{"id":39904,"date":"2021-10-26T22:38:16","date_gmt":"2021-10-26T22:38:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost\/ftf\/?post_type=family-stories&#038;p=39904"},"modified":"2021-11-04T14:14:29","modified_gmt":"2021-11-04T14:14:29","slug":"professional-development-helps-teachers","status":"publish","type":"family-stories","link":"https:\/\/www.firstthingsfirst.org\/es\/region-stories\/professional-development-helps-teachers\/","title":{"rendered":"Professional development helps Pascua Yaqui early childhood teachers build a learning foundation for their young students"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">As the Pascua Yaqui Tribe went into lockdown at the height of the COVID-19 pandemic, Ili Uusim Mahtawa\u2019apo Pascua Yaqui Head Start teachers Maria Wilson and Yvette Rodriguez were left wondering about the safety and future of the young children they teach.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Head Start teachers were sent home and forced to continue teaching their young students through online learning. Despite the obstacles these educators faced, Wilson and Rodriguez confronted each challenge with a positive attitude.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cLast year, I didn\u2019t have my usual classroom, but instead helped facilitate remote learning by editing videos recorded by teachers,\u201d Rodriguez said.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In Wilson&#8217;s case, she began to view these challenges as professional development opportunities.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Ili Uusim Mahtawa\u2019apo Pascua Yaqui Head Start teachers benefited from a professional development program that the <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.firstthingsfirst.org\/regions\/pascua-yaqui-tribe\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">First Things First Pascua Yaqui Tribe Regional Partnership Council<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> funds. \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Great Expectations for Teachers, Children, Families and Communities is a professional development strategy that offers 17 communities of practices developed by <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/unitedwaytucson.org\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">United Way of Tucson and Southern Arizona<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. Two of these communities are offered on the reservation: The Story Project Community of Practice and Inspire Inclusion Community of Practice.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">For Inspire Inclusion, <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.easterseals.com\/blakefoundation\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Easterseals Blake Foundation<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> works with Ili Uusim Mahtawa\u2019apo Pascua Yaqui Head Start teachers to increase their knowledge to support high-quality inclusive classrooms for young Pascua Yaqui children with special needs. And for <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/storyproject.org\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">the Story Project<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/makewayforbooks.org\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Make Way for Books<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> works with the teachers to increase their knowledge and skills in order to promote emergent literacy and language in Pascua Yaqui children.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Joseph Swartz, a lead teacher at Ili Uusim Mahtawa\u2019apo Head Start, attended professional development sessions for both communities of practice, as well as a course in leadership training for early childhood programs.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">He said he plans to use these new tools and skills to offer families of the young children he teaches with the best support possible.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The skills acquired have inspired the teachers to incorporate their new knowledge and share the importance of early childhood education and development with the families they serve.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cWe, as teachers, are building the foundation of young children\u2019s learning experiences,\u201d said Head Start teacher Maria Louisa Vega. \u201cOur role in their education is crucial because we are teaching them the stepping stones. It\u2019s their first experience, and we are here to help them fall in love with learning.\u201d<\/span><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The FTF Pascua Yaqui Tribe Regional Council funds a professional development program that benefits early childhood teachers in the region.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":48,"featured_media":39905,"template":"","tags":[137,158,273],"class_list":["post-39904","family-stories","type-family-stories","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-tribal","tag-pascua-yaqui-tribe","tag-professional-development","regions-pascua-yaqui-tribe"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v27.1 (Yoast SEO v27.1.1) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Professional development helps Pascua Yaqui early childhood teachers build a learning foundation for their young students - First Things First<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"The FTF Pascua Yaqui Tribe Regional Council funds a professional development program that benefits early childhood teachers in the region.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.firstthingsfirst.org\/es\/region-stories\/professional-development-helps-teachers\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"es_ES\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Professional development helps Pascua Yaqui early childhood teachers build a learning foundation for their young students\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"The FTF Pascua Yaqui Tribe Regional Council funds a professional development program that benefits early childhood teachers in the region.\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.firstthingsfirst.org\/es\/region-stories\/professional-development-helps-teachers\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"First Things First\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/AZFirstThingsFirst\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2021-11-04T14:14:29+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/www.firstthingsfirst.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/Pascua-Yaqui-Tribe-2021.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"750\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"393\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:site\" content=\"@AZFTF\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Tiempo de lectura\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"2 minutos\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.firstthingsfirst.org\/es\/region-stories\/professional-development-helps-teachers\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.firstthingsfirst.org\/es\/region-stories\/professional-development-helps-teachers\/\",\"name\":\"Professional development helps Pascua Yaqui early childhood teachers build a learning foundation for their young students - 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