President’s Corner

Dear Members,

I am so happy to introduce myself to you as the new President of DAAEYC! I have been in early childhood education for many years, working with children as a child care provider, preschool teacher, student teacher university supervisor, child care center director, and university practicum instructor. I currently work at Texas Woman’s University in the Department of Family Sciences where my research interests deal with child care quality, parental choice about child care, and perceptions of the child care workforce about their own training needs. I have also conducted trainings for childcare providers through Workforce Solutions for North Central Texas and may have seen some of you there!

The DAAEYC board hopes that this will be an exciting year for our organization! We have the Director’s Meet and Greet scheduled for Tuesday, November 2^nd and we hope that we will see you there. We also have our Spring Conference scheduled for Saturday, April 30, 2011 and have secured Tym the Trainer as our Keynote Speaker. These are just a few of the opportunities that we have planned and we want to hear from you about what else you would like to see our organization do for its membership! We have some ideas about trainings that we would like to offer and programs that we would like to launch, but we need your input to make sure that what we offer is what you are looking for. Feel free to contact me and let me know if you have any ideas or you could fill out this brief online survey (and have your staff fill it out too) to give us a better idea of the types of things that you feel that you would like to learn more about: https://www.psychdata.com/s.asp?SID=135778

We look forward to seeing you soon!

Katie Rose

President, DAAEYC

Krose1@twu.edu