Happy March!

The Architects of Tomorrow: The Vital Role of Women in Early Childhood Education  In the bustling early childhood classrooms and family child care homes across the nation, women educators, who comprise over 97% of the early childhood education workforce, are...

Happy February!

Click the picture above to watch the video or click this link. You can read the full transcript below. Hey y’all! Happy February! As we begin to celebrate Black History Month, we stand really at the intersection of passion and practice – which is our focus...

Happy January!

Click the picture above to watch the video or click this link. You can read the full transcript below. Hey y’all! Happy January! I’m so excited to tell you about our focus for 2025. The theme for this year is Uniting Our Purpose: Passion Meets...

Happy December!

Click the picture above to watch the video or click this link. You can read the full transcript below. Hey y’all! Wow! What an amazing year. I wanted to thank you so much for your membership in AECA and for your help in making this year and its theme – Linking...

Giving Tuesday 2024

Giving Tuesday is next week – a global generosity movement, unleashing the power of people and organizations to transform their communities and the world. Members of AECA and other Arkansas supporters of early childhood education are transforming children and...

Step Up to WAGE$ Announcement

November 13, 2024 Over the past two and one-half years, AECA has been excited and honored to support our ECE workforce through the Step Up to WAGE$ program. Since 2022, $9.2 million in wage supplements have been paid to eligible child care professionals who work...

Happy November!

Hey y’all! Happy November! We had an amazing time learning, reconnecting, and linking hearts and minds last month at the 62nd annual AECA Conference.  If you didn’t get to join us this year, we missed you!  It’s just not the same without all our...

AECA Board Nominations Now Open!

The AECA Board nominations process for 2025 is now open through November 15, 2024 at 5:00pm 🗳 Any AECA member interested in serving can read the open position descriptions and complete the online nomination form. You can also go directly to the form by scanning this...

Happy September!

Hey y’all! Can you believe it is September already? We here at AECA are so excited that our conference is next month. We hope you will join us. Here is a sneak peek of what you have to look forward to! The theme of this year’s conference is Linking Hearts &...

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