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Empowering Shared Services Organizations so Early Childhood Educators Can Thrive

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Shared services for providers, like those supported by Child Care Aware of America (CCAOA), are designed to help early childhood education programs, including Family Child Care Centers, providers and public programs, improve their operations and quality of service by pooling resources, providing support and advocacy, and centralizing administrative tasks to help create a more cohesive early education system. Organizations like CCAOA advocate for and facilitate the development of these shared service alliances, understanding that collaboration can lead to greater efficiency and effectiveness in early childhood education.


  • Administrative Efficiency

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    Shared services can handle common administrative functions, such as: payroll, human resources, purchasing, and financial management. Additionally,  providers save time by the streamlined provision of digital curriculum, assessment, and professional development. This centralization reduces duplication of effort and can lead to cost savings and more streamlined processes.

  • Quality Improvement

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    By joining a shared service organization, providers can access higher quality resources and training programs for their staff. This can include digital resources, such as:  curriculum, professional development, and support in your state's QRIS, quality initiatives, and state standards.

  • Purchasing Power

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    Through the shared services partnership, Learning Beyond Paper can provide the most cost-effective solutions and yield the best return on investment for your high-quality, unique digital curriculum needs.

  • Shared Knowledge and Best Practices

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    As a partner with shared services, Learning Beyond Paper can foster a community among users for dynamic engagement that enhances our digital solutions in real-time to meet users' unique and evolving needs. This collaboration can significantly impact and enhance educational practices - from the director to the teacher to the child to the family.

  • Save Time & Money

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    Learning Beyond Paper saves directors and teachers precious time. With 52 weeks of lesson plans, more than 4,000 daily activities in a developmental progression, built-in on-boarding, professional development, training, teacher support videos, Spanish and more, directors and teachers save time. Teachers alone save an average of 3 hours per week.

  • Retain Your Workforce

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    Happy and supported teachers stay longer. Learning Beyond Paper is committed to building teacher capacity and supporting teacher autonomy. By providing resources right at their fingertips, early childhood educators are supported in real-time. Robust teacher resources provide the "why" behind every activity and encourage high-quality teacher-child interactions. We meet teachers where they are, tailoring professional development to meet their individual needs.

  • Learning Beyond University

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    Our professional development workshops are thoughtfully designed around top-tier early childhood education methodologies, emphasizing crucial aspects such as Emotional Support, Classroom Organization, and Instructional Support. These sessions align with the CLASS® framework and are offered in both English and Spanish to accommodate all educators. To gauge the effectiveness of our training, we conduct comprehensive assessments before and after each course, confirming that our programs deliver measurable enhancements in teaching quality.

"I love Learning Beyond Paper! There's step-by-step instructions for each lesson and it makes teaching the activities fun! I'm able to spend more one-on-one time with my children, because of the age-appropriate materials!"

Heather

Teacher, Pirates Den Daycare

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"I always get the best feedback on Learning Beyond Paper. I am so excited to have an option of keeping families involved, staff less stressed and children HAPPY! We have been using it for almost a ear and I couldn't imagine running childcare without it!"

Ashlynn Gafford

Center Director, Pirates Den Daycare

"I love how LBP makes the hard work of lesson planning simple. I never imagined that a curriculum so educational could also be so easy to use! My favorite part is keeping families involved with our summary at the end of the day!"

Mary

Teacher, Pirates Den Daycare

"I love Learning Beyond Paper! There's step-by-step instructions for each lesson and it makes teaching the activities fun! I'm able to spend more one-on-one time with my children, because of the age-appropriate materials!"

Heather

Teacher, Pirates Den Daycare

"I always get the best feedback on Learning Beyond Paper. I am so excited to have an option of keeping families involved, staff less stressed and children HAPPY! We have been using it for almost a ear and I couldn't imagine running childcare without it!"

Ashlynn Gafford

Center Director, Pirates Den Daycare

Strategic Alliance Partners


Child's Play logo: smiling cartoon woman wearing a floral shawl against a green arch; text reads "Child's Play".
NAFCC logo: a colorful house shape with the letters NAFCC in blue below. "National Association for Family Child Care" text is below.
Logo for Procare Solutions, featuring intersecting colorful rings above the word "Procare" and the word "SOLUTIONS" below.
NAEYC logo, featuring the acronym in colorful, block letters: red 'n', yellow 'a', green 'e', blue 'y', and orange 'c'.
Logo for the South East Education Cooperative, "SEEC", in blue text beside a compass rose icon with green, gold, and blue accents.
ChildCare Aware of North Dakota logo: navy and red text with a check mark design.
Lakeshore logo on a red background; white text with the registered trademark symbol.