Exploring Roles in the ECE Community: Local and State Levels

A) QUALITYstarsNY

• Is a high quality rating system that helps families determine the best schools for their children.

“By choosing a QUALITYstarsNY program, families will be confident that their child’s program is invested in delivering quality early learning experiences. Better yet, parents will know that programs are supported with free resources, like staff training and professional development, to make sure that children get what they need to succeed” (QualitystarsNY)

I chose this because I believe this program to help the early childhood programs become better with resources and communication.

B) NYC DOE

• As professional educators come together, the New York Department of Education is able to provide a frame work for educators. Frame works include various units of studies, professional developments, an instructional coordinator, helping to partner with families, and allowing to shape the minds of children.

Our New York Department of Education is able to provide for units of studies

• This is one of the resources my colleagues and I were given while working in our school. We receive a instructional coordinator who comes in about once a month to help guide us. She helps us to identify our strengths and work on what we can improve. She also gives us insightful ways, such as trying a new approach to something we have discussed with her.
• In addition, we attend professional developments (pd) where we are allowed to share our strategies with other educators and the instructors teaching us. When we have a pd, I tell the children my assistant and I are going to school to learn and teach them new things.

The NYC DOE seems to have a lot of job openings for a family coordinator * The job requires supporting “the development and implementation of DOE policies and strategies to strengthen family engagement at all levels of the DOE, and provide a single point of entry for families to resolve escalated concerns” * I found this interesting because I witness a lot of families that drop of their children and run out the building because they need to go to work. Or other times they do no come around when we have days like “family day” or neighborhood walks, or even when events occur within the school environment. I do not believe I would qualify for the job, however, I would like to work my way up to doing this. Even though we try to have family engagement in my school already.

C) NYS Office of Children and Family Services

Seems to advocate for children in various ways: abuse, adoption, violence, child welfare etc. They also explain various programs you can choose from to make sure your children receives the best education.

References

OCFS (n.d.). NYS Office of Children and Family Services. Retrieved from https://ocfs.ny.gov/main/default.asp.

QUALITYstarsNY Coordinating Agency (n.d). Retrieved from http://qualitystarsny.org/index.php