Announcement: New Salary Scale Toolkit Project
The NC Institute for Child Development Professionals (the Institute) is pleased to announce the receipt of a grant from the Blue Cross and Blue Shield of North Carolina Foundation to take the work that has been done on an early childhood teachers model salary scale, and disseminate a salary scale toolkit and corresponding training modules. In 2007 the Institute created model salary scales for master teachers, teachers and assistant teachers working in licensed child care settings. This initial effort recognized different levels of knowledge, skills and experience in order to create equitable wage scales. In 2021, the Institute, along with other partners across the state, released a revised Model Salary Scale for Early Childhood Education (ECE) Teachers. This scale built upon the early work of the Institute’s original salary scale. The purpose of this current project is to support NC’s child care administrators and family child care home providers to review and analyze their budgets and hiring practices to ensure a consistent and fair approach to ECE workforce compensation. In addition to early childhood educators, program administrators and owners, training modules will also support NC’s ECE technical assistance providers and NC’s ECE higher education faculty, both of whom work directly with ECE providers in child care facilities. They will be able to assist providers with creating or revising a salary scale to support fairer approaches to workforce compensation. Long term goals and outcomes of the project are to help programs sustain compensation gains made from receiving NC stabilization grants, and align with the goals of state compensation workgroups and committees and national movements to improve ECE workforce compensation.
Be on the lookout for more information including training opportunities in 2023.
Institute End of the Year Fundraising Campaign
These past couple of years have been difficult for our field, for families and for young children. Early care and education programs are struggling and many in our workforce have left the field to stay home or to find better-paying jobs. Our work is more important than ever, as we try to build back a better early childhood professional development AND compensation system for our early childhood professionals. Please consider making a donation to help us continue to do our work. We are an IRS-approved tax-exempt organization. Your help would be much appreciated. Donate here.
Lean In and Learn With Us on Dec. 9, 2022 from 12:30-3:30 p.m.
“Investment, Innovation & Action: Strategies in NC to Revive the Early Care & Education System in a “Post” Pandemic Era”
Join us as we gain perspectives from three panels focused at the national, state, community and provider levels looking at new strategies to address workforce issues.
Panel One: What’s New in Federal and State Policy and Funding to Address Workforce Education and Compensation Issues?
Presenters:
Lauren Hogan, Managing Director of Policy and Professional Advancement at the National Association for the Education of Young Children (NAEYC)
New and Needed NC Strategies and Funding to Help the ECE Workforce and What We Can Do
Susan Butler-Staub, NC Early Education Coalition & NCAEYC Board President
Panel Two: What are Some New or Model Strategies or Resources to Support the Early Childhood Workforce in NC?
Presenters:
Linda Chappel, Child Care Services Association; Using Every State and Local Resource to Implement High Quality County Pre-K with Well-Compensated Teachers
Edith Locke and Allison Miller, Child Care Services Association; What’s New With Statewide T.E.A.C.H. scholarships and Wage Supplements
Mary Olvera, NC Community College System Office; New Strategies to Support Community College ECE Credentials and Degrees
Panel Three: What Innovative Strategies are Child Care Providers Using to Attract and Retain Early Childhood Educators?
Presenters:
Rhonda Rivers, Regional Director of Curriculum and Training at LeafSpring Schools in Charlotte, NC and Adjunct Instructor at Central Piedmont Community College
Michele Miller-Cox, Executive Director at First Presbyterian Day School, in Durham NC and Adjunct Faculty at Durham Tech
Register for this event here!
December NCICDP Lean In and Learn Flyer
ECE WORKFORCE INDEX: NC’s Profile
The Center for the Study of Child Care Employment (CSCCE) released the 2020 Early Childhood Workforce Index, which provides a state-by-state look at policies and conditions affecting the early childhood workforce. Access NC’s state profile here.
NAEYC Releases Brief for the ECE field navigating through COVID
Navigating Relief: An Overview of the Help that May Be Available for Child Care Providers- Feb. 2021