Today’s Apprentice.
Tomorrow’s Leaders.
Earn while you learn to become an Early Childhood Educator.
Bright Offerings apprentices work in licensed childcare centers and get paid while they train. Each apprentice is paired with an experienced mentor, takes classes that fit around their work schedule, and finishes the program with a recognized early childhood credential.
What you’ll earn
This is a real career path, not just a job. Apprentices finish with:
The Child Development Associate (CDA) credential, the national credential for early childhood educators
College credits toward an Early Childhood Education (ECE) certificate or associate degree
A certificate of completion from a Registered Apprenticeship program
For apprentices
Open to anyone ready to start a career working with young children. You earn a paycheck from day one, work a set schedule at a partner childcare center, and learn from a mentor on the job. We help cover tuition and training costs so you can earn your credential without putting your life on hold.
For childcare centers
Host an apprentice and grow your own qualified teachers. Apprentices learn your classrooms and your way of doing things, which makes hiring easier and helps you keep good staff. The program also helps your team meet state credential and staffing requirements.
Growing the educators who grow our children.
Advocacy
We champion early childhood educators as the skilled professionals they are, and work with child care centers, colleges, workforce boards and community partners to build career pathways into the field.
Action
We place aspiring educators in paid apprenticeships at local child care centers, pair them with coaching and coursework, and help them earn credentials, debt-free.
Bright Offerings
Dedicated to the cause.
Bright Offerings operates on the strong conviction that apprenticeship as a cultural shift is the way forward for American Society and answer to many of our workforce challenges of the future.
We believe that through advocacy and action, we can create and foster a culture that not only accepts apprenticeship but also embraces as part of the norm of doing business and bringing the new generation into the workforce.
Working together with our partners - Colleges, Corporations, Governmental Agencies and Non-Profits we can continue to address and enhance the cause of apprenticeship.