{"id":560,"date":"2025-06-20T22:20:29","date_gmt":"2025-06-20T22:20:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stg.education.uw.edu\/cecpe\/?page_id=560"},"modified":"2025-09-23T17:37:03","modified_gmt":"2025-09-23T17:37:03","slug":"ruth-ayodeji","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.education.uw.edu\/cecpe\/team\/masters-students\/ruth-ayodeji\/","title":{"rendered":"Ruth Ayodeji"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/stg.education.uw.edu\/cecpe\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/ruth-ayodeji.jpg\" alt=\"Headshot of Ruth Ayodeji smiling at the camera, wearing a pink shirt in a professional headshot.\" itemprop=\"image\" height=\"288\" width=\"287\" title=\"ruth-ayodeji\" onerror=\"this.style.display='none'\"  \/><\/p>\n<h2>Contact Information<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"mailto:rutha2@uw.edu\">Email<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Biography<\/h2>\n<p>My name is Ruth Ayodeji, and I am a master&#8217;s student in Early Childhood Leadership and Policy Program. I started my Early Childhood Education and Career over 20 years ago when my daughter started Head Start. As a first-generation immigrant from Nigeria and the first-generation student in my family, I never had a goal for my life except to be a mother. That changed when I found my passion for teaching while volunteering in my child&#8217;s preschool classroom. A journey that lead me to UW for my BA in Early Childhood and Family Studies (the online program).<\/p>\n<p>My passion for supporting and inspiring immigrant families in how they engage in their children&#8217;s education, pursue their own dreams, and retain their cultural identity led me to UW College of Education as an Experiential Learning Coordinator. I want to inspire, challenge, and help develop quality, equitable educators who can support families and children from a strength-based perspective, not a deficit. At the same time, I learned about different policies that can make this journey easy for educators. I hope to lead Head Start or ECEAP programs or become a professor who teaches Early Childhood Educator Leaders in a higher institution.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Contact Information Email Biography My name is Ruth Ayodeji, and I am a master&#8217;s student in Early Childhood Leadership and Policy Program. I started my Early Childhood Education and Career over 20 years ago when my daughter started Head Start. As a first-generation immigrant from Nigeria and the first-generation student in my family, I never had a goal for my life except to be a mother. That changed when I found my passion for teaching while volunteering in my child&#8217;s&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"parent":496,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"templates\/template-no-hero.php","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-560","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.education.uw.edu\/cecpe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/560","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.education.uw.edu\/cecpe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.education.uw.edu\/cecpe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.education.uw.edu\/cecpe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.education.uw.edu\/cecpe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=560"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.education.uw.edu\/cecpe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/560\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":774,"href":"https:\/\/www.education.uw.edu\/cecpe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/560\/revisions\/774"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.education.uw.edu\/cecpe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/496"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.education.uw.edu\/cecpe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=560"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}