three Assistant Directors and a Chief Operating Officer.

Candidates should possess a Bachelor’s degree in Social Work, Public or Health Administration or a similar field; a Master's degree is preferred. Additionally, candidates should have at least ten (10) years of executive level management and administrative experience in a large and complex health, human services, mental health or social services organization. Starting salary will be dependent upon qualifications and is accompanied by an excellent benefits package. Resume review will begin December 14, 2015; position is open until fill

 

The more I think about this job the more I would feel very nervous  to apply . I have twenty five employees that work under me; I could not image how to serve 670!! Yet it sounds very interesting.

 


Instructor or Visiting Assistant Professor in Family Studies;

 

Family Studies & Social Work: Instructor or Visiting Assistant Professor to teach courses in the Family Studies undergraduate program using both online and face-to-face course formats. Course may include, but are not limited to, Diverse Family Systems  Across the Life Cycle, Research and Evaluation Methods, Child Development, Adolescent Development, and Later Life families. The person in this position will be responsible for teaching a full-load (12 credit hours/semester) of Family Studies courses each semester. Responsibilities may also include committee work, student advising and other duties/responsibilities as assigned by the Department Chair.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Required: Earned master's degree (for appointment as Instructor), PhD (for appointment as Visiting Assistant Professor) in Family Studies, Human Development, or a related field; knowledge of and experience with multicultural population. Desire: Professional or academic background in Social Work; demonstrated record of teaching excellence; experience with online teaching, skills to incorporate technology in teaching.

 

Position available for the 2016 spring and fall semesters or for the 2016-17 academic year, depending on timing of conclusion of the search.

I would love to teach at this campus !!!!!!!!!!!! 

The only two reasons I could not apply for this job are;

1. I have not earned my Master’s yet and    2. The job has been opened since November 1st  they may have found someone…. But I’m still going to call and summit a resume that they can keep   if anything else should pop up.

Saturday, November 7, 2015

Exploring Roles in the ECE Community: Local and State Levels


When I decide to go to grad school and major in Early Childhood Education,  I did it because I love working with  children and now I want to work for  children. I am so excited to explore areas in education outside the classroom into another form of advocating.  Therefore I have listed community jobs that are appealing to me and their mission and vision for  the community.

 
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Cradle Cincinnati

Mission Cradle Cincinnati Connections. Cradle Cincinnati Connections is a federal Healthy Start program with the mission of reducing the rate of infant mortality and improving perinatal outcomes within in four Cincinnati neighborhoods: Price Hill, North and South Fairmont, and the Villages of Roll Hill. The core of their work involves wrap-around services, which will be monitored to identify modifiable social and behavioral changes. http://www.cradlecincinnati.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/March-12th-volunteer-flyer.pdf

This can really practice is something that I’m interested in because it’s part of reducing infant mortality. It’s an opportunity to help mothers and fathers in their quests of obtaining a better life for their child and the resources that are given to them, that they actually use it’s gratifying and rewarding to be a part of a successful accomplishment in saving the child’s life.

Ohio Job and Family ServicesImage result for jobs and family services

Mission OJFS To improve the well-being of Ohio's workforce and families by promoting economic self-sufficiency and ensuring the safety of Ohio's most vulnerable citizens.


Ohio job and family services provides opportunities and seeks leadership skills and a person to recognize the procedures of a childcare center understanding the cold the criteria and advocating for families right. I respect Ohio job and family services because they set the bar for quality care in centers around Cincinnati.

 

Ohio Department of Education Image result for ohio department of education

Vision ODE  Our Goals

•Children have high quality early care and education supports and environments.

•Children have supports and services to promote their comprehensive healthy development.

•Families have meaningful community and parenting supports. http://www.earlychildhoodohio.org/oec_system.php

this is another organization that I will be quite interested in working for because the coaches are assigned to childcare centers to help them reach age rated*through their performance management work.

In all of these positions that I mentioned there are job opportunities that are interesting to me they range around the 0 to 3 population and the skills to have jobs like this must include experience in early childhood education understanding early childhood development having the experience of working with children and families and being able to relate to diverse culture.

Cradle Cincinnati is looking for a person that has that understands the significance and the severity and mortality. Cradle Cincinnati is looking for person that is experienced in the interim population has compassion in passionate characteristics to want to reach out to families and find creative ways to invite them in to learning about how to care for their child.

 Ohio Job and Family Services; the experience needed for this job especially working in the childcare center and knowing the bylaws licensing colds regulations and restrictions they want person who’s actually worked in a childcare center. I will have the skills for this job due to the fact that I’ve worked in childcare for many years and I understand that licensing takes Barry serious the safety of the building the children’s needs medication forms and family involvement.

Ohio Department of Education; to be able to work for the Ohio Department of Education I would have to have a great understanding of the child’s needs from 0 to 5 years old and a childcare center. In order to write a policies and guidelines I must understand and know and be able to implement milestones for each age and developmentally appropriate stage in a child’s life. The skills for this job comes with creativity of how to help teachers and administrators be successful in the paper trail and data on a daily basis.
 
 
 
 
 
 

Thursday, October 29, 2015

Six Words for Passion to Action



As continuously growing early educators I believe these words describe our passion for quality care!

