User:Keishay

Keishay Izzard has over 22 years experience in Child Development and Adult Education. Keishay aka Shay, is a native Californian an Alumni of California College of Health Science and the University of Phoenix and a California Credentialed Teacher. She began her dedication to Education through the funding of Child Development programs in the Tri Valley Area. She received recognition from KQED Sesame Street for life - long learning commitment. The Author of “ Who do want me to be” an eclectic Curriculum that gives ECE teachers a results managed approach to Best Practices in Early Education.

Shay quickly discovered the challenges that she and other families met when caring for children with special needs. She re focused her attention to inclusion care, and began assisting local programs in creating environments that would offer new learning experiences for children with varied delays. A protector of behaviorally challenged children, she provided many families with milieu therapy to assist them in successful behavior modification at nationally recognized day schools and treatment facilities. As a NAEYC affiliate she sponsored two child development centers with their preparation and award of accreditation.

Realizing that the children she embraced over the years would eventually grow up. She began following the Reggio Emilia Philosophy (where the teacher follows the student). Shay is currently serving as a board member of the Parent Survival Center a project that provides resource, referral and support families with challenges. She has also instituted the passport system for CDC teachers while holding a seat as committee chair Health care advocacy. As former Director of the JOLI program her lecture on “Setting Financial Goals” along with teaching GED/ESL/VOC has captured the attention of many transition program participants and continues to motivate and inspire others striving to accomplish their dreams.

With the increase of childhood disease and lack of pediatric wellness and family support programs Keishay participated in the Breast health Navigation and Community Health Worker, incorporating BHN training into adolescent programs.