Early Childhood Education: Associate Teacher

NINET MORADI, BA, MA, is a published author who has about three decades of experience in early childhood education and special education. She has run her own childcare program and worked as an administrator of childcare centers with different philosophies, programs, and settings. She has helped several state-funded, for-profit, and nonprofit programs obtain licensing and launch high-quality programs.

Moradi has a bachelor’s and a master’s degree in special education with a specialization in psychology. She holds a Child Development Director permit and certificates in Applied Behavior Analysis, Independent Facilitator for Self Determination Program for individuals with Special needs, Computerized Bookkeeping, Infant and Children’s Nutrition, Child Trauma, Crucial Conversations, CACFP, and Educational Therapy. She has volunteered as a court-appointed child advocate for many years and began teaching at UCSC Extension in 2014. She has served as chair of the Early Childhood Education: Supervision and Administration, Certificate Program Advisory Board since 2021 and as program chair for both ECE, Advanced Teacher and ECE Associate Teacher since 2025. She is a member of the National Society of Leadership and Success, Phi Theta Kappa Academic Honor Society, Association of Educational Therapists, National Association for the Education of Young Children, and California Association for the Education of Young Children.