@manuszakedward
Proud life-long educator, Butler and Eastern Michigan alum, devoted Detroit sports fan and grateful to have an amazing family! Ex. Dir. for Early Childhood at Washtenaw ISD & founding co-lead of the AASA Early Learning Cohort! #EarlyChildhoodMattersMost 🏳️🌈
An absolutely magical visit to Miami Children’s Museum! TY to everyone who attended our visit! TY to Natalie & the team who offered us a tour of their NAEYC accredited Reggio Emilio preschool & museum! #EarlyChildhoodMattersMost #AASAEarlyEd This was a visit that filled my soul with brightness! 🌞🌴
What an amazing AASA Rooted in Relationships Summit with Miami Dade County Public Schools team! TY Dr. Mapp for keynoting! 🙏🏻 🙌🏻 A special thank you to Supt. Dotres for also being with us!! It was a great three-day visit! #AASAEarlyEd #EarlyChildhoodMattersMost
Congrats to @foundations.bsky.social for a very successful #BeyondSchoolHours 2026 conference! Proud to serve on the NAC! TY to the team from #TheAcademyAtPenn for their update and Erin Mote from @Innovateedunyc.bsky.social for her amazing AI info! Can’t wait until New Orleans in 2027! 😊 ❤️
Last night I had the honor of being the closing speaker for Washtenaw Promise Thriving Educator Awards Banquet! Congrats to award winners Jodi, Emily, and Amy for your service, courage and leadership as teachers! 🙌🏻 ⭐️ #EarlyChildhoodMattersMost #TeamWISD #AASAEarlyEd
On Monday, Feb. 23 WISD Great Start Collaborative Success by Six and WISD EC Dept. hosted a Community Meeting. TY @jasonmorganmi.bsky.social and @michleague.bsky.social for attending! We discussed Washtenaw specific early childhood related issues! 🙏🏻❤️#EarlyChildhoodMattersMost #TeamWISD
TY Lincoln Consolidated Schools and Principal Shelton and team for hosting BLOCKfest last night at Model Early Learning Center! We had such a great time! So proud of all of our volunteers including Bahjee and Rana! Great learning for all!! #EarlyChildhoodMattersMost #TeamWISD #AASAEarlyEd
Memories from last week’s @aasahq #NCE2026 TY to Dave and the team at AASA for providing a way to bring the nation together and uplift #publiceducationpromise TY to my friends @azacheryross & @highscopeus Dr. Barazza for presenting our roundtable! #AASAEarlyEd #EarlyChildhoodMattersMost #TeamWISD
Thank you Michigan Head Start for a fabulous Winter Assembly in Detroit, Michigan last week! Congrats to Ex. Director Robin Bozek on her retirement! It was so great to speak time and share space with so many great friends! #EarlyChildhoodMattersMost #AASAEarlyEd #TeamWISD
TY to our presenters today who helped our AASA Early Learning Cohort at our virtual meeting discussing Transitions for families and children. They offered research and practical ideas! 🙌🏻 🙏🏻 #EarlyChildhoodMattersMost #AASAEarlyEd #TeamWISD
Last week, I had the privilege of reading Last Stop on Market Street to the GSRP classroom at Pittsfield Acres! A @geeacademies program! My ❤️ was full!! Thank you to the staff & students for welcoming me in. We also did some singing and dancing! 😊🎵🕺 #EarlyChildhoodMattersMost #AASAEarlyEd #TeamWISD
So proud to have attended @wisdearlychildhood 4th Annual Celebration of Culture community celebration on Thursday, Dec. 18! TY @bahjee.empress.afia for your leadership in organizing this event! 🎤⬇️ Happy Holidays everyone! #EarlyChildhoodMattersMost #TeamWISD #AASAEarlyEd
TY @gewhitmer and @michdepted for the Michigan Literacy Summit today! Honored to be a panelist as we uplifted @washtenawisd & @wisdearlychildhood work to accelerate economic growth and advance to make #earlychildhoodmattersmost #AASAEarlyEd #TeamWISD
So proud to be one of the candidates for NAEYC Governing Board. Voting opened yesterday and today we had a candidate forum. Voting closes Jan. 12, 2026. I am running for Board Secretary. Please consider voting!! 😊 ✅🙏🏻
Honored to be selected as a candidate for the @naeyc 2026 Governing Board! If you are an NAEYC member, I would love to earn your vote as Secretary. Voting opens Nov.19, 2025 and ends Jan. 12, 2026. Here is my link. #EarlyChildhoodMattersMost #TeamWISD #AASAEarlyEd
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Out helping to spread the word today, Sunday about the upcoming Nov. 4th CTE election! I ran into Nancy as she was out too! Don’t forget to vote yes on Nov. 4th ✅
Despite all of the difficult news in Early Childhood lately, we tried to brighten High Point, Gretchen’s House, Bottles & Backpacks and EMU Children’s Institute days’ on Friday!! We dressed up as our favorite @pbs.org kids characters! #TeamWISD #EarlyChildhoodMattersMost #AASAEarlyEd 🎃🙌🏻 We ❤️ PBS!
