Sponsors for the 2026 Annual Conference
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Thank You to Our Sponsors for Their Generous Support of the 2026 Annual Conference!
Bright Horizons
Bright Horizons® is a leader in work life solutions, trusted by families and employers around the world. We are dedicated to the highest quality education and care; making a lasting difference, one child, one student, one teacher, one family, one employer at a time. When children step into Discovery Driven Learning® early education classrooms, they become explorers, investigators, and thinkers. Our educators embrace children’s innate desire to discover themselves and the world around them.
Catherine Hershey Schools for Early Learning
Catherine Hershey Schools for Early Learning (CHS) provides non-residential, year-round weekday care and education to children from six weeks to age 5 from under-resourced and over-burdened backgrounds, with all costs covered for qualifying families. CHS is a subsidiary of Milton Hershey School (MHS) and is part of a $350 million initiative to develop six Early Childhood Education Centers in Pennsylvania. For more information, visit chslearn.org.
Community Playthings
Leading the field in quality and innovation, Community Playthings offers durable play equipment and furniture for early childhood classrooms and outdoor spaces. Children deserve beautiful and natural environments where they can explore, discover, and learn through play. To better reflect the remarkable variations found in nature, Community Playthings is expanding the traditional maple product line to include furniture created from a variety of woods. Come see our new Play Kitchen constructed from heirloom-quality cherry wood.
Council for Professional Recognition
The Council for Professional Recognition advances career pathways for early childhood educators through high-quality, competency-based credentialing. The Council recognizes and credentials professionals who work in all types of early care and education settings including Head Start, pre-k, infant-toddler, family child care, and home visitor programs. As a nonprofit organization, the Council sets policies and procedures for assessment and credentialing. To date, over 1 million Child Development Associate® (CDA) credentials have been issued around the world. For more information, visit www.cdacouncil.org.
Forrest T. Jones & Company
Forrest T. Jones & Company has been the NAEYC insurance program administrator for several decades. As an NAEYC member you have access to 20 different highly competitive insurance products to meet your needs. Products such as Life Insurance, Professional Liability, Medical Insurance, Disability Insurance, Auto insurance, Identity Theft Protection and much more. NAEYC members can learn more about the NAEYC association sponsored insurance program by visiting us on the web at www.ftj.com/naeyc. You can also call us toll free at 800-821-7303 and speak directly to one of our friendly NAEYC customer service representative.
HighScope Educational Research Foundation
The HighScope Educational Research Foundation is a 501c-3 nonprofit, independent organization committed to supporting the critical work of early childhood educators and caregivers in providing high-quality outcomes.
Founded in 1970, HighScope is perhaps best known for its landmark Perry Preschool Study Project conducted in the 1960’s. The study proved that high-quality early educational engagement with young children makes a significant difference in their early development and well into their adult years.
Kaplan
For more than 50 years, Kaplan Early Learning Company has been a champion for play. From our research-based curricula to enriching classroom environments and innovative technology solutions, Kaplan's products and services inspire a lifelong love of learning in children and educators. We are architects of learning environments and defenders of the imagination. We live for inseparable bonds and open minds. We encourage the eager and inspire the inspirers. We transform lives through play.
Royal Conservatory of Music
The Royal Conservatory of Music (RCM) is a globally recognized leader in music education, serving learners, educators, schools, and communities across North America and beyond. RCM Smart Start early childhood programs use music to develop essential skills in attention, memory, cognitive flexibility, and social-emotional learning. Grounded in research and a proven curriculum, Smart Start equips educators to deliver joyful, high-quality learning experiences that support whole-child development, fostering the foundational skills children need to thrive in school and throughout life.
Sadlier
At Sadlier, we believe every child's learning journey begins with the right foundation. This family-owned company has partnered with PreK–12 educators to deliver research-based programs in mathematics and English language arts, built for the way learners grow, explore, and discover. We are proud to introduce Sadlier PreK by Wiley Blevins! This new program brings literacy expert Wiley Blevins's science-based approach to early childhood, developed exclusively for Sadlier. Designed for the whole child, it combines rich academic experiences, hands-on exploration, and purposeful play across ten knowledge-building units. Aligned to the Science of Reading, the program develops early literacy and math skills, science and social studies concepts, and life skills, giving children the confidence and foundation they need to thrive in PreK and beyond.
Smith Systems
We design and build furniture exclusively for learning environments. Every piece is optimized to account for how students work, learn, think and fidget across every age and stage. From the beginning, we work alongside you to create the best spaces imaginable for teaching and learning — school by school, classroom by classroom.
Teaching Strategies
A trusted early education partner for 45 years, Teaching Strategies serves over 4 million children each year in 240,000+ classrooms in 80+ countries as the leading global provider of comprehensive education solutions for public and private early childhood programs. Its products include the most widely used curriculum and assessment solutions, The Creative Curriculum(R) and GOLD(R), as well as robust professional development and family engagement offerings, all seamlessly connected through its leading early learning platform, SmartTeach(TM).
The Source for Learning
The Source for Learning is a nonprofit dedicated to enabling exceptional teaching, learning, and professional growth. For more than 45 years, our seasoned professionals have developed and delivered high-quality content for early childhood and K-12 education. Specific to the ECE community, our website, SFLECE.org hosts thousands of classroom and professional development resources, including developmentally appropriate learning experiences, live and on-demand webinars, Quick Bites (micro PD), a professional learning catalog, Book Study, Book Club, and a multilingual toolkit — all for FREE!
Walden University
The CAEP-accredited Richard W. Riley College of Education and Leadership at Walden University is dedicated to enhancing educator effectiveness. A leader in teacher and administrator education, the college has been the choice of more than 65,000 education students and alumni, including more than 180 State Teachers of the Year.* Programs range from teacher preparation to education administration and are taught online by nationally recognized education experts, policymakers, and scholar-practitioners.
Wolf Trap Foundation for the Performing Arts
Wolf Trap Institute for Early Learning Through the Arts, the flagship education program of Wolf Trap Foundation of the Performing Arts, embraces joyful, active learning for children through customized, hands-on professional development for early childhood educators. Through its affiliate network and national office, the Institute works with educators and families across the U.S. and Singapore to deliver professional development and arts-integrated experiences both inside and outside of the classroom. For more information, visit wolftrap.org/education.
