WHITERIVER, Ariz. The population of Whiteriver, part of the Fort Apache Reservation in eastern Arizona, equals roughly half of what an average regular-season Phoenix Mercury game drew last season.
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.
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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.