Come out and meet your fellow leaders for great conversations. Make new friends and connect with those that inspire you. Support each other in a safe and supportive environment.

Members of the Central New York Leadership Initiative are invited to join our networking meetings. Our meeting topics are driven by your questions and needs. Share stories, strategies, feelings, ideas, resources, and words of encouragement about leading an early childhood program.

As a member of the Southern Tier Leadership Initiative, you are invited to join our monthly virtual networking meetings. These evening meeting are especially designed for leaders and owners of family and group family programs. 

The Leadership Initiative is excited to offer weekly networking meetings on Zoom for our Long Island members of the Leadership Initiative. 

As a member of the Southern Tier Leadership Initiative, you are invited to join our monthly virtual networking meetings. Meeting topics are driven by your questions and needs. 

The Finger Lakes Leadership Initiative invites you to join our monthly virtual networking meetings. Our meetings create a space for us all to connect, to share ideas and learn from each other’s experiences in a community setting.

Members who are supporting or directly leading early childhood learning spaces are all welcome.

These virtual conversations are held via Zoom on the third Tuesday of every month. One session is held in the afternoon and another in the evening.

As a member of the Western New York Leadership Initiative, you are invited to join our networking meetings! Meeting topics are driven by your questions and needs. This is a space to share stories, strategies, feelings, ideas, resources, and words of encouragement about leading an early childhood program in Western NY.

Members of the WNY Leadership Initiative are invited to join our networking meetings. Meeting topics are driven by your questions and needs. This is a space to share stories, strategies, feelings, ideas, resources, and words of encouragement about leading an early childhood program in Western NY.

Networking in the evening is from 6 to 7 p.m.

In our professional learning community, you will come together with other leaders in discussion of the habits and dispositions of resilient educators outlined in the book Onward: Cultivating Emotional Resilience in Educators by Elena Aguilar. 

These Long Island Leadership Initiative networking meetings are especially intended for home-based and family providers.

Come out and meet your fellow leaders for great conversations. Make new friends and connect with those that inspire you. Support each other in a safe and supportive environment.

There are so many pieces to leading a child care program that sometimes we neglect the basics we started with - like policies and procedures, vision, hiring practices, mission and documentation. Please join QUALITYstarsNY and the Western NY Leadership Initiative for this three-part learning community to reflect on those leadership practices. We will discuss policies and procedures, staff retention and documentation.  

Please register for any and all sessions you are interested in.

April 10 (virtual): We will welcome a group of early childhood education leaders to guide a discussion on staff retention strategies and practices.

August 14 (hybrid): Sherry Phillips will be our guest facilitator and lead a discussion on documentation for an early childhood program.

Sessions will be held from 12:30 p.m. to 2:30 p.m.

Members of the Mid-Hudson Leadership Initiative are invited to join us for monthly networking meetings on Zoom.

Building strong, inclusive, and reflective programs leaders in early childhood starts with being supportive of children. Each child is different, and many require different methods of communication and prepared loving adults. Join us as we explore different strategies, experiences, reflection, and words from a panel of learned leaders of early childhood education.

Join other leaders in our field for reflection and conversation. Network meetings are a virtual space for us all to connect, to share ideas and learn from each other’s experiences in a community setting. Members who are supporting or directly leading early childhood learning spaces are all welcome. These conversations are held via Zoom.

Join us as we delve into the memoir of Kerry Washington, a mother, artist, advocate, and trailblazer, in this book group for members of the NYC Leadership Initiative who work in one of the five boroughs. While reading Kerry’s journey, we’ll reflect on authentic leadership, our roles as agents of change, and opportunities to build resilience. 

Join us for reflection and conversation with other leaders of programs who are also supporting and leading family and group family child care spaces.