Alex Edwards kneeled on the carpet to calm down Zuri Kafuko, 3, by twisting part of her hair back in place. About a minute later, Edwards was sitting beside Sebi Lewis, 4, as he played with letters that could be transformed into small robots.
It’s just a snippet of Edwards’ daily work as an early childhood teacher at Journey Preschool, a family child care program operated at the Montgomery County home of Jenn Nicholls.
“If early childhood education was a respected, valued field, everything else would fall into place. Wages for the workforce, career pathway for the workforce, affordability for parents,” Nicholls said Thursday sitting at a small table before the students did yoga exercises…