Participants of this webinar will learn about the National ECE Workforce Center’s Systems Change Framework and the services the Center provides to support its understanding and use. The Systems Change Framework is a blueprint and structure for ECE system and community leaders to utilize when designing and implementing intentional, evidence-based change for early educators’ compensation, career pathways, and work environments. Durable solutions to complex, thorny workforce issues like these require a systems approach that acknowledges and works within the interconnected components of the ECE policy landscape.
During this webinar, participants will hear from Center Directors Anne Douglass, Rena Hallam, and Brandy Jones Lawrence and Systems Change Framework Activity Lead Yujin Lee about:
- the complexity of systems change;
- why the Framework’s drivers of change are important for sustainable improvements in ECE workforce compensation, career pathways, and work environments; and
- how the Framework can be put into action to advance ECE workforce policy, research, and practice.
Participants will also learn about the National ECE Workforce Center’s Action Research Partnerships and Communities for Action—opportunities for teams from systems and communities to work with the Center’s experts using the Systems Change Framework to improve compensation and career pathways for their ECE workforce.