What’s the best way to maintain an anti-bias curriculum during the holiday season? For Laura Salter, Center Director of Signal Peak Early Learning Center at the Central Arizona College campus in Coolidge, the answer is to maintain a “policy of...
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Compiled and edited by Natalee Huguez and Vicki Louk Balint | November 17, 2017 Arizona State University senior Natalee Huguez is no stranger to a scholarship award. At the AzAEYC Annual Meeting this year, she was selected as the Rhian...
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A pioneer of implementing the shared services model for early childhood programs, Cellissa Hoyt serves as state director of SELA: State Early Learning Alliance of New Hampshire. We welcomed Cellissa as our guest speaker at the 2017 AzAEYC Annual Meeting...
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From Melissa Larson Busby, AzAEYC Board President Many of you may have noticed that NAEYC has made some major membership changes in the last several weeks. As the nation’s leading voice for high-quality early childhood education, NAEYC is working hard...
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Do you have an established record of funded grant awards or fund development? Have a keen ability to lead and organize a cohesive team of diverse constituents and members who live and work in the Phoenix metro area and throughout the state of Arizona? Are you passionate about supporting all who care for, educate and work on behalf of young children? Come work with us! [maxbutton id="2" url="https://www.azaeyc.org/now-hiring-executive-director/" text="Learn more" ]
Winner of the 2016 Rhian Evans Allvin and Joshua J. Allen Scholarship Award Early last fall, NAEYC student member Catharine Danenhower discovered a scholarship opportunity just as she was gearing up for her last year of study at Northern Arizona...
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Laura Delmar of Kayenta, Arizona, was awarded a scholarship to attend NAEYC’s Professional Leadership Institute (PLI) in San Francisco. AzAEYC is proud to share Laura’s story. My name is Laura Delmar. I currently work for the Kayenta Unified School District...
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In June of 2017, representatives of AzAEYC participated in NAEYC’s Professional Learning Institute (PLI) along with colleagues from our local partners, SAzAEYC and VSAEYC. AzAEYC Board members Melissa Larson Busby (President) and Eric Bucher (Vice President of Professional Learning & Development)...
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Donna Candreva Interim Director, Mesa Community College Children’s Center “We really want to be allies in meeting children’s emotional and academic needs.” As an educator, why did you choose to work with young learners? Children at this age are so...
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