United Way of Tucson & Southern Arizona | Great Expectations for Teachers, Children, and Families

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

	The Five Commitments of Optimistic Leaders Tucson, AZ
*Starts*: Saturday, May 5, 2018 - 01:00 PM
*Ends*: Saturday, May 5, 2018 - 03:30 PM
To create the next generation of critical thinkers and leaders, we must ensure that every child has a sense of agency that they are problem solvers and decision makers! For this to happen, educators make a difference. Children must learn in settings where all adults define themselves as Optimistic Leaders. In this session we will explore the definition of leadership in the broadest sense: how all educators must be the leaders children deserve. We will examine how you can practice the five commitments of Optimistic Leadership day by day to be more effective in your role and to encourage your colleagues to enhance the quality of learning for every child. Click here to learn more or register

	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