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Advocacy and Policy News
The Big Conversation – California’s Smallest ChildrenThe governor’s January budget proposes substantial investments in early childhood education and care (ECE)—hundreds of millions of dollars to support ECE facilities, employees and systems. In February, the CDE’s Early Learning and Care Division rolled out its year-long $10.6M Preschool Development Grant needs assessment and planning process. On March 11, the California Assembly Blue Ribbon Commission (BRC) on Early Childhood Education presented its draft report: a bold, balanced and comprehensive assessment of our mixed delivery system.
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Advocacy and Policy News
Member Education: AB 2816: Let’s Talk About the Healthy Schools ActBy: Christina Vredevoe, Senior Environmental Scientist, CDPR
Do you have something to say about the Healthy Schools Act? Now is your chance to voice your comments via our new email account, HSAinput@cdpr.ca.gov! The Healthy Schools Act (HSA) is a set of nine requirements that California public K-12 schools and licensed child care centers must comply with when they use any kind of pesticide on school grounds, including antimicrobial pesticides like bleach and disinfectant wipes. -
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Help Secure a Stronger Start, Brighter Future for Our ChildrenYour help is needed to ensure that California invests the resources required to strengthen Head Start and Early Head Start programs. Together, we can improve the entire early childhood education and care system.
Please contact your legislators today to tell them to fund Head Start and Early Head Start programs – and invest in California’s most vulnerable children and families. Sending this pre-drafted message will only take one minute of your time. -
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The Bookshelf: Clear LeadershipFull Title: Clear Leadership: Sustaining Real Collaboration and Partnership at Work
Year: 2010
Author: Gervase Bushe
Category: Leadership & Organizational Effectiveness
Quick summary: This book is about clarity, and how to get closer to it. How do we share our experience in ways that strengthen our daily work with others? Gervase Bush provides a model for getting past the organizational mush that’s created when we make up stories about other people’s behavior instead of simply asking them. -
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The Bookshelf: The Spirit of KaizenFull Title: The Spirit of Kaizen: Creating Lasting Excellence One Small Step at a Time
Year: 2013
Author: Robert Maurer, Ph.D.
Category: Leadership & Organizational Effectiveness
About the author: Robert Maurer is Director of Behavioral Sciences for the Family Practice Residency Program at Santa Monica UCLA Medical Center and a faculty member with the UCLA School of Medicine. He also wrote One Small Step Can Change Your Life: The Kaizen Way and Mastering Fear: Harnessing Emotion to Achieve Excellence in Work, -
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Member Education: DPR’s Integrated Germ Management Training Course Is Now Available!By: Christina Vredevoe, Senior Environmental Scientist, CDPR
Cold and flu season is here! Do you use antimicrobial products, like bleach and disinfecting wipes, to keep those germs out of your center? Did you know that you must complete annual Healthy Schools Act training when using antimicrobial products in child care centers? Your facility’s designated IPM Coordinator is also required to take the annual training. The training requirement applies to all child care centers except family day care homes. -
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The Bookshelf: A New Member ResourceThe Bookshelf is Head Start California’s member community book review center. We all learn by reading. Here, you can share the books that teach and inspire you. What have you read that broadened your thinking, shifted your perspective, or changed your practice? Let your Head Start colleagues know: what’s worth reading? Submit your review here.
