Ordinary Meets Extraordinary - With Abby Hileman

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Picture this. You run a childcare center and your teacher turnover is going through the roof. How do you keep your staff?

Over the past few years we’ve seen teachers leaving this industry within the first year or two after teaching. Why? They aren’t supported. So, what are ways you can support them?

✨ Conduct classroom audits! There are so many ways to do this, but you need to ask your teachers, at a minimum, these three questions.
1. Is there anything you, the teachers, need to make your room run more smoothly?
2. Is there anything your children need?
3. What does your classroom need a whole?

✨ Do casual check ins! This doesn’t have to be done in a super professional sit down meeting type of conversation. Text them. Ask how they’re doing. It will mean more to them than you think.

✨ Show appreciation! We all know teacher appreciation week is coming up so something I like to do is to hide coupons around the center for them to find.

✨ For their birthdays, they all get a gift, if they go above and beyond one week, we think of something new to do for them. I’ll buy them lunch, get them a gift card, etc. figure out your staffs love language, and do that.

There are SO many other ways to love your staff. If you need more, head over to my TikTok page for more tips!

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Here are 3 things I wish I knew when I was first opening my center. Hi, my name is Abby and I own a huge childcare center in Pittsburgh with over 350 students and 55 staff.

✨ I knew when I opened a business, I would be working 24/7. This didn’t bother me. I usually worked multiple jobs just to get by. What I didnt realize was the mental load that I carry with me 24/7 which is so much harder than the work itself.

✨ It does not matter what you do, you can’t make everyone happy. I can sit here and tell you all about how great our culture is but that doesn’t mean everyone hops on board with how we do things or sticks around. This industry is so hard and my expectations are high. Let people go. I never want someone in my building that doesn’t want to be there.

✨ How jacked up the industry really is. I knew it was bad; that was the whole reason I created it. But holy moly; its bad bad. I know life is busy and hard enough as it is, but this is an everyone problem. The childcare industry is on the verge of collapse and there is not a single person that wouldn’t be effected in some way if we don’t make some massive changes.

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