Early Care Educators of San Francisco

*Cancelled* CPAC Workforce Committee Meeting
2025-01-21 14:00 - 15:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | zoom meeting
See you in February!
The Workforce Committee plays a leadership role on behalf of CPAC by advocating for, designing, and implementing a citywide system that ensures San Francisco’s early care and education workforce has the resources and skills necessary to provide the highest quality care possible to San Francisco’s children and families.

3rd Annual SF ECE Advocacy & Policy Retreat
2025-01-25 09:00 - 14:00 | SF City College, Ocean Campus, Multi-Use Building (MUB) rm 140
Calling all early care and education advocates in San Francisco!

Join us for an inspiring day of advocacy, policy, and community-building at the 3rd Annual SF ECE Advocacy & Policy Retreat! Whether you’re an educator, an administrator, a parent, or a passionate community advocate, this retreat is your chance to be part of something bigger, to inspire change, and to have fun doing it! Bring your energy, your ideas, and your commitment to make a difference.

This event will take place in two parts:
*Optional pre-event*: Advocacy & Policy 101 Training – Wednesday, January 15, 2025 from 6pm-8pm (virtual only)
📍 Location: ZOOM. Register to receive a link.
📄 Details: Interpretation in Spanish & Chinese will be provided
SF ECE Advocacy & Policy Retreat – Saturday, January 25, 2025 from 9am – 2pm (in-person only)
📍 Location: City College of San Francisco – Ocean Campus, Multi-use Building Room 140, 50 Frida Kahlo Way San Francisco, CA 94112 (nearest BART station: Balboa Park)
📄 Details: Interpretation in Spanish & Chinese will be provided. Breakfast & Lunch included.

Why Should You Be There?

Connect & Collaborate: Join fellow education champions from the SF ECE Advocacy Coalition and CPAC, as well as grassroots organizations ECESF, FCCA SF, and Parent Voices SF. Together, we’ll strengthen relationships and amplify our collective voice!

Be a Changemaker: Learn the ins and outs of San Francisco’s city and State budget and legislative process. Discover where and how community advocates like you can create the most significant impact. Get ready to make waves of positive change!

Strategize & Inspire: Build on last year’s advocacy successes as we lay the foundation for an even more impactful year ahead. Let’s brainstorm, plan, and dream big for our community’s needs and advocacy priorities in 2025.

We’re offering Professional Development hours!
Please include your CA Workforce Registry number to receive professional development hours for your participation. We will email a certificate to all attendees after the event.

Mark your calendars, gather your fellow colleagues, and get ready for a day of empowerment, education, and enthusiasm.

Register today to secure your spot at this exciting event. Together, we can create a brighter future for San Francisco’s early care and education!

All ECESF Meeting
2025-02-03 18:30 - 20:30 | zoom meeting
For Teacher, Administrator, and Pedagogic ECE Center Staff
English, Español, 粵語口語

Meeting Focus:

How’s the CSCCE SEQUAL Survey & community discussions coming?
Educator Agency & Autonomy—next steps
Other topics as identified by Early Care Educators of San Francisco

All ECESF meetings are scheduled on the first Monday of the month except when this conflicts with a holiday, or when adjusted to meet community needs.

Are you an ECE educator/administrator working with children and families at a San Francisco ECE center? Fill out the ECESF interest form so we can include you in special events and meeting invitations! (If you’ve already filled out the ECESF interest form, no need to fill it out again—unless you’ve changed sites or job roles. You are on our list for invitations!)
Did you fill out the interest form but still didn’t receive an invitation to the meeting? Email info@ecesf.org, Subject: Interested in the next ALL ECESF meeting!

CPAC Workforce Committee Meeting
2025-02-18 14:00 - 15:00, 2025-03-18 14:00 - 15:00 | zoom meeting
The Workforce Committee plays a leadership role on behalf of CPAC by advocating for, designing, and implementing a citywide system that ensures San Francisco’s early care and education workforce has the resources and skills necessary to provide the highest quality care possible to San Francisco’s children and families.

All ECESF Meeting
2025-03-03 18:30 - 20:30, 2025-04-07 18:30 - 20:30, 2025-05-05 18:30 - 20:30 | zoom meeting
For Teacher, Administrator, and Pedagogic ECE Center Staff
English, Español, 粵語口語

Meeting Focus:

Educators Agency & Autonomy
Supports for improved workplace conditions and quality ECE practice
Other topics as identified by Early Care Educators of San Francisco

All ECESF meetings are scheduled on the first Monday of the month except when this conflicts with a holiday, or when adjusted to meet community needs.

