Additional Resources

• Health and Safety Training Resources for Child Care Providers (2018), by the National Center on Early Childhood Development, Teaching and Learning. Find resources around the topic of health and safety training as required by the Child Care Development Block Grant Act of 2014. Explore ways to include health and safety trainings in state professional development systems.
• Early Care and Education Coaching: A Closer Look at Coaching Models in Child Care and Head Start (2018), by the National Center on Early Childhood Development, Teaching and Learning. In this brief, learn more about the coaching landscape across the country. Also, find strategies and resources to promote systemic coaching approaches for state, territory, or regional considerations.
• Early Childhood Workforce: Registries (2018), by the National Center on Early Childhood Development, Teaching and Learning. In this resource, discover how a registry functions. Explore data that may be available through registries, and find state examples and additional materials. CCDF Administrators, Head Start Collaboration directors, and other professional development leaders can use this resource to plan or refine their state early childhood workforce data systems.
• Staff Recruitment and Retention (2018), by the National Center on Early Childhood Development, Teaching and Learning. In this resource, find examples of state systems and policies that help support recruiting and retaining a highly qualified workforce. Also, learn strategies for data collection on staff turnover.
• Professional Development System Frameworks (2020), by the National Center on Early Childhood Development, Teaching and Learning. Explore resources related to the six professional development framework components. Also, find framework examples for five states.
• Early Childhood Workforce: Career Pathway Goals and Strategies for Developing, Improving, and Evaluating Higher Education Articulation Agreements (2018), by the National Center on Early Childhood Development, Teaching and Learning. Learn how articulation work connects to two recommendations in the Transforming the Workforce for Children Birth through Age 8: A Unifying Foundation report. Explore strategies that help develop and support state articulation goals. Find information about higher education policy and accreditation. Also, review standards that affect articulation agreements.
• Preventing and Reducing Suspensions and Expulsions in Early Care and Education Settings (2018), by the National Center on Early Childhood Development, Teaching and Learning. This document provides research and materials on reducing the expulsion of young children in early childhood programs. Review resources and tools that help promote the mental health and social and emotional well-being of young children. Find examples of state efforts that can guide decision-making about expulsion policy decisions.
• Planning and Implementing Early Childhood and School-Age Workforce Initiatives (2014), by the National Center on Child Care Professional Development and Workforce Initiatives.
• Aligned Professional Development Systems Planning and Implementation Guide (2012), by the National Center on Child Care Professional Development and Workforce Initiatives.
• Workforce Data Planning and Implementation Guide (2012), by the National Center on Child Care Professional Development and Workforce Initiatives.
• Professional Development System Cost Analysis Tool (2015), by Early Educator Central
• Early Learning and Development Guidelines (2019), by the National Center on Early Childhood Quality Assurance. This document provides a link to all states that have their ELDGs on a public website.
• Alignment Self-Assessment Tool (n.d.), by the National Center on Early Childhood Development, Teaching and Learning.
• Head Start Child Early Learning Outcomes (2020), by the Office of Head Start, Administration for Children and Families, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.