Sponsors for the 2024 Annual Conference
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Thank You to Our Sponsors for the 2024 Annual Conference!
Bainum Family Foundation
Bright Horizons
Bright Horizons® is a leading education and care company, trusted by families and employers around the world for safe, discovery-driven early education. When children step into our classrooms, they become explorers, investigators, and thinkers. Our educators embrace children’s innate desire to discover – about themselves and the world around them.
We’re celebrating the 25th anniversary of our Bright Horizons Foundation for Children® – visit us at the Expo Hall to join in the fun!
Brightwheel
Brightwheel is the #1 all-in-one solution for managing childcare programs. Simplify billing, payroll, and enrollment, support educators with curriculum, and build deeper connections with families—all from one intuitive platform. Save up to 20 hours a month on administrative tasks while improving education quality. Serving childcare programs of all sizes across the US and Canada, brightwheel is trusted by millions of educators and families.
Visit www.mybrightwheel.com to book a demo today!
Catherine Hershey Schools for Early Learning
Catherine Hershey Schools for Early Learning is helping to shape the future of early childhood education.
Our leading-edge, whole-child approach educates and nurtures children from birth to age 5 with all costs covered. The CHS program embraces and empowers each child’s family with dedicated staff and family resource centers designed to provide access, support, and improve outcomes. We aim to strengthen the ECE community by providing a comprehensive, nearly yearlong training and development program for our teachers and staff, and opportunities for continued growth.
Community Playthings
Leading the field in quality and innovation, Community Playthings offers durable play equipment and furniture for early childhood classrooms and outdoor spaces. Children deserve beautiful and natural environments where they can explore, discover, and learn through play. To better reflect the remarkable variations found in nature, Community Playthings is expanding the traditional maple product line to include furniture created from a variety of woods. Come see our new Play Kitchen constructed from heirloom-quality cherry wood.
Council for Professional Recognition
The Council for Professional Recognition advances career pathways for early childhood educators through high-quality, competency-based credentialing. The Council recognizes and credentials professionals who work in all types of early care and education settings including Head Start, pre-k, infant-toddler, family childcare, and home visitor programs. As a nonprofit organization, the Council sets policies and procedures for assessment and credentialing. To date, over 1 million Child Development Associate (CDA) credentials have been issued around the world. For more information, visit www.cdacouncil.org.
Forrest T. Jones & Company
Forrest T. Jones & Company has been the NAEYC insurance program administrator for several decades. As an NAEYC member you have access to 20 different highly competitive insurance products to meet your needs. Products such as Life Insurance, Professional Liability, Medical Insurance, Disability Insurance, Auto insurance, Identity Theft Protection and much more. NAEYC members can learn more about the NAEYC association sponsored insurance program by visiting us on the web at www.ftj.com/naeyc. You can also call us toll free at 800-821-7303 and speak directly to one of our friendly NAEYC customer service representative.
HighScope Educational Research Foundation
The HighScope Educational Research Foundation is a 501c-3 nonprofit, independent organization committed to supporting the critical work of early childhood educators and caregivers in providing high-quality outcomes.
Founded in 1970, HighScope is perhaps best known for its landmark Perry Preschool Study Project conducted in the 1960’s. The study proved that high-quality early educational engagement with young children makes a significant difference in their early development and well into their adult years.
Kaplan Early Learning Company
For more than 50 years, Kaplan Early Learning Company has been a champion for play. From our research-based curricula to enriching classroom environments and innovative technology solutions, Kaplan's products and services inspire a lifelong love of learning in children and educators. We are architects of learning environments and defenders of the imagination. We live for inseparable bonds and open minds. We encourage the eager and inspire the inspirers. We transform lives through play.
Lakeshore Learning Materials
At Lakeshore, we believe in creating products that matter. That’s why our hands-on learning materials are meticulously crafted to help children reach key milestones, with top-quality furniture designed for any learning space. We’re also proud to offer services like Complete Classrooms® and free eProcurement—making Lakeshore the one-stop shop for all your early childhood and elementary needs.
Scholastic
Scholastic is the world's largest publisher and distributor of children's books, connecting educators and families through accessibility, engagement, and expertise. We are a leading provider of instructional resources, professional books and services, and classroom magazines, and a producer of educational and popular children’s media.
Teaching Strategies, LLC
A trusted early education partner for 45 years, Teaching Strategies serves over 4 million children each year in 270,000+ classrooms in 80+ countries as the leading global provider of comprehensive education solutions for public and private early childhood programs. Its products include the most widely used curriculum and assessment solutions, The Creative Curriculum(R) and GOLD(R), as well as robust professional development and family engagement offerings, all seamlessly connected through its leading early learning platform, SmartTeach(TM).
The Source for Learning
The Source for Learning is a nonprofit organization that encourages and enables exceptional teaching, learning, and professional growth. Our seasoned professionals create and curate quality content for early childhood and K–12 education. Specifically to support early childhood educators, our website SFLECE.org now hosts a new resource portal containing thousands of free classroom and professional development resources. These include our popular live and on-demand webinar series as well as a NAEYC-recognized administrator credential for Virginia educators — and a multilingual toolkit is coming soon!
Tools of the Mind
Research shows that self-regulation is the biggest predictor of success in school and life. Tools of the Mind provides research-based early childhood curriculum and continuing education that embeds the development of self-regulation into the design of all teaching and learning. This enables children to learn how to learn.
Walden University
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The CAEP-accredited Richard W. Riley College of Education and Leadership at Walden University is dedicated to enhancing educator effectiveness. A leader in teacher and administrator education, the college has been the choice of more than 65,000 education students and alumni, including more than 180 State Teachers of the Year.* Programs range from teacher preparation to education administration and are taught online by nationally recognized education experts, policymakers, and scholar-practitioners.