Are you an ECE educator/administrator working with children and families at a San Francisco ECE center? Fill out the ECESF interest form so we can include you in special events and meeting invitations! (If you’ve already filled out the ECESF interest form, no need to fill it out again—unless you’ve changed sites or job roles. You are on our list for invitations!)
Did you fill out the interest form but still didn’t receive an invitation to the meeting? Email info@ecesf.org, Subject: Interested in the next ALL ECESF meeting!

ECESF Community Gathering
2025-07-18 16:00 - 2025-07-20 13:00 | In person, Tiburon, CA, 94920, United States
Each year ECESF renews its goals and programs as a community. Are you an ECE educator working directly with children at a San Francisco ECE site? Join us!

Come together to build community ties with your ECE colleagues from San Francisco ECE sites. Reflect on our work together last year & kick off our new year, sharing new ideas and continuing the focus we set last year: building a process where educators are involved directly in improving quality and working conditions at every step of the way!
See more about the event.

The nearby event venue for July 2025 is accessible by ferry or car. There is limited availability to stay overnight either or both Friday and Saturday night. Overnight stays encouraged until full. Options to attend one or both overnights or the Saturday DAY main program only.
Email info@ecesf.org today for more information and a registration form.

CPAC Black Children & Families Workgroup
2025-10-16 13:00 - 14:00 | zoom meeting
A G E N D A
1:00pm Welcome/Introductions
1:05pm Review and discussion of Ingrid Mezquita’s DEC presentation at Oct 8
CPAC meeting.
1:25pm Identify new consistent date/time for workgroup.
1:35pm Decide 2025-26 workgroup goals
2:00pm Adjournment

All ECESF Welcome & Planning Meeting
2025-10-20 18:30 - 20:00 | zoom meeting
All ECESF meetings are the general meetings of ECESF, an organization of San Francisco’s center early care educators and ECE educator-employees. At All ECESF meetings we keep a pulse on San Francisco’s early care educator’s collective insights, impacts, needs, and solutions—and make plans on how best to bring them into ECE community and policy conversations, and share them with leaders to help drive meaningful change.
We’ve:

Engaged in ECESF community conversations on quality and workplace conditions
Participated in UPK Mixed Delivery Workgroup meetings
Representing our community at QRIS Consortium meetings

Join us to:

Hear highlights of ECESF’s recent work and plans
Get and share updates on key ECE community and policy meetings (UPK, QRIS Consortium, and more)
Shape ECESF’s next steps together

RSVP today! (meeting information will be sent to you.)
Support ECESF — Donate!

Meeting Agenda
6:15–6:30 PM
Pre-meeting welcome & get-to-know-you circle
6:30–8:00 PM

ECESF Quality Essentials
Updates: UPK, QRIS Consortium, and more
Planning ECESF’s next steps together

8:00–8:30 PM
Post-meeting debrief and open space for lingering questions

CPAC Workforce Committee Meeting
2025-10-21 14:00 - 15:30 | zoom meeting
A committee of CPAC, San Francisco’s state-mandated local planning council, the Workforce Committee focuses on evaluating and making recommendations on citywide systems that ensure San Francisco’s early care and education workforce has the resources and skills necessary to provide the highest quality care possible to San Francisco’s children and families.
For more information contact: CPAC Coordinator, cpacsanfrancisco@gmail.com
For a full list of CPAC meetings: https://sfcpac.org/meetings/ or alternatively at https://sfcpac.org/committees/

UPK Mixed Delivery Workgroup
2025-10-30 16:00 - 18:00 | Children’s Council – 445 Church Street, San Francisco 94114 (room 120)
Community members are welcome at the UPK Mixed Delivery Workgroup meeting. The Workgroup brings together educators, families, and community partners committed to strengthening the city’s high-quality, equitable preschool system. The meeting will feature updates on the Kindergarten Readiness Inventory (KRI) and presentation of the Equity Action Plan and Theory of Change.

