Tennessee Early Childhood Training Alliance at ChSCC

09/30/2025

This is Goodbye! Don’t ever give up on education. The children deserve quality care!! We are so glad we had this time together!!

09/12/2025

09/12/2025

Cleaning out files. Came across this many years ago the statewide team wrote this to the tune of I’ve been working on the railroad! But TECTA won’t grow any more. But the students can! Go live the dream and get your education no matter what!

09/11/2025

How much a child is able to learn is directly related to how safe they feel in their environment and with the people around them.

What does a safe learning environment look like for you?
If you could set up the optimal learning environment for yourself, what would that include? How would it feel?

Find out more about creating an environment where your child feels safe to express their emotions, make mistakes and play/learn freely, in my latest book 👇
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Finding Your Calm: A Responsive Parents Guide to Self-Regulation and Co-Regulation⁣⁣

Link in bio or on the Website: responsiveparentinginspirations.com⁣⁣

08/20/2025

What are we doing to our children?

We push them to perform before they are ready, measuring their worth by achievements instead of honoring their pace. We expect them to be everything at once (e.g. academic, social, athletic, artistic), forgetting that childhood was never meant to be a competition.

What children truly need is not more pressure, but more play. They need space to wonder, freedom to connect, and time to grow into themselves without hurry.

The greatest danger to childhood is not falling behind, but being forced to outgrow it too soon. If we want children to flourish, we must protect their right to simply be children.

08/12/2025

Chattanooga State Campus is closed today until 1:00pm. For faculty staff convocation.

07/31/2025

A common misconception of child led is that it is a free for all. This image is a really helpful and visual way to demonstrate what child led actually means!

07/28/2025

TECTA regional leadership conference hosted at Roane State this past weekend. Thanks to all who attended!