NCSL Virtual Early Learning Workforce Boot Camp, 19 Aug 2021

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From YouTube: Identifying Topics to be Addressed in Future Early Learning Workforce Sessions

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NCSL’s Patrick Lyons outlines the early learning workforce project’s next steps and highlights topic submissions from the audience.

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I want to thank um michelle, beverly and jason for their time today participating in this panel, and you know I learned so much from all of you and um and thank you for sharing your resource that we are sharing on our website, so that people who are on this call and who view this video later, will be able to uh follow up and see some of your great work so for everyone on the call today, I want to thank you for your time. This was a long haul, but you made it through.

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I am so impressed with how little attrition we had over a three hour meeting. You all are troopers. um So this is the start of a conversation, it's kind of crazy to think that we're starting with a big three-hour meeting, but we have more. We want to say on this topic, so please watch your inboxes.

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We are going to have some meetings coming up that are going to be focused on a provider panel, where you will hear directly from early learning providers um talking about their experiences and why it's so important uh to get some more support for them. um We are also going to be talking about um governance and the ways that different states govern their early learning programs and the impact that has on teachers and teacher quality. um Well we're wrapping up here.

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If you have a few moments, I am putting a quick link in the chat where you can provide feedback on some of the other things you'd like us to cover in future early learning workforce meetings.

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So if you have a second, please click that and we will be able to see some of your results together and I will try and navigate to that screen. Now.

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So I think this is how this is supposed to work, and I'm I'm open for my colleagues to correct me, but we should eventually start to see some of your results populate on this screen that we're looking at together.

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You may need to go back to the last slide.

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Okay- oh ah I see so you all have started with that. So all right cool. uh I was gonna, skip this question um because of time, but it seems like you all are already on top of it. So we can talk about it.

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um It was a ranking of what early learning workforce issues are um maybe most important a front of mind in your state and looks like compensation is running away with it, um and professional development and teacher quality are kind of tied there in second, but that is with, I think three participants, so we might be able to do better than that.

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All right and we're seeing some population here, early childhood special education. We would love to talk about that. More that's a very important topic and compensation. You heard it a lot, but I know there's more to say on that.

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Well, while we see, if anything else, pops up in here, I just want to remind you that we here at ncsl are stand ready to answer any questions you have on early learning workforce or the early learning as a topic more broadly, please let us know what questions you or the legislators you work for, may have we're happy to do research if we don't have the answer off the top of our head. We also have a very comprehensive build tracking system, so you can see what other states are doing in the early learning space.

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So please think about that as a resource. So, even if you just want to understand whether students are doing please reach out to us, we love hearing from you and helping you think about these issues, uh we're seeing some more financing and funding. um Yes, I should say that our next conversation, where we are going to talk about governance, is also going to talk about funding and financing, so great compensation parity uh birth through age, five with the k-3 and up to 12., um so yeah we can dive into that more.

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I know we had a lot of questions on that particular topic and we'd be happy to talk a little bit more about what that might look like in a state-to-state basis. I think that could be helpful for folks.

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All right, well, I'm looking and I have seen that we are close to time um if you have any last words from any of our speakers when you run csl staff. This is the time um otherwise you know I want to thank you so much again for your time. um We really appreciate the engagement, um even after so much um online learning, so I've seen one more thing in the chat. Oh thank you beverly for participating.

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So um with that nice note, oh wait we're seeing some more. We also have community base versus public schools as a topic and um sorting through federal funds and age groupings. That's something we can talk about. Yes um on one of our next calls. We will have austin reed um our federal affairs person for the education team, and we will talk.

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I think, a little bit more about some of the things that uh we heard from lauren about ways to use this new funding to um support these educators, so I've ended a million times, but now I actually am gonna end and thank you once again for your time and uh please keep in touch. We will be sharing resources and follow up from this meeting and um certainly be getting on your calendar soon for those follow-up conversations, so thanks again, dollar presenters and have a great rest of your day. Everyone.