Reigniting a Culture of Improvement with Afterschool and Summer Enrichment Programs
November 21 2022
2:00 PM EDT
There is opportunity as states re-vision quality systems with a focus on improvement, equity, empowering flexibility, strong engagement with providers and families to ensure a cohesive system across the full age continuum including how services complement and expand into school-age youth development. Alignment of resources, collaboration between partners, funding, investment, leadership, and sharing best and promising practices matter. State leaders from New York, Nevada, Utah, and Wisconsin will share their insights about incorporating out-of-school time. Wherever your state is in the continuum supporting programs to build continuous quality improvement in out-of-school time services, there is something for you to share and learn in this session as we explore ‘what’s next in our context’. This session is a collaboration between the BUILD Initiative, After School Alliance, and the National Center on Afterschool and Summer Enrichment. Please share this invitation with others who might be interested.
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Workforce Compensation
Report August 29, 2023
A robust early childhood care and education workforce is at the heart of any solution to stabilize the child care sector, and adequate compensation is pivotal to that end. That reality comes through in the PDG B-5 grant applications; many states demonstrate a keen focus on supporting workforce compensation. This brief explores and synthesizes the strategies to increase compensation that states proposed in their PDG B-5 grant applications.

Supporting Multilingual Learners
Report August 17, 2023
As the number of young multilingual learners— children who speak language(s) other than English—increases throughout the country, the focus on supporting language development, rooted in diverse cultural, linguistic, and developmentally appropriate practices, becomes a critical component of the early childhood care and education (ECCE) system.

Systems Building through Governance Processes
Report August 10, 2023
Twenty-one states are drawing on the Preschool Development Birth through Five Renewal Grant (PDG B-5 Renewal) to advance their early childhood care and education (ECCE) systems. These states are undertaking a rich and broad variety of work with this infusion of resources. The BUILD Initiative, ZERO TO THREE, and Start Early, all of whom are members of the National TA Collaborative to Maximize Federal Early Childhood Investments, collaborated on these briefs to share critical early childhood issues that states and their partners are addressing by using the information available in the PDG B-5 Renewal applications. These grants not only provide immediate benefits and long-term systems implications for the states and their communities; they also shed light on the state of the field, which we attempt to outline through this set of briefs.