We had a great day yesterday at Wiard’s Orchards with our Early Head Start families! A great way to celebrate #headstartawarenessmonth Thank you to all of our families, children and staff for making it be such a wonderful event! #TeamWISD #EarlyChildhoodMattersMost #AASAEarlyEd
Congrats to Kaitlyn for successfully finishing the Detroit Half Marathon today! We are so proud of you! She ate up all those miles today!! 💪🏻🙌🏻👏🏻
Thank you to all of our preschool partner Principals and Directors for your leadership! On Friday., Oct. 17 the WISD EC celebrated #PrincipalAppreciationMonth by giving all a certificate of appreciation! #EarlyChildhoodMattersMost #AASAEarlyEd #TeamWISD
TY Washtenaw Area Council for Children for a great event celebrating 50 years of your work in supporting children and families! I was so proud to learn about your special award winners!! 🫶🏻Thank you WACC! #TeamWISD #EarlyChildhoodMattersMost #AASAEarlyEd
TY Michigan Head Start Association for planning and hosting the 2025 Fall Assembly this week! It was great to learn together and also to host Dr. Larry Schweinhart who helped to study the Perry Preschool Project with HighScope! As always let’s continue to make #EarlyChildhoodMattersMost !! #TeamWISD
It has been a week since the Fall 2025 MASA Conference, but I wanted to lift up how great the opportunity was to make 3 presentations with partners from MiLEAP, MAISA, NHSA, and HighScope!! Together we make #EarlyChildhoodMattersMost !! TY SETSEG for the 5K Fun Run as well! #TeamWISD #AASAEarlyEd
Great @michleague.bsky.social Champions for Kids luncheon today!! We also held key legislative visits today to advocate for PreK for All, Head Start and the budget! TY @jasonmorganmi.bsky.social Reps. Miller, Wilson Jr., Foreman and Senator Shink for meeting with us! #EarlyChildhoodMattersMost
12th and Final Run for the #RunUnited2025 @unitedwaysem.bsky.social Virtual Marathon! I competed all 26.2 miles! Battled through a left calf issue and made it!! I also reached my fundraising goal today of raising $500 for STEAM $$ for kids!! #EarlyChildhoodMattersMost #TeamWISD #AASAEarlyEd
On the way back from Lexington, had to stop in Cincy at #skylinechili for lunch! Special shout out to my “college chili son” David G.! @skylinechilli.bsky.social
TY Rece and Taylor for a beautiful wedding spent in Lexington! We had a wonderful time sharing in your special night! Congrats! 🍾 💒 ❤️
11th morning run for #RunUnited2025 Virtual Marathon! 2.6 miles today for a total of 24.2 miles! Almost there! Chasing the sun today on a chilling crisp late Summer morning! 🌞 #EarlyChildhoodMattersMost #TeamWISD #AASAEarlyEd
10th Morning Run for #RunUnited2025 virtual marathon! Added 2.4 miles so now I have a total of 21.6 miles! Not much left to go!! #EarlyChildhoodMattersMost #TeamWISD #AASAEarlyEd If you want to contribute to my fundraising for STEAM $$ for kids please do it here: p2p.onecause.com/rununited25/...
9th Morning #RunUnited2025 @unitedwaysem Virtual Marathon Run! 2.4 miles now for a total of 19.2 miles! Chasing the sun this morning! 🌞 Also, thank you to all of my donors! I have raised $385 of my $500! Only $115 more to go! #EarlyChildhoodMattersMost #TeamWISD #AASAEarlyEd
Happy beginning of the school year @whitlkpublicschools Excited to visit the PreK for All and Head Start spaces with their amazing Director Sue! TY for showing me around the new spaces! #TeamWISD #AASAEarlyEd #EarlyChildhoodMattersMost