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California Federation of Teachers members and staff hosted a booth at the Los Angles Universal preschool Conference and Education Expo held at the Los Angeles Convention Center on October 16 and 17.
The conference focused on the impact and trends of preschool education and gave preschool providers, parents, community and business leaders as well as elected officials the opportunity to discuss, share and explore how to better prepare our children for future successes through a high quality preschool education experience.
The conference featured more than 60 workshops that addressed issues such as preschool advocacy, quality, teaching and curriculum including: Encouraging Parent-Child Interaction, Preparing for kindergarten, Creating a Meaningful Classroom Experience and Understanding a Parent’s Role in their Children’s Learning.
The California Federation of Teachers (CFT) contingent included Early Childhood Education Organizing Project staff Karl Beitel, Karo Szymanska and Sandra Weese and CFT Local 1475 president Arleen Rivera and Local 1475 members Cynthia Norman and Aldo Gonzalez.
The CFT booth was a big hit at the conference. We distributed numerous AFT free educational and professional development materials, such as the Transitioning to Kindergarten toolkit, the Colorín Colorado toolkit and the Helping Your Preschool Child Series of booklets in English and Spanish. Local 1475 members also took the opportunity to talk to other early childhood educators about the benefits of belonging to CFT and encourage them to think about forming their own union.
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Early Childhood Federation of Teachers, Local
1475 activist and Head Start preschool teacher Aldo
Gonzalez talks to other ECE providers and parents
at the CFT booth at the LAUP Conference.
Arlene Rivera, president of Early Childhood
Federation of Teachers Local 1475 and
a preschool teacher at a LAUP site, with
Assemblymember Kevin de León.
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