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Working for a just,
equitable, and quality
early childhood education
for every young child.
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The #DEYInstitute2020 Theme -
We Are Stronger and Louder Together
We are pleased to announce the launch of DEY's 2nd annual Summer Institute in July at the Eaton Hotel in Washington D.C. We hope you'll join us!
Want to know more about DEY's Summer Institute and get inspired and ready to attend? Watch our video from last year's Institute, featuring presenters and attendees alike. We know you'll feel the same way at the end of #DEYInstitute2020.
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You can learn more about this year's program and presenters by visiting our Institute page,
click here.
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Hotel rooms at our DEY rate are limited, so make sure to reserve your hotel room now!
Hotel Rooms $185/night.
DEY's room code is
SUG19A
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A STATEMENT ON THE CORONAVIRUS
DEY is watching COVID–19 updates carefully as the situation evolves. With our Summer Institute still several months away, we continue to assess the risk of bringing our colleagues together in July to share the same space.
For now, we want to reassure anyone who has already registered, or those wishing to take advantage of our early bird registration rate, that if it becomes necessary to cancel the Institute, refunds will be offered.
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A former Kindergarten teacher in both New York and Boston, as well as a member of DEY's National Advisory team, Jim St. Clair has witnessed first hand the decline of developmentally appropriate learning in Kindergarten and why
ALL Children Need Play. You can read his post
here.
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Unfortunately, online "preschool" continues to grow across the country, as lawmakers turn to this low-cost alternative to real preschool, mistakenly believing that it is a viable alternative. Early childhood advocates continue to try to educate them on why it is not.
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DEY Funds Kenya Meeting for ECE Teachers to Learn about the Importance of Play
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Defending the Early Years has funded over 25 worthy projects and advocacy initiatives across the United States since its founding in 2012. Recently, however, we have begun to receive requests from international organizations hoping to advance developmentally appropriate early childhood education in other countries.
We were proud to support the Mercy Youth Initiative's proposal in Mbita, Kenya to host a meeting for early childhood teachers to discuss the importance of play.
To learn more about DEY's mini grants,
click here.
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Due to concerns about the coronavirus, the 2020 Network for Public Education conference, scheduled to meet in March in Philadelphia, has been postponed. The new dates for this conference are
November 21-22, 2020
in the same location. For more information on this conference,
click here
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DEY will have a strong presence at this conference, including Denisha Jones, DEY's Director of Early Childhood Organizing, and activists Kisha Reid and Zakiya Sankara-Jabar. Together, they will present a session entitled "
Disrupting the Cradle-to-Prison Pipeline: A Defending the Early Years' Family and Educator Conversation.
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Board of Directors
Nancy Carlsson-Paige
Founder and Senior Advisor
Diane Levin
Founder and Senior Advisor
Marcy Guddemi
DEY Treasurer
Co-Directors
Blakely Bundy
Geralyn Bywater McLaughlin
Director of Early Childhood Organizing
Denisha Jones
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National Advisory Board
Erika Christakis
Sherry Cleary
Bill Crain
Stephanie Feeney
Doris Pronin Fromberg
Ayla Gavins
Michelle Gunderson
Ed Klugman
Deborah Meier
Ruth Rodriguez-Fay
James St. Clair
Judith Van Hoorn
Founding National Advisory Board
Constance Kamii
Lilian Katz
Maurice Sykes
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Defending the Early Years, Inc. is a 501(c)(3) charitable organization.
Donations are tax deductible.
Our
Tax ID: 82-4308558
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Defending the Early Years
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