Early Childhood Professional Development Contractor | Early Childhood Teacher Mentor Program | Quality New York | Teacher-Leader Institute
The Center for Early Childhood Professionals is involved in:
- On-site consultation, professional development and technical assistance offered by Center staff developers to Birth to grade 1 staff in a variety of different New York City school districts and community-based organizations
- Communication, Information, Research and Advocacy activities including a newsletter, website and ongoing advocacy for quality services for young children and their families
The Center for ECP serves as a Contractor for the NYC Department of Education's Early Childhood Professional Development. Services include: Needs assessments and professional development planning, Seminars for teaching staff on early childhood topics, Administrative staff seminars (Training of Trainers) on classroom and program assessments, mentoring, and observation and feedback conferencing, Study Group sessions for teachers, assistant teachers, early childhood coordinators, teacher leaders, and learning coaches, In-class mentoring support and coaching for teaching teams and a Family Literacy Training Series. For best results, we highly recommend that services be obtained as a complete package rather than as a single workshop. For more information, contact Meredith Lewis, Interim Co-Director, at 212.961.3414 / mlewis@bankstreet.edu.
The Early Childhood Teacher Mentor Program offers experienced early childhood teachers the opportunity to become trained mentors and pass on their expertise and guidance to beginning teachers. At the same time, it offers beginning teachers access to a skilled role model and colleague who will help them to learn more about working effectively with children, staff, and families. For more information, contact Tracey-Lee Lucas, Interim Co-Director, at 212.961.3414 / tldlucas@bankstreet.edu.
Bank Street College's Center for ECP is working in collaboration with Child Care, Inc. and Federation of Protestant Welfare Agencies to offer an NAEYC accreditation facilitation project called Quality New York. The program is currently providing support to over 150 early childhood programs throughout New York City who are seeking accreditation and who have received accreditation through NAEYC. As of May 2007, 83 programs have received NAEYC accreditation with QNY's assistance. Quality Advisors have been trained to offer on-site consultations to these programs. Additionally, Program Directors and their teaching staff are engaged in professional development workshops specifically designed for this project and facilitated by Bank Street, to address the needs of programs working towards accreditation. If you would like more information about the Quality New York accreditation facilitation project or about the process itself, please contact Meredith Lewis, Interim Co-Director, at 212.961.3414 / mlewis@bankstreet.edu.
The Teacher-Leader Institute focuses on creating program-wide change by involving teams of teachers and Directors in a series of participatory seminars that center on developing effective early childhood program environments and strategies that promote teamwork and cooperation. For more information, contact Tracey-Lee Lucas, Interim Co-Director, at 212.961.3414 / tldlucas@bankstreet.edu
