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[Edco Haglund]

Thebest decision that I've ever made in my life was doing TFA in Baltimore and becoming a teacher, hands down. I met my kids and it sounds really cliche, but as soon as I started teaching, I just fell in love with them and recognized that they're the leaders the world so desperately needs.

I remind my students that if we nurture our value of education and continue our thirst for knowledge, no matter what obstacles we face, we can and shall overcome. I want them to hold on to infinite hope.

For many of us, what started as a two-year commitment has turned into a lifelong mission. Whether in the classroom, or in union and system leadership, or work in education technology, you see a passion among our alumni to do whatever it takes to eliminate the inequities our children face every day.

It is important for me as a man of color to be a force in the education movement because many of the decisions made that impact students in under-resourced communities are not made by people who reflect the backgrounds and experiences of those in the communities the policies most directly affect.

That's why we've teamed up with the U.S. Department of Education and One Million Teachers of Color to get the word out about what it's really like to teach. Check out the PSA and sign up to learn more about how TEACH is helping the next generation of change-making educators get their start.

If you want to try out teaching or start working in schools while you earn your teaching license, there's a role for you. With help from the U.S. Department of Education, ZipRecruiter launched School Jobs Near Me, a nationwide database of school jobs. Find a job near you as a teaching assistant, substitute, tutor or support staff.

T.E.A.C.H. Early Childhood Wisconsin offers scholarships to early childhood educators to make credit-based education more affordable, improve teacher compensation, and increase early childhood educator retention. Since its inception in 1999, T.E.A.C.H. has made a resounding impact in early care and education (ECE) by awarding thousands of scholarships to more than 10,000 recipients. Scholarships support efforts to complete credit-based early childhood education coursework through the Wisconsin Technical College System, University of Wisconsin System, and private colleges.

In celebration of the 50th anniversary of CCSA, we are inviting early childhood organizations, directors, teachers and family child care home educators to attend a session in our statewide campaign that showcases and informs the field about existing pathways in higher education and ways in which T.E.A.C.H. can be used as a resource in your community. The Reinvigorating the ECE Workforce: Leadership and Support of Professional Pathways sessions provide clear information to the ECE workforce about the various educational pathways that are available and the resources that can be accessed to support early childhood professionals in our state. Please join us in this celebration when we come to your area of the state!

Child Care Services Association and its T.E.A.C.H. Early Childhood National Center are excited to release the sixth edition of the Careers in Early Care and Education Directory. This directory was created to introduce you to a variety of wide-ranging careers in the early childhood field, from child care providers to trainers, regulators, consultants and more. It contains a sampling of different types of employment opportunities in early childhood education and the type of formal education that may be required.

This edition has added profiles of new career opportunities that began trending since the fifth edition was published. Each of the careers profiled introduces you to real people from across the country who are currently working in critical roles with young children and their families or performing other specialized functions on behalf of the workforce.

The T.E.A.C.H. Early Childhood Scholarship Program is an umbrella for a variety of different scholarship programs for those working in the early education field in North Carolina. Every TEACH scholarship has 4 components: scholarship, education, compensation, and commitment. The goals of these scholarships are:

T.E.A.C.H. will help with online coursework if taken through a North Carolina community college or participating university and as long as the coursework is required for completion of a credential or degree. T.E.A.C.H. does not offer scholarships to attend out of state schools or correspondence schools.

T.E.A.C.H. will sponsor required courses needed to complete coursework towards your educational goals including developmental classes. The academic advisor at the community college can provide guidance regarding required courses and acceptable classes for the credential or degree being sought.

The T.E.A.C.H. program has positively changed my life. I was thrilled to be a recipient of this grant, without it, I would not be able to return to school. To this day, my T.E.A.C.H. scholarship has enabled me to earn a four-star rating at our center, earn my level 1 (soon my level2) Administration Credential and finally the ability to perform my job in a superior fashion.

I started using T.E.A.C.H. back in 2007. Without T.E.A.C.H., I could not have financially afford to go to school. I just recently graduated with my AAS in Early Childhood Education and T.E.A.C.H. was a huge part in helping me reach that milestone in my life. I never had problems with receiving assistance from T.E.A.C.H. and I am forever grateful that T.E.A.C.H. was available to help me. I have told other providers about how much T.E.A.C.H. has helped me and how it can help them as well.

T.E.A.C.H. has helped me out a lot with being able to go to school. My ultimate goal is to be a director and I am closer and closer to that goal. Without T.E.A.C.H., I would not have been able to accomplish any of my educational goals.

"For me, teaching is a revolutionary act of love. As long as student success is inhibited by social, political, and economic barriers, education must be the disruptive force through teaching that seeks to eliminate disparity and cultivate equity. Teaching is the vehicle through which justice and humanity are restored for our communities."

Teach Primary underwent a rigorous development and validation process over a two-year timeframe to ensure that the tool captures teaching practices associated with student learning, and that it met the appropriate psychometric criteria of reliability and validity. After the initial development and validation process, Teach Primary was launched in 2019.

The Quality of Teaching Practices component is organized into three primary areas: Classroom Culture, Instruction, and Socioemotional Skills. These areas have nine corresponding elements that point to twenty-eight behaviors. The behaviors are characterized as low, medium, or high, based on the evidence collected during the observation. These behavior scores are translated into a 5-point scale that quantifies teaching practices as captured in a series of two, 15-minute lesson observations.

Finally, Teach Primary is accompanied by a checklist to assess additional aspects related to educational quality, including the accessibility of the physical environment, which can be used together with classroom observation tool.

Teach Primary can be implemented by any user hoping to capture the quality of teaching practices in a specific context. Although the tool is open access, there are several protocols the team recommends stakeholders follow to ensure those chosen to conduct classroom observations do so reliably. In addition to recommendations regarding reliability, the Teach team provides guidelines for sourcing local videos for the training, training local implementors and observers on the tool, collecting high-quality data, and analyzing findings.

In 2020 and 2021, Teach Primary underwent a revision process to strengthen the way the tool measured inclusive teaching practices. Inclusive teaching practices are defined as those that create increased opportunities for all children to access learning. The vision for inclusion in Teach is grounded in the Universal Design for Learning (UDL) framework and considers additional dimensions of inclusion including the physical environment. The Second Edition of Teach Primary (2021) reflects some important adjustments from the original version released in 2019.

The Teach Primary tool, Observer Manual, and Brief shared at the top of this page present the 2nd Edition of the tool. For more guidance on the differences between the two editions of the tool, please consult this resource. For reference, please find the Teach Primary 1st Edition tool and complementary materials here.

T.E.A.C.H. Early Childhood Minnesota is a scholarship program that helps early childhood and school-age educators increase their levels of education, compensation, and commitment to the field by earning college credits and degrees. It is a national program licensed by T.E.A.C.H Early Childhood National Center located in North Carolina.

Coaches, Achieve Approved Trainers, and participants in the Trainer Academy can receive financial assistance to help them increase their Career Lattice Step while they support the early childhood field through quality training or coaching. Recipients receive a tuition stipend and a $50 bonus for each course completed. After the scholarship end date, recipients commit to instructing at least three Achieve-approved trainings within one year or remain in their coaching position for at least 2 years.

A quality program counts on quality teachers. One of the most significant indicators of quality child care is the educational level of child care providers. The T.E.A.C.H. scholarship program helps you assist your staff in achieving their professional development goals with credit-based education and helps to reduce staff turnover in your program.

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