June 10, 2024
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Becky DelVecchio, Ph.D, project coordinator of EEL’s Statewide Professional Development Academy, recently co-authored an article with early educator Sara Becker for Exchange Press’s Exchange magazine, a quarterly publication that focuses on early childhood leadership and advocacy.
Continue Reading →June 10, 2024
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On Thursday, June 6, the Department of Early Education and Care hosted the Massachusetts Statewide Coaching Collaborative at their Central MA Office in Worcester. This event brought together over 60 early educators involved in various coaching initiatives across the state.
The day began with a warm welcome and networking breakfast followed by overviews of the Commonwealth Preschool Partnership Initiative, the Early Childhood Mental Health Consultation, the Early Childhood Support Organizations, the Professional Development Centers, and the Pyramid Model.
Continue Reading →June 6, 2024
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Each year, we accept up to eight Leadership Fellows into the Post Master’s Certificate in Early Education Research, Policy & Practice (PMC) at UMass Boston. Fellows are selected based on their experience and interest in advancing the field of early care and education. They represent a variety of public and community-based early education programs and employer- and home-based child cares and come from every level of the field.
The PMC equips seasoned educators with advanced skills in research, policy, leadership, and data-driven practice. This 12-credit advanced graduate course of study is designed to help you deepen your knowledge and enhance your impact on early childhood education from birth to age 8.
Continue Reading →June 5, 2024
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Gathering in person for the first time in four years, the energy and excitement was palpable at our 11th annual Leadership Forum on Early Education Research, Policy, and Practice May 4. We had record attendance as nearly 250 early education professionals joined us from New York, Maryland, and all across Massachusetts.
“I am so excited to be here!,” said Tiffani Peguese, a Black Student Achievement Program Liaison in the Howard County (Maryland) Public School System. “This is my first year here. It was really, really wonderful being in community with other early childhood educators and I learned quite a bit that I’m going to process, take on home, and put it into action when I go.”
Continue Reading →May 7, 2024
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The 11th annual Leadership Forum on Early Education Research, Policy, and Practice featured 60 presentations that showcased early educators’ innovations and ideas to improve ECE quality and business management, and to promote entrepreneurship, racial equity, systems change, and other reforms. All of the presenters were alumni of Early Education Leaders’ leadership programs, which now count more than 1000 graduates.
Iyanna Nelson, a Leading for Change alum from the program we offer in partnership with the Maryland Early Childhood Leadership Program (MECLP), based at the University of Maryland Baltimore County and a student support teacher for the Howard County Public School System, shared a spoken-word poem she wrote as part of Leading for Change’s leadership development self-portrait, an experience that helps educators to see their greatest strengths, unique assets, and talents and how they might use them to be more effective in driving change.
Continue Reading →May 7, 2024
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May 7, 2024
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May 3, 2024
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The Institute for Early Education Leadership and Innovation is proud to announce its new name: Early Education Leaders.
This new name powerfully communicates our work cultivating effective leaders who reflect and represent their communities—through workforce and leadership development, research, and partnerships that strengthen the larger early education ecosystem.
We formally announced our new name at the 11th annual Leadership Forum on Early Education Research, Policy, and Practice on May 4.
Continue Reading →April 15, 2024
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Amanda Wiehe Lopes, Ph.D., the Leadership Institute’s Learning & Quality Improvement Manager, spoke to the MA Board of Early Education and Care at its April meeting to advocate for continued funding of programming that cultivates educational leadership and continuous quality improvement.
In remarks delivered during the public comment portion of the meeting, Lopes noted that the Leadership Institute has enjoyed a close partnership with the MA Department of Early Education and Care to deliver leadership programming to the state’s early care and education (ECE) workforce and professional development related to continuous quality improvement in the field.
Continue Reading →April 15, 2024
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The Institute for Early Education Leadership and Innovation (“Leadership Institute”) at UMass Boston is pleased to announce the 11th annual Leadership Forum on Early Education Research, Policy, and Practice (“Leadership Forum) will take place May 4 from 9:30 a.m. – 3 p.m. at the UMass Boston Campus Center, 100 Morrissey Boulevard, Boston.
This year the Leadership Forum returns to an in-person format after being held virtually since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020. The theme is “Celebration of Early Educator Leadership,” in recognition of the central role early educators have played in shaping the new initiatives to improve the affordability and accessibility of early care and education that are now coming from Beacon Hill after years of advocacy.
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