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View and share these resources to build the case for public investment and reform that supports early educators, and learn about the history of teacher activism.

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Early Educator Engagement and Empowerment (E4) Toolkit

Our new Early Educator Engagement and Empowerment (E4) Toolkit aims to support early educators in their advocacy, power building, and stakeholder engagement. It features the latest facts and policy solutions about the ECE workforce that educators can use to build arguments for change, from the local to the national level.

Resources for Teacher Activism

Learn more about the history of teacher activism and tips for influencing today’s debates and policy.

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Fact Sheet: How Legislators Can Make a Difference

This fact sheet provides legislators with key issues facing the ECE workforce, state-based solutions, and four action steps to take to champion workforce policies.

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My Advocacy Journey: The Power of Early Educators to Change Policy

By Corrine Hendrickson • October 11, 2022

My advocacy journey began ten years ago when I was trying to get help for a family and their child. If you would have told me then I’d be on a first-name basis with a Wisconsin state senator, I would have laughed.

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Advocacy Toolkit

As an advocate who works with children or an advocate who understands the importance of this crucial and complex work, you can use the messages and findings from the Early Childhood Workforce Index to drive change and ensure that educators are front and center in the transformation.

Key Findings

Child care workers earn a national average of $11.65 an hour

Early educators are experiencing poverty at double the rate of all other workers, and about eight times more than their K-12 peers.

Even when early educators hold a bachelor’s degree, there is a pay penalty for working with children from birth to age five.

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