As the Leadership Institute wraps up its first year implementing its Leading for Change curriculum in the post-baccalaureate program of the Maryland Early Childhood Leadership Education Program (MECLP), the Maryland State Department of Education has announced that it will invest an additional $150,000 in the program.

MECLP is an early education leadership program of the Sherman Center for Early Childhood Learning in Urban Communities at the University of Maryland Baltimore County.

Leadership Institute Executive Director and Professor Anne Douglass (fifth from right) and Leadership Institute Deputy Director Amanda Wiehe Lopes (fourth from right) with MECLP’s first cohort of Early Education Leadership Fellows.