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What Benefits Do Family Child Care Networks Bring?

DIEEC is honored to be featured in the National Early Care & Education Work Center‘s monthly newsletter, Research Snacks. Their latest issue highlights the vital role of family child care (FCC) networks, and the research includes an examination of our own initiative. The newsletter explores how staffed FCC networks provide crucial support to educators, from ... Read more

Summer Fun with Reading

One of DIEEC’s very own professional development coordinators, Rebecca Joella, was recently featured in a UDaily article! Rebecca and University of Delaware College of Education & Human Development faculty member Roberta Michnick Golinkoff share engaging summer literacy activities and helpful guidance for caregivers.Read their tips here: https://www.udel.edu/udaily/2025/august/summer-reading-golinkoff-joella/

Empowering UD Student-Parents

The Delaware Institute for Excellence in Early Childhood (DIEEC) is proud to partner with the Early Learning Center (ELC) on the CCAMPIS program. This initiative provides free, high-quality childcare to Pell Grant-eligible University of Delaware student-parents, empowering them to pursue their degrees without the added stress of childcare barriers. Learn more about how CCAMPIS and ... Read more

DIEEC Leadership Updates

We are pleased to announce that Kristy Sheffler and Heidi Beck will serve as interim co-directors of DIEEC during Rena Hallam’s term as interim dean of the University of Delaware’s College of Education and Human Development (CEHD). Kristy and Heidi have long histories of leadership experience at DIEEC and New Directions Early Head Start (NDEHS), ... Read more

Excellence in Early Care and Education

University of Delaware’s Early Learning Center partners with families, communities and the state of Delaware to offer excellent and equitable early care It is one of the largest and most robust early childhood education centers in the state. It is also a “living-learning laboratory” for hundreds of UD students interested in strengthening knowledge, health and ... Read more

Interim Dean Named for CEHD

Rena Hallam to assume leadership as Gary Henry completes term Rena A. Hallam, a professor of human development and family sciences, will serve as interim dean of the University of Delaware’s College of Education and Human Development, President Dennis Assanis and Provost Laura Carlson announced today. Hallam, a UD alumna and director of the Delaware ... Read more

Learning in Nature Featuring DIEEC’s Partner the UD Lab School

UD’s Lab School helps children, teachers, and community members learn in and from nature. For nearly 90 years, the University of Delaware’s Lab School, housed within the College of Education and Human Development (CEHD), has served children from the age of 6 months through kindergarten. Since 2017, the Lab School has established itself as a ... Read more

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DIEEC Pilots Pyramid Model with Beach Babies Child Care of Rehoboth

Joy Rowe of the Delaware Institute for Excellence in Early Childhood at the University of Delaware leads initiative training at Beach Babies Child Care of Rehoboth. ELLEN DRISCOLL PHOTOS Beach Babies Child Care of Rehoboth was tapped to pilot a new educational initiative designed to promote healthy social and emotional development in young children. The ... Read more

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DIEEC Receives CCAMPIS Grant

With a New $2 Million Federal Grant, CEHD will Provide Childcare Scholarships to Eligible UD Students Who are Raising Children. For many parents across the nation, a lack of access to affordable, high-quality and reliable childcare for their children—especially children under the age of five—prevents them from pursuing an undergraduate or graduate education. But good ... Read more

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Giving Kids a Head Start

Family child care (FCC) educators from across the state of Delaware gathered to further their professional development and build relationships with colleagues.