Child Care Chronicles
Oklahoma Edition
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Freedom to Learn, Grow, and Lead ❤️💛💚
Honoring Juneteenth Through Care, Community, and Opportunity
Hello, Oklahoma friends! ☀️
This week, we honor Juneteenth, a powerful reminder of freedom, resilience, history, and hope. ❤️💛💚 In early childhood education, we have the special opportunity to help children feel seen, valued, and welcomed while teaching kindness, fairness, and respect in simple, age-appropriate ways.
As we continue through the summer season, let’s celebrate learning, leadership, and the important work child care professionals do every day to support children, families, and communities. 🌈
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📚 New Class Alert:
Fresh Classes for Fresh Summer Goals
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Childcare Management
Strong leadership helps child care programs run smoothly, support staff, and create a better experience for children and families. 🏫
Our Childcare Management course is a great option for directors, assistant directors, owners, administrators, and early childhood professionals who want to strengthen their leadership and program management skills. 💼
This course can help child care professionals build confidence in managing daily operations, supporting staff, staying organized, and leading a successful child care program. ✅
✅ Enroll here:
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🎉 Celebrate Freedom With Savings
Training Discounts Available
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🏢 ChildCareEd Business Broker Program
The ChildCareEd Business Broker Program gives you a private place to share your goals, ask questions, and explore your next steps with guidance from Hwaida Hassanein, ChildCareEd CEO.
Once your information is reviewed, qualified contacts may be invited to schedule a free consultation and learn about support options such as:
*Buyer readiness
*Seller readiness
*Licensing guidance
*Property review
*Staff training
*Business consulting
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Oklahoma Professional Development Ladder (OPDL) Level 2 Training Bundle
Are you ready to advance your career? Then you're ready to move up to Level 2 of the Oklahoma Professional Development Ladder (OPDL)!
The Level 2 OPDL Training Bundle by ChildCareEd is your pathway to professional growth and licensing compliance. Designed for providers seeking advancement, this bundle meets the Level 2 OPDL requirement of 60 clock-hours of approved early childhood training, helping you qualify for more advanced roles in early learning programs.
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MANY COLORS, ONE CANVAS
We are excited to invite child care professionals, educators, directors, and community partners to join us for Many Colors, One Canvas: MD ECE Conference.
Interested in becoming a sponsor for the conference? We have several sponsorship opportunities for local businesses.
For sponsorship information, email: grants@childcareed.com
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🌎 Aprender, Crecer y Avanzar
Spanish-Language Resources and Classes
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Para iniciar un negocio de cuidado infantil, investiga la demanda local, define tu modelo (guardería, atención en casa, horario extendido) y elabora un plan de negocio con presupuesto y tarifas competitivas.
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Cómo ayudar a su personal de daycare a completar la capacitación a tiempo
Dirigir una guardería es trabajo ajetreado. Manejas horarios, familias y reglas. Group Admin de ChildCareEd puede ayudarte a mantener al personal al día para que la formación se complete a tiempo. Usa Group Admin para asignar cursos, ver el progreso y guardar certificados en un solo lugar.
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Diversidad, equidad e inclusión en la educación - online
Esta capacitación presentará estrategias de enseñanza culturalmente receptivas que ayudarán a los proveedores de cuidado infantil a promover la diversidad, la equidad y la inclusión en el aula.
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🕶️ Director’s Corner:
Lead Into Summer With Confidence
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Keep Your Staff on Track with Group Admin
Directors, summer is a great time to review staff files, check training records, and prepare for upcoming licensing visits.
ChildCareEd makes it easier to:
- Assign, track, and document staff training in one dashboard.
- Training for child care centers, family child care homes, and multi-site programs.
- Download certificates anytime for licensing visits, audits, and staff files.
- Buy training hours in bulk and manage your team from one place.
Whether you manage one classroom or several locations, staying organized now can help reduce stress later. 🌴
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Request Onsite or Virtual Training
Need training for your whole team? 👥
ChildCareEd offers onsite and virtual training options to help child care programs support staff development in a flexible and convenient way.
Training can be helpful for:
- Staff professional development days 📅
- Licensing preparation 📋
- Center-wide training needs 🏫
- New employee onboarding 👋
- Annual training requirements ✅
- Group learning opportunities 🌟
Select group trainings may also have Spanish-language support available. 💬
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RESOURCES
Check out this helpful resource for your convenience!
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📚 CDA Resource Spotlight:
Working toward your CDA can feel easier when you have the right resources. From training courses to portfolio support, helpful tools can guide educators as they build skills, confidence, and professional knowledge.
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🎨 Little Hands, Big Lessons
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Juneteenth Classroom Ideas
Juneteenth can be introduced to young children through simple, joyful, and respectful activities focused on freedom, kindness, community, and fairness. ❤️💛💚
Freedom Colors Art 🎨
Provide red, green, black, yellow, and other bright colors for children to create a freedom-inspired art project. Talk about how colors can help us celebrate important days.
Community Helping Hands 🤝
Have children trace and decorate their hands. Place the hands together on a bulletin board to show how everyone helps build a caring classroom community.
Kindness Circle 🌼
Invite children to sit in a circle and share one kind thing they can do for a friend. Keep it simple with prompts like, “I can share,” “I can help,” or “I can use kind words.”
Story Time About Fairness 📖
Read books that celebrate friendship, fairness, courage, and community. After reading, ask children simple questions like, “How did the character feel?” or “What was a kind choice?”
Freedom Bells 🔔
Let children decorate paper bells or craft bells as a symbol of celebration. Talk about how Juneteenth is a day many people celebrate freedom.
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📰 Article of the Week:
Supporting Families Where Care Is Needed Most
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👧 How can childcare programs make inclusion work for every child?
Every day you welcome children with different needs, languages, and backgrounds. This article gives clear, friendly steps you can use now to make your program more welcoming. You will find practical ideas for the room, for teaching, and for working with families and specialists. We link to helpful ChildCareEd resources so you can learn more and act with confidence. Remember: state requirements vary - check your state licensing agency.❤️
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❤️💛💚 Juneteenth Edition: Helping Children Understand Freedom, Fairness, and Kindness
Tip of the Week: Celebrate freedom through kindness and inclusion.
Help children connect the meaning of Juneteenth to actions they can practice every day. Encourage them to invite others to play, listen when friends are speaking, share materials, and use kind words.
You can say:
“Freedom means people should be treated with fairness, respect, and care. In our classroom, we show this by making sure everyone feels welcome.”
Try asking:
❤️ “How can we help everyone feel welcome today?”
💛 “What is one kind thing you can do for a friend?”
- 💚 “How can we celebrate our difference
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❤️💛💚 Freedom, Growth, and Brighter Futures
On Juneteenth week, we celebrate freedom, learning, and the power of community.
Every child you comfort, every lesson you teach, every family you support, and every training you complete helps build a stronger future. 🌱
ChildCareEd is proud to support child care professionals with flexible, helpful, and licensing-ready training all year long.
Here’s to a meaningful week of learning, caring, leading, and growing together. ☀️🌻
With appreciation,
ChildCareEd
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