Diana Aguirre

Ms. Aguirre was raised in southwest Virginia and received her BA from Virginia Tech and her MA from the University of Connecticut. Ms. Aguirre began her career in early care and education as a registered family child care provider where she achieved national accreditation through the National Association for Family Child Care four times.  Ms. Aguirre has held leadership positions in local and state associations and has been an approved early care and education trainer in Maryland for fifteen years.  Ms. Aguirre currently works as a Quality Assurance Specialist for Maryland’s QRIS – Maryland EXCELS. She has also presented at local, state and national conferences. Ms. Aguirre is an active member of the National Association of Family Child Care’s Accreditation Council which is tasked with monitoring the accreditation standards, following current best practice research and development, and implementing national standards that reflect best practice in a family child care environment.  Through her work with the local association and the NAFCC Ms. Aguirre has been both a formal and informal mentor to early care and education professionals as they implement high quality programming.  Ms. Aguirre is a reliable Business Administrative Scale validator, a Zero to Three Infant and Toddler Critical Competencies trainer, a Strengthening Business Practices trainer, a WIDA Early Educator trainer, and an active member of the NAFCC and the MDAEYC local chapter.