ECEC Value 7:Supporting children's development through caring, meaningful relationships with families and caregivers.
💐What if the most important thing you do as an early childhood educator has nothing to do with curriculum?
🌹Research is unambiguous on this point. The quality of relationships between educators and children, between programs and families, between caregivers and the communities they serve, is the single most powerful factor in early childhood outcomes.
🥀Not the curriculum. Not the assessment tool. Not the literacy program. The relationship.
🌺And yet professional development, policy mandates, and program evaluations continue to prioritize everything but relationships. Educators are trained to deliver content, manage behavior, and document progress, while the relational work that actually drives development is treated as instinct rather than craft.
🌷Meaningful relationships with families and caregivers are not peripheral to early childhood practice. They are the practice.
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Join me at 7 pm EDT on Wednesday, June 24th, for a discussion on how to embrace this value as a form of resistance.