Join AEYC-MO! We Can Help You...

Improve your teaching and learning.
As an AEYC-MO member, you may take advantage of our resources to help improve your work with children. These resources include:

• A regular newsletter from your local chapter.
• Our state newsletter, The Update, published three times each year.
• The Kathy R. Thornburg Leadership Development Fund, for scholarships to attend conferences and other leadership development activities.
• National AEYC's award-winning journal, Young Children, published six times each year.
• Access to NAEYC's Members section.
• Access to the Members Only area on our website.
• Discounted prices at professional development workshops, seminars, and conferences offered by your local chapter Missouri AEYC, Midwest AEYC, National AEYC.
• Discounted prices on NAEYC's hundreds of books, videos, brochures, and posters.

Raise the quality of early childhood education programs.
As a member, you support us as we support voluntary accreditation of family child care business, child care centers, preschools, Head Start programs, and other early learning programs.

Accreditation helps improve these programs and recognizes high-quality programs so parents can make informed choices. We believe that early childhood educators are valuable professionals who deserve respect. Join us to promote high professional standards, comprehensive training opportunities, appropriate compensation and good working conditions, to keep and grow qualified teaches and providers in this important field.

Promote public support and policies for young children.
AEYC-MO and NAEYC both work hard increase policymakers' understanding and support for high-quality early childhood education. One of AEYC-MO’s greatest strengths is legislative education and grassroots advocacy. We also support public awareness activities, including annual Week of the Young Child celebrations in communities throughout the state.

Specific Membership Benefits
Comprehensive members receive all the benefits of regular membership described below, plus five or six NAEYC-published books each year immediately after their release.

In addition to a newsletter from your local chapter, our state newsletter, The Update, and NAEYC's Young Children journal, packed with the latest developments in early childhood education, practice, and research.

Regular and Student Members receive:

• Voting rights in local, state, and national AEYC elections to help shape the future of the early childhood profession;
• Reduced registration fees at AEYC-sponsored conferences and seminars;
• Reduced subscription fees for the highly respected Early Childhood Research Quarterly;
• Opportunities to participate in various insurance plans designed to meet your personal and professional needs — including professional liability insurance — and an Association-sponsored credit card service from MBNA.

Join AEYC-MO to help build better futures for all young children... and all of us. Since the 1960s, AEYC-MO has worked toward a vision of excellence in early childhood education. Our members are teachers, administrators, parents, policymakers, and others committed to bringing high-quality early education and care to all young children.