16: Childcare Trailblazer - Meet Maria Fitz-Gibbon
Daycare Overhaul: Doing Childcare Better!
Release Date: 09/30/2020
Daycare Overhaul: Doing Childcare Better!
Child care centers have to not only provide some normalcy for the children when it is so important, but also have adapted to the ongoing changes thrown their way.
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Setting expectations and ensuring those expectations are being followed through with is crucial to running a successful child care center. Our guest, Mandy Doy, COO at Daycare Team, joined us today about how she sets expectations for her 12 schools and 200+ teachers.
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Sholom shares his favorite low cost, high impact marketing ideas with us...some of which have been very successful through the global pandemic. He also shares how he lives his core values each and every day. Last, but certainly not least...he shares with us, the now infamous story about the time he was shot on Halloween.
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Advocating for your child care center is very critical, even more so now since the pandemic. Our guest today is one of the biggest advocates we have met and today, she talks about the importance of being an advocate for your center when it comes to make sure those in our legislature can fight for the money that it takes to be able to successfully run your center.
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As they say, “there is no “I” in team, but our guest today would argue…but should there be?
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Being an owner and/or director at a child care center can be very rewarding; but it can also be incredibly stressful.
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We are excited to introduce our Childcare Trailblazer Series! We could think of no better way to kick it off then to have Maria Fitz-Gibbon, owner of Leap Academy Childcare in Wisconsin!
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Richard Huffman, President & CEO of Celebree Schools joins Caroline & Justina on Daycare Overhaul this week!
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Caroline and Justina are so excited to be back for Season 2 of Daycare Overhaul! In this episode you will hear 7 different ways centers can be innovative through this global pandemic. along with exciting plans for this season of Daycare Overhaul. See if you can hear when a train, alarm, email and thunder also made an appearance (talk about having to pivot)!
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Season 1 of Daycare Overhaul is in the books! We had such an amazing first season talking about how to Do Childcare Better. We talked about mental wellness, hiring, branding, marketing basics and more.
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Maria is the owner of 2 schools, in the south-central Wisconsin area. Maria believes in developing the whole child and has built and fostered that philosophy at both schools. Her belief in play-based curriculum and her background as a Mental Health Professional, working with children with disabilities put her in a unique and perfect position to create a child care center to help children in a new and different way.
Those ideas, coupled with her whole-food nutrition program...where everything that can be made from scratch is, and the ability to get children to eat foods like lentils, kale, quinoa, and her own creation she likes to call Carrot Butter, has opened the doors for children to experience healthy, but very delicious food.
Listen in as Maria talks about all that, and more in today’s episode.