Grow Your ECE Career

Grow Your Career

Educational Scholarships and Wage & Scholarship Support

These programs strengthen the early education workforce in North Carolina by offering debt-free college education and education-based salary supplements to help recruit, retain, and support well-qualified early childhood educators.

ECE Career

Teach Early Childhood NC Scholarship Program

Provides educational scholarships to early care professionals and those who perform specialized functions in the early care system.

Teach Early
Childhood in NC

Child Care
WAGE$ Program

Provides education-based salary supplements (eligible every six months) to individuals working with children birth to five.

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with WAGE$

Infant-Toddler Educator Award$ Plus

Provides education-based salary supplements to low-paid teachers and family child care providers working full-time with children birth to 2.

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AWARD$ Plus

The More You Know

Careers in Early Care and
Education Directory (PDF) Glossary of Terms in
Early Care and Education

Check out our page on How to Become an ECE to learn more about the pipelines and pathways that kickstart and enhance your career!