ECSS works with governments, nonprofits, corporations & educational organizations to reimagine early education.
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1 Dec 2021
Excited to hear ECSS founder @idaroseflorez read an excerpt from her forthcoming book! You can join the fun. See the link below. šš¼
30 Nov 2021
Come hear me read from my forthcoming book, The End of Education as We Know it: A Complexity Guide for Educational Influencers at AJ Harper's āMoth Story Hourā w/ fellow authors Liz Long & @MikeMichalowicz Dec 6, 7pm ET. It's always a great time! bit.ly/30IimP4
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16 Feb 2021
Such an important question. What in our culture is producing our addiction to measuring?
15 Feb 2021
And hereās another important question by @NoraBateson: What in our culture is producing our addiction to measuring?
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3 Feb 2021
THE fundamental question about #childcare systems: to what extent are they alive or are a machine? B/c if they are fundamentally alive (& why would we think they are not?), they behave in ways that are fundamentally different than machines.
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1 Feb 2021
Opening the new location feels like I'm finally able to support zine creators like I've always wanted to. #zinesupfront
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29 Jan 2021
Such an important thread. @NAEYC & QRISs have prioritized center-based #childcare for decades, which strengthens systemic racism in #EarlyChildhoodEducation. Kith/kin care is critical to healthy culturally-aligned childcare systems.
28 Jan 2021
There has to be more intentionality in defining quality in a way that centers equity & doesn't penalize the cultural & linguistic differences of children, families, & providers. In a way that recognizes that equity doesn't equal sameness & quality doesn't equal expensive.
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28 Nov 2020
If you hate the Pope bc heās too āliberalā ... I have some very bad news for you about Jesus.
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21 Oct 2020
Complexity thought of the day: If your strategy involves taking something apart, fixing a part or two or three, and putting the something back togetherāyouāre not dealing with complexity.
21 Oct 2020
It all adds up to institutional poverty.
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17 Sep 2020
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17 Jul 2020
Just wept as a Florida father talked about his 11 year old son who died of COVID. Governors who didnāt take this virus seriously enough should be sued too or voted out.
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16 Jul 2020
So, how will an infusion of $50billion in public dollars radically change this existing system & what safeguards will be in place to ensure it doesnāt become another brittle, centrally-controlled bureaucracy?
āUnlike K-12 public education, child care in the U.S. is largely a private industry with operators that rely on fees paid by customers to stay afloat. If parents arenāt working or donāt feel comfortable sending their children back...then these facilities canāt open or stay open.ā
13 Jul 2020
.@omarpassons Hereās a zoomed out picture of the difference between complication & complexity and an example of how that matters in organizations.
13 Jul 2020
"Employees need to have a systemic understanding of the big picture and how their work is relevant (or interdependent). Connectivity, information sharing, and relationships should be more horizontal than vertical, enabling teams... to build relationships"
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8 Jul 2020
Exactly. Can we please fund paid parental leave during the pandemic? And while weāre at it, we can create the infrastructure we need for more flexible systems of early care and education.
8 Jul 2020
The pandemic didnāt create working momsā struggle. But it made it impossible to ignore. Read on,the solution to working momsā struggle is paid leave & universal child care. Is anyone surprised?It shouldnāt take a pandemic to have reached this conclusion. washingtonpost.com/lifestyleā¦
7 Jul 2020
Exactly. Just tweeted about this a few minutes ago.
7 Jul 2020
I love all the media attention on child care, but seeing a lot of statements like "the pandemic has caused a child care crisis." No. It was a a crisis well before the pandemic.
7 Jul 2020
The (current) #childcare #crisis, like many other childcare dilemmas, is a #wickedproblem. Wicked problems donāt have solutions. But when we use #complexity thinking to see patterns clearly, we can find productive ways forward. @HSDInstitute
7 Jul 2020
To be clear, the #ChildCare crisis CAN'T be solved w/o centering the needs of early educatorsā ā who we know are predominantly Black women and women of color. They deserve:
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Additional compensation
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#PaidLeave
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Access to affordable health care
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Access to unions
7 Jul 2020
And with what is going on in Texas (1300 cases related to child care) weāre getting just a tiny taste of what would happen if schools and child cares reopen now.
7 Jul 2020
It wonāt be governors, mayors and superintendents who decide whether child care and schools reopen.
It will be teachers, providers and parents.
30 Jun 2020
Yes!! Please say THAT and donāt muddy up your message w/the misinformed 90% rhetoric.
30 Jun 2020
The early years are the best opportunity for a childās brain to develop the connections they need to be healthy, capable, successful adults. To find more details, visit our page on brain development: firstthingsfirst.org/early-cā¦
30 Jun 2020
What if states canāt reopen b/c they tried to open too quickly? What if #childcare is irretrievably vulnerable b/c the structures that support it are archaic & frail? What if we need to completely reimagine how America cares for & raises its young #children?
29 Jun 2020
Opinion | If Congress doesn't act, child care facilities will close as states try to reopen nbcnews.com/think/opinion/stā¦ via @NBCNewsTHINK @Hope4NewHaven, @HopeCDC_Nhv & @ctcercle @NAEYC