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Letters to a Child Care Director - Insights on Being the Director

by James Levine
March/April 2001
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What follows is a series of letters that James Levine wrote to John DeLorey, the new director, in response to requests for guidance in strategic areas of administrative work related to a day care program. Mr. Levine's experiences written in and between the lines of his letters provide lively and thought-provoking reading for anyone embarking on, or involved in, the hazardous enterprise of running an early-childhood program.


April 18
Qualifications of a Director

You keep asking how you were ever given the fortune - or misfortune - of being the personnel committee's number one choice for executive director. I tell you that they had a pretty good idea of what the job required because they had previously hired an executive director - me. Certain abilities that I demonstrated they probably felt were important; others marginal; others undesirable.

In your case, the personnel committee had some pretty good guidelines as to what it wanted in experience, training, and certification. The rest had a lot to do with personality, and with a sense of how quickly you would be able to learn. Because the program is community-controlled, and because residents want to maintain influence on decision-making, either by the formal workings of the board of directors or ...

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