The ECE/CDA certificate series is back with brand-new October classes.

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ECE/CDA-100 : Saturday and Sunday, October 3 and 4

ECE/CDA-200 : Saturday and Sunday, October 10 and 11

ECE/CDA-300 : Saturday and Sunday, October 17 and 18

ECE/CDA-400 : Saturday and Sunday, October 24 and 25

If she wants all four, she can have all four. If she wants two, she can have two. If she has been on a waitlist since spring, her name is finally at the front.

Why the ECE/CDA Series Is Our Flagship

The ECE/CDA certificate courses have filled up every term since we launched them. They fill because the field is voting with its enrollment: this is the class California ECE professionals are actually using to move up the ladder.

Each course is a single-course certificate, delivered in Theoria's proven hybrid format (live weekend lecture, plus asynchronous coursework in Orbund, plus a Supervised Field Experience at an approved site). Each one maps to the CDA (Child Development Associate) competency standards and California Title 22 child care licensing expectations.

The certificate itself is the thing she carries into her next interview. The four together tell a story: this is a teacher who invested in herself, on her own weekends, and finished what she started.

For the Teacher Reading This

You have four weekends in October. You already know why you have been putting this off. It has not been because you did not want it. It has been because there has never been a way to knock the whole series out at once. Now there is.

You do not need permission. You do not need to already have a bachelor's degree. You need four weekends and a willingness to do the work.

For the Director Reading This

The teachers on your team who finish the ECE/CDA series in October will be ready to work. They will be asking to lead the room. That is a good problem to have, and it is the problem you want to have, because the ones you do not invest in are the ones who leave.

Send one teacher. Send four. Send the whole team. October only comes once.