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Ways to Use this Video —
Say Yes, Now!
Support Early Care and Education

Say Yes, Now! is a new 10-minute advocacy video that encourages increased investment in high quality early care and education. It gives viewers a window into quality programs. They see how highly trained teachers and staff work to help young children develop the foundation for academic skills and for the social and emotional skills they need to succeed in school, and beyond.

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Advocate

Use Say Yes, Now! as a resource to inform and convince influencers and stakeholders in your community, including:
  — Non-profit funding organizations
  — Legislators
  — Policy makers
  — Business leaders
  — Service organizations

Educate

Say Yes, Now! can help you present a short, informative overview of early care and education and why it is imperative that we give young children the best in their early years.
  — Parents
  — PTA/PTO
  — School board members
  — Community organizations
  — News media

Celebrate

Take a few minutes to show Say Yes, Now! to teachers and staff in early care and education programs.
  — Child care
  — Pre-K
  — Head Start
  — Kindergarten through 2nd grade
  — ECE/ECSE students

Show those actually doing the work that their efforts are being acknowledged. Encourage them to show the video to everyone they know: friends, colleagues and family — to celebrate the contributions they make everyday.

Video Discussion Guide

Following are a series of questions to stimulate discussion with various audiences who have seen Say Yes, Now!

Audience
  — Non-profit funding organizations
  — Legislators
  — Policy makers
  — Business leaders
  — Service organizations

• What effects on society do you see when children are unprepared for school and drop out early?
• What work force issues concern you most? To what extent are these issues affected by the availability and quality of potential employees?
• What economic costs and factors do you see as outcomes if we do not provide high quality early care and education for children from birth to five?
• How do you respond to the fact that social and economic benefits of $4 to $17 have been documented for every $1 invested in high quality early care and education programs?
• What obstacles do you think prevent adequate funding at the federal, state and local levels?
• What do you think is the most effective strategy to increase funding now?

Audience
  — Parents
  — PTA/PTO
  — School board members
  — Community organizations

• What did you find most interesting and informative about the video?
• How important do you think children’s social skills and emotional development are to their success in school? Examples?
• Why do you think children who start behind tend to say behind their peers?
• If a child feels he or she doesn’t measure up in the classroom, what are the risks?
• What concerns you most if we do not provide high quality early care and education to all our children?

Audience
 Early childhood and early childhood
   special education students
 Teachers and staff in:
  — Child care
  — Pre-K
  — Head Start
  — Kindergarten through 2nd grade

• What did you like most or find most interesting about the video?
• In your opinion, what makes an early care and education setting “high quality?”
• What do you think children need most from the adults who work with them every day?
• How big a factor is compensation in bringing talented young people into the field of early care and education and sustaining their commitment?
• How would you feel if there was widespread acknowledgement that the work you are doing is absolutely critical to the health and welfare of our society?
• What is one thing you wish you could say to individuals who make funding decisions that affect early care and education?

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