This report outlines considerations from stakeholder engagement as the Office of Great Start embarked on revisions to its quality rating and improvement system, Great Start to Quality.

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.

To make the 2015 Transforming the Workforce volume more accessible, a companion guidebook, Transforming the Early Education Workforce: A Multimedia Guidebook, was developed, which pulls out key takeaways and ideas, elevates important concepts, and brings context to the dollar amounts discussed in the report. This multimedia guidebook is inspired by and drawn from Transforming the Financing of Early Care and Education (National Academies Press, 2018).

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.

This evaluation report was conducted to examine the implementation and outcomes of Virginia's Mixed Delivery Preschool Pilot Program (Cohort 1: grantees in 2016–17 and Cohort 2: grantees in 2017–18).

This report was produced to support and inform ongoing community-wide efforts to create a strong system of professional development and program quality for early childhood education in the City of Detroit. It focuses deeply on the importance of building the capacity of the early care and education workforce through professional learning and career advancement.

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 needs assessment provides a landscape to better understand the needs related to early childhood education on the Westside— specifically in the English Avenue, Ashview Heights, Vine City, and Atlanta University Center neighborhoods. Findings revealed that significant progress has been made across the focal community to support families with pre-K age children, but major gaps exist in fostering high-quality early childhood services for families with infants and toddlers.

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.

Indispensable Policies and Practices for High Quality Pre-K is a series of briefs that synthesizes recent meta-analyses and other studies of pre-K programs and analyzes existing pre-K standards to arrive at a summary of policies and practices that are "indispensable" for high-quality teaching and learning.