Nurturing the Nurturers: Mental Wellness in our Daily Practice and Burnout Prevention
Early childhood educators give endlessly, but often at the cost of their own wellbeing. It’s time to shine a light on burnout in ECE and build a culture where caring for ourselves is just as important as caring for children. Prioritizing educator mental wellness isn’t optional, it’s essential. This conversation goes beyond self-care trends and looks at what it truly takes to build workplaces where early childhood professionals feel valued, supported, and emotionally safe.
Career Pathways in Early Childhood Education and Care
This resource highlights the many career pathways available through Early Childhood Education and Care (ECEC).
Beyond Day One: Understanding Onboarding vs. Orientation
This resource explores the critical role onboarding plays in welcoming new eucators into your program.
Mentorship in Action: Goal Setting & Action Planning
This resource is designed to illuminate goal setting and action planning processes as strategies to support individuals in mentorship.
Student Mentorship Relationships in Early Years Programs
This resource provides insights on the development of mentoring relationships in Early Childhood Programs. It addresses questions such as: How do we cultivate these crucial relationships? and what roles do mentors and students each play in this process?
Understanding Mentorship & Mentoring Relationships
This resource is aimed at providing clarity around what mentorship is.
Igniting the Spark for Mentorship: 2024 Community Animator Report
This report highlights the key processes and findings from the Community Animators’ work, including an environmental scan of mentorship approaches, the community engagement processes, what we heard from collaborators, and proposed pathways to support mentorship opportunities.
ECEC Common Terms & Acronyms
This resource offers a small glossary with definitions for key words and jargon used in the early childhood field, including in policy and by early years professionals.
MENTORING: IN SEARCH OF MEANING
Sheryl Third (she/her), RECE, writes about mentoring being a strategy for professional learning and support from a historical perspective while asking herself a very important question- where do we go now? While promoting us to make connections to gratitude and to consider how our own willingness to learn from others impacts mentoring relationships, Sheryl dives into some prompts that help us reflect on how we can support one another.
Creating a Culture of Mentoring - Webinar
Facilitated By: Sheryl Third, RECE, M.A. and Kim Woods, RECE
Do you mentor students or would you like to? Have you identified being a mentor as part of your CPL goals? Do you want to explore the concept of mentoring? Tune in to this webinar to explore how to create a culture of mentoring in your classroom, school or centre! “RECEs build positive relationships with colleagues by demonstrating respect, trust, and integrity. They support, mentor, and collaborate with colleagues, including students aspiring to the profession" (Code of Ethics and Standards of Practice, College of Early Childhood Educators, (2017, p. 7).