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If you run an early childhood program in California, you already know the hardest part of the job: finding and keeping qualified staff. The workforce data tells the story. California's ECE programs consistently report persistent staffing shortages. Qualified teachers with ECE units and the experience to move up the Child Development Permit Matrix are in short supply. Turnover costs programs tens of thousands of dollars per departure when you factor in hiring, onboarding, cove

California is home to more dual language learners (DLLs) than any other state in the country. Recent estimates place roughly 60 percent of children under the age of five in California as growing up with a language other than English at home. If you're working in early childhood education here, you are almost certainly teaching DLL children, whether your program identifies itself as bilingual or not. That reality carries both a responsibility and an opportunity. The research o