Technical Assistance for Early Educators

Returning to the classroom is never easy—and this year, early childhood educators faced even more challenges than usual. As you’re teaching this fall, we’re here to help. Our Technical Assistance program helps elevate teaching, connect with your fellow staff members, and navigate your professional development.

What’s Technical Assistance?

Technical assistance is a step-by-step process that integrates a number of powerful strategies to improve the quality of child care programs and caregiver practices. Through a combination of observation,coaching, modeling, mentoring, assessment, monitoring, and training, Technical Assistance specialists provide long-term support for sustainable growth and professional development.

Creating an environment for a successful Technical Assistance experience relies on a few key elements:

Collaboration: Technical Assistance is a two-way street that demands the time and attention of all involved. Through mutual planning and adaptation, we can make the process seamless and productive for you and your team.

Communication: When committing to the process of Technical Assistance, responsive, open, and coordinated communication is necessary. These conversations help our team develop your skills, identify challenges, and strengthen your child care program overall.

Commitment: Undergoing Technical Assistance can be a demanding process—but your commitment to the experience creates a positive opportunity to enhance skills and offer you a multitude of instructional ideas, best practices, and the support you may need.

Why Enroll in Technical Assistance?

Technical Assistance is an effective process to level up your child care practices and empower your team. Using the latest research and best practices in the field, technical assistance equips and supports teachers and program staff members as they grow and improve in their roles.

Through continuous, responsive, and coordinated communication, we build trusting relationships with the teachers we work with and serve as an ongoing resource to remedy any weakness and enhance strong skills.

Achieve the highest quality level of care and education for children in your care.
Connect with a team of experts and receive personalized consultation, coaching, and recommendations every step of the way.
Support your teachers and program staff members as they grow and improve in their roles.
Learn to navigate the NC Star Rated License process to achieve a higher star quality.

How Technical Assistance Can Help Your Program

Best Practices
Elevate your classroom with intensive, ongoing technical assistance programs designed to increase and maintain high-quality care in your programs. We will help identify your strengths and areas of improvement through 1:1 consultation. Based on this close collaboration, we’ll help develop a strategic plan with measurable goals and outcomes to guide the work.

We focus on:
- Classroom Management
- Creating Responsive Communities
- Health and Wellness
- Intentional Teaching
- NAEYC Accreditation
- Organizational Leadership

Quality Rating & Improvement Systems
We provide Technical Assistance to child care centers and family child care homes looking to increase or maintain higher star ratings.
Licensing
As you navigate licensing for your program, we help review requirements, monitor compliance issues, and support you through the process.
Startup
Are you looking to open your own child care facility? We help walk you through the process from start to finish and offer vital resources to help you open your high-quality child care center or family child care home.

Is My Program Eligible? Is It Free?

There is no cost for technical assistance and any licensed child care provider is eligible to participate. If you are interested in receiving technical assistance, fill out the Technical Assistance Request Form.

Learn More

Sign up for Technical Assistance and learn more about our offerings for Professional Development here.

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