{"id":4661,"date":"2023-04-27T16:09:45","date_gmt":"2023-04-27T16:09:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.wilmu.edu\/news\/?p=4661"},"modified":"2025-02-07T04:49:58","modified_gmt":"2025-02-07T09:49:58","slug":"working-together-for-the-youngest-minds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.wilmu.edu\/news\/2023\/04\/27\/working-together-for-the-youngest-minds\/","title":{"rendered":"Working Together for the Youngest Minds"},"content":{"rendered":"<style>.kadence-column4661_a73fa8-21 > .kt-inside-inner-col{padding-right:var(--global-kb-spacing-lg, 3rem);padding-bottom:var(--global-kb-spacing-lg, 3rem);padding-left:var(--global-kb-spacing-lg, 3rem);}.kadence-column4661_a73fa8-21 > .kt-inside-inner-col,.kadence-column4661_a73fa8-21 > .kt-inside-inner-col:before{border-top-left-radius:0px;border-top-right-radius:0px;border-bottom-right-radius:0px;border-bottom-left-radius:0px;}.kadence-column4661_a73fa8-21 > .kt-inside-inner-col{column-gap:var(--global-kb-gap-sm, 1rem);}.kadence-column4661_a73fa8-21 > .kt-inside-inner-col{flex-direction:column;}.kadence-column4661_a73fa8-21 > .kt-inside-inner-col > .aligncenter{width:100%;}.kadence-column4661_a73fa8-21 > .kt-inside-inner-col:before{opacity:0.3;}.kadence-column4661_a73fa8-21{position:relative;}@media all and (max-width: 1024px){.kadence-column4661_a73fa8-21 > .kt-inside-inner-col{flex-direction:column;justify-content:center;}}@media all and (max-width: 991px){.kadence-column4661_a73fa8-21 > .kt-inside-inner-col{flex-direction:column;justify-content:center;}}<\/style>\n<div class=\"wp-block-kadence-column kadence-column4661_a73fa8-21 dynamic-main-col\"><div class=\"kt-inside-inner-col\">\n<p><strong>Audrey Carey<\/strong> oversees early learning in Cape Henlopen\u2019s schools and has spent a quarter of a century in education.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cMy whole career, my strength has been creating something new and different to reach children and meet their needs,\u201d she says. As the supervisor of early learning for Cape Henlopen School District, Carey applies that strength toward the youngest minds. \u201cEvery day I get to come to work for the kids. It\u2019s an exciting new world.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Carey is Cape Henlopen\u2019s first supervisor of early learning, a position the school district created to reflect the Delaware Department of Education\u2019s efforts to provide the state\u2019s children, from birth to age 5, with a foundation for lifelong development.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>Every day I get to come to work for the kids. It\u2019s an exciting new world.\u201d -Audrey Carey<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s not just an extension of kindergarten,\u201d says Carey. \u201cPreparing children for their schooling career is a part of these efforts, but we\u2019re also focused on serving their physical and mental health needs.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A WilmU graduate, Carey earned a Master of Education in School Leadership and Instruction in 2001 and a Doctor of Education in Innovation and Leadership in 2006. Before joining Cape Henlopen in the spring of 2022, she taught elementary school students and later supervised testing, new teachers, instruction and early learning for the Indian River School District.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>&nbsp;Preparing children for their schooling career is a part of these efforts, but we\u2019re also focused on serving their physical and mental health needs.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>-Carey<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>In her role at Cape Henlopen, Carey seeks to build partnerships with government, nonprofit, faith-based and community agencies to ensure that area families have access to the programs and services necessary in assessing and supporting children\u2019s growth and development.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cEarly intervention for children is essential, but how to coordinate that across the community can be the hard part,\u201d says Carey. \u201cHow do we accomplish what we envision in Delaware? If we\u2019re all working together instead of in our own individual silos, we could change that.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>\u2014David Bernard<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Audrey Carey oversees early learning in Cape Henlopen\u2019s schools and has spent a quarter of a century in education. \u201cMy whole career, my strength has&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":4697,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_kad_blocks_custom_css":"","_kad_blocks_head_custom_js":"","_kad_blocks_body_custom_js":"","_kad_blocks_footer_custom_js":"","_kad_post_transparent":"","_kad_post_title":"","_kad_post_layout":"","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"_kad_post_classname":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[135],"tags":[335],"class_list":["post-4661","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-magazine","tag-magazine-spring-2023"],"acf":[],"taxonomy_info":{"category":[{"value":135,"label":"MAGAZINE"}],"post_tag":[{"value":335,"label":"Magazine Spring 2023"}]},"featured_image_src_large":["https:\/\/blog.wilmu.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/Spring23Mag_carey-483x480.jpg",483,480,true],"author_info":{"display_name":"Mckayla Imperatrice","author_link":"https:\/\/blog.wilmu.edu\/news\/author\/mckayla\/"},"comment_info":0,"category_info":[{"term_id":135,"name":"MAGAZINE","slug":"magazine","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":692,"taxonomy":"category","description":"","parent":0,"count":431,"filter":"raw","cat_ID":135,"category_count":431,"category_description":"","cat_name":"MAGAZINE","category_nicename":"magazine","category_parent":0}],"tag_info":[{"term_id":335,"name":"Magazine Spring 2023","slug":"magazine-spring-2023","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":892,"taxonomy":"post_tag","description":"","parent":0,"count":24,"filter":"raw"}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.wilmu.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4661","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.wilmu.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.wilmu.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wilmu.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wilmu.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4661"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wilmu.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4661\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14885,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wilmu.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4661\/revisions\/14885"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wilmu.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4697"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.wilmu.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4661"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wilmu.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4661"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wilmu.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4661"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}