Darrell Brown Email & Phone Number

Darrell is a graduate of Northern Illinois University with a Public Health degree, started his career in Early Childhood Education as a summer worker at a child care center out of Governor’s State University at the age of 16. Since then, he has worked as an infant-toddler teacher, pre-K teacher, Site Coordinator for a Before and After School program for youth ages 5-12, as well as a curriculum and instruction teacher coach for Early Head Start. During his time working with Early Head Start, he gained experience working with environment rating scales, became certified as an Infant and Toddler CLASS observer, and served as a trainer. As a trainer, he developed many of his own trainings in topics around School Age Programming, Language development for infants and toddlers, and how to use Creative Curriculum and Teaching Strategies Gold. His experiences lead him to work on a teacher practice research project called “CONSTRUCT Coaching” with Educare out of Phoenix Arizona. Since being with ITAV, Darrell has had the pleasure of training the Education coordinators in CONSTRUCT Coaching, bringing a common language of quality practice to all teaching staff at ITAV. In Darrell’s free time, he loves to travel, dance, act, sing, and perform in local theater projects.

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