NCTE Chicago 2011

Happy Spring! Thank you to those of you who submitted proposals to the early childhood strand for the NCTE annual convention to be held in Chicago in November, 2011. As a result of your submissions, Mariana Souto-Manning, our Assistant Chair and Program Chair was able to create a very strong early childhood strand and Day of EC for the convention!

Keep an eye out for updates regarding keynote speakers and other events!

Also, please remember to spread the word about ECEA and renew your membership today!

Happy New Year

Happy New Year! It is hard to believe that another year has come and gone! As you plan for the year ahead please remember to renew your membership to the ECE Assembly. Your membership sustains the life of the assembly and we encourage you to spread the word and invite others interested in early childhood issues and advocacy to become members as well.

Thank you to those of you who participated in the early childhood strand at the NCTE annual convention in Orlando, Florida! We hope many of you have submitted proposals for the 2011 convention!

Welcome to the ECE Assembly of NCTE

Thank you to those of you who submitted proposals to present at the NCTE Convention in Orlando! We look forward to seeing you there.

Click here to view the EC sessions.

Thank you to Debi Goodman and the ESSC for welcoming ECEA with open arms and for their ongoing support of early childhood educators!

Click here for ECEA events that took place at the 2009 Convention.

ECEA History

NCTE 2008

At the end of a very exciting Day of Early Childhood, at the annual convention, in November 2008, Deborah Wells Rowe gave a thought provoking keynote for which we hope to provide audio on this site in the near future.

Following Debbie's talk the proposed Early Childhood Education Assembly (ECEA) held a special interest group meeting to vote on various aspects of the assembly. The minutes from this meeting can be found in the column on the right hand side of this web page. Since this meeting, the ECEA leadership has worked diligently at submitting the necessary paperwork required to complete the process of gaining assembly status. In February, 2009, the NCTE Executive Committee voted on whether or not to award this status.

On March 24, 2009, Millie Davis, Division Director, Communications and Affiliate Services at NCTE contacted us to officially inform us that we had been granted Assembly status!

We look forward to hearing from you, working with you, and supporting your needs! Please come back to this site for updates regarding the status of the proposed assembly.

Vivian Vasquez
ECEA Chair