Understanding Shared Services in Early Childhood Education

A past president of the New Jersey branch of NAEYC, Amanda L. Krause-DiScala has been a preschool and kindergarten teacher as well as serving as a center director for over a decade, at Bridges to Learning Child Development Center, Rockaway, New Jersey. Currently Krause-DiScala is an adjunct professor at the County College of Morris, Randolph, NJ. Working for the United Way, Krause-DiScala is the Child Care Specialist on the shared services project that engages Child Care Centers and Family Child Care Homes in a hub and spoke model system to reimagine child care in New Jersey. She is also the Shared Resources Program Manager for NJAEYC.