Participants in DIEEC’s professional learning experiences (PLEs) know that we often encourage you to take time to reflect as part of the experience. Why do we ask you to do this? Reflection offers the opportunity to pause, consider, and make connections – to process new information, and think about how it applies to our professional practices. In a self-paced PLE, we ask you questions meant to help you think about your current practices, and how you might want to change them going forward. If you choose to engage in the Quality Improvement Process with DIEEC, you’ll spend some time reflecting on your program’s strengths and opportunities as you make intentional choices about areas for growth and improvement.

As we turn the calendar page to a brand new year, we encourage our friends and colleagues in the early childhood education community: Take a moment to stop, breathe deep, and review what you learned and experienced in the past year. Then, think about how those experiences might shape your plans for the coming year. DIEEC will be here to support you as we renew our commitment to quality early childhood education in 2024!