The organization that I have chosen to follow is Early
Childhood Australia (ECA). ECA is an Australian early childhood advocacy
organization. From their website (http://www.earlychildhoodaustralia.org.au/)
I found the following information:
OUR
VISION: Every young child is thriving and learning
'Our role in achieving
this vision is to be an effective advocate for young children and a champion
for quality outcomes in early childhood education and care'
From reading the latest ECA VOICE newsletter
I learned about a Productivity Commission inquiry which is connecting with the
Australian early childhood learning community. They are looking at ways of
achieving a more productive community. Some factors related to early childhood
education included…
·
Quality programs best support children
and the outcomes continue until adulthood
·
Early childhood education allows
parents to work which increases workforce participation
The goal of the ECA is to reach 90%
early childhood education attendance by the year 2020. They are also working to
supplement out of pocket costs to low income families and increase subsidies
for middle class families. If you’d like to read more about these issues you
can view this newsletter at http://www.earlychildhoodaustralia.org.au/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/Voice_1401_screen.pdf
Good news! This week I received an
e-mail from Éva Izsák from the International Step by Step Association
(ISSA). She said the following:
I will
get back to you soon with details of your Friends of ISSA registration and let
you know as soon as I have a contact person regarding your questions.
I am really looking forward to
connecting with an early childhood professional from the ISSA (probably from
the Netherlands). Good luck to my colleagues this week as you’re making
international connections as well!
Hello Laura,
ReplyDeleteI enjoyed reading about this organization ECA. We need as many resources we can find to help advocate for these young children, which, in turn, will be our future leaders. The newsletter is a great way to keep supporters informed about their goals and plans for ECA.
Thanks for the web resource,
Tierra Jackson
I enjoyed reading about ECA. They have similar purposes as NAECTE that I read about and discussed in my post. I look forward to hearing more about this organization.
ReplyDeleteWay to go Laura! You did a great job on the ECA! I am also researching Australia. Thanks for the additional insight on it. I am glad you have heard something back from them. I have also, but I was also given another person to contact; so I am currently working on that contact.
ReplyDeleteGreat post,
theressa Lee
Laura,
ReplyDeleteCongratulations on hearing back from one of your contacts! I have not had any replies yet, however I have been really under the weather maybe I should recheck my e-mail? Anyway...back to you....how exciting to have made contact, surely our goals are going to be similiar but I will be interested to hear about some of the strategies that other countries are using that work for them. ECA's goals sound very similiar to that of Head Start?
Jenn