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This resource is a planning and implementation guide for State/Territory teams as they develop and strengthen an aligned professional development system (PDS). It defines the key elements of an aligned State/Territory PDS, as set out by the Child Care and Development Fund (CCDF) Plan Preprint and…
Resource Type: Resource Guide
Topic/Subtopic: Professional Development, Professional Development Systems
Group: National Center on Early Childhood Development Teaching and Learning -- PARTNER
States’ licensing systems are operating under competing pressures to both improve the health and safety of children in child care while maximizing administrative cost efficiencies. With limited resources, licensing administrators are working to ensure that monitoring visits focus on what is most…
Resource Type: Information Product
Topic/Subtopic: Protecting Children's Health and Safety, Health and Safety Requirements and Standards, Licensing Administration
Group: National Center on Early Childhood Quality Assurance
Professional development systems (PDS) and quality rating and improvement systems (QRIS) are two important subsystems of the comprehensive early childhood and school-age system. State and Territory leaders can use this self-assessment tool to guide alignment across similar system functions. Leaders…
Resource Type: Tool
Topic/Subtopic: Leadership and Coordination, CCDF Governance and Leadership, Professional Development, Professional Development Systems, Promoting Children's Development, Quality Improvement, System Planning and Implementation
Group: Child Care State Capacity Building Center, National Center on Afterschool and Summer Enrichment
Professional development (PD) systems are made up of connected services and supports with a common goal to build an effective workforce. To raise quality and retain effective educators, PD systems can combine promising PD and workforce strategies at the practitioner, program, and system levels.…
Resource Type: Resource Guide
Topic/Subtopic: Professional Development, Career Pathways, Compensation, Benefits, and Access to Professional Development (PD), Core Knowledge and Competencies (CKC)
Group: National Center on Early Childhood Development Teaching and Learning -- PARTNER
This resource is a planning and implementation guide for State/Territory teams as they develop and strengthen technical assistance (TA) supports. It also describes an aligned State/Territory professional development system (PDS), and defines TA as part of an aligned PDS. The provided considerations…
Resource Type: Resource Guide
Topic/Subtopic: Professional Development, Professional Development Systems
Group: National Center on Early Childhood Development Teaching and Learning -- PARTNER
Child care facility lockdown licensing regulations, requirements, definitions, and procedures vary from State to State. States also vary in the trainings they offer programs regarding child care facility lockdowns and emergency preparedness.
This document provides examples of licensing regulations…
Resource Type: Information Product
Topic/Subtopic: Leadership and Coordination, Emergency Preparedness
Group: Child Care State Capacity Building Center
This document provides an overview of the cooperation, coordination, and collaboration involved at partnerships of all levels.
Resource Type: Tool
Topic/Subtopic: Early Head Start - Child Care Partnerships, Promoting Children's Development
Group: Child Care State Capacity Building Center
This document includes key steps for creating successful partnerships.
Resource Type: Tool
Topic/Subtopic: Early Head Start - Child Care Partnerships, Promoting Children's Development
Group: Child Care State Capacity Building Center
Current collaboration efforts are driven increasingly by the need to provide coordinated services to children and families through responsive Child Care and Development Fund (CCDF) policies, professional development, and quality improvement efforts that facilitate collaboration and allow programs…
Resource Type: Tool
Topic/Subtopic: Early Head Start - Child Care Partnerships, Promoting Children's Development
Group: Child Care State Capacity Building Center
The attached resources were presented during the Spring 2015 Cross-Regional Meetings:
Promoting Family Engagement through Outreach and Consumer Education
Implementation Considerations #4 CCDBG Act of 2014 Consumer Education [Section 658e(C)(2)D-E)]
Resource Type: Regional Meeting Resources Presentations
Topic/Subtopic: Family Engagement and Consumer Education
Group: National Center on Early Childhood Quality Assurance