Many times, when you begin an individual journey, you don’t realize how connected you are to ideas and movements bigger than yourself. I was recently shocked to learn I’m the one-millionth to earn the most widely recognized credential in early childhood education, the Child Development Associate (CDA) credential.
Alchesay High School, located on the Fort Apache Reservation in Whiteriver, Arizona, offers early childhood education as a career and technical education program. It provided students like me with the academic knowledge and essential skills needed for working with young children. In my senior year, I took advanced college courses in early childhood education and participated in lab hours interacting with young children in the Alchesay Beginnings Child Care Center.