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2024 Educate Maine Symposium
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ECE Pre-apprenticeship with a Universal Design Lens
Friday December 13, 2024 1:50pm - 2:40pm EST
Somerset
Enticing new practitioners to enter the early care and education or out-of-school time field requires removing barriers and providing support through an individualized approach, especially when recruiting New Mainers or other underrepresented groups. Learn how we applied both Human Centered Design and Universal Design frameworks, guided by our work as participants in the 2023-2024 Bank Street ECE Apprenticeship Action Research Fellowship program. Discover how we explored how to successfully recruit and connect with potential early childhood and school-age workforce candidates by collaborating with many partners and trusted messengers, culminating in the development of our competency-based pre-apprenticeship model. Utilizing the advantages of registered apprenticeship including on-site mentors and incremental wage increases, our design provides opportunities for successful assimilation into the field in a variety of settings (license-exempt care, family child care home business or licensed child care centers) that include pathways for earning Maine credentials or an Associates Degree in ECE or related field.
Speakers
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Lori Moses

Coordinator of Apprenticeship and Credential Programs: Maine Roads to Quality PDN, University of Southern Maine
Lori Moses is the Coordinator of Apprenticeship and Credential Programs at Maine Roads to Quality Professional Development Network.  Prior to that, Lori was the Executive Director of several non-profit childcare centers for many years in the Greater Portland area, after working at... Read More →
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Marnie Morneault

Research Associate, University of Maine
Friday December 13, 2024 1:50pm - 2:40pm EST
Somerset
  Educator Workforce, Early Childhood

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