The Center for the Child Care Workforce is an organization that I am currently following, found at http://www.ccw.org/. Their mission is to "improve the quality of early care and education for
all children by promoting policy, research and organizing that ensure
the early care and education workforce is well-educated, receives better
compensation and a voice in their workplace."
One main issue that CCW addresses is the low compensation for early childhood education teachers. They began a campaign in 1991 called the Worthy Wage Campaign. The National Worthy Wage day is May 1st and CCW provides you with ideas on how you can act in your community.
CCW works with and promotes many other organizations such as Family Initiative, NACCRRA, NAEYC, and many others. I really like their mission statement and their involvement within the early childhood education field.
I am all for a bump in pay! While working in the public school system I made four times what I make now. Without quality EC experiences and EC educators our children would not be prepared for primary school.
ReplyDeleteThanks for the insight, I think that Early Childhood professionals are under rated and under paid. Anything to maintain quality with the field is welcoming. Thanks Cassie!
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ReplyDeleteIt appears the issue of low remuneration for teachers is a global issue. I hope CCW would be able to tackle this issue as EC professionals need encouragement through a good pay. Nice blog
Thanks for sharing, until now I didn't realize this organization existed. It's good to know that there are people who understands the importance of the field and our pay should be reflective of that very fact!
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ReplyDeleteThank you for your post. like many other it still boggles my mind that educators are paid so much less than they should be. Education should be on of the main priorities in this country and sadly it is not. I look forward to future posts on policy and how it has changed or stayed the same when it comes to educators.
Renata
Hi Cassie
ReplyDeleteThanks for sharing this information. We need to share with other that we as educator are under paid for what we do. Being new to the profession I enjoy reading about the campaign they had for the teachers. Nice Job
Thanks for sharing its good to know there is an organization that supports the idea of increasing teacher's salary. Teacher should be well appreciated for their work.
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