Professional Development Incentives - Staff SELA

New Hampshire is engaged in a one-year planning initiative federally funded by the Preschool Development Grant. The goal is to use data on children and families and data on systemic needs to create a strategic plan that will create a comprehensive, coordinated early childhood care and education system to achieve our vision that all children and families in New Hampshire are healthy, learning and thriving now and in the future.

NH’s vision is to create a fully integrated cross-sector professional development (PD) system that, through pre-service course work and in-service professional development, supports all early childhood professionals across health, early learning, and family support to be well-educated, highly skilled and culturally competent. The Spark WFPD Committee is gathering data on what currently exists for professional development, who is offering it, whether there is collaboration among organizations offering PD, and what the barriers are to participation for professionals in the field.