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The Higher Education Summit Vision

Our vision is to recruit and retain individuals to work with young children by creating clear educational pathways and seamless transitions between various entry points into the early childhood profession.

Ohio’s Early Childhood Higher Education Summit 2023

This year’s Early Childhood Higher Education Summit is scheduled for September 29, 2023.

Below are links to prior virtual sessions from 2022, 2021 and 2020.

 

The Power of Positivity Resource Packet
pdf |
Career Compass Overview
pdf |
NAEYC Preparing a Profession in the Midst of a Pandemic
pdf |
ECE Apprenticeship
pdf |

Event Video Recordings

Keynote: The Power of Positivity!
Video | 01:03:01
Workforce Strategy: Career Compass for Health and Human Services
Video | 00:18:06
Preparing a Profession in the Midst of a Pandemic: Struggle, Considerations and Ways Forward
Video | 00:53:20
Building the Early Childhood Workforce through Apprenticeships
Video | 01:00:47
Teach the Teacher
Video | 00:57:32
Student Engagement and Student Support Strategies Panel
Video | 00:38:31

Ohio’s Model for CDA Articulation for 2021 9-23-21 rev
pdf |
CDA Articulation Position Paper
pdf |

Advancing CDA Articulation – Ohio’s Model and Case Study
Video | 00:19:18

Previous Summits

Ohio’s 7th Annual Early Childhood Higher Education Summit (2021)
Ohio’s 6th Annual Early Childhood Higher Education Summit (2020)

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