Exploring Roles in the ECE Community: Local and State Levels

The National AfterSchool Association (NAA), The National Center for Fair & Open Testing, and The STAND for children are organizations that are at the local and state level, but they are associated with communities of practice. I chose these three organizations based on my Capstone Project. because later on I know that it will be useful when it comes to the final project. Also, I wanted to find organizations that I have never heard of so that I could learn new information to share with my colleagues so that we can instill this knowledge into our children minds in hopes of them wanting to learn.

The NAA had three job opportunities currently available that interest me like Leadership at the Movies-Part 1 & 2, Talk Tuesday, and Ten Tips for Hiring. The National Center for Fair & Open Testing website did have a numerous of job opportunities which are currently available, but I just looked through a couple of pages and decided that the New Research, Good Reads interest me. The STAND for children website did have job opportunities that are currently available, but it did not interest me.

The Leadership at the Movies-Part 1 & 2 offers the first five leadership principles which can earn you "two thumbs up" from your colleagues and funders as well as the youth and families you serve and the last five principles are the next steps to completing that transformation. The Talk Tuesday helps our young people develop the skills and talents to find gainful employment and to attract businesses to our cities. The Ten Tips for Hiring provides you with ten steps to getting the right people in the door that will put you on track to strengthening your team. (National AfterSchool Association-NAA) http://naaweb.org/professional-development/item/132-leadership-at-the-movies-part-1 and http://naaweb.org/professional-development/item/135-leadership-at-the-movies-part-2 

The New Research, Good Reads was a study that found a significant increase in incarceration rates for students who fail high-stakes exit exams. The Effect of High School Exit Exams on Graduation, Employment, Wages and Incarceration shows that students who fail these exams were more than 12 percent more likely to face incarceration than students who pass and these states also had lower graduation rates than states without these exams (National Center for Fair & Open Testing)http://www.fairtest.org/new-research-good-reads 

I think that if you are apart of these organizations, then they will help you with the skills and experiences that you would need to competently fulfill each of these roles.

References:

National AfterSchool Association (NAA). (n.d.). Retrieved from http://naaweb.org/?searchword=employment&searchphrase=any&limit=20&ordering=newest&view=search&option=com_search

National Center for Fair & Open Testing. (2013, Nov 9). New research, Good reads. Retrieved from http://www.fairtest.org/new-research-good-reads

STAND for children. (n.d.). Employment opportunities. Retrieved from https://careers-stand.icims.com/jobs/search?ss=1&searchKeyword=louisiana&searchCategory