Chicago's Childcare and Early Childhood Education Resource Network

Chicago's Childcare and Early Childhood Education Resource Network CCECRN is dedicated to providing resources and support to parents, nannies, carers, educators, and early childhood professionals.

If you are a Chicago parent, caregiver or teacher and would find it useful to air your concerns and questions in a safe forum or are interested in meet ups with others in like situations, join the Chicago Childcare and Early Childhood Education Support Group. Message privately or post directly on to group wall or attend group meetings. Members are encouraged to share resources, their experiences a

nd advise in these public forums. Our admin will pose your questions anonymously if requested. "Few of us familiar with early childhood education (ECE) are unaware of its struggle to fulfill its ambitions as a field of practice. Even though in recent years ECE has experienced significant increases in policy support and funding, the field continues to be characterized by sector fragmentation, reliance of an underdeveloped workforce, and uneven public respect, resulting in a divided field of practice, patchy policy support, and capricious public financing. Further exacerbating the field's status is its historic reluctance to step forward and create a desired future of ECE as a field of practice. As Jeffrey Conklin has noted, fragmentation represents a phenomenon that pulls apart something that potentially should be whole. Consider the following: Other than working with children or on their behalf, few commonalities bind ECE in terms of shared knowledge, preparation, qualifications, commitments, or aspirations. Rarely do we think of ourselves as part of something larger than our individual programs or separate sectors. As a field, we lack common expectations for the knowledge, skills, dispositions, or preparation teachers need for effective practice. As a result, the cohesion necessary for ensuring ECE's practitioners consistently and competently facilitate children's learning and developing is lacking." - Stacie Goffin, Professionalizing Early Childhood Education

05/14/2019

Reading and math tutor to work with 2nd grader after school who is also interested in picking up evening babysitting hours.

01/30/2019
01/30/2019

Childhood Trauma: Understanding, Supporting and Preventing - check out this free online module series. SCECH are available.

01/21/2019

"Why don't they listen?" "I tell him it's not okay to hit and he just laughs in my face!""I just feel like we're struggling all the time and everyone else has well behaved kids!""If I don't make him do it now, he'll grow up to be entitled. I'm not his servant, and he needs to know that."Do any of th...

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10/07/2018

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Having the consent conversation isn’t just a one-time talk. It starts from the beginning, as soon as your child is old enough to recognize their own body parts. We’ve put together a comprehensive guide, including expert input, power dynamics, question examples, and videos.

10/04/2018

Emmi Pikler, the Hungarian Jewish doctor who changed the way we understand children.

10/04/2018

We see it working, but is there research to support RIE®? The short answer to the above question is…is there ever!!! Going all the way back to the start of Reso...

10/01/2018

Tweens' brains are simply too immature to use social media appropriately.

09/01/2018

Screen dependency has been a ubiquitous problem of late, not only affecting the lives of developing children but the day-to-day activities of adults too. Hence, the premise of the critically acclaimed TV show Black Mirror. It exposes a dystopian world where we’re dependent on technology. Restricti...

04/02/2018

A nanny's departure can affect the whole family.

01/16/2018

Despite working long hours and performing major emotional labor in the intimate spaces of our homes, nannies are quite literally left out of the picture.

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