Discover what early childhood care and education change-makers across a variety of workforce roles have been saying about Stacie’s groundbreaking leadership. These testimonials reflect a growing movement — one that’s rallying behind a bold vision to transform and evolve the future of early childhood care and education as a field of practice.
These testimonials reflect a growing movement – one that’s rallying behind a bold vision to transform and evolve the future of education.
Stacie Goffin, long-time leader in early childhood education, brings her expertise and wisdom to a call for action, urging early childhood educators to rethink the present trajectory of the field and create a professional field of practice.
-Aletha Huston, Pricilla Ponl Flawn Regents Professor Emerita of Child Development, The University of Texas at Austin
2013
Like the historic town crier, Goffin calls us to create a public space for reflection, dialogue, and action regarding the future of our field.She challenges our loose fedration of early childhood educators to formally organize as a professsional field of practice. Once again, Goffin is service as a much-needed provocateure, protagonist, and catalytic agent.
-Maurice Sykes, executive director, Early Childhood Leadership Institute, University of the District of Columbia
2013
Once again, Goffin is service as a much-needed provocateure, protagonist, and catalytic agent.
-Maurice Sykes, executive director, Early Childhood Leadership Institute, University of the District of Columbia
2024
With her usual clarity, Stacie Goffin drives her stake in the ground and then gathers us around it, urging us along an intelectual journey, not so much toward the answers for our profession but toward exacting questions needed to get us to the place that will define us as one.
-Jana Martella, co-director, Center on Enhancing Early Learning Outcomes, Washington, DC
2019
No stranger to a tough topic, Dr. Goffin creates another must read using her signature blend of sharp analysis and thoughtful reflection … This book equips all of us — advocates, allies, educators, caregivers, faculty, quality and workforce professionals, and more — with a deeper understanding of the forces that have shaped us, both externally and internally. Instead of simply accepting where we are, Goffin challenges us to boldy move forward to shape our future and hopefully jolt us well beyond the marginalization we have experienced and often accepted, for far too long. I leave this book feeling more enabled and empowered to contribute to substantive and systemic change. Armed with a deep understanding of our history and the consequences of our fragmentation, we can serve as more effective change agents, and as Dr. Goffin puts it, “step forward on behalf of the field’s future.|
-Rachel Robertson, Chief Academic Officer, Bright Horizons, USA
2024