2024-25 NMECHETF Deliverables
| Professional Development Pathway Recommendations to the ECECD |
| This document revises the NM ECECD professional development pathways document to ensure the most accurate information is represented across programs. This year, the designation and emphasis on TCUs was specifically highlighted. PDP Professional Development Pathway 2024 |
| Guiding Framework for Early Literacy Instruction for Young Children in New Mexico |
| An Early Literacy subcommittee of the NMECHETF, committed to New Mexico’s communities, developed a framework for addressing early literacy that is grounded in culturally and linguistically sustaining praxis that recognizes, affirms, and uplifts multiple forms of literacies while ensuring that young children develop print literacy through the highest quality of instructional practices aligned with developmentally appropriate approaches for working with young children, ages zero to eight. Early Literacy Framework |
2023-24 NMECHETF Deliverables
| Professional Development Pathway | Online Repository | Field Experience Companion Guide (Wang et al., 2024) | Multilingual Education Pathway Brief (Shipley et al., 2024) | Inclusive Early Childhood Education Exploratory Report (Morris et al., 2024) |
| A list of recommendations, with justifications, for changes and updates to the 2022-23 Professional Development Pathways was provided to the NM Early Childhood Education and Care Department. The most current ECECD document can be located here: Professional Development Pathway 2022-23 | An online repository of the NMECHETF’s meeting, membership, and historical information is now available at nmechetf.unm.edu | A companion guide that can support institutes of higher education (IHE) across the state to make decisions and implement best practice in the field experiences of their students (e.g., practicum, student teaching). | A brief that describes the implications (both cautions and considerations) that may result in institutes of higher education during/as a result of the development of a Bilingual Pathway in NM higher education programs. | An exploratory report that provides background information on the ECSE and EI contexts in New Mexico that supports recommendations for building an inclusive early childhood education licensure pathway. |
NMECHETF Bylaws
Approval Date: February 21, 2024
The current NMECHETF Bylaws describe the Task Force’s Purpose, Meeting processes, leadership duties and election, and membership descriptions, conduct, and responsibilities. The Bylaws also describe the Task Force’s voting and deliverable obligations as well as partnerships that the group engages in.
Additional Repository Materials
Competencies: Common Core Content and Competencies for personnel in Early Care, Education, and Family Support in New Mexico (2011) “Blue book” Related NMAC Code: Title 6, Chapter 61, Part 12: https://www.srca.nm.gov/parts/title06/06.061.0012.html
Articulation Catalog: New Mexico’s Universal Catalogue of Courses for Early Care, Education, and Family Support (2011) – “Green book”
Articulation Catalog – Recommended Syllabi and Supporting Documents for Foundational and Upper Level EC Care and Education Programs: New Mexico Early Childhood Education and Development Articulation Catalog of Courses and Programs (2020) – “Turquoise book”
La Ristra: New Mexico’s Comprehensive Professional Development System in Early Care, Education, and Family Support
This 1999 (revised 2002) document, edited by Dr. Polly Turner, chronicles 15 years of work in early childhood. A collaborative process with the New Mexico Early Childhood Higher Education Task Force, the contents include New Mexico partners, foundational decisions in statewide early childhood care and education, New Mexico’s initial career lattice in EC work, Common Core Content, Best Practices, and information about Articulation across programs.
The Continuous Journey (1998), co-authored by Polly Turner (UNM) and Dan Haggard (NM CYFD). This document is fully titled, “Recruitment and Training of Minority Personnel in Early Care and Education: A Collective Model Between Communities and Higher Education Systems in New Mexico. The document is the result of a Kellogg Foundation funded effort to describe the journey and process of preparing early care, education, and family support personnel.