Friday, December 16, 2022 | |
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Dear Sara,
As the year comes to an end and the new year brings a fresh start with renewed energy and confidence, we want to share some upcoming events and important ECE resources.
In this newsletter:
- ECESF Fundraising Campaign!
- Updates in ECE Policy
- Community Events & Resources
- Job Postings
Cold and flu season is upon us. Please continue to take precautions to protect your health and wellbeing, as well as the children and families you serve. Teachers are sacrificing their planning time, students are calling out sick, and we continue to fight the COVID-19 pandemic. Throughout this time it is important that we continue to find compassion and support each other in the community. We are all in this together.
While we will be slowing our ECESF work down for a winter break, we will be reading your emails, and responding in the New Year. During this holiday season, we hope you continue to find ways to thrive, learn, and find joy. We look forward to our continued work together in 2023!
In community,
Sara & Anna
info@ecesf.org
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Early Care Educators of San Francisco (ECESF) encourages you to join us in investing in a community of passionate teachers, ECE providers, and community advocates. Your generous contribution enables us to continue every day, ensuring the voices of early care educators are at the table, through our focus groups, community meetings, and events.
Help us reach more educators to shape policy, program, and additional advocacy campaigns that will uplift the ECE workforce and a sustainable ECE system. Visit our website to learn more about what we do all with the support of our ECESF changemakers!
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Donations received by December 31st will be matched up to $2,000! | |
Educator & ECE Provider Resources | |
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San Francisco Early Educator Survey
As the Department of Early Childhood continues to plan for future phases of the Workforce Compensation Initiative it is important to their work that early educator voices and experiences are engaged throughout the process. Please take a few minutes to complete a survey that will inform their next steps in the development of workplace conditions and workforce pathways supports.
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Transitional Kindergarten (TK) & Kindergarten Information For Families
"This is the time of year that families should be thinking about and preparing to apply for transitional kindergarten (TK) and kindergarten (K) if they wish to enroll their children in San Francisco Unified School District (SFUSD) schools in the fall of 2023. The Department of Early Childhood is working with SFUSD to get multilingual packets of applications and flyers delivered to all city-funded early care and education programs who serve preschool-age children. We would like to request your help in getting the word out to your families, since applying by February 3, 2023 will give them the best chance of receiving a school assignment of their choice. As a reminder, children are not automatically assigned to public schools in San Francisco; families must apply to SFUSD, identify their preferred schools, and submit some additional documents.
The district has created the following tip sheet in English, Spanish, and Chinese to help you communicate important information to your families:
Apply to SFUSD Tip Sheet (English, Español, 中文)
Please expect the shipment of information packets from SFUSD soon. We appreciate your help distributing the packets and letting families know to apply by the deadline. If you have any questions, please contact the Educational Placement Center at enrollinschool@sfusd.edu or 415-241-6085. Thank you!"
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Fall Center Administrators’ Roundtables
In October, the Department of Early Childhood hosted 2 administrator roundtables to discuss San Francisco's Strategic Plan for Early Childhood, Baby Prop C: Early Care and Education for All Initiative – Increasing Access to Moderate-Income Families, MRA Funding Policies, and Baby Prop C: Workforce Compensation. If you were unable to attend or would like a refresher, here are the links to the PowerPoint presentations and video recordings:
PowerPoint
Session 1 Video Recording
Session 2 Video Recording
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From Adriana Magana of EDvance:
"We are excited to begin our recruitment efforts for Fall 2023 into our 2-Year Pathway for our BA in Early Childhood Studies (ECS). We would love to reach as many interested early childhood educators as possible in San Francisco and invite you to partner with EDvance College to support your ECE staff in their BA degree attainment.
Please share the flyer with your staff and encourage them to complete the following application and send their unofficial transcript(s) to transcript@ed-vance.org to determine eligibility. If they have any questions they can connect with our team at info@ed-vance.org."
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California Infant and Early Childhood Mental Health Consultation (IECMHC):
The IECMHC Network offers resources to promote the social and emotional health and well-being of children and the adults who care for them.
Communities of Support Reflective Practice Series: Caregiver Well-Being
January 9, 2023 06:00 PM OR January 21, 2023 01:00 PM
FREE
Check out the flyer here!
Infant and Early Childhood Mental Health Consultation for Family Child Care & Family, Friend and Neighbor Providers
FREE
Check out the flyer here!
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Tell Congress: Expand the Child Tax Credit
Last year, families received monthly Child Tax Credit (CTC) payments between July and December, but Congress allowed the expanded CTC to expire—making it harder for families to pay for necessities and putting 3.7 million children in poverty.
Take action now to help women and families who need it most and tell Congress to expand the Child Tax Credit before the end of the year.
Tell Congress: Double Funding for CCDBG
Congress has one last chance to strengthen early learning programs this year and they need to hear from you. Email your lawmakers and urge them to prioritize substantial investments for early learning and child care programs in the year-end funding package, and put the Child Care Development Block Grant program (CCDBG) on a path to double funding. The final decision on what makes it in the bill is ultimately up to Congressional leaders.
