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Professional Development Systems

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Strengthening, Supporting, and Sustaining the Out-of-School Time Workforce

This Practice Brief, the fourth in a periodic series published by the National Center on Afterschool and Summer Enrichment (NCASE), was developed following a Peer Learning Community (PLC) designed to strengthen workforce systems to advance both individual career development and program quality....

Health and Safety Training Resources for Child Care Providers

Find resources around the topic of health and safety training as required by the Child Care Development Block Grant Act of 2014 (CCDBG). 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

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.

Alignment Self-Assessment Tool: State Early Learning Standards and Head Start Child Outcomes

Use this tool to assess the status of the alignment between the Head Start Early Learning Outcomes Framework (ELOF) and your state Early Learning and Development Guidelines (ELDGs).

Early Childhood Workforce: Registries

An early childhood workforce registry is an information system. It allows states, regions, and practitioners to track professional development achievement and plan for future training. In this resource, discover how a registry functions.

Staff Recruitment and Retention

It can be a challenge to recruit and retain highly qualified professionals in early childhood education. In this resource, find examples of state systems and policies that help support recruiting and retaining a highly-qualified workforce.

Professional Development System Frameworks

Learn what states need to know to meet the 2016 Child Care and Development Fund (CCDF) regulations on training and professional development. States must have a framework for training, professional development, and postsecondary education for caregivers and directors.

Preventing and Reducing Suspensions and Expulsions in Early Care and Education Settings

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.

Transforming State Workforce Support Systems: Innovations and Lessons Learned from Race to the Top – Early Learning Challenge States Webinar, Spotlights on Innovative Professional Development Practice Series

In this Spotlight on Innovations webinar, learn about the 20 Race to the Top – Early Learning Challenge (RTT-ELC) states. Find out how these states use professional development, credentials, workforce data collection, and other supports to improve early childhood education workforce knowledge....

EarlyEdU Alliance: Transforming Early Childhood Teacher Development Webinar, Spotlights on Innovative Professional Development Practice Series

EarlyEdU Alliance is a higher education collaboration community for Head Start and other early childhood education (ECE) staff. In this webinar, find out how ECE programs are working together to improve child outcomes by transforming early childhood teacher development.

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