Season 2, Episode 11: Back-to-School Tips for Your Child Care Center, with Aliya Johnson Roberts

09/02/22 • 55 min

Aliya Johnson-Roberts, an education and business consultant who leads Consulting with AJR, is the executive director of the Bustleton Learning Center and Pratt Street Learning Center in Philadelphia, serving more than 250 children.
Her mother was an in-home child care provider, and Aliya went into the fashion industry before realizing her passion is early childhood education.
Aliya has a master’s degree in early childhood education and educational leadership from Arcadia University and is a PhD candidate in educational leadership. And she’s preparing to expand Bustleton’s Learning Center’s services to include kindergarten through the third grade.
In this podcast, Aliya shares some useful tips to help prepare your child care center for back-to-school season, which is something we traditionally think of as happening in a school setting like elementary school and in older grades. But it's vital for child care providers too!
Learn more about Aliya's consulting business at consultingwithajr.com and search her name on the social media channels you follow!

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Season 2, Episode 10: A Look at Colorado's New Law to Fund 10 Hours a Week of Preschool, with Nicole Riehl

In this podcast, Nicole Riehl, president and CEO of Colorado Executives Partnering to Invest in Children (better known as EPIC), discusses a new Colorado law that will pay for 10 hours a week of preschool for all 4-year-olds, and what that means for child care providers and families.

Nicole was an early childhood teacher for five years and her background includes extensive work with Denver’s preschool programs as well as coordinating various early childhood quality improvement events, resource, and activities across Colorado. She was the CEO of Denver’s Early Childhood Council before taking over the helm of EPIC in 2019.
She discusses how this new state law was designed for flexibility to allow parents to choose what preschool their children can attend and still be eligible for those 10 hours of preschool, as well as the importance of making the program accessible and easy to use for providers and families.
To learn more about Colorado Epic, visits its website: www.coloradoepic.org.

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Season 2, Episode 12: Building Resilience Among Early Childhood Educators, with Donna Skea

As child care centers struggle to find and keep good teachers and other staff, building resilience is key.
In this podcast, Donna Skea joins us from Quebec to share some tips on doing just that!
Donna is the founder of The Infinite Educator, which provides workshops on all aspects of early childhood education, including on building resiliency in the childcare workforce, which is what she’ll be discussing with us today.

She also is an early childhood education professor at Vanier College.
Listen as Donna talks about getting back to the basics of why we love child care and early childhood educationand the importance of building community and offering professional development, as well as more!
Check Donna's Facebook page if you'd like to learn more about her services, as well as her page on LinkedIn! You also can email her at [email protected].

The Child Care Business Podcast - Season 2, Episode 11: Back-to-School Tips for Your Child Care Center, with Aliya Johnson Roberts

Transcript

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Welcome to the childcare business podcast brought to you by ProCare solutions. This podcast is all about giving childcare , preschool, daycare , afterschool, and other early education professionals, a fun and upbeat way to learn about strategies and inspiration you can use to thrive. You'll hear from a variety of childcare thought leaders, including educators, owners, and industry experts on ways to innovate, to meet the needs of the children you