Who
Are We?
The
Iowa Early Care & Education Professional Development Project
is made up of individuals representing child care centers, out-of
school-time child care providers, family child care providers,
Head Start, Extension, Area
Education Agencies, Child Care Resource & Referral, Child
& Adult Care Food Program, public and private universities,
colleges and community colleges, Department of Education, Department
of Human Services, and Department of Public Health. This group
began their work with a federal grant from Head Start to initiate
a professional development system for people who work in Early
Care and Education in the State of Iowa.
View a list
of our current Steering Committee
members.
Legislative
Support
Legislation was past in 1999 that mandated the departments of
education, health, and human services jointly establish a leadership
council for child care training and development in the state
of Iowa (HF 761). The legislation identified agencies and organizations
of the early care and education field that should be represented
on the council, in addition to the representatives from the
three departments. Their charge was to develop a proposal for
a statewide child care training and development system and to
monitor the implementation of the proposal. The proposal shall
include all of the following elements:
a.
Identification of core competencies for providers and administrators
that may be incorporated into professional standards.
b. Establishing levels for professional development.
c. Implementing a professional experience registry
to track the training, educational attainment, and experience
of providers and administrators.
d. Implementing a unified training and technical assistance
approach for identifying needs, ensuring equal access, and
establishing minimum requirements for training and trainers.
e. Establishing an articulation process to permit recognition
of training provided by entities that do not grant academic
credit by entities that do grant academic credit.
f. Implementing a financing structure to support the
training registry.
g. Identifying other means for enhancing the training
and development of persons who provide and administer child
care.
Who
Are We?