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The Power in Our Collective Voices: Building Your Skills as an Early Childhood Advocate

Knowing how essential educators’ voices and experiences are in advocacy, this article lifts up the voices and perspectives of early childhood educators who have cultivated their advocacy skills in Arizona. The authors also offer five practical ways to engage in advocacy.

1. Be an advocate: 5 ways to Elevate Your Voice for Early Ed
2. 5 Easy Action Steps for Early Childhood Advocates
3. Use your Voice: Ben Alteneder on ECE Policy and Advocacy
4. Spearheading advocacy and public policy in Arizona are part of AzAEYC’s mission! Early childhood professionals understand the importance of quality early childhood education programs and the lasting impact that a good start in life provides for all young children.
5. Learn more about the issues that affect young children and their families – and the early childhood workforce.
6. Consider contacting those who shape state and national policy at local, state, and federal levels. Register to vote! Our voices count.

Power to the Profession

We’re building on guidelines, frameworks, and standards that currently operate across programs, organizations and states. NAEYC’s Power to the Profession initiative aims to establish a shared framework of career pathways, knowledge and competencies, qualifications, standards, and compensation that unifies the entire profession.

This will lead to a comprehensive policy and financing strategy for their systemic adoption and implementation.