StrongStart PDCs meet with new commissioner for MA Dept. of Early Education and Care
The Institute for Early Education Leadership and Innovation welcomed the Commonwealth’s newly appointed Commissioner of the Department of Early Education and Care Samantha Aigner-Treworgy to its statewide launch of the StrongStart Professional Development Centers (PDC) September 16.
Aigner-Treworgy met with the UMass leadership team and staff from each of the five PDCs to discuss the vision for the work they will be doing with the state’s 9,000 licensed early care and education programs and 70,000 early educators working in family child care, center-based child care, and out-of-school time programs.
Top row photo on left, L-R: Metro Boston StrongStart PDC Assistant Coordinator Cristina Mendes, StrongStart PDC Coordinator Amanda Wiehe Lopes, StrongStart PDC Director and Leadership Institute Executive Director Dr. Anne Douglass, Commissioner Aigner-Treworgy, UMass Boston Finance Manager Suzanne O’Neil, StrongStart PDC Training and Industry Navigation Manager Teddy Kokoros, and Leadership Institute assistant Natalie Calixto.
Top row photo second from left, L-R: Mary Ann Roman, Commissioner Aigner-Treworgy, Barbara Gallagher from Northeast Professional Development Center.
Top row photo second from right, L-R: Catherine Wakely, Mary Watson Avery, Commissioner Aigner-Treworgy, Jody Figuerido, Beth Dubrova, Jen Gordon from the Central Mass Professional Development Center and UMass Donahue Institute.
Top row photo on right, L-R: Nicole Miles, Commissioner Aigner-Treworgy, Ardith Wieworka, and Melissa Brickley from Southeast Professional Development Center.
Bottom row photo, L-R: Isabela Garcia Senet, Commissioner Aigner-Treworgy, and Caroline Yoder Blackman from MetroBoston Professional Development Center.
