Season 2, Episode 13: Five Tips to be a Successful Child Care Center Director, with Ty'Heim Clark

11/09/22 • 42 min

Ty’Heim Clark, perhaps better known as Mr. Ty, is the founder of The Childcare Whisperer, a consulting business that works with child care center directors to help them meet their goals and take their centers to the next level.

His experience in early childhood education started when he was a child and he helped his mother at her child care center. Since then, he has worked as a pre-kindergarten teacher, an assistant center director, director of curriculum and he has managed centers with enrollments ranging from 80 to 200 children.

In this podcast, he shares five tips to improve your success as a child care center director, including how to lead when it's difficult to find staff.
You can find out more about Ty on Facebook, Instagram and TikTok. His website is www.thechildcarewhisperer.com and his email address is [email protected].

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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].

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Season 2, Episode 13: Thirty Years of Growing Together: Procare's Founder and an Early Customer Recount the Early Days

The story of Procare Solutions begins with a dad who saw a child care center needed help.

That dad was Jeff Blum, and he remembers dropping off his 2-year-old son and watching the center’s owners struggle with their accounting system.

So he wrote them a computer program to help. That program — limited, yes, but incredibly innovative for its time — can lay claim to being the very first version of what eventually would become Procare Solutions.
Procare Solutions is celebrating its 30th anniversary, so we invited Jeff to share his memories of those early days. In his podcast, he recounts how Procare got its start and the changes that came before his retirement. He’s joined by Carol Levins, who owned many child care centers and is among the first of Procare’s customers. Her feedback helped Jeff shape the software to fit the needs of early childhood educators.

Listen as Jeff and Carol discuss the evolution of Procare from its origins on a computer with two floppy disk drives but no hard drives, to its growth to today, when Procare Solutions is the largest providers of child care management software and provides much more than just accounting help!