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Webinar Series - Quality Investments: How to Use Administrative Data and Other Sources to Evaluate What is Working

This webinar series examines evaluation options and implementation strategies to help States and Territories identify the resources, data sources, and costs associated with evaluating quality initiatives, with a particular focus on evaluation related to Child Care and Development Fund quality...
Resource Type: Webinar
Webinar - Using Community Assessment to Advance Cultural Competence and Racially Equitable Outcomes for Young Children and Their Families

This webinar focuses on the components and development of community assessments and how state, territory, and tribal leaders and early childhood program directors can use community assessment data to identify and serve new and underserved populations and those in greatest need of early education...
Resource Type: Webinar
Webinar - Early Learning Systems Building: Leveraging Child Care Resource and Referral

This webinar offered by the National Center for Early Childhood Quality Assurance provided an overview of Child Care Resource and Referral in evolving early learning systems and examined trends and innovations at the State and local level. Presenters included Lynette Fraga from Child Care Aware...
Resource Type: Webinar
Spotlight on Quality: What is Quality and Why Does it Matter?

Research indicates that high-quality afterschool programs are showing important gains for children in terms of academic achievement, safety, discipline, attendance, and avoidance of risky behaviors (Afterschool Alliance, 2013). This brief summarizes program quality and its impact. It is the...
Resource Type: Brief
NCASE Year One and Beyond

The goal of NCASE is to ensure that school-age children in families of low-income have increased access to high-quality afterschool and summer learning experiences that contribute to their overall development and academic achievement. This flyer shares information about NCASE audiences,...
Resource Type: General Information
High Quality Child Care Promotes Healthy Development, School Readiness, and School Success

Decades of research has documented what is referred to as the “summer slide" – the impact of summer vacation’s learning loss on the educational achievement of children, particularly low-income children. The achievement gap is not really a result of “summer slide” alone but the cumulative effect...
Resource Type: Fact Sheet
State Legislation and Early Childhood Systems, 2010-2015

States are successfully working with their legislatures and governors to pass legislation that supports comprehensive early childhood (EC) systems, with a focus on better integration of programs, policies, and services to benefit young children and their families. This report profiles six...
Resource Type: Brief
Early Childhood Professional Development Systems Toolkit, With a Focus on School-Age Professional Development

This toolkit provides a compilation of early childhood professional development resources for State/Territory policymakers and stakeholders. Intended to serve as a practical guide, the toolkit includes definitions, overviews, State stories, selected resources, State examples, and planning tools...
Resource Type: Tool
QRIS Elements

A quality rating and improvement system (QRIS) is a systemic approach to assess, improve, and communicate the level of quality in early and school-age care and education programs. QRIS are composed of five common elements: (1) standards; (2) accountability measures; (3) program and practitioner...
Resource Type: Information Product
Core Knowledge and Competencies Planning and Implementation Guide

This resource is a planning and implementation guide for State and Territory teams as they develop or revise and then implement core knowledge and competencies (CKCs). It also describes an aligned State and Territory professional development system (PDS), and defines CKCs as a foundational part...
Resource Type: Resource Guide