Professional Identity
A group of state partners and stakeholders have been developing a way to highlight the skills and knowledge that educators bring to their jobs in early childhood education. This work has resulted in a revision to the Career Lattice and Registry.
The Registry will soon have an updated look that highlights all three aspects of your professional identity; Your education, your experience, and your goals.
An all new Registry Dashboard: Currently in development, the dashboard will be your Registry homepage. You will find all the tools and information you need, right at your fingertips!
The Educator Designation: This will replace the Career Lattice and highlight your formal early childhood education. Your designation will appear throughout the Registry. View the new Educator Designations below.
Professional Development: The new interface will have easy to find reports and search tools to support your PD needs.
Check back soon! More information will be shared when a launch date is determined.
Sample Professional Identity Components
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Education and PD Report
Registry Dashboard
Educator Designation
Career Lattice
Arizona has a diverse and growing community of professionals who work with or on behalf of young children and their families. Just as this community has grown, so has Arizona’s commitment to supporting the ongoing professional development of all early childhood professionals across all sectors of early care and education, early intervention, mental health, physical health, and social services/child welfare working with expectant parents, infants, toddlers, young children to age eight, and their families.
To ensure high-quality early childhood programs for young children, it is necessary to have a highly competent workforce for the early childhood field. The Arizona Career Lattice is a tool within the Registry that provides the pathway of education, professional development, and work experience for early childhood professionals to use for individualized assessment, setting professional development goals, and documentation of progress in career development.
The Career Lattice reflects the following:
- Knowledge and skills can be developed through work experience
- Knowledge and skills can be developed through professional development
- College education is essential to developing a highly competent workforce
The Career Lattice and Educator Designations align with the Arizona Early Childhood Workforce Knowledge and Competencies (WKCs). The difference is that the Workforce Knowledge and Competencies reflect the progression of knowledge and skills while the Career Lattice reflects the path a professional takes to obtain them.