1. MA Department of Early
Education and Care (EEC)
Workforce Alignment
EarlyEdU
June 2017
2. • EEC Strategic Plan outlines the expectation that its workforce will be
professionally prepared with requirements based on best practices and
current research.
• Highly trained teachers are associated with positive child outcomes
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EEC Workforce Considerations
3. Workforce Data gathered by UMDI from the Integrated Public
Use Microdata Series (from IPUMS*)
• 28% of center-based participants have a Bachelor’s Degree
• 14% of FCC participants have a Bachelor’s Degree
• 17% of center-based participants have an Associate’s Degree
• 11% of FCC participants have an Associate’s Degree
• 18% of FCC participants are attending school
• 26% of center-based participants are attending school
Note: This is MA specific data
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EEC Workforce
4. IPUMS Data – Educator Attributes
• FCC: 23% Hispanic , Center-based 13%
• FCC: 23% have limited English, center-based 7%
• FCC: 12% are “linguistically isolated”, center-based 3%
• FCC: 33% work more than 40 hours/week, Center-based 10%
Note: This is MA specific data
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EEC Workforce
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What is needed? Clearly defined professional standards that are aligned
across the agency and include supports and resources from EEC and the
Education Secretariat.
Integrated Workforce
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• Honor where the workforce is currently (especially in terms of education and
income) and work toward increases that are reasonable to expect without
destabilizing the field;
• Meet the needs of a diverse workforce to access education, support retention
and leadership development;
• System should be research or evidence based and, when possible, associated
with positive child outcomes.
• System should be accessible, useful, and understandable to the full spectrum
of ECE workers in all program types.
Guiding Principles
7. • Aligning core requirements, competencies, and professional development
• Developing and enhancing EEC’s foundational core knowledge trainings for
all educators;
• Developing an authentic career pathway for the entire early education and
out-of-school time workforce that will be the basis of future credentialing;
• Investing in a comprehensive information technology workforce
development system that is inclusive of a dedicated online Learning
Management System (LMS) with integrated professional
registry/certification and QRIS systems.
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Strategies
8. • Core requirements
– Licensing Standards
– QRIS Standards
– Categories of Study Core Content
• Competencies
– Educator Competencies
– Administrator Competencies
– Coaching Competencies
– Trainer Competencies
• Professional development
– PD Delivery System – Program Focused Approach
– Coaching
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Strategy: Alignment
9. North Shore Community College is in the process of:
• Developing pre-service health and safety trainings and materials
• Redesigning EEC’s pre-licensee process and required orientations for all
EEC-licensed educators and providers (programs)
• Developing content for ongoing foundational core knowledge
Note: Training and materials will be available in
multiple languages
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Strategy: Foundational Knowledge
10. Developing an authentic career pathway for the entire early education and
out-of-school time workforce that will be the basis of future credentialing,
inclusive of:
• Articulation agreement for public Institutes of Higher Education with early
childhood programs of study (4 core courses)
• Early Educator Scholarship
• PIF (performance incentive funding) planning grant to develop Competency
Based Education pathway in ECE at community colleges
• Crosswalk of EarlyEdU courses with EEC Categories of Study
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Strategy: Career Pathway
12. Investing in a comprehensive information technology workforce development
system that is inclusive of:
• A Learning Management System (LMS)
• Integrated professional registry/certification
• QRIS Program Manager
• Video-based coaching and educator video portfolio system – Potentially
EEU’s Coaching Companion!
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Strategy: Integrated IT
13. • Complete development of foundational knowledge
• Complete the Career Lattices
• Align and update EEC licensing regulations
– Align content with workforce policies
– Integrate lattice will form the basis for EEC’s new credentialing system
• Update QRIS requirements
• Procure and configure Integrated IT Workforce System
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Next Steps