ChildCare Conversations with Kate and Carrie
Aug 27, 2026 · 23 min · 13 segments
Send us Fan Mail Great teachers don’t automatically become great directors. But too often, they’re promoted into leadership and expected to figure it…
Carrie CaseyHost
Kate Woodward YoungHost
So I mean, we've got, um, the national version of the classes going, and people are taking it.
It's the National Child Care Administrator Credential, and it's recognized in various states like, uh, well, Texas, New Mexico, Arizona.
So but not every state has a requirement for director training, which confuses me.
It confuses the heck out of me because we require, in some states, in order to be a teacher as opposed to an assistant, you have to have a CDA, which means you have to have 120 hours of training in early childhood education and managing a classroom.
But the person who manages that person, no, they don't need to have any training.
But we also know, and this is one of the things that the folks have listened, they've definitely heard you and I talk about, which is a lot of times these great CDA educators who have been in the field for five years, they get promoted, and they're just expected somehow [laughs] to, like, know what to do.
And so tell me what's in the National Child Care Administrator's Credential.
Why might somebody wanna take it? What's in that training? How long is it? Can they do it online? What-- tell me-
So I mean, we've got, um, the national version of the classes going, and people are taking it.
It's the National Child Care Administrator Credential, and it's recognized in various states like, uh, well, Texas, New Mexico, Arizona.
So but not every state has a requirement for director training, which confuses me.
It confuses the heck out of me because we require, in some states, in order to be a teacher as opposed to an assistant, you have to have a CDA, which means you have to have 120 hours of training in early childhood education and managing a classroom.
But the person who manages that person, no, they don't need to have any training.
But we also know, and this is one of the things that the folks have listened, they've definitely heard you and I talk about, which is a lot of times these great CDA educators who have been in the field for five years, they get promoted, and they're just expected somehow [laughs] to, like, know what to do.
And so tell me what's in the National Child Care Administrator's Credential.
Why might somebody wanna take it? What's in that training? How long is it? Can they do it online? What-- tell me-
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