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Direct linkSpencer, Becky – Exchange: The Early Childhood Leaders' Magazine Since 1978, 2012
As an early childhood professional for 30 years operating both traditional and employer child care programs, the author believes that traditional center owners and operators have an opportunity to grow their business, serve more children and families, and stay relevant for future workforce needs by integrating employer child care practices into…
Descriptors: Child Care, Employees, Child Care Centers, Early Childhood Education
Bloom, Paula Jorde; Hentschel, Ann – Exchange: The Early Childhood Leaders' Magazine Since 1978, 2012
In an era of early learning standards, packaged curriculums, and state quality rating systems, many directors lament that the accountability movement has sapped the creativity out of their programs. They say their teachers feel constricted, as though their own good ideas just don't matter anymore. Not true. In fact, it's more vital than ever to…
Descriptors: Creativity, Work Environment, Early Childhood Education, Child Care
Hay, Susan – Exchange: The Early Childhood Leaders' Magazine Since 1978, 2012
Very few people in early years would dispute that the success of a child care centre is almost entirely down to the strength of the centre manager. At its most successful, management expands to leadership, where leaders are able to influence the behaviour of others for the purpose of achieving a goal. Leaders develop a special set of rather…
Descriptors: Leadership, Child Care, Early Childhood Education, Administrators
de Perio, Marie A.; Wiegand, Douglas M.; Evans, Stefanie M.; Niemeier, Maureen T. – Exchange: The Early Childhood Leaders' Magazine Since 1978, 2012
Flu viruses are typically spread by droplets, when people who are sick with flu cough, sneeze, or talk. Less often, a person may get flu from touching a surface or object that has the virus on it and then touching his own mouth, eyes, or nose. Flu can cause mild to severe illness and may even lead to death. Child care providers are at risk of…
Descriptors: Child Care, Microbiology, Employees, Immunization Programs
Gellens, Suzanne; Mathews, Bobbie; Young, Shari – Exchange: The Early Childhood Leaders' Magazine Since 1978, 2012
Today, technology can be used to engage and communicate with others in ever-expanding ways. Many directors are embracing these technological advances to market their child care programs. In addition to printing up brochures and taking out ads in newspapers, directors can create a tour of their child care program that will attract new customers, as…
Descriptors: Child Care, Video Technology, Technology, Technological Advancement
Roberts, Paul – Exchange: The Early Childhood Leaders' Magazine Since 1978, 2012
Five years ago the author embarked on an odyssey that would fundamentally change his life as an architect. He and his partner, Dave Deppen, were selected through a very competitive process to design a new Child Development and Family Studies Center in the Sierra Foothills, near Yosemite National Park for Columbia College. The Columbia College…
Descriptors: Child Care, Child Development, Preschool Children, Child Care Centers
Vicars, Dennis – Exchange: The Early Childhood Leaders' Magazine Since 1978, 2012
A day in the life of anyone who works in or around a center-based early care and education program is one of numerous duties, timelines, staffing issues, program concerns, parent meetings, training, budget analysis, and teaching. The list is endless. Their days are filled with multiple priorities, all demanding their time and energy. It's so easy…
Descriptors: Parent Participation, Early Childhood Education, Child Care, Child Care Centers
Neugebauer, Roger – Exchange: The Early Childhood Leaders' Magazine Since 1978, 2011
The author presents insights from various readers of "ExchangeEveryDay" regarding trends in the world of family child care. Kathleen Reticker of Acre Family Child Care in Lowell, Massachusetts thinks an increasing trend in Family Child Care is the pressure to emulate a Center, instead of seeing family child care as a different model. Over the…
Descriptors: Child Care Centers, Child Care, Family Environment, Legal Responsibility
Young, Billie – Exchange: The Early Childhood Leaders' Magazine Since 1978, 2011
Teaching is a blend of knowledge, pedagogical skills, environmental factors, and personal dispositions. Experience tells individuals that they can successfully impact knowledge, skills, and environmental factors. Dispositions are harder to change. Dispositions--beliefs, attitudes, and experiences--can play a powerful role in the decision making…
Descriptors: Decision Making, Child Care, Child Care Centers, Environmental Influences
Rose, Bobbie – Exchange: The Early Childhood Leaders' Magazine Since 1978, 2012
Asking parents about their top priority when choosing a child care program, most will say their child's health and safety. Children thrive in safe, healthy, and loving environments that help them learn about themselves and the world around them; a place where they can exercise their curiosity and explore without being exposed to danger or health…
Descriptors: Play, Child Care Centers, Child Care, Sanitation
Vinci, Yasmina – Exchange: The Early Childhood Leaders' Magazine Since 1978, 2012
The Obama Administration's most recent regulation on designation renewal of Early/Head Start grantees opens opportunities for early childhood programs in some communities to compete with existing grantees for the federal funding. Understanding some of the behind-the-scenes work that goes into Head Start may be helpful to centers deciding whether…
Descriptors: Children, Early Childhood Education, Disadvantaged Youth, Preschool Education
Neugebauer, Roger; Hartzell, Debra – Exchange: The Early Childhood Leaders' Magazine Since 1978, 2012
For 25 years, "Exchange" has been tracking developments in the for profit child care sector. With this report, CEOs of organizations in the Exchange Top 50 have been asked to reflect on what have been the most significant developments in this sector over these 25 years. This article shares what they said.
Descriptors: Child Care, Child Care Centers, Annual Reports, Educational Assessment
Neugebauer, Roger – Exchange: The Early Childhood Leaders' Magazine Since 1978, 2012
Center-based child care and family child care are now part of the fabric of life in the United States. This trend report will review the available demographic information on the types of child care arrangements that parents are utilizing, the expenses related to these forms of care, and the structural characteristics of center-based care. Most of…
Descriptors: Child Care, Preschool Children, Child Rearing, Costs
Neugebauer, Roger – Exchange: The Early Childhood Leaders' Magazine Since 1978, 2010
Today employer child care is accepted as standard benefit for employees and nearly all Fortune 500 companies have gotten involved. The current recession threatened to halt the growth of employer child care as companies consolidated, cut back, and folded. However, in reviewing the status of employer child care for this trend report, it appears that…
Descriptors: Child Care, Child Care Centers, Employees, Enrollment
Greer, Kristine – Exchange: The Early Childhood Leaders' Magazine Since 1978, 2011
The field of early care and education as a whole is recognized as an optimistic profession, but it is stuck in a system that some feel is hopelessly malfunctioning. In a report by the Center for the Study of Child Care Employment (2009), the total replacement needs for child care workers were 29.5% in 2006. Hiring and training new staff every year…
Descriptors: Child Caregivers, Child Care, Change Strategies, Educational Change
