DEY 6TH ANNUAL SUMMER INSTITUTE
JUNE 24-26, 2024
Advancing Quality in Defense of Early Childhood Education and Care
Our mission is to work for just, equitable, and quality early childhood education and care for every young child. Quality has always been an important component in ensuring that all young children have access to early care and education. Nonetheless, defining, measuring, and guaranteeing high quality demonstrates the complexities and difficulty in making high quality for all a reality. What does quality mean to you? How do you demonstrate quality in your program or classroom? How can the systems used to measure quality be improved? What does high quality mean in relation to justice and equity for disadvantaged and marginalized children? The 2024 Sixth Annual DEY Summer Institute will address these questions and many more. We hope you will join us in our work to advance a vision and practice of high-quality early childhood education and care. Register today!
We begin the 6th Annual Summer Institute on Day 1 by discussing Today’s Quality Landscape. Some of our guest speakers for day 1 include:
Amy O’Leary, Executive Director of Strategies for Children and host of the 9:30 call
Dale Farran, Emerita Professor at Peabody College at Vanderbilt University and DEY National Advisor.
On Day 2 we focus on Advancing Quality: Policy and Practice. We invited three Bankstreet Early Childhood Policy Fellows to share their work on advancing quality.
Danielle Johnson-Offei, Executive Director Durham’s Partnership for Children, Bank Street College of Education Early Childhood Policy Fellowship Fellow
Jamie Bonczyk, MA, CPPM Program Officer, 80×3: Resilient From The Start, Bank Street College of Education Early Childhood Policy Fellowship Fellow
Suzette Espinoza-Cruz, Senior Early Education Programs Specialist – CCAP Seattle Department of Education and Early Learning, Bank Street College of Education Early Childhood Policy Fellowship Fellow
Stay tuned as we announce our line up for Day 3 and finalize all 2024 Summer Institute speakers!
For the past six years, DEY has hosted a three-day Summer Institute that brings together a diverse group of early childhood educators, advocates, and researchers to engage in discussions on crucial issues affecting early childhood education. Over the past five years, the DEY Summer Institute has been conducted virtually and offered completely free of charge.
To continue providing this valuable event at no cost, we are reaching out for sponsors for the Summer Institute. Your support can help us maintain the tradition of offering this event for free. We invite you to consider sponsoring the institute and share our Sponsorship brochure with your networks.
