An absolutely magical visit to Miami Children’s Museum! TY to everyone who attended our visit! TY to Natalie & the team who offered us a tour of their NAEYC accredited Reggio Emilio preschool & museum! #EarlyChildhoodMattersMost #AASAEarlyEd This was a visit that filled my soul with brightness! 🌞🌴

What an amazing AASA Rooted in Relationships Summit with Miami Dade County Public Schools team! TY Dr. Mapp for keynoting! 🙏🏻 🙌🏻 A special thank you to Supt. Dotres for also being with us!! It was a great three-day visit! #AASAEarlyEd #EarlyChildhoodMattersMost

Last night I had the honor of being the closing speaker for Washtenaw Promise Thriving Educator Awards Banquet! Congrats to award winners Jodi, Emily, and Amy for your service, courage and leadership as teachers! 🙌🏻 ⭐️ #EarlyChildhoodMattersMost #TeamWISD #AASAEarlyEd

TY Lincoln Consolidated Schools and Principal Shelton and team for hosting BLOCKfest last night at Model Early Learning Center! We had such a great time! So proud of all of our volunteers including Bahjee and Rana! Great learning for all!! #EarlyChildhoodMattersMost #TeamWISD #AASAEarlyEd

Memories from last week’s @aasahq #NCE2026 TY to Dave and the team at AASA for providing a way to bring the nation together and uplift #publiceducationpromise TY to my friends @azacheryross & @highscopeus Dr. Barazza for presenting our roundtable! #AASAEarlyEd #EarlyChildhoodMattersMost #TeamWISD

Thank you Michigan Head Start for a fabulous Winter Assembly in Detroit, Michigan last week! Congrats to Ex. Director Robin Bozek on her retirement! It was so great to speak time and share space with so many great friends! #EarlyChildhoodMattersMost #AASAEarlyEd #TeamWISD

TY to our presenters today who helped our AASA Early Learning Cohort at our virtual meeting discussing Transitions for families and children. They offered research and practical ideas! 🙌🏻 🙏🏻 #EarlyChildhoodMattersMost #AASAEarlyEd #TeamWISD

Last week, I had the privilege of reading Last Stop on Market Street to the GSRP classroom at Pittsfield Acres! A @geeacademies program! My ❤️ was full!! Thank you to the staff & students for welcoming me in. We also did some singing and dancing! 😊🎵🕺 #EarlyChildhoodMattersMost #AASAEarlyEd #TeamWISD

So proud to have attended @wisdearlychildhood 4th Annual Celebration of Culture community celebration on Thursday, Dec. 18! TY @bahjee.empress.afia for your leadership in organizing this event! 🎤⬇️ Happy Holidays everyone! #EarlyChildhoodMattersMost #TeamWISD #AASAEarlyEd

TY @gewhitmer and @michdepted for the Michigan Literacy Summit today! Honored to be a panelist as we uplifted @washtenawisd & @wisdearlychildhood work to accelerate economic growth and advance to make #earlychildhoodmattersmost #AASAEarlyEd #TeamWISD

Honored to be selected as a candidate for the @naeyc 2026 Governing Board! If you are an NAEYC member, I would love to earn your vote as Secretary. Voting opens Nov.19, 2025 and ends Jan. 12, 2026. Here is my link. #EarlyChildhoodMattersMost #TeamWISD #AASAEarlyEd

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Despite all of the difficult news in Early Childhood lately, we tried to brighten High Point, Gretchen’s House, Bottles & Backpacks and EMU Children’s Institute days’ on Friday!! We dressed up as our favorite @pbs.org kids characters! #TeamWISD #EarlyChildhoodMattersMost #AASAEarlyEd 🎃🙌🏻 We ❤️ PBS!

We had a great day yesterday at Wiard’s Orchards with our Early Head Start families! A great way to celebrate #headstartawarenessmonth Thank you to all of our families, children and staff for making it be such a wonderful event! #TeamWISD #EarlyChildhoodMattersMost #AASAEarlyEd

Thank you to all of our preschool partner Principals and Directors for your leadership! On Friday., Oct. 17 the WISD EC celebrated #PrincipalAppreciationMonth by giving all a certificate of appreciation! #EarlyChildhoodMattersMost #AASAEarlyEd #TeamWISD

TY Washtenaw Area Council for Children for a great event celebrating 50 years of your work in supporting children and families! I was so proud to learn about your special award winners!! 🫶🏻Thank you WACC! #TeamWISD #EarlyChildhoodMattersMost #AASAEarlyEd

