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Take the Early Childhood Care and Education Workforce Survey – earn $30 and enter to win $500!
Do you work as a teacher or site leader at a center, Head Start, public school, or family day home participating in VQB5? If so, you may be eligible to take an important survey that will inform our efforts to better support educators!
Partners from the Study of Early Education through Partnerships at UVA have sent email invitations (from noreply@surveys.virginia.edu) with a unique survey link to all eligible educators. Eligible educators who complete the survey will receive a $30 gift card – and be entered into a weekly raffle to win $500! The sooner you complete the survey, the more likely you are to win one of the following weeks’ raffles.
Child Care Centers and Family Day Homes
Child Abuse and Neglect: Recognition and Reporting Training
In recognition of Child Abuse Prevention month, the VDOE is reminding all caregivers and educators that the Community College Workforce Alliance (CCWA) offers training in Child Abuse and Neglect: Recognition and Reporting. The VDOE partners with CCWA to offer this training at no cost to all providers working in Virginia child care programs. Register your staff today and take advantage of this free opportunity. More information can be found on the CCWA website.
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Virginia Preschool Initiative
VPI Spring Application- Now Open in SSWS – Due on May 15
The VDOE has released the VPI Spring Application. This application, released via the Single Sign-On Web System (SSWS) contains all the necessary questions and information needed to apply for VPI for the 2024-2025 School Year. An email was sent to current VPI coordinators that included instructions along with the updated VPI Guidelines and Eligibility Guidance. Virginia Education Update Newsletter on April 4, contains additional information on the application. An instructional webinar was held on March 27.
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Early Childhood Special Education
VPI Funding in Early Childhood Special Education Classrooms Webinar on April 18
This webinar will provide an overview of how school divisions can use Virginia Preschool Initiative (VPI) funding to support ECSE classrooms in public schools. Supporting ECSE rooms with VPI funds is an excellent way to expand VPI programming in your locality as well as have state funds supplement other funds used in these classrooms. The VDOE will host a webinar on April 18 to review considerations for using VPI eligibility to improve programs for children with IEPs.
Applications Open for the Aspiring Special Education Leaders Academy, Cohort XVII
The VDOE is now accepting applications to the seventeenth cohort of its Aspiring Special Education Leaders Academy (ASELA). This leadership initiative is designed to help prepare potential leaders for administrative positions in special education. Applications can be found on VDOE’s Leadership Academies webpage. For more information, contact Dr. Zenia Burnett, Director of Special Education Instructional Services, at Zenia.Burnett@doe.virginia.gov; or Deborah Johnson, Intellectual Disabilities Specialist, at spedinstruction@doe.virginia.gov. Applications are due April 19.
Head Start
Early Care and Education (ECE) Workforce Salary Scale Playbook
The Administration for Children and Families (ACF) is offering early care and education programs the opportunity to hear about a valuable resource that addresses challenges with lower compensation for the early childhood workforce. This webinar will highlight the ECE Workforce Salary Scale Playbook Implementation Guide, which can be utilized as a resource to improve the development of program wages and salary scales.
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Webinar: ECE Workforce Salary Scale Playbook
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Date: April 25 at 1:00 p.m.
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VQB5 - Virginia's Unified Measurement and Improvement System
Update on Proposed 2024-2025 VQB5 Guidelines Webinar on April 23
VDOE will host a webinar for all Early Childhood Care and Education stakeholders about the proposed updates to the 2024-2025 VQB5 Guidelines on Tuesday, April 23 at 2:00 p.m. (This webinar will be recorded).
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Webinar: VQB5 Update on 2024-2025 Proposed Guidelines
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Date: April 23 at 2:00 p.m.
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VQB5 Quality Profile Feedback Opportunity - Feedback Due on May 10
Starting in the fall of 2024, all publicly-funded early childhood programs in Virginia will receive an annual VQB5 quality profile that will include information about performance on measurements (i.e., quality rating results) and other topics of interest to families and the general public.
Using feedback gathered during Practice Year 2, VDOE developed draft ‘mock-ups’ of VQB5 quality profiles for review. Feedback will be used to inform the final VQB5 quality profiles, which will be reviewed by the Board of Education in June. Click on the links below to view profile mock-ups and to provide feedback.
Early Learning Support
Virginia Early Childhood Mental Health Consultation Programmatic Consultation Services and Next Group Session “Exclusionary Discipline"
Join ECMHC at their next group session this Thursday, April 18 at 11:00 a.m. to learn how to implement policies and alternative evidence-based strategies for preventing exclusionary discipline.
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Last Month to Register for ELDs Micro-Credential for the 2023-2024 school year!
For interested learners: The registration window for the ELDS Micro-Credential will close on May 30,2024. New learners are still able register Log in credentials are sent via welcome email within 7 business day of registration.
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Ready B5 Recap Spring Edition is Here!
Click to view the latest edition of Ready B5 Recap, the Quarterly Newsletter for Early Childhood Care and Education in Virginia.
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