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Milwaukee’s Leaders Celebrate Early Childhood Education
Why is early childhood education (ECE) so important for Milwaukee? That was the question Milwaukee Succeeds posed to community and business leaders across the city in April in honor of NAEYC’s Week of the Young Child.
Partner Highlight: The Leading Men Fellowship
On January 8, one of Milwaukee Succeeds’ key ECE partners – The Literacy Lab’s Leading Men Fellowship – received a $1 million Equitable Recovery Grant, which will be used to further strengthen the pipeline of young men of color into the ECE workforce.
A Snapshot of ECE Teachers in Milwaukee
Who are Milwaukee’s early care and education teachers? What motivates them, and why are they choosing to leave? Thanks to new Milwaukee-specific data, we’ve finally been able to assemble concrete answers to these pressing questions and gain new insight into the ECE workforce.
Milwaukee Succeeds Promotes ECE Accreditation
For an early learning program, accreditation is a chance to take a deep dive into the program’s practices, create an action plan for improvement, and reflect on the relationships they’re establishing. The AFP was created in order to guide programs through this process.
Utilizing Data to Drive Change
At Milwaukee Succeeds, data is at the core of what we do. It informs our priorities, drives our decisions and aids us in advocating for change. Still intimidated? That’s alright. Our impact manager, Lorna Dilley, and ECE data analyst, Kristin Kappelman, helped break it down for us in order to demonstrate the true power of data.
What the Pandemic has Taught us about Changing Systems
Another year of the pandemic has come and gone, bringing change to everything it’s touched. At Milwaukee Succeeds, navigating this uncertain landscape has certainly presented challenges, but it’s also given us an opportunity to re-examine how we operate and discover new ways to work together.