The Montgomery County Children's Alliance partnered with School Readiness Consulting (SRC) to lead an intentional and community-driven planning process to design the plan. That process involved creating The Foundational Action Plan to provide a set of clear actions for the Montgomery County Children's Alliance to focus on and organize around. It is meant to build on the ongoing work and momentum that exists in order to address the real and big challenges young children and families face every day. It offers a road map to highlight important next steps for the Alliance to contribute to creating a stronger and more equitable early childhood system.

This framework was developed in partnership with Mile High Early Learning to support staff in developing essential knowledge, skills, and awareness to participate in ongoing conversations and critical reflection around race and equity within the MHEL learning community and beyond.

The Michigan Racial Equity Leadership Cohort Experience aimed to build up the capacity of leaders to make systems change at the community level and scale knowledge about and actions to improve racial equity across the state of Michigan. To best take advantage of this short-term, limited-funding situation, the effort emphasized equipping leaders to move equity work forward at the community level as a way to support sustainability and begin to impact the system.

This equity-focused rubric was developed for reviewing Minnesota's Preschool Development Grant (PDG)–related documents. The equity rubric, designed under the Minnesota PDG Guiding Principles, assesses indicators of best practices for advancing equity within each document that focus on the experiences of children, families, and communities facing racial, geographic, and economic inequities.

This initial landscape summary and strategy map constitute a summary of findings to share a high-level overview of the current early childhood landscape in the City of Chicago, including recent city developments and relevant state-level context, as well as to lift up initial strategic priorities identified by the landscaping process. This landscape is meant to serve as a foundation from which to begin the strategic planning process.

This strategic plan is meant to support the Early Matters Chattanooga Coalition in Chattanooga–Hamilton County lead a unified effort in coordinating and improving the early childhood system. This plan will support the Coalition in its vision of increased and equitable access to early childhood programs and services, outlining clear strategies and action steps over the course of the next 5 years.

This final report provides an overview of the Illinois Racial Equity Leadership Demonstration Project. The goal of this work was to support greater adoption of equitable practices in programs, ensure that administrators and leaders have the concrete tools they need to disrupt racial inequities, and pave the way for new approaches to leadership in early learning.

The Virginia Preschool Initiative Plus (VPI+) aimed to provide high-quality preschool to children in Virginia classrooms. This evaluation report includes summative, formative, and cost effectiveness components of the initiative, as well as an evaluation of experiences of thousands of children and the programming in 11 school districts throughout the state of Virginia.

In partnership with the Virginia Early Childhood Foundation, SRC facilitated the work of the legislatively appointed Early Childhood Financing and Compensation workgroup. This group of diverse stakeholders was charged with examining issues related to ECE workforce compensation and developing a series of solutions, policy recommendations, and key considerations based on both the national and state contexts and best practice. SRC provided guidance and facilitated an iterative process of analysis and planning, culminating in a final report delivered to the Virginia School Readiness Committee.

This strategic refresh represents a deep commitment to providing services and supports that reflect current research and best practices, tackle issues of racial inequity within systems and services, and address the unique needs of the community in Baltimore City, including children’s social and emotional health and development. This plan builds upon the larger B’More for Healthy Babies strategic planning process.

This framework was developed in partnership with Mile High Early Learning to support staff in developing essential knowledge, skills, and awareness to participate in ongoing conversations and critical reflection around race and equity within the MHEL learning community and beyond.