Featured
Family child care homes are small, personal and wonderfully varied. Here is where our educators have been featured, in training videos, state guides and the press, so more people can see who family child care providers are.
In PITC videos
The Program for Infant/Toddler Care (PITC) films family child care providers to teach other educators. Pyrena is interviewed in two of them.
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PITC (Program for Infant/Toddler Care) · 2021
Small Groups in Family Child Care Programs
Pyrena is interviewed about what family child care gives children, speaking in Cantonese with English subtitles.
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PITC (Program for Infant/Toddler Care) · 2021
Culturally Responsive Care in Family Child Care Programs
Pyrena is interviewed about caring for children from different backgrounds and languages, and says respect matters most. She speaks in Cantonese with English subtitles.
In California's infant and toddler guides
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California Department of Social Services · 2025
California Infant–Toddler Learning and Development Foundations, Second Edition
Thanks ME Playschool, Pyrena's Portola program, in its credits for the infant and toddler photographs, taken with families' permission.
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California Department of Social Services · 2025
California Framework for Infant–Toddler Learning and Development
Also thanks ME Playschool for the infant and toddler photographs.
More videos
California Early Learning and Development video library
Videos filmed in family child care homes, including ours, are also in the state's video library. We link to the library, not to a specific video, to protect the privacy of the children.
In the press
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Still from ConnectedSF's video ConnectedSF · Nov. 17, 2025
ConnectedSF honors Neighborhood Heroes at its We Are Connected celebration
ConnectedSF recognizes Pyrena as a Neighborhood Hero in its video of the inaugural We Are Connected celebration, set to the Swami 3 song "Hero".
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Child Care Law Center · May 8, 2025
AAPI Heritage Month spotlight: Pyrena Hui
For AAPI Heritage Month, the Child Care Law Center makes Pyrena its first spotlight: a Chinese-English bilingual family child care educator in San Francisco, trainer, mentor and parent educator.
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Home Grown Child Care · Jan. 29, 2025
Roots and Offshoots: Family Child Care Programs Celebrate Lunar New Year
Home Grown Child Care features Pyrena and Oscar on how their family honors Lunar New Year and the roots it connects them to.
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i3 Institute · 2024
2024 Festival of Learning presenters
i3 Institute lists Pyrena as a presenter at its 2024 Festival of Learning, with an infant and toddler session in Cantonese and Mandarin, "Flowing Through Feelings".
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CalMatters · Jan. 26, 2022
Omicron blazes through California child care providers already reeling from COVID
Reported from our home in San Francisco.
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The Imprint · Mar. 8, 2021
Thousands of Child Care Programs Have Closed In California, Study Finds
The Imprint opens its report on child care closures across California with Pyrena's story of keeping her family child care going through the COVID-19 pandemic.
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SF Children & Nature · Feb. 1, 2021
Bamboo for Nature Play
Pyrena shares what bamboo means in the Chinese community and how her program plans to use it for Lunar New Year, in a post about bringing bamboo from the SF Botanical Garden to family child care homes and early childhood centers.
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EdSurge · Dec. 21, 2020
Distanced Play. No Hugs. How Everyday Child Care Routines Are Changing.
EdSurge features Pyrena on how everyday child care routines changed during the pandemic, from cleaning to holding circle time outdoors.
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Child Care Law Center · Oct. 9, 2020
October Provider of the Month: Pyrena Hui
The Child Care Law Center honors Pyrena as its October 2020 Provider of the Month, in a video where she speaks about her leadership in child care and in her community.
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The Hechinger Report · Jul. 8, 2020
Reopening child care programs will not be enough to save them
The Hechinger Report includes Pyrena among the child care providers it spoke with about the cost of reopening during the pandemic.
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Homegrown Childcare
Provider of the Month: Pyrena Hui
Homegrown Childcare features Pyrena as its Provider of the Month, in her own words about why she loves family child care.
Being featured does not mean these organizations endorse us. PITC is a project of the California Department of Education and WestEd. See more milestones on our story.