Tag: early care and education

Chad Gestson, Helping Arizona understand the starting lines of kindergarten

Starting lines: Why early childhood matters to superintendents

1/17/2024
early care and education

According to a national study, 77 percent of U.S. public school superintendents say early childhood care and education has a great deal of impact on a…

Quality First provider says loss of the program will be a detriment to families with young children

1/8/2024
early care and education

Little Giants is one of about 400 child care providers scheduled to lose access to Quality First professional development and other benefits.

2023 Statewide Needs and Assets Annual Report

FTF report details challenges facing Arizona’s youngest children

1/4/2024
early care and education

Building Bright Futures, 2023 Statewide Needs and Assets Annual Report is FTF’s biennial assessment of the status of young children.

Arizona survey shows child care challenges impacting working families and their jobs

11/9/2023
early care and education

A recent survey of Arizona’s working parents shows that 35% said they have left a job in the past year due to child care issues.

First Things First 2023 Annual Report highlights outcomes of work and collaboration in Arizona

9/15/2023
early care and education

Today’s babies, toddlers and preschoolers are our state’s generation next—the generation that in just a couple of decades will be entering the workforce…

Child care worker in blue shirt talking to a little boy with a blue toy in his hand. early care and education workforce

New national early care and education workforce center designed to support child care workers

7/7/2023
early care and education

One focus will be the workforce pipeline. Many early care and education organizations find it difficult to locate skilled workers.

Week of the Young Child Interview Story - 2023

Celebrating early learners and educators who support their positive development

3/24/2023
early care and education

Week of the Young Child is an annual nationwide celebration that focuses on early learning and the educators who support young children.

Teacher, wearing a mask, is looking up to student, pointing at a card. Quality First program.

Quality First provides ‘comradery among educators’

9/2/2022
early care and education

After opening Casa de Montessori, the center director was looking to improve. Joining the Quality First program was the perfect solution.

First Things First’s Parents Playbook breaks down the game plan for parenting

6/3/2022
parent education/awareness

These short videos take the format of a sports news television program, but the players are babies, toddlers, preschoolers and families.

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