• Provide a description of the early childhood education center and scenario you chose which is Director of a center. o Consider the size, location/community characteristics, focus (infant/toddler versus preschool), public versus private, for-profit versus not for profit. • Create a mission and a vision for the center Suggestions: Hence, every layer of creativity you can add to the process is useful, and welcome. If it aligns with a vision that you already have as to what you’ll be doing in the field in five years, or ten, then thinking through just how you want it to be and envisioning it as clearly as possible makes it all richer–first for you, as the visionary; next for all your readers, in that they will sense your excitement and enthusiasm about the process and the project concept, thus becoming your cheerleaders.
