SarasotaDirector Collaborative
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Support • Learn • Apply • Lead

A proposed collaborative for the people who lead early learning.

College learning. Practical leadership. A professional community.

An interactive demonstration of how Sarasota County directors and certificate students could learn in one professional community.

Two ways in

Where do you start?

I lead a center

Explore the Director Pathway

See how the proposed pathway connects peer case clinics, a private leadership blueprint, and written next actions around real center decisions.

For directors

I'm studying

Plan your certificate route

See the four actual SCF courses, record the coursework you already have, and learn from people already leading centers in Sarasota County.

For students

The idea

Four things held together

Support

Peers, facilitators, and a clear place to ask the question you cannot ask your own staff.

Learn

Twelve college credits of management coursework at State College of Florida.

Apply

Companion planning work aimed at your own center, not a hypothetical one.

Lead

A printable leadership brief you can take to a board, an owner, or a funder.

The academic core

Child Care Center Management Specialization [3038]

12 credits · Undergraduate college credit (certificate). Course titles and credits from the SCF 2026–27 catalog, reviewed 11 September 2026.

  • EEC 2002

    Early Child Care Center Management

    3 credits

  • EEC 2202

    Program Development in Early Childhood

    3 credits

  • EEC 2520

    Early Childhood Education Organizational Leadership Management

    3 credits

  • EEC 2527

    Legal Issues and Financial Issues in Child Care

    3 credits

Read about the certificateWhat it would cost

Community

Directors and students, working through real decisions together

Case clinics, shared practice, and honest cost planning — built around the actual work of leading an early learning center in Sarasota County.

What a case clinic looks like

A director posts a brief case: the situation, what they already tried, the decision in front of them, and the feedback they actually want. Colleagues reply with one question, one possible approach, and one concern or tradeoff. The director leaves with one written next action saved to their private plan.

See the community rhythm

Shared practice library

Templates and examples other directors have adapted — onboarding sequences, coaching plans, policy reviews, and cost scenarios.

Browse shared practice

Sample participant experience

Explore a Sample Member Workspace

Use the demonstration sign-in to explore how a participant could move among a pathway, sample case clinics, a private center studio, the shared practice library, and cost planning.

Demo Sign InExplore the demo workspace

The demo workspace uses fictional members and activity and stays on your own device.