Click any of the Communities of Practice to learn more!
| Building High Quality Infant and Toddler Care and Education | Raising the Quality of Early Childhood Environments | Supporting High Quality Inclusion | Connecting Early Childhood Environment Assessment to Quality Improvement |
| Promoting emergent literacy and language in family childcare homes | Creating Pathways from Associate’s to Bachelor’s Degrees | Strengthening Developmentally Appropriate Practices in All Early Childhood Classrooms | Improving Kindergarten Transitions for Tribal Children |
| Improving Inclusion and Advocacy in Public Preschools | Increasing Early Childhood Degree Completion | Strengthening Teachers’ and Elementary School Principals’ Knowledge about Developmentally Appropriate Practice | Building a Developmentally Appropriate Professional Development System |
| Increasing Family Childcare Providers’ Knowledge of Language and Literacy Development in Young Children | Building High Quality Family Childcare | Expanding Literacy and Language Development in Rural Communities |
Next United Way Sponsored Event
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STEMAZing Workshop: Sea of Cortez Marine Biology: From Shells to SquidTucson, AZ |
| Starts: Saturday, November 4, 2017 - 09:00 AM | Ends: Saturday, November 4, 2017 - 02:00 PM |
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***IF YOU WOULD LIKE TO BE PLACED ON THE WAITLIST PLEASE EMAIL helizondo@unitedwaytucson.org OR CALL HEIDI AT 520-903-3980**** |
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More Information
 | Building a Developmentally Appropriate Professional Development System |
| In Tucson, the United Way of Tucson and Southern Arizona is working to build a new early childhood professional development system. With funding from all five First Things First Regional Partnership Councils in Pima County, we have created 10 Communities of Practice. Each one of them is helping to build a high quality system for teaching early childhood teachers to be the best that they can be. We call our new system-building work “Great Expectations for Teachers, Children, and Families.” | |
| Naomi Karp Director, Early Childhood Professional Development nkarp@unitedwaytucson.org 520.903.3951 | |