This field has many likely allies, including advocacy groups, member associations, policy think tanks, and a growing number of the K–12 establishment (superintendents, school committees, and teachers unions).īut much more support is needed if we want to reach a point in our society where all children have access to high-quality early learning opportunities before they begin kindergarten. By “the field,” I mean those professionals doing the work of supporting, educating, and caring for young children: infant, toddler, and preschool teachers, administrators, support specialists, teacher educators, and researchers. The support is welcome and often applauded by the field. At times it seems everyone has climbed aboard the early learning bandwagon.
The early childhood education movement has grown steadily over the past two decades, plateaued in recent years, and currently is in dire need of reinforcements.ĭon’t get me wrong, the early education and care sector already has many allies, like business leaders, elected officials and journalists. The metaphor could also apply to the field of early education, which currently faces a similar challenge.
This quote appeared in a New York Times profile of social justice activist Michael Skolnik, who aptly used a sandbox metaphor to describe a challenge facing the civil rights movement in the United States (Feuer 2015). Because there aren’t enough people in the sandbox to begin with.” “People who tweet, people who protest, people who give money, people who have meetings, people who know other people. “The truth is we need all kinds of people playing together in this sandbox,” he said.
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