National Black Child Development Institute

The Early Care and Education; and Literacy, is particularly relevant to my professional focus of concern. Promoting access to high quality settings and systems for children birth through eight.
The foundation ensures that all children are reading proficiently by the end of 3rd grade. It focuses on the particular strengths and needs of black children and families.
The foundation has affiliates and national partners. Affiliates who supports the organizations campaign for grade level reading which works to "help children embrace reading and improve their academic performance". from this grew the raising a reader family engagement literacy program, a nonprofit organization that offers evidence-based to local supporting agencies.
Early Care and Education supports the educational and socio-emotional effects of children for a successful development. Children from low-income families are able to participate and benefit from quality early education care because federal, state, and local efforts is supported by NBCDI.


Parent Empowerment Program (PEP) is another insight, it supports and empowers parents allowing support for conversations of race, culture, gender, and class differences in order to understand, learn, grow, and respect and accept all children and their families. The parent group reflects on areas that will support parents to help their children in areas of positive guidance, literacy, growth and development and more.


The Alliance for Early Success is a catalyst for bringing state, national and funding partners. My controversial issue is the idea that black children seem to only get teachers who are less qualified, and less effective (par3). This is why it is so important to teach culture. Most of the time black children are misunderstood by teachers who does not look like them, I have seen it often. If anyone keep telling a child that he is bad, that child tends to curve right in that path and carry-out the actions of a bad child. These actions and thoughts is unhealthy for the child as well as the teacher.


References
The national black child institution http://nbcdi.org


Kagan, S.L., Kauerz, K., & Tarrant, K. (2008). The early care and education teaching workforce:
     At the fulcrum. New York, NY: Teachers college press.