Participants may join in person or online, with Cantonese and Spanish interpretation available for online attendees. Register for further details.
About San Francisco’s UPK Mixed Delivery Planning work
Universal Pre-Kindergarten (UPK) in San Francisco takes a comprehensive and multi-layered approach to enhance UPK education within a mixed-delivery system.
To do this work, San Francisco has established:

A UPK Mixed Delivery Steering Committee composed of San Francisco Unified School District, San Francisco Child Care Planning and Advisory Council (CPAC), Department of Early Childhood (DEC), Children’s Council of San Francisco, and Wu Yee Children’s Services.
A UPK Mixed Delivery Workgroup consisting of center-based and family child care providers, R+Rs, community-based organizations, and policymakers was created to support the operational and tactical aspects of the UPK expansion in a mixed delivery system.

The next UPK meetings are scheduled for:

Jan 29
March 26
May 28

Post UPK Mixed Delivery Workgroup ECESF no-host dinner
2025-10-30 18:30 - 20:30 | CA
For those who want to debrief from the UPK meeting, couldn’t make the meeting but want to hear some highlights, and want to get to know ECESF, ECESF Educators are welcome to join a no-host ECESF dinner after each UPK meeting, 6:30 pm.
ECESF selects the dinner location once the UPK meeting place is established. Email info@ecesf.org to find out more about the dinner.

Support ECESF — Donate!

CPAC General Membership Meeting
2025-11-12 09:30 - 11:30 | Children’s Council, Room 120, 445 Church Street, San Francisco, CA, 94114, United States
CPAC membership and workgroup meetings are open to the public and provide important updates on Early Care and Education. 2nd Wednesday of every month, 9:30-11:30 AM) attend in person at Children’s Council, Room 120, or remotely.

Full list of CPAC meetings.
For more information and to receive remote access information contact: CPAC Coordinator, cpacsanfrancisco@gmail.com

All ECESF Meeting
2025-11-17 18:30 - 20:00 | zoom meeting
All ECESF meetings are the general meetings of ECESF, an organization of San Francisco’s center early care educators and ECE educator-employees. At All ECESF meetings we keep a pulse on San Francisco’s early care educator’s collective insights, impacts, needs, and solutions—and make plans on how best to bring them into ECE community and policy conversations, and share them with leaders to help drive meaningful change.
We:

Engage in Early Care Educators of San Francisco community conversations on what you most need to achieve quality ECE services and quality workplace conditions
Represent our collective ideas and priorities in UPK Mixed Delivery Workgroup, QRIS Consortium, DEC’s Peer Design Pilot, and other ECE policy and community meetings

Join us to:

Get to know ECESF priorities through highlights of ECESF Quality Essentials and Ideas to Support Quality Essentials
Hear and share updates on key ECE community and policy meetings
Shape ECESF’s next steps together

This meeting is for ECE educators working directly with children at San Francisco ECE centers.
RSVP today! (Meeting information will be sent.)
Support ECESF — Donate!
Preliminary Agenda
6:15–6:30 PM
Pre-meeting welcome & get-to-know-you circle
6:30–8:00 PM

ECESF Quality Essentials and Supports—review, reflect, and add
What is most needed to support children with access & functional needs (aka “special” needs)?
Highlights: DEC Budget; Children, Youth, & Family Summit; SF ECE Policy Retreat
What is most needed to build and retain onsite resources to support children with access & functional needs?
Next ECESF and ECE policy meetings

8:00–8:30 PM
Post-meeting debrief and open space for lingering questions

CPAC Workforce Committee Meeting
2025-11-18 14:00 - 15:30, 2025-12-16 14:00 - 15:30, 2026-01-20 14:00 - 15:30, 2026-02-17 14:00 - 15:30, 2026-03-17 14:00 - 15:30 | zoom meeting
A committee of CPAC, San Francisco’s state-mandated local planning council, the Workforce Committee focuses on evaluating and making recommendations on citywide systems that ensure San Francisco’s early care and education workforce has the resources and skills necessary to provide the highest quality care possible to San Francisco’s children and families.
For more information contact: CPAC Coordinator, cpacsanfrancisco@gmail.com
For a full list of CPAC meetings: sfcpac.org/meetings or alternatively at sfcpac.org/committees

All ECESF Meeting
2025-12-17 18:30 - 20:00 | zoom meeting
All ECESF meetings are the general meetings of ECESF, an organization of San Francisco’s center early care educators and ECE educator-employees. At All ECESF meetings we keep a pulse on San Francisco’s early care educator’s collective insights, impacts, needs, and solutions—and make plans on how best to bring them into ECE community and policy conversations, and share them with leaders to help drive meaningful change.
We:

