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Left to
right: Jere Wallden of The National
Registry Alliance and Elizabeth F.
Shores and Cathy Grace of the MSU Early
Childhood Institute described the Atlas
project Feb. 3, 2006, at the annual
conference of the Southern Early
Childhood Association. (Luanne Platt)Click on photo for larger view. |
National Registry Alliance Adds Four
Statewide Registry Lists to Early Childhood Atlas
FEB. 28, 2006 | The National Registry Alliance, a consortium of
child care registries, has added statewide registry lists from
Maine, Montana, Missouri, and Wisconsin to the
Early Childhood
Atlas.
“Addition of these registry lists is an important step for the
Early Childhood Atlas,” Cathy Grace, Ed.D., professor and
director of the Mississippi State University Early Childhood
Institute, said. “Information about the distribution and
qualifications of early childhood personnel are some of the most
important kinds of data we can share for the advancement of the
early childhood field.”
Registries collect information about early childhood teachers
and administrators, including their educational credentials,
positions, employers, and salaries. By linking individual
teachers and administrators to the geographic locations of the
programs where they work, the analysts with the Early Childhood
Atlas can study spatial relationships in the early childhood
workforce, such as the proportion of infant-toddler teachers in
a county who have four-year degrees and the relative proximity
to four-year colleges that grant early childhood degrees.
The Early Childhood Atlas is a set of online tools for sorting,
displaying, and mapping indicators about early childhood
services and child well-being. Actual names and addresses of
teachers and administrators in the registries are not available
in the Atlas.
“This tool has allowed us to get a true picture of the workforce
in these states and has allowed us to do more thoughtful
planning for the future of the profession,” Jere Wallden of
Boulder Junction, Wis., executive director of The National
Registry Alliance, said.
The National Registry Alliance includes registry organizations
in 30 states. The four registries that provided datasets for the
Atlas are Maine Roads to Quality Registry, Missouri Professional
Achievement and Recognition System, the Montana Early Care and
Education Career Development Program, and the Wisconsin
Registry.
The alliance will hold its annual conference July 17-21 in
Portland, Maine. For more information about child care
registries or The National Registry Alliance, contact Jere
Wallden (715-385-0009).
46 Blackjack Rd. / P.O. Box 6013
/ Mississippi State, MS / 39762 / tel. 662-325-4836 / fax 662-325-5436
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