Preventing Expulsion & Suspension, Promoting Equity and the Relationship to Quality Improvement

Slide Deck July 16, 2018

This presentation, from the 2018 BUILD QRIS National Meeting, presents the research about early childhood suspension and expulsion, explores the role of state policy in prevention, the role of QRIS, and the equity issues that are critical to this work.

Equity Leaders Action Network: Emergent Leaders for Racial Equity Fellowship Pilot

Slide Deck July 16, 2018

This presentation, from the 2018 QRIS National Meeting, looks at the intersectionality of leadership, race equity, and student outcomes. It describes one fellow’s 18-month project for the Equity Leaders Action Network.

Supporting The InfantToddler Workforce: A MultiPronged Approach Is Urgently Needed

Blog July 11, 2018

The expansion of the Child Care and Development Block Grant (CCDBG) funds provides an opportunity to invest in a multi-pronged strategy that supports the teachers of our youngest children. This blog post looks at the issues involved in supporting the infant-toddler workforce and offers seven recommendations for moving forward.

Child Care Resource And Referral Agencies: A Strategy For Ensuring Quality Care For Infants And Toddlers

Blog July 9, 2018

The shortage of child care, across the nation, is most acute for infants and toddlers and their families.

Attention To State Child Care Subsidy Systems Essential To Building The Supply Of HighQuality Child Care And Supporting Families With Infants And Toddlers

Blog July 5, 2018

States now have a tremendous opportunity to improve their child care assistance policies and make them work better for infants and toddlers and their families, thanks to the historic increase in funding for the federal Child Care and Development Block Grant (CCDBG) starting in FY 2018. This blog post outlines strategies for improving state child care subsidy systems.

Toward Integration: State Approaches to Head Start Partnering in Quality Rating and Improvement Systems

Report July 1, 2018

Quality Rating and Improvement Systems are rapidly evolving from a child care- focused approach to one that is seeking to embrace a multiplicity of early learning programs including Head Start. The Race to the Top-Early Learning Challenge (RTT-ELC) included a specific focus on using QRISs for all early learning programs and, more recently, in the issuance of revised performance standards for Head Start, the Office of Head Start made its strongest statement of support yet for integrating Head Start and QRISs. Integrating Head Start and QRISs is key to addressing the growing need for quality Early Care and Education (ECE) settings. This report looks at five states with different integration approaches - Arkansas, Montana, Oregon, Illinois and North Carolina – and explores the lessons learned from these diverse models.

Mixedmethods evaluation of Quality Start LA: Provider ratings of QRIS processes, analyses of program wide data and measures of stakeholder collaboration.

Archived Meeting Resources July 1, 2018

Mixed Methods Evaluation of Quality Start LA

Slide Deck July 1, 2018

This presentation covers provider ratings of QRIS processes, analyses of program-wide data, and measures of stakeholder collaboration for Quality Start LA.

Strategies to Help Family Child Care Programs Provide High Quality Infant/Toddler Care in Mixed Age Group Settings

Slide Deck July 1, 2018

This presentation by the Child Care State Capacity Building Center reviews the current family child care landscape, considers ways to strengthen family child care supply and quality, and shares strategies and resources to support family child care providers.

ELearning Program Planning Tool

Planning Tool July 1, 2018

This e-learning early childhood quality improvement professional development planning tool allows for goal setting based on content, audience, credit, and implementation.