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Publications:
- Developing Early Childhood Educators, Year One In Review. Click on link to right to download a PDF presentation shared at a partnership meeting on October 21st, 2009 with recent data and accomplishments, plus lessons learned thus far.
- On Saturday, February 7, 2009 a group of over 100 educators, family childcare providers, and early childhood stake holders joined at the Early Childhood Centers of Greater Springfield to strengthen early education and care for children through research and communication via an action plan to increase advocacy at al levels of government. The topic for that morning was compensation and access to higher learning opportunities for the early childhood workforce. See Resource Links to the right for a summary of the discussions and the PowerPoint slides presented at the meeting.
- The Interim Business Report focuses on the impact of the workforce intervention DECE staff have created a Measuring Business Impact tool (MBI) specifically for the DECE project to measure the project impact and record outcomes of the intended goals for incumbent workers and their companies engaged in training/education opportunities during the time period of August 2008-December-2009. The information provided will be utilized to provide initial baseline data and information for statistical purposes will be shared with funders, stake holders, and other interested parties. The report is available in its entirety, click to the right on DECE Business Report #1 March 2010.

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