It has been a week since the Fall 2025 MASA Conference, but I wanted to lift up how great the opportunity was to make 3 presentations with partners from MiLEAP, MAISA, NHSA, and HighScope!! Together we make #EarlyChildhoodMattersMost !! TY SETSEG for the 5K Fun Run as well! #TeamWISD #AASAEarlyEd

12th and Final Run for the #RunUnited2025 @unitedwaysem.bsky.social Virtual Marathon! I competed all 26.2 miles! Battled through a left calf issue and made it!! I also reached my fundraising goal today of raising $500 for STEAM $$ for kids!! #EarlyChildhoodMattersMost #TeamWISD #AASAEarlyEd

11th morning run for #RunUnited2025 Virtual Marathon! 2.6 miles today for a total of 24.2 miles! Almost there! Chasing the sun today on a chilling crisp late Summer morning! 🌞 #EarlyChildhoodMattersMost #TeamWISD #AASAEarlyEd

10th Morning Run for #RunUnited2025 virtual marathon! Added 2.4 miles so now I have a total of 21.6 miles! Not much left to go!! #EarlyChildhoodMattersMost #TeamWISD #AASAEarlyEd If you want to contribute to my fundraising for STEAM $$ for kids please do it here: p2p.onecause.com/rununited25/...

9th Morning #RunUnited2025 @unitedwaysem Virtual Marathon Run! 2.4 miles now for a total of 19.2 miles! Chasing the sun this morning! 🌞 Also, thank you to all of my donors! I have raised $385 of my $500! Only $115 more to go! #EarlyChildhoodMattersMost #TeamWISD #AASAEarlyEd

Happy beginning of the school year @whitlkpublicschools Excited to visit the PreK for All and Head Start spaces with their amazing Director Sue! TY for showing me around the new spaces! #TeamWISD #AASAEarlyEd #EarlyChildhoodMattersMost

Run #8 for #RunUnited2025 Virtual Marathon! I have now completed 16.8 miles of the 26.2 miles! We have now raised $350 of my $500. The EC Dept. Team is a top 5 of all the teams! Please contribute to reach our goal! p2p.onecause.com/rununited25/... #EarlyChildhoodMattersMost #TeamWISD #AASAEarlyEd

Run #7 for #RunUnited2025 virtual marathon today! Completed 2.2 miles for a total of 14.6 miles! Over 1/2 way there!! Today we had the Why I Run postcard activity! Photo 2 shares why I run! #EarlyChildhoodMattersMost #TeamWISD #AASAEarlyEd

Day 6 for #RunUnited2025 Virtual Marathon! Almost 1/2 way there in completing my 26.2 miles. I have 12.4 now after my morning run yesterday in Iowa! I surprised my older brother with a visit to celebrate his 55th birthday!! Chasing the sun! 🌞 😊 #EarlyChildhoodMattersMost #TeamWISD #AASAEarlyEd

Run #5 for #RunUnited2025 Virtual Marathon this morning! 10.4 of the 26.2 miles done! Please continue to contribute to my goal! p2p.onecause.com/rununited25/... I have $200 more to go! #EarlyChildhoodMattersMost #TeamWISD #AASAEarlyEd

TY to Dr. Nneka McGee for keynote presenting for Day 2 of our WISD EC Conference! We had such a great day of learning! TY to all to the #TeamWISD staff and the participants for making this be a tremendous success! We had 326 participants for Day 2! #EarlyChildhoodMattersMost #AASAEarlyEd

What a difference a day makes! Thank you to everyone for showing up for the WISD Day 1 Early Childhood Conference! Wow! 😳 363 participants!! TY @danwuori.bsky.social for being our keynote speaker! #EarlyChildhoodMattersMost #TeamWISD #AASAEarlyEd

So excited for our 11th Annual Early Childhood conference today! TY @danwouri.sky.social for joining us as Day 1 keynote speaker! Also, thank you to all of our presenters, participants, sponsors, volunteers for making this happen! #EarlyChildhoodmattersMost #TeamWISD #AASAEarlyEd

Great #TeamWISD Opening events!! TY Dr. Emdin for being with us! You brought the 🔥🙌🏻 Also, so great to have a twist with our Late Night line up!! Watching “Counted Out” was powerful too! Up next the 11th Annual Conference Aug. 20 & 21! #EarlyChildhoodMattersMost #AASAEarlyEd #WISDECC2025

Day 4 of #RunUnited2025 @unitedwaysem Virtual marathon done! 8.4 miles down! TY to everyone who contribute thus far! #TeamWISD #AASAEarlyEd