EQuIPD helps in the following ways:
We help create professional development plans and help define the right path for continuing education that is right for you...there is something available for everyone. We also advocate for worthy wages that support teachers, as well.
The overall goal of our community learning events is for every attendant to leave with information they can use immediately in the classroom. We are unique in that we offer follow up events where participants can discuss challenges and successes, along with lessons learned. Addressing topics at this deeper level allows adult learners better opportunities for understanding, reflection, and building communities of practice through the process.
We provide tools to enhance your leadership skills and abilities. Through our Professional Leadership Action Network we are helping to organize a community of leaders that are informed and ready with the skills needed to improve their classroom and work environment.
A major focus of EQuIPD is peer coaching. We will recruit coaches and teachers to participate in the project and train coaches to become leaders in early childhood education.
Quality Enhancement in Guilford County is being addressed by working closely with other Technical Assistance providers.
We offer supports around creating your best Work Environment and Work Life. We work with individual programs, directors, and family child care home providers to be able to reflect on what their climate looks like today, and we use various methods to help them get to where they want to be in the future.
Through six interconnected activities, child care teachers, family child care providers, and administrators will experience professional development and educational planning, peer coaching, curriculum development experiences, director leadership, consultation of learning contexts for teachers, and quality enhancement for early care and education facilities.
Leadership and advising to the project provided by the University of North Carolina at Greensboro through the Department of Human Development and Family Studies.
Leadership and advising to the project provided by the University of North Carolina at Greensboro through the Department of Human Development and Family Studies.