EMAIL - CALL - TWEET
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Sign the Letter for "Child Care Reform Funding Now"
The CAAEYC Public Policy Committee shared this call to action:
"Our committee has been advocating for reimbursement rate increases and more recently reimbursement rate reform for many years. This year we have partnered with organizations throughout the state to present a unified voice in support of the work the Rate and Quality Workgroup has been doing and urge the Governor to propose significant investments, in the January Budget Proposal, toward rate reform and a mixed delivery model.
CAAEYC has signed on to the Children’s Movement platform and encourages members to explore signing their organizations on as well. It is imperative that the Governor hears from diverse organizations, who are committed to the future of our children and families.
We are asking the Governor to include the following as part of the January 2023-24 budget:
- Adopt child care reimbursement rate reforms and increases in provider compensation including a shift from a market rate to a cost based model through a robust contract agreement with the Child Care Providers Union and commensurate increases throughout the child care system, including an increase in current-year rates to at least the level set in the 2021 Market rate survey (30% increase), but applying that percentage equitably across all California providers; and
- Provide financial support to the full system of care – from birth through school age care – to support the mixed delivery child care system, inclusive of Family Child Care Providers, Head Start, California State Preschool and Community Based Centers, all of which offer full day and full year services that meet the diverse needs of families in every community in California."
To read the letter and sign on, click here.
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Participate in the Black Census Project
The San Francisco Human Rights Commission and Dream Keeper Initiative are partnering with the Black Future Lab to launch the Black Census Project 2022, the largest national survey of Black people conducted in the United States in 157 years! The data gathered from the Black Census is anonymous and will be used to inform public policies and identify priority issues that represent Black communities. Help reach 200,000 responses by December 31, 2022!
San Francisco has its unique survey link below!
Black Census Survey Link
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CSCCE report provides the first comprehensive data focused on California’s transitional kindergarten (TK) teachers about their teaching experiences.
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Price of Care: 2021 Child Care Affordability, report by Child Care Aware of America (CCAoA), 2nd in in the series "Catalyzing Growth: Using Data to Change Child Care," outlines the continuing increases in the price of child care across the United States and highlights the ongoing struggle many families face.
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ECE Funding & Financial Assistance | |
Upcoming Community Events | |
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Department of Early Childhood (DEC)
Commission Secretary/Senior Policy Analyst
This position is permanent exempt with a compensation range of $110,630 - $134,446 Annually.
Learn More and Apply
City College of SF Child Development Department
Non credit part time faculty pool is open! Interviews for eligible applicants will likely take place in January or February.
Learn More and Apply
*We recognize there are many available ECE positions during any given month and we do our best to share the vacancies sent to us. Have an ECE job posting you would like included? Send a link (best), PDF, or word document to info@ecesf.org.
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Are you an Early Care Educator in San Francisco?
¿Es usted un educador de cuidado infantil en San Francisco?
您是舊金山的早期護理教育工作者嗎？
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ECESF is a grassroots organization bringing San Francisco early care educators together across diverse ECE community and public sites. We are peers supporting each other, making sure we all know what's happening, and ensuring that new programs implemented to help us and the important work we do really do make a difference. If you are passionate about child care and education and know that a well-paid, stable workforce and great working conditions are essential to deliver great services, you won’t want to miss out on the discussions happening in our ECESF community including:
- Educator focus groups
- Core leadership meetings
- Teacher advocacy meetings
- Special events & community discussions
If you or an educator you know is ready to get involved, fill out our ECESF Interest Form below and we'll make sure you get connected!
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ECESF es una organización de base que reúne a los educadores de atención temprana de San Francisco en diversos sitios públicos y comunitarios de ECE. Somos compañeros apoyándonos unos a otros, asegurándonos de que todos sepamos lo que está pasando y garantizando que los nuevos programas
que se implementan para ayudarnos y el importante trabajo que hacemos realmente marquen la diferencia. Si le apasiona la
atención y educación infantil y sabe que una fuerza laboral estable y bien pagada junto
con excelentes condiciones de trabajo son esenciales para brindar excelentes servicios, no querrá perderse las conversaciones que
tienen lugar en nuestra comunidad ECESF, que incluyen:
- Grupos de enfoque de educadores
- Reuniones de liderazgo central
- Reuniones de defensa de los docentes
- Eventos especiales y debates comunitarios
Si usted o un educador que conoce están listos para involucrarse, complete nuestro Formulario de interés de ECESF a continuación y nos aseguraremos de entrar en contacto.
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ECESF 是一個草根組織，聚集了來自不同ECE 社區和公共場所的早期護理教育工作者。我們是相互支援的伴，我們確信我們都知道當下正在發生的事情，並確保實施的新計劃可以幫助我們以及我們所做的重要工作確能有所作為。如果您對兒童護理和教育充滿情，並且知道高薪、穩定的勞動力和良好的工作條件對於提供優質服務至關重要，那麼您一定不想錯過我們 ECESF 社區正在進行的討論，包括：
● 教育工作者焦點小組
● 核心領導會議
● 教師宣傳會議
● 特別活動和社群討論
如果您或您認識的教育工作者準備參加，請填寫下面的ECESF 興趣表，我們一定會聯繫您！
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