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Posted: March 13th, 2023

Advocacy and leadership assignment

Be A Proactive Early Learning Advocate

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Excerpt from NAEYC website:

The earliest years of a child’s life are a crucial time for learning—and right now is a crucial time for us to advocate for the future of our children, families and economy.

We need you – educators, parents, partners, and allies – to raise a powerful, collective voice to demand that our nation’s policies catch up with the science about the importance of brain development, and the benefits of investing in high-quality early learning built with educators who are skilled, supported, and compensated for the complex and demanding jobs they perform.

Political will for early childhood investment is growing across the nation, but it needs our voices, together, right now, to create a movement. Need some inspiration? Hear the message below, which Rhian Evans Allvin, NAEYC’s CEO, made especially for you, in order to make the case for why we must all advocate for early childhood education and educators. Then, check out the resources we have compiled to help you become the early learning advocate that you want to be!

Become the active, engaged, and informed early learning advocate that you want to be!

Get to know your elected officials at all levels. Attend city council meetings, school board meetings, briefings, and town halls to meet them, and follow them on social media to learn their views on issues you care about.

To gain some practice with advocating for our profession you will be drafting two letters for this assignment, then you will complete a self-reflective essay outlining your thoughts about the process.

There are 4 parts to this assignment.

Part 1: 50 points

Write a letter to your U.S. Senator or Representative concerning an early childhood issue that feels very important to you.

See link below for proper business letter format:

https://owl.purdue.edu/owl/subject_specific_writing/professional_technical_writing/basic_business_letters/index.html

Find out who your representatives are: https://www.ncleg.net/representation/whorepresentsme.aspx

Your letter must be at least one page long (double spaced, 12-point font, one-inch margins) and must be addressed in business letter format. Cite at least one scholarly peer reviewed article from the HCC online library to support your opinions in your letter and provide references to the material you cited in your letter using APA format.

Part 2: 50 points

Write a letter inviting your elected officials to visit high-quality early childhood programs so they see firsthand the value of early learning.

See below for sample letter outline:

https://www.naeyc.org/our-work/public-policy-advocacy/sample-invitation-legislator-or-candidate-conduct-site-visit

Part 3: 25 points

Self-reflection:

Use the following guiding questions to write a 1/2-page reflective essay about the importance of being a proactive early learning advocate. You must use at least 1 scholarly peer reviewed article from our HCC online library to support your thoughts and ideas.

1.      Do you know who you elected officials are? Find out by visiting this link http://www.americaforearlyed.org/contact-your-elected-officials/

2.      What do you wish to achieve by contacting your U.S. Senator or Representative concerning the early childhood issue that feels very important to you?

3.      What do you expect the outcome would be?

4.      Who did you invite to see your high-quality early childhood program?

5.       What is your expected outcome?

6.      I will share my own experience with this. When I was a center director, we extended an invitation to our Mayor. He not only came to visit our program on more than one occasion, but he also sat with, read to, and interacted with the children. He showed us through his actions that he respected the value of early childhood education, by his repeated and invested interest in accepting our invitations. If nothing else, he knew who we were and where we were. What do you see that could be gained from building relationships with elected officials in this capacity when it comes to advocacy?

You will need to use the HCC online library for this assignment. You can get to the library by clicking on the resources tab, library, then NC Live at the top of your Moodle course. From there be sure to search the online database for a minimum of two scholarly & peer-reviewed articles that are less than 5 years old. Your resource will be used to support the early childhood issue addressed in your letter to a representative and will be used to justify your thoughts and ideas in your reflective essay.

Part 4: 25 points

As an Early Childhood Leader, you must understand the steps required by NCDCDEE to become an Early Childhood Administrator in a licensed Child Care Facility. 

Review the information in the attached word document about how to become a Child Care Administrator, then write a brief explanation of your personal path to becoming an administrator. What steps have you already completed and what steps do you still need to take in order to apply for the Level I, Level II, or Level III NCECAC once you complete this course

SOLUTION

To become a Child Care Administrator in North Carolina, one must meet the minimum education and experience requirements set by the North Carolina Division of Child Development and Early Education (NCDCDEE). The minimum requirements for an administrator in a licensed child care facility in North Carolina are:

• A high school diploma or equivalent
• At least 21 years of age