Each bullet point is to be answered in complete detail, showing your ability to be a successful administrator; each section should be written in paragraph form. Your paper should include the following: • Cover page • Table of contents • Reference page Requirements: • Add the specifics for type of media, length, and format. • Submit a Word document in APA format. • At least 7 pages in length, excluding the Title and Reference pages. PART A: Begin your paper by introducing your licensed Early Childhood Center by including. • Your program name • Mission Statement • Philosophy • Hours of operation • If you are a profit or non-profit center • Discuss the knowledge and skills that program administrators must possess to be successful leaders. • What abilities do you believe you possess that enable you to address the many roles you will fill as a director? Requirements to be an administrator vary from state to state; what educational preparation and experience are required in your state to become an administrator of an early childhood program? *(Show evidence from your state’s licensing website page) • Explain the purpose of licensing. • What is the difference between a center being for-profit and a nonprofit? • Identify circumstances under which a business must have a board of directors and the roles they may have. • Discuss strategies that directors can use to address legal issues related to health and safety and strategies that may help avert potential lawsuits. • Explain the purpose of program evaluation and the value of accreditation in ensuring quality. • What is technology’s role in compliance and financial matters, and how will you address this? • Before your program opens its doors, why is a SWOT Analysis so crucial for the success of your program? o SWOT is an acronym for what? o Give one example from each of the letters? • Describe factors to consider when planning and implementing disaster and emergency policies. • Explain why community involvement is essential to early childhood programs. Knowledge and application of policies and procedures must meet state and local regulations and professional standards about the health and safety of young children. As an administrator, you may be responsible for writing policies and procedures for your program, as found in both a parent and employee handbook. In this section, you are to write a sample table of contents for both a parent handbook and an employee handbook, which needs to include the most important policies that would be fundamental to the success of your program. You are to include at least 5 of each. PART B: Financial: • Differentiate between start-up and operating funds and how tuition rates may be determined. • Differentiate between a fixed expense and a variable expense. Give an example of each. • Identify potential challenges that can affect your reserved funds. • When considering Fringe Benefits, what benefit could you offer your staff that will encourage them to stay with your program and lessen your staff turnover rate? PART C: Staffing, families & the Community: • Identify and describe the many financial factors that must be considered when planning a facility that meets the needs of all families. • Describe the role of staff meetings as an essential professional development tool. • Explain the need for staff training and reporting in child abuse and neglect. • Explain staff responsibilities related to maintaining health and safety regulations and how they can manage/prevent the spreading of infectious diseases within the classroom. PART D: Case Study: Sally’s Menu Sally is an assistant teacher who hopes to work up to the director position in a childcare and education program someday. She enjoys practicing working out plans and strategies for a program and recently put together this primary one-day menu for you, her director, to review. Based on a program for two-year-olds lasting eight hours (9:00 a.m. to 5:00 pm), Sally suggests the following: morning snack (about 10:30) packaged crackers, cheese, raisins, and juice lunch (about 12:30) lightly buttered pasta, cooked peas, peeled chunks of banana, and milk early afternoon snack (about 2:30) s’mores (graham crackers, chocolate, and marshmallows) and milk late afternoon snack (about 4:30) grapes cut into quarters, dry cereal, raw carrots, and juice Explain why you believe the sample menu would be or would not be an appropriate snack schedule and what other recommendations you might have.