Please join Bank Street on January 28 at 12:30 PM ET for a webinar on our latest brief: Career Pathways and Wage Ladders: A Key Opportunity for Improving Quality. Registration is available here.

Career pathways and wage ladders can serve as the foundation for transformative change for the ECE workforce if designed with quality and equity at the core.

This brief describes key considerations for states to realize this potential:

• Prioritize the incumbent workforce

• Recognize experience through mastery-based approaches

• Build from a set of locally-adopted core competencies

• Include multiple entry points

• Include opportunities for robust and sustained job-embedded coaching and mentoring throughout the pathway

• Ensure that each level is meaningful and perceived as attainable

• Build beyond a living wage floor to make meaningful progress towards pay parity

Read more here and please share with your networks.

Please reach out to Annie Schaeffing at aschaeffing@bankstreet.edu with any questions or to schedule a time to speak with the Learning Starts At Birth team about these recommendations.