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Negotiating A Partnership Agreement: Wisdom from the Field

This document highlights ten techniques that can help advance early education partnership negotiations/agreements and produce desired results—enhanced and more flexible full-day, full-year services for families. 
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Topic/Subtopic Early Head Start - Child Care Partnerships, Promoting Children's Development
Digital Tools for Engaging Parents to Support Children’s Learning

In these guides created for early childhood professionals, explore digital tools designed to encourage parents to talk with their infants and children. Share these tools with parents, along with tips and information about talking with their young children. Parents’ early conversations with their...
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Topic/Subtopic Family Engagement and Consumer Education, Family Engagement and School Readiness, School Readiness, Your Child's Readiness for School, Promoting Children's Development, Language Development
Building a Comprehensive State Policy Strategy to Prevent Expulsion from Early Learning Settings

This tool lays out a rubric for policy options to promote young children’s social-emotional development. The options reduce the likelihood of expulsion and suspension in early learning settings. The 2014 Child Care and Development Block Grant (CCDBG) reauthorization informs this tool. It will...
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Topic/Subtopic Professional Development, Training and Professional Development Requirements, Promoting Development of Children, Responding to Challenging Behaviors, Promoting Children's Development, Developmental Screenings and Assessments, Screening and Assessing Diverse Children, Supporting Children's Social-Emotional/Behavioral and Mental Health, Challenging Behavior
A Fiscal Management Checklist for Partnerships

This checklist identifies key issues to be addressed regarding the fiscal aspects of projects in early care and education that involve multiple partners and funding sources.
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Topic/Subtopic Leadership and Coordination, Early Head Start - Child Care Partnerships, Promoting Children's Development
Partnership Elements Worksheet

This worksheet can help early education programs develop strong partnerships that provide high-quality, full-day, full-year comprehensive services to young children. Partners can use this tool to raise questions and prioritize critical issues to work together to build partnerships.
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Topic/Subtopic Early Head Start - Child Care Partnerships, Promoting Children's Development
Partnership Basics: Strategies for Creating Successful Partnerships

Partnerships are not simple or easy, however, when basic strategies are developed and followed the process has a stable foundation to keep it on track. Included in this document are strategies for consideration that partners can address as they work together.
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Topic/Subtopic Early Head Start - Child Care Partnerships, Promoting Children's Development
Sustainability Planning Framework

This document provides an overarching framework that can help partners determine potential strategies to sustain their work together over time.
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Topic/Subtopic Early Head Start - Child Care Partnerships, Promoting Children's Development
Stages of Partnerships

This document highlights the stages of partnership from the early stages of coming together as strangers to the higher level of commitment.
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Topic/Subtopic Early Head Start - Child Care Partnerships, Promoting Children's Development
A Checklist for Developing a Partnership Agreement or Contract

This document provides a list of specifics that partners might include in a written agreement, although not every item needs be addressed. Agreements vary, reflecting the uniqueness of the partnership.
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Topic/Subtopic Early Head Start - Child Care Partnerships, Promoting Children's Development
Questions For State-level Leaders to Consider: Stimulating Quality and Heightening Standards for Infant and Toddler Services

The Questions for State-Level Leaders to Consider is a tool designed to help state leaders assess policies and practices that can serve to build a system that will advance the quality of infant and toddler early education services in their State.

Resource Type: Tool
Topic/Subtopic Early Head Start - Child Care Partnerships, Promoting Children's Development