In order to better understand the landscape of the ECE workforce, the state’s Child Development Division (CDD) and the Vermont Head Start Collaboration Office (VHSCO) contracted School Readiness Consulting (SRC) to conduct the Vermont Early Childhood Wage and Fringe Benefit Study. The intent of the study was to define key positions in Vermont’s early childhood workforce and examine wages and fringe benefits of the workforce across program types and funding streams, including center-based (Head Start, universal pre-K, and private), home-based (universal pre-K), after-school, and Children’s Integrated Services (CIS) programs. This work culminated in a report describing the current state of ECE workforce compensation and outlining recommendations for maintaining workforce data and considerations for developing meaningful compensation packages across the early childhood workforce.

This Coordinated Eligibility and Enrollment (CEE) Landscape seeks to provide an overview of coordinated eligibility and enrollment and how it is being successfully implemented in local communities in Michigan, as well as in other states. The report focuses on key principles and elements of CEE and provides examples that show how these can be applied on the ground in communities, as well as key considerations both for the state and for communities as they work to advance coordinated eligibility and enrollment.

The guidebook draws on the lessons learned during the Early Learning Division's first year of experience implementing coordinated enrollment strategies through Preschool Promise. Each section of the guidebook details a part of Oregon’s coordinated enrollment vision and includes examples and resources that Early Learning Hubs can use to inform their work as they move forward in implementing coordinated enrollment.

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 statewide birth-to-five literacy scan provides an overview of the current landscape of birth-to-five literacy initiatives and programming in Michigan, as well as providing information about what guidance and resources are needed to support local efforts.

This Landscape and Strategic Plan report outlines a plan to support improving social and emotional outcomes for children and families across King County.

This report presents reflections of grantees from Virginia's Mixed Delivery Program, an effective, strategic program to support academic, social, and lifelong success for all of Virginia’s children.

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 facilitation guidebook was developed to provide guidance and resources for the facilitation of Oregon's Early Learning Division workgroups.

This report provides an overview and highlights from Michigan’s Office of Great Start's Listen & Learn Symposium. This symposium brought together early childhood practitioners and families from around the state, creating an opportunity for communities to learn from each other about best practices in helping children to be well.

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 community-facing report provides an overview of the Family Voices Project. This report was created to share findings with families and community partners.

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.

This presentation is part of our partnership with The Kresge Foundation. Tools for Hope: Equipping and Elevating Detroit’s Early Childhood Providers was a virtual learning series that was facilitated by Detroit community-based organizations and local early childhood systems leaders focused on topics that early childhood educators and administrators had prioritized.

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.