Early Childhood Education for a New Era Quotes

“Each of us, therefore, will have to step back to step forward—to consider how our thoughts and behaviors are contributing, however inadvertently, to the status quo.”
― Stacie G. Goffin, Early Childhood Education for a New Era: Leading for Our Profession

“But we are addicted to this repetition! We need to get fed up with these same stories. We need new stories”
― Stacie G. Goffin, Early Childhood Education for a New Era: Leading for Our Profession

“Consistently high quality ECE relies on the collective competence of its practitioners”
― Stacie G. Goffin, Early Childhood Education for a New Era: Leading for Our Profession

“Yet policy formation occurs within a complex decision-making process driven by interests and constraints not always aligned with, or even supportive of, the field’s research base or aspirations”
― Stacie G. Goffin, Early Childhood Education for a New Era: Leading for Our Profession

“ECE increasingly is the recipient of others’ decisions, leaving it reactive to others’ change agenda.”
― Stacie G. Goffin, Early Childhood Education for a New Era: Leading for Our Profession

“Hope is definitely not the same as optimism. It is not the conviction that something will turn out well, but the certainty that something makes sense, regardless of how it turns out. It is hope, above all, that gives us strength … to continually try new things, even in conditions that seem hopeless (p. 8).”
― Stacie G. Goffin, Early Childhood Education for a New Era: Leading for Our Profession