Personnel Support

The Professional Standards and Competencies for Early Childhood Educators – The National Association for the Education of Young Children developed six standards to represent the essential body of knowledge, skills, dispositions, and practices required of all early childhood educators working with children from birth through age 8, across all early learning settings. Position Statement on Personnel Standards in Early Childhood Special Education – The Division of Early Childhood’s (DEC) position statement provides guidance for training, licensing, and accrediting EI/ECSE professionals, and emphasizes the need for ongoing professional development. It promotes the use of evidence-based practices and the Division for Early Childhood (DEC) Recommended Practices to ensure high-quality and equitable services for diverse children and their families. The Model Work Standards – A set of statements that specifically identify what a high-quality program is striving to achieve. Through a self-assessment process, teaching staff and administrators can reflect on their program’s particular strengths and determine priorities for making changes. Standards are available for Center-Based Child Care and Family Child Care. The Wisconsin Early Education Shared Services Network (WEESSN) is a free, bilingual virtual service that provides Wisconsin child care programs with business and financial resources. Its goal is to simplify the professional lives of educators so they can focus more on the children. WEESSN offers shared resources, templates, training, mental health support, tax guides, and an optional WEESSN Plus Coaching program for one-on-one guidance on financial practices and marketing.   Updated 9/17/2025