The Institute is excited to announce a new way to meet your ECE training needs– online on-demand trainings!  Two online on-demand trainings are currently available with more to come.  Check out our website for all of the on-demand information and access to our latest on-demand training release- Professional Burnout in ECE:  You Can’t Give to Others What You Don’t Have! 

Check out the new NC ECE  documentary:  Take Care

The documentary examines North Carolina’s child care crisis through the voices and stories of our families, child care providers and teachers, and business and community leaders.    

North Carolina’s child care crisis is hurting everyone—children, families, child care teachers and providers, businesses, and our economy. The Take Care documentary puts a face to the issues and impacts of this crisis and the criticalness of finding lasting solutions! Learn more and get involved with the Take Care project.

The Institute Supports NAEYC and DAP

Recently DAP has come under attack. Read more about the NC Institute for Child Development Professional’s stance on standing firm with NAEYC and Developmentally Appropriate Practice (DAP).

Institute DAP Support letter to NAEYC (2)

The Unifying Framework for the Early Childhood Education Profession

The Unifying Framework for the Early Childhood Education Profession was developed over the last three years by a task force of 15 leading national organizations, including the National Association for the Education of Young Children, which facilitated this collective effort. Together, these organizations, which represent members of the early childhood field working across states, settings, and age bands, partnered with a diverse range of stakeholders and more than 11,000 individuals to produce the Unifying Framework.  Learn more about the Power to the Profession initiative here.

Your Voice Counts

The NC Early Education Coalition (Coalition) is the only statewide advocacy coalition dedicated to promoting high quality, accessible and affordable child care in NC.

Through research and advocacy, the Coalition builds partners with early childhood educators, early care and education providers, Smart Start, child care resource and referrals agencies, higher education and others to improve programs and policies and/or increase funding for low income families through child care subsidy, scholarships and wage supplements for early educators, NC Pre-K, Smart Start and more. 

Learn how you can become involved and become a member of the Coalition.

The Institute is currently looking to fill two part-time contracted positions to support our organization’s work.  Please see the two job descriptions below.  Resumes are being accepted now and the positions are considered open until filled with resumes being accepted on a rolling basis.  

For any questions, feel free to reach out  to erins@ncicdp.org.

PT Certification Coordinator Position

PT Organization Coordinator Position

NC Salary Scale Toolkit 

In 2023, the NC Institute for Child Development Professionals shared the exciting news of the creation of a project to design an online toolkit and trainings on creating or revising a salary scale for child care centers and family child care homes and share more broadly information on the NC Model Salary Scale for Early Childhood Teachers.

We are excited to share that the NC Salary Scale Toolkit AND the Level 1 Training Salary Scale Toolkit Webinar are available on demand 24/7!  Register for the Level 1 Toolkit Webinar Training and access the Salary Scale Toolkit here.

For all things “salary scale toolkit project,” click here and use the QR code below or sign up here to stay up to date on information related to this project.