Program: Unlocking Your Career Potential: Next Steps After Your CDA!

Description: Just earned your CDA credential with The Academy? Congratulations! Take the next step by joining our webinar to explore the exciting career pathway National University created for Head Start CDA graduates. Discover opportunities to advance your early childhood education career and unlock your full professional potential. Don’t miss this chance to turn your CDA achievement into a rewarding future!

Learning Objective: National University’s Partnership Manager will walk attendees through the next steps in expanding your opportunities.

Unlocking Your Career Potential Presenters: Katrina Davis-Darnell and Zuly Vazquez

Katrina Davis-Darnell is a passionate higher education professional with 15+ years of supporting Head Start and PK-12 entities. She manages education partnerships at the National University in their Workforce and Community Education division. In her role, she develops and leads education solution projects that support making professional development affordable and accessible for K-12 professionals seeking to achieve their career ambitions through National University offerings.

Zuly Vazquez is the senior manager of online professional development at the National Head Start Association. She has worked with Head Start and Early Head Start programs for over a decade, specializing in training, mentoring, coaching, facilitation, curriculum implementation, and management. She worked for several years in the classroom, providing high-quality education to children from different cultures, traditions, and ethnicities. She is a former EHS/HS parent. She has vast experience supporting and providing technical assistance to teachers, family child care providers, education specialists, and families in large EHS/HS programs in Florida and Georgia. Over her career, she designed a supplemental Christian early childhood curriculum, bilingual online lessons, and classroom observation tools and has facilitated early childhood education courses in English and Spanish at the college level. As an active early childhood advocate, she is a board member of her local NAEYC affiliate and Family Child Care Home Alliance of Georgia. She is a senior advisor of Latinas United for the Children of America.

Brought to you by: