Blueprint for Early Childhood Federal Policy

Planning Tool July 1, 2018

Federal policies designed to benefit young children and communities are pursued through the implementation of regulations and funding streams. This protocol is designed to review the intent of a federal policy, map state discretion, and build a bigger picture of the resources designed to support young children, their families and their communities.

Early Care and Education Programs are Sensitive Locations

Fact Sheet July 1, 2018

This blog post explores local-level Child Care Resource and Referral agencies (CCR&Rs) as one option for supporting families in their search for infant and toddler child care. The expansion of the Child Care and Development Block Grant opens many new opportunities for investment in strategies such as those profiled from Indiana and Illinois.

Program Agenda

Archived Meeting Resources July 1, 2018

This program agenda provides an overview of the 2018 QRIS National Meeting – Sparking Solutions and Sharing Systems Strategies. The document lists all sessions, sponsors and conference events.

QRIS Infant & Toddler Program 2018

Archived Meeting Resources July 1, 2018

This program agenda provides an overview of the 2018 QRIS Meeting – Sparking Solutions and Sharing Systems Strategies. The document lists all of the sessions focused on infant and toddler care.

Session 202 Maximizing CCDF Impact for Infants and Toddlers Resources to Support Planning for Home Based Child Care

Archived Meeting Resources July 1, 2018

This resource list supports a presentation - Maximizing CCDF Impact for Infants and Toddlers Financing Strategies to Build Supply of Infant and Toddler Care -from the 2018 QRIS Meeting.

Sparking Solutions and Sharing Systems Strategies: INFANT TODDLER SESSIONS

Archived Meeting Resources July 1, 2018

This program agenda provides an overview of the 2018 QRIS National Meeting – Sparking Solutions and Sharing Systems Strategies. The document lists all sessions, sponsors and conference events.

A Proposal for PA’s Infant Toddler Agenda

Archived Meeting Resources July 1, 2018

This slide deck from the 2018 QRIS National Meeting describes a proposal for Pennsylvania’s Infant toddler agenda. The agenda is built on the principles of paying for high quality at true cost of care, offered tiered base rates to advantage high quality, aligning capacity and funding to growth over 10 years and fostering state policy that incentivizes parents to choose high quality.

341. Reframing Family Engagement in the Early Childhood Classroom, Program, & System

Slide Deck July 1, 2018

This presentation, from a BUILD QRIS Conference Preconference Session, shares how states have created a strong family engagement and cultural inclusion in their systems, the supports given to programs and providers to strengthen their family engagement and cultural inclusions practices and policies, and how family engagement standards can be used to strengthen equity and inclusion.

Thinking Ahead: Engaging and Supporting Higher Education in Growing Quality

Fact Sheet July 1, 2018

This fact sheet, from the 2018 BUILD QRIS National Meeting, provides links to resources describing the early childhood programs at Frank Porter Graham Child Development Institute and Wake Technical Community College.

Capturing Curriculum and Assessment in QRIS Ratings: Lessons Learned and New Directions

Slide Deck July 1, 2018

This presentation, from the 2018 BUILD QRIS National Meeting, examines how three states -New Mexico, Colorado, and Virginia -approach understanding and supporting curriculum and assessment practices in QRIS and covers the challenges and opportunities inherent in measuring, monitoring, and supporting child assessment and individualized instruction at scale.