On Her Shoulders: Elevating the Early Education Workforce

Early educators face a magnified version of the biased perceptions faced by female-dominated fields. Their work is reduced to mindless caregiving; minimizing their critical economic role, their unique challenges, and the increasingly professionalized workforce.This project will change the narrative. By creating a campaign to highlight practitioners and professionalize the field, developing career pathways, and strengthening quality leadership practice, this effort will reframe early childhood educators as essential and early childhood education as economic infrastructure.