We recognize that high quality early care is expensive; the Sustaining Facility Quality activity offers unrestricted grants to 4 and 5 star-rated Centers and Family Child Care Homes or those with NAEYC or other national accreditation to help providers maintain high quality early care and education.
Participating facilities may receive additional bonus payments for completing SFQ professional development and/or Living Wage Certification from Just Economics. More information about additional bonus payments are included on the below SFQ flier.
Register for the BIPOC Leadership Development cohort
During this six month leadership course participants will explore leadership focusing on their individual identities as leaders and learning best practices to effectively communicate with all stakeholders. Cohort participants will participate in relationship building, creating a nurturing learning environment and working to honor each other’s diversity in courageous, positive and constructive ways. Throughout this work participants will work collaboratively to address situations that occur naturally in their positions as teachers, administrators etc. During the last month of the cohorts time together, participants will develop their philosophy of leadership.
Schedule:
Session 1 and 2 – Leading from within
Session 3 and 4 – Communication
Session 5 and 6 – Building Trusting Relationships
Session 7 and 8 – Honoring Diversity
Session 9 and 10 – Centering Children
Session 11 and 12- My Philosophy of Leadership
This course includes four, 90-minute group sessions each month on Thursdays from 6:00pm-7:30pm starting November 12 and running through April 2020. Each participant will receive one, 90-minute coaching session with the facilitator each month. Participants will earn a certificate with contact hour credits for completion of the program.
Deadline for registration: Friday, Nov. 6 at Noon.
Libby Kyles is an outspoken and self-motivated, dynamic leader with strong organizing and program implementation skills, dedicated to improving conditions in her community. Through leadership coaching, Kyles aims to create equity, dismantle racism and racist practices, and provide opportunities for women, with a strong emphasis on Black and Brown women, to be active in claiming their power. She is an accomplished educator, leader, non-profit CEO, and facilitator who has demonstrated the ability to teach, motivate, and connect.
Develop Your Leadership – A Learning Community for Black, Indigenous, People of Color Early Educators
During this six month leadership course participants will explore leadership focusing on their individual identities as leaders and learning best practices to effectively communicate with all stakeholders. Cohort participants will participate in relationship building, creating a nurturing learning environment and working to honor each other’s diversity in courageous, positive and constructive ways. Throughout this work participants will work collaboratively to address situations that occur naturally in their positions as teachers, administrators etc. During the last month of the cohorts time together, participants will develop their philosophy of leadership.
Schedule:
Session 1 and 2 – Leading from within
Session 3 and 4 – Communication
Session 5 and 6 – Building Trusting Relationships
Session 7 and 8 – Honoring Diversity
Session 9 and 10 – Centering Children
Session 11 and 12- My Philosophy of Leadership
This course includes four, 90-minute group sessions each month on Thursdays from 6:00pm-7:30pm starting November 12 and running through April 2020. Each participant will receive one, 90-minute coaching session with the facilitator each month. Participants will earn a certificate with contact hour credits for completion of the program.
Deadline for registration: Friday, Nov. 6 at Noon.
Libby Kyles is an outspoken and self-motivated, dynamic leader with strong organizing and program implementation skills, dedicated to improving conditions in her community. Through leadership coaching, Kyles aims to create equity, dismantle racism and racist practices, and provide opportunities for women, with a strong emphasis on Black and Brown women, to be active in claiming their power. She is an accomplished educator, leader, non-profit CEO, and facilitator who has demonstrated the ability to teach, motivate, and connect.
HOW DO I PARTICIPATE?
To be eligible, facilities must:
- Be located in Buncombe County
- Have a 4-or-5 star rating or a have a nationally recognized accreditation
- Complete an application by the established deadline
Payments are made by check to facilities two times a year based on the application of established formulas and DCDEE enrollment data.
For more information, please contact:
Carey Price
Finance and Contracts Manager
Phone: (828) 285-9333 ext. 1005
Email: Carey@buncombepfc.org
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