Faith Scheibe has more than 20 years of experience in the early childhood care and education field. This includes managing, coaching, teaching, providing training and technical assistance for Head Start, Early Head Start, and child care programs. Scheibe began her journey in education as a preschool teacher in a toddler classroom and has worked in different positions within the early childhood field including at the federal, state, and local levels. Much of her work focused on assisting programs with continuous quality improvement and supporting programs in the larger systems building initiatives across the state.

Scheibe’s work has primarily focused on empowering others to improve quality and eliminate disparities through culturally and linguistically responsive coaching and training. She has had many experiences teaching those of various cultural backgrounds, including providing instructional coaching to Latino classroom assistants striving to enhance their teaching practices and obtain their CDA Credential and delivering training and technical assistance to large groups of teachers through the state professional development system. She has delivered content and taught knowledge and skills within the context of participants’ experiences and cultural frames of reference, adapting teaching strategies and techniques to best meet the needs of all students of all cultural backgrounds.

Scheibe has a master’s degrees in instruction and ESOL literacy (teaching linguistically and culturally diverse children) from Wilmington University and a bachelor’s degree in educational studies from the University of Delaware. The instruction she received through her ESOL literacy curriculum and her experience managing an adult ESL program has enabled her to build opportunities for those she works with to gain knowledge, build capacity, and reflect on and engage in change at the individual level as well as the community level.

Key projects

• Preschool Development Grants Birth-5 Technical Assistance (PDG B-5 TA) Center