In the spring of 2020, our world received a rude awakening. But amid this global crisis, the early childhood community stepped up. Many child care workers were asked to stay on the front lines of the crisis to care for the children of essential workers, all while their own incomes were diminishing. Other early childhood workers struggled to provide remote learning experiences to the millions of young children who were now at home due to closures. They stepped up as the world realized just how “essential” early care is to the workforce—maybe for the first time ever. In the true spirit of early childhood, teachers came up with solutions that were creative, clever, caring and flexible. They stepped up even though it required a huge leap out of their comfort zones and required them to find solutions to fundamental developmentally appropriate issues around technology with young children.