Early Childhood Education News

Early Childhood Education Program News

• The ECE Program received accreditation from the NAEYC Commission on the Accreditation of Early Childhood Higher Education Programs, demonstrating commitment on the part of the program and the institution to high quality and continuous improvement, benefiting candidates, the profession, and young children.
  
• The ECE Program was featured as a model of excellence in the recently published "Centering Equity in Teacher Education Evaluation: From Principles to Transformative Enactment" article in the Journal of Teacher Education (Cochran-Smith & Reagan, 2022).  In their article, Cochran-Smith & Reagan spotlight three programs that have reframed teacher education evaluation by “baking” equity into multiple program components, including curriculum, coursework and fieldwork, and assessment and evaluation practices.
• Early Childhood Education Program Coordinator, Megan Brown, was recognized as WWU Outstanding Classified Staff for 2022.
• (Re)Learning to Teach Science with a Hearing Impairment: An Autoethnographic Study, a research paper co-authored by Dr. Debi Hanuscin and Spencer Green was honored as the 2023 recipient of the Association for Science Teacher Education (ASTE) Award V: Implications of Research for Educational Practice. At the time of this award, Spencer is an undergraduate student majoring in Early Childhood Education P-3.  In the history of this award, no undergraduate student has ever been recognized.