Take A Deep Dive Into First Up’s Impact and Achievements
In 2025, First Up continued its mission to empower and support early childhood educators and families. This year’s theme reminds us that our greatest strength lies in Collaboration, Connection, and Community!
Join Us As We Thrive Together: Collaborating and Communicating in Community!
Understanding Positive Racial Identity Development in Early Education
Get an in-depth look at how racial disparities, attitudes, and awareness of positive racial identity impacts the Philadelphia area.
Our name, First Up, confidently embodies our core commitment to early educators. It asserts that those first relationships that children develop with family, caregivers, and early childhood professionals are crucial in creating a path forward to success. While our name may have changed over the years, we remain dedicated to our mission of ensuring educational opportunity for every child in our community.
First Up offers an exceptional array of workshops, leading-edge conferences, and programs of the highest quality to help ECE Professionals achieve best practice.
Technical assistance may take many forms, including mentoring, coaching, demonstrating, and one-on-one consulting. Our experienced staff works closely with each organization to develop an individualized service plan that outlines goals and objectives aimed at achieving a specified knowledge area, STAR performance standard, advanced STAR level or national accreditation standard.
At the heart of First Up is our deep desire and commitment to effect change on a larger scale, because every child deserves equal opportunities for healthy development and quality education.
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