Emerging science makes clear the importance and complexity of working with young children from infancy through the early elementary years. This report notes what knowledge and skills early care and education professionals need to meet this challenge, the problems the current system for financing professional education faces, and a solution to these problems.
This presentation provides an overview of the impact of the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA) and describes how the Classroom Assessment Scoring System® (CLASS) can be used across age levels to focus, measure and improve classroom interactions — a key factor proven to drive children’s academic and life-long success.
This resource includes a draft report on a recent pilot of a new tool designed to help early care and education programs assess the strengths of their family engagement practices and identify goals and steps to strengthen these practices. The tool covered in the report, The Family Engagement Assessment and Planning Tool (FEAP-T), and a Parent Survey that is part of the tool.
In this document, the Center on Enhancing Early Learning Outcomes (CEELO) provides an internal review of the ESSA -Preschool Development Grants (Section 9212).
This planning tool guides organizations through the development and use of a logic model. Specific action steps are provided for the preparation phase, the design phase, and the refinement phase of the process.
This fact sheet outlines the application process for Taking the Lead Leadership Academy, a family child care initiative. It also outlines the benefits of participation and the areas of focus.
This fact sheet covers the purpose, target audience, topics covered, and benefits of participation in the Leadership Matters Institute in Forsyth County, North Carolina.
This brief outlines policy approaches that have the potential to strengthen the
organizational conditions of early care and education (ECE) programs as a means to
quality improvement.
Partnership for Community Action is a grassroots non-profit organization in Albuquerque, New Mexico established in 1990. This presentation describes the organization's efforts to support family child care providers in Southwest Alburquerque.
This planning tool provides a checklist of technical considerations for the development of PDG B-5 logic models, listing the requirements in the FOA for the PDG B-5 grants.
