Sharing Best Practices and Professional Development Project Plans

PDG-Renewal / Activity 4

Infrastructure

In Progress

The team will invest in and bring to scale the infrastructure and capacity necessary to ensure the state’s workforce development system functions equitably across the state and for all types of providers.

Activities will include finalizing competency-based, credit-bearing resources for the online professional development platform and integrating existing professional development resources onto the platform, as well as piloting a higher education accreditation process and a competency-based performance assessment to ensure quality preparation for early childhood educators.

Start Date: 07/01/2020

Activity 4: Sharing Best Practices and Professional Development Project Plans—June 2023 update

Center for Professional Development Innovation

The Center for Professional Development Innovation team will create 200 hours of new online professional development experiences (in English and Spanish) to meet the diverse needs of California’s early learning and care workforce across all child care settings. The online learning module series will be launched in phases throughout 2023, and some content will be available in Chinese.

The California Early Childhood Educator Competencies for Adult Learning and Coaching module, funded by the California Department of Social Services, launched in 2022 with 180 participants in nine facilitated cohorts, with planning underway for additional cohorts in 2023-24.

Commission on Teacher Credentialing

The Commission on Teacher Credentialing (CTC) has developed and piloted a program quality peer review process. This process could potentially serve as the quality control system for early childhood education programs typically offered at the community college level along with some four-year institutions of higher education that lead to a Child Development Permit.

CTC heard information about the program quality peer review process at its October 2022 public meeting and commended staff and field input for accomplishing this work. The work to develop and pilot this accreditation system has been completed. However, statewide implementation would require additional fiscal and staff resources along with a statewide direction or mandate for full implementation that at the present time are not available.

Download the complete history of CTC’s work.

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