Engage in Early Care Educators of San Francisco community conversations on what you most need to achieve quality ECE services and quality workplace conditions
Represent our collective ideas and priorities in UPK Mixed Delivery Workgroup, QRIS Consortium, DEC’s Peer Design Pilot, and other ECE policy and community meetings

Join us to:

Get to know ECESF priorities through highlights of ECESF Quality Essentials and Ideas to Support Quality Essentials
Hear and share updates on key ECE community and policy meetings
Shape ECESF’s next steps together

This meeting is for ECE educators working directly with children at San Francisco ECE centers.
RSVP today! (Meeting information will be sent.)
Support ECESF — Donate!
Preliminary Agenda
6:15–6:30 PM
Pre-meeting welcome & get-to-know-you circle
6:30–8:00 PM

ECESF Quality Essentials and Supports—review, reflect, and add
Individual and group response to reflection question
Highlight of policies and community discussions impacting your work, quality of ECE services you provide, and your work conditions
Reflection
Next ECESF and ECE policy meetings

8:00–8:30 PM
Post-meeting debrief and open space for lingering questions

Fourth Annual Advocacy & Policy Retreat, Part 1: Advocacy & Policy 101
2026-01-21 18:00 - 20:00 | zoom meeting
Wednesday, January 21, 2026 from 6pm-8pm (virtual only)
Optional pre-event. The in-person retreat will take place on Saturday, January 24
The Advocacy & Policy 101 offers background information on local and state budget and legislative processes to prepare you to dive-in at the retreat.

Register to receive a link (link will be sent closer for event date).
Details: Interpretation in Spanish & Chinese will be provided

We are offering professional development hours for participation in one or both parts of the Public Policy Retreat through the CA Workforce Registry.
Register today to secure your spot at both or either the virtual Advocacy & Policy 101, and the in-person Retreat. Together, we can create a brighter future for San Francisco’s early care and education!

Fourth Annual SF ECE Advocacy & Policy Retreat, Part 2
2026-01-24 09:00 - 15:00 | FacesSF, San Francisco, CA, United States
Saturday, January 24, 2026 from 9am-3pm (in-person only)
Location: Family & Child Empowerment Services (FACES) San Francisco – Bayview Campus, 100 Whitney Young Circle, San Francisco, CA 94124 (nearest MUNI Stop: Kirkwood/La Salle on the T Line or the Hudson Ave & Whitney Young Circle stop on the 15 bus)
Join us for an inspiring day of advocacy, policy, and community-building at the 4th Annual SF ECE Advocacy & Policy Retreat! Whether you’re an educator, an administrator, a parent, or a passionate community advocate, this retreat is your chance to be part of something bigger, to inspire change, and to have fun doing it! Bring your energy, your ideas, and your commitment to make a difference.

Why Should You Be There?
Connect & Collaborate: Join fellow education champions from the SF ECE Advocacy Coalition and CPAC, as well as grassroots organizations ECESF, FCCA SF, and Parent Voices SF. Together, we’ll strengthen relationships and amplify our collective voice!
Be a Changemaker: Learn the ins and outs of San Francisco’s city and State budget and legislative process. Discover where and how community advocates like you can create the most significant impact. Get ready to make waves of positive change!
Strategize & Inspire: Build on past years’ advocacy successes as we lay the foundation for an even more impactful year ahead. Let’s brainstorm, plan, and dream big for our community’s needs and advocacy priorities in 2026.

We’re offering Professional Development hours!
Please include your CA Workforce Registry number to receive professional development hours for your participation. We will email a certificate to all attendees after the event.

Mark your calendars, gather your fellow colleagues, and get ready for a day of empowerment, education, and enthusiasm.
Register today to secure your spot at this exciting event. Together, we can create a brighter future for San Francisco’s early care and education!

Details: Interpretation in Spanish & Chinese will be provided. Light breakfast & lunch included.

UPK Mixed Delivery Workgroup
2026-01-29 16:00 - 18:00 | CA
Community members are welcome at the UPK Mixed Delivery Workgroup meeting. The January 29 meeting will be held remotely.
Register here for access information.

