PINELLAS EARLY EDUCATORS UNITED ASSOCIATION
United for Good
Our Vision
To elevate the profession of early education to attract and sustain high quality early educators to the field that ensures the delivery of well-informed, well-organized and data-driven educational programming to children ages birth to five within a network supported by the local community.
Our Mission
The Mission of the PEEUA is to be a formal and unified voice for early educators to address inequities within the profession and the children and families they serve.
Our Goals & Objectives
o Advocacy- to validate and support the profession with local regulatory agencies and businesses, potential funders, families and the community at large.
o Support – provide regular opportunities to share resources, offer support and create formal and informal connections among educators in the county.
o Promotion – to inform the community about the critical role of early education in building long-term successes for all children throughout their educational experience.
Training – to coordinate, identify, develop and deliver valid and applicable training resources and opportunities for early educators in an organized way.
o Service: to create and develop programming opportunities to address inequities in the community and improve educational outcomes for teachers and children.
WHERE WE STAND ON ISSUES OF FAIRNESS AND EQUITY:
Our commitment to equity, fairness and ethics in business evolves and changes based on the needs of our fellow human beings. We developed this organization to speak for those who felt they had no unified or supported voice for many reasons; racism, bigotry, classism, disenfranchisement, ignorance, fear, the list goes on and on…. and we will continue to take actions that support the adults who care for young children in the world of early education.
As we develop and grow together, we will propose services that support our mission, and commit to continually ask ourselves difficult questions and turn the lens inward. We will seek to identify ways to become more inclusive, and transparent, better informed about ourselves and our community, and less participatory in initiatives or rhetoric that may do harm to others.
We are committed to our mission to address inequities in our profession as our primary focus and to develop protocols, processes and procedures that reflect the passion we set out with; to be the good in the world that we want to see and to advance fairness, equity and inclusion of others as a primary goal.
Together we are the change….
PEEUA represents a group of Early Childhood Educators located throughout Pinellas County, Florida who meet regularly to provide support to one another, share resources, plan events, and promote their profession to shine light on the critical work of early education and the impact it has on young children for a lifetime.