Power to the Profession was a national collaboration to define the early childhood profession. It established a Unifying Framework of recommendations on educator roles and responsibilities, aligned preparation and pathways, profession compensation, and a supportive infrastructure with shared accountability.
Unifying Framework for the Early Childhood Education Profession
The Unifying Framework reflects unprecedented consensus by educators across states and settings, administrators, employers, and higher education, incorporates the recommendations from all eight decision cycles, including those related to educator roles and responsibilities, aligned preparation and pathways, professional compensation, and a supportive infrastructure with shared accountability. It also calls for significant increases in federal and state investments to help ensure the 40 million U.S. children, birth to age 8, are well-served by an effective, diverse, and fairly compensated workforce of professionals.
Commission on Professional Excellence in Early Childhood Education
The Unifying Framework called for the creation of a professional governance body to both hold the Unifying Framework and advance the implementation of the recommendations in the Unifying Framework. This created the impetus for the Commission on Professional Excellence in Early Childhood Education, a commission working toward compensation parity, unified competencies, reciprocity, and practice autonomy for early childhood educators across states, systems, and programs.