Teacher Program

Teachers

Are you a teacher who works primarily with infants or toddlers? Increase your knowledge, improve your skills, and get access to valuable tools and resources as you participate in self-instructed courses, webinars, and PLCs.After completing the required PLCs based on the Infant, Toddler, and Three-Year-Old Early Learning Guidelines, you will be able to choose from a variety of other PLC topics as you participate in one-hour PLCs each month. Each PLC includes prerequisite self-paced courses and/or webinars related to the different PLC topics, so you are sure to gain a wealth of knowledge around each topic that you can take back to the classroom.

Teachers will receive:

• Professional development courses and webinars through CLI Engage
• Access to Professional Learning Communities (PLCs) that network you with a group of individuals in your field
• Clock hours for continued education
• Opportunities to earn participation-based incentives, such as a tablet, priority registration to 2-day Foundations Training, classroom kit, and/or stipend

Ready to join? Talk to your program director and get them on board too, as they will need to take the first steps to get your program registered! 

Program Directors

Does your Early Childhood Center have at least one infant or toddler classroom? Directors, are you committed to supporting participating infant and toddler teachers to actively engage in professional development? If so, we are excited for your program to join the ITSN Teacher Program and continue supporting quality improvement in your infant and toddler classrooms!

Programs will receive:

• FREE professional development for participating infant and toddler teachers at your site
• Access to professional development resources and tools for the entire site through CLI Engage
• TRS sites- Opportunity to improve your star rating!
• Non-TRS sites- Opportunity to improve quality and prepare to join

The following are required for Directors to register a program in the ITSN Teacher Program: CLI Engage Director/Principal account ID, TECPDS account ID, submission of Director commitment letter. Additionally, all participating teachers must have a CLI Engage Teacher account ID, TECPDS account ID, and submit a Teacher commitment letter.Still have questions? To learn more about how your program can participate in the ITSN Teacher Program, contact us by clicking the button below.

Contact Us: Director/Programs

Ready to join? Follow these steps:

Step 1: Fill out a Help Ticket (Infant Toddler Specialist Network Assistance) and select YES to the question “I’m interested in joining the ITSN as a teacher/director”

1. Request that your center (school) be added to the ITSN Community
   • If your school is not already in the CLI Engage system through TSR, it will be added under the ITSN (*additional information will be requested from you in order to add a new site)
2. Request assistance creating your CLI Engage Principal (Director) account if you do not already have one
   • If you already have a CLI Engage account, confirm that you have the correct type of account (director/principal). Each individual should only have one CLI Engage account.
   • Request to have Teacher accounts created for all infant and toddler teachers who are participating in the ITSN Teacher Program.

Step 2: Create your TECPDS Workforce Registry account

• Now that you have your CLI Engage account, connect to your account and opt-in to also create your TECPDS Workforce Registry account if you do not currently have one. Learn more about creating your TECPDS account by viewing the How to Opt-in page.
• All participating teachers will also need to create their own Workforce Registry accounts.

Step 3: Fill out and submit a Director Commitment Letter. This is required for your teachers to complete their registration in the ITSN Teacher Program.

• You will need your CLI Engage Principal account ID and TECPDS ID number in order to submit your director commitment letter. These ID numbers can be found under your account profiles when logged into each account.
• Directors only need to submit one commitment letter, listing all participating teachers where specified. If you would like to add additional teachers later in the cycle, you may submit another commitment letter listing those teachers’ names.

Step 4: Have each participating infant/toddler teacher fill out and submit the Teacher Commitment Letter. They will need their CLI Engage Teacher account ID and TECPDS ID number in order to submit their commitment letters.[fruitful_sep]If you are a teacher who has already signed up to be a part of the ITSN, check out our upcoming training opportunities on our Teacher Training Calendar.