To me, the community of practice means a connection.\u202fA place to connect with other educators.\u202fA place to just talk about things that we relate\u202fto within the field and personally, as in our practice,\u202fand just get to know others and get to know\u202fjust why the why behind what we do.\u202fAnd just giving that refresh as to, you know, this is why we’re in it.\u202fThis is why we do what we do.\u202fBut the group has brought out\u202fthe okay that I’m here for a reason.\u202fThe children are the reason. I couldn’t imagine leaving the field doing anything else.\u202fSo, to be able to connect with my peers and just talk together about why we do this\u202fand why we continue to stay in the field. And also collaborating ideas as to how we can retain staff. It’s been really helpful and we all kind of come from different backgrounds and different programs.\u202fSo, hearing about different, ways we can retain\u202fstaff in group centers or in-home centers has been helpful.\u202fAnd I think the group itself is beneficial to all that are in the ECE field.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n
That connection component\u202fis really important to me. And I think it’s just changed the way\u202fthat I view the field in a more positive aspect. I’ve always viewed it in a positive way, but just having\u202fthat connection, those relationships with other educators has really just\u202fbeen a light in my eyes as an educator and just I’ve grown a lot.\u202fI feel personally, as an educator, since being part of the program,\u202fand I just feel so comfortable\u202fand it’s really just made me happier. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
I believe that early childhood educators are powerful when we come together\u202fand being with children, spending our days with children,\u202fis one of the most rewarding things that we can do.\u202fAnd even if we touch one child’s life,\u202fwe have done wonders\u202fand we make a difference together.\u202fWe make a difference even when we’re sole operators.\u202fAny way that we’re in the field\u202fand making a difference in the life of a child is so beneficial.\u202fAnd I think that being in a group such as the peer mentor program is\u202fthe best thing for our field. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Winters – connections in the Peer Mentoring Program To me, the community of practice means a connection.\u202fA place to connect with other educators.\u202fA place to just talk about things that we relate\u202fto within the field and personally, as in our practice,\u202fand just get to know others and get to know\u202fjust why the why behind what […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":38,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"template-text-only.php","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-3337","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/content.scienceofecd.com\/transcript\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3337","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/content.scienceofecd.com\/transcript\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/content.scienceofecd.com\/transcript\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/content.scienceofecd.com\/transcript\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/38"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/content.scienceofecd.com\/transcript\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3337"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/content.scienceofecd.com\/transcript\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3337\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4904,"href":"https:\/\/content.scienceofecd.com\/transcript\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3337\/revisions\/4904"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/content.scienceofecd.com\/transcript\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3337"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}