About San Francisco’s UPK Mixed Delivery Planning work
Universal Pre-Kindergarten (UPK) in San Francisco takes a comprehensive and multi-layered approach to enhance UPK education within a mixed-delivery system.
To do this work, San Francisco has established:

A UPK Mixed Delivery Steering Committee composed of San Francisco Unified School District, San Francisco Child Care Planning and Advisory Council (CPAC), Department of Early Childhood (DEC), Children’s Council of San Francisco, and Wu Yee Children’s Services.
A UPK Mixed Delivery Workgroup consisting of center-based and family child care providers, R+Rs, community-based organizations, and policymakers was created to support the operational and tactical aspects of the UPK expansion in a mixed delivery system.

For more information about UPK Mixed Delivery planning work: sfcpac.org/upk • ericka@sfcpac.org

Cancelled: Post UPK Mixed Delivery Workgroup ECESF no-host dinner
2026-01-29 18:30 - 20:30 | CA
Today’s UPK meeting will be held remotely, so the post meeting no-host dinner is cancelled. Email info@ecesf.org to find out more about our next event.

Support ECESF — Donate!

Joint Early Childhood Community Oversight and Advisory Committee and Children and Families Commission Budget Meeting
2026-02-11 16:30 - 18:30 | 1650 Mission Street, Suite 312, San Francisco, 1650 Mission Street, Suite 312, San Francisco, CA
You can join the Joint Early Childhood Community Oversight and Advisory Committee and Children and Families Commission Budget Meeting, Wednesday, February 11th, 2026, from 4:30-6:30 pm in person or remotely. The meeting will take place at 1650 Mission St, Ste 312. Details for both in-person attendance as well as remote participation join-link are included below and at the top of the agenda which can be found on the DEC website here.
Features item #9: DEC draft spending plan for budget years 26-27 & 27-28

PUBLIC REMOTE ACCESS (if not attending in person)
JOINT MEETING WEBEX LINK for COAC/CFC meeting
Webinar number: 2664 713 6760
Webinar password: [REDACTED] (33263384 when dialing from a video system)
Join by phone: +1-415-655-0001 United States Toll (San Francisco)
Access code: 266 471 36760
Note: ECESF is not hosting the COAC/CFC meeting. For any trouble accessing please contact: Arianna Cruz-Sellu, arianna.cruz-sellu@sfgov.org

ECE-peer conversation after the Joint COAC/CFC meeting
2026-02-11 18:45 - 19:45 | zoom meeting
This Wednesday, February 11, the Department of Early Childhood (DEC) will hold its second required public presentation of the DEC budget at their Joint COAC/CFC Oversight meeting. ECESF invites you to join an ECE-peer conversation after the joint meeting. Attend the Joint COAC/CFC meeting (below), then bring your thoughts, concerns, and questions to a discussion with your peers after hearing the DEC budget presentation. The ECESF/SF ECE Adv Coalition meeting will be from 6:45-7:45 pm on ZOOM. RSVP to receive access information for the post-budget presentation ECE-peer discussion.

UPK Mixed Delivery Workgroup
2026-03-26 16:00 - 18:00 | CA
Community members are welcome at the UPK Mixed Delivery Workgroup meeting.

About San Francisco’s UPK Mixed Delivery Planning work
Universal Pre-Kindergarten (UPK) in San Francisco takes a comprehensive and multi-layered approach to enhance UPK education within a mixed-delivery system.
To do this work, San Francisco has established:

A UPK Mixed Delivery Steering Committee composed of San Francisco Unified School District, San Francisco Child Care Planning and Advisory Council (CPAC), Department of Early Childhood (DEC), Children’s Council of San Francisco, and Wu Yee Children’s Services.
A UPK Mixed Delivery Workgroup consisting of center-based and family child care paroviders, R+Rs, community-based organizations, and policymakers was created to support the operational and tactical aspects of the UPK expansion in a mixed delivery system.

For more information about UPK Mixed Delivery planning work: sfcpac.org/upk • ericka@sfcpac.org

Post UPK Mixed Delivery Workgroup ECESF no-host dinner
2026-03-26 18:30 - 20:30 | CA
ECESF Educators are welcome to join a no-host ECESF dinner after each UPK meeting, 6:30 pm.
Email info@ecesf.org to find out more about the dinner.

Support ECESF — Donate!