Wednesday, October 14, 2015

Profile of a Volunteer


 
One if my greatest accomplishments was creating a “rap session “ called Sister 2 Sister. I asked for permission from my daughter’s high school, parents  and boss if I could be granted the time to facilitate an after school meeting for girls who simply wanted  to  talk. I would leave work early on Mondays to meet with Sister 2 Sister  and stay at work on Tuesday to make up the time.

My intention was getting the “challenging girls” involved, but what I got in return were girls of all kind of backgrounds volunteering to talk in their own time. By the time the program was a year old I reached out to the mothers and other professionals to invest in my girls with their time.

The impact of running this group was very STRONG and POSITIVE. 

·         I was able to walk a girl through pregnancy

·         Another through self –hate because of body image

·         Peer-pressure from family to excel through high school

·         Another dealing with the temper

·         And not giving in to sex

Everyone had their own baggage they brought to the table and everyone developed a relationship and looked out for each other during the school day.. My own take –away message working with this group for two years was listening to their circumstances with an awaken that they really did have problems. BUT the glory of the story was the sisters learned how to support each other and I earned their trust , they  also gave back by  volunteering  in  the community . We visited the retirement center to bring smiles on the elderly……. When you advocate for someone or a group  it comes back in a 100% fold in the form that is meant for purpose!

 

 

Thursday, October 8, 2015

Using Social Media to Get Connected


My past experience with social media started off interesting. I had a Facebook page and connected with friends from high school, former colleagues, relatives that I had not seen in years and felt in the loop with current friends and co-workers. As time went on, I found  the benefits of the site were posting a one-time announcement or invitation, one click and the word was out.

Great right! Well the down side was I could not control the crazy things that people would post (arguments and unhealthy competition). I found myself wanting to quickly get out of the loop and I did, I haven’t been back on Facebook for four years now.

As for social media, in terms of advocating,  blogging would be the way to go . When I first started my blogging in the graduate program, I thought this would be a fine way of sharing information with parents … you know having resources, articles and stories to share. Yet through a parent meeting, I found out they do not want this…. to sign on to one more thing is not worth their while, wow!

Back to the drawing board……..

So now I’m back at Facebook…. Although I have not used it in four years I could create an educational site, I could not use my child care centers name but  if parents are on  the Facebook  media site they can link in without any problems.  Oh, just typing “link in” made me think of the site linkedin site  …. It’s not really advocating (more of networking) but I assume I could be an advocate on the site,

Meagan, as my colleague…. Can you provide some thoughts….. Help!

Saturday, October 3, 2015

Advocacy Messages


Challenging ourselves…… my blog focuses on two areas of concern Community and Safety!  The campaigns that I’m sharing are effective enough to cause us to  REFLECT AND ACT
1. Diversity & Inclusion

·         People of color = Latinos , African American  still sense that discrimination is a major problem.

·         Communities = LGBT feel they are still not accepted into the community.

The power message in this campaign is effective because it states something that is of great possibility
“The reason might be that we're actually discriminating unintentionally--some call this implicit bias.”

If our past influences form our behaviors (for however long that has been going on) then it may take that much long to work on acceptance of what we don’t understand or fear.

This campaign of ……. “The Diversity & Inclusion campaign encourages everyone to reconsider the biases that we don't even know we have.”  http://www.adcouncil.org/Our-Campaigns/Family-Community/Diversity-Inclusion
If we are up for the challenge … then it is consider effective!


2. Sexual Assault Prevention

Other assaults include; Bullying, dating and domestic assault prevention.

The campaign makes it very clear “it’s on us,  This campaign aims to raise awareness and inspire action against sexual assault in communities and on campuses nationwide. We are reframing sexual assault in a way that inspires everyone to see it as their responsibility, big or small, to prevent it.” http://www.adcouncil.org/Our-Campaigns/Safety/Sexual-Assault-Prevention#sthash.gtKWXhnH.dpuf

Take this paragraph and plug in any verb of assault … does it read the same?… yes! This message is effective enough for change because we all know of someone who has experienced this awful act (or is an overcomer of it)………..If we don’t stand for something we will fail in our greatest /finest  hour  for change.
 


 

Tuesday, September 22, 2015

My Own Capacity


 
The special skills I have learned about myself that will contribute to my advocacy efforts are;

SKILLS AND ABILITES______________________________________________________________________

Organized         Responsible       Dedicated    Focused     Harmony

Achiever         Analytical       Empathy      Discipline     Consistency    Includer    and   Learner

 
Incorporating these skills into my work will look like; organizing my thoughts to take responsivity for the issues that I want to be a voice for. With dedication for a long and very tiresome road, I will stay focused on the matter at hand, maintaining harmony no matter what my opponents try to do to get in my way.

My goal will be to achieve the maximum reward for families, children and staff in early education, analyzing problems that may be ahead.  Yet with empathy and wise counsel I understand that we all come with different perceptions in a single matter, but I most stay discipline and  consistent so that my work is meaningful and reliable. Last I want to be approachable to the supporters that I need along the way. Including welcoming those who may not be like minded but bring balance to help me learn all that I am and can accomplish!

Last, I hope I grow in confidence and knowledge that will convey my passion on subject matters