Resources
Every Child Ready Chicago - Initial Landscape Summary & Strategy Map
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.
Michigan’s Literacy Scan
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.
Transforming Infant & Early Childhood Mental Health: Landscape Analysis and Strategic Plan for King County
This Landscape and Strategic Plan report outlines a plan to support improving social and emotional outcomes for children and families across King County.
Virginia's Mixed Delivery Grant Program - A Retrospective
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.
Next Steps for Michigan’s Great Start to Quality: Findings from Partner Engagement
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.
Facilitation Guidebook: Oregon Early Learning Division Working Groups
This facilitation guidebook was developed to provide guidance and resources for the facilitation of Oregon's Early Learning Division workgroups.
Michigan Listen and Learn Symposium
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.
Early Matters Chattanooga - 5 Year Strategic Plan
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.
Virginia Family Voices - Community Report
This community-facing report provides an overview of the Family Voices Project. This report was created to share findings with families and community partners.
Transforming the Financing of Early Care and Education: A Multimedia Guidebook
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).
Illinois Racial Equity Leadership Demonstration Project - Evaluation Final Report
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.
Virginia Preschool Initiative Plus Cost Study Final Report
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.
Virginia’s Mixed Delivery Preschool Pilot Program Evaluation
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).
Early Childhood Professional Development: The Detroit Landscape
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.
Let’s Talk About Race: Centering Representation, Black Joy, and Activism
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.
Virginia Early Childhood Foundation - Workforce Finance and Compensation Working Group
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.
Westside Early Childhood Needs Assessment Final Report
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.
Strategic Refresh - Baltimore Infants and Toddlers Program
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.
Strategic Refresh - Baltimore Infants and Toddlers Program- Community-Facing Brief
This community-facing brief complements the strategic refresh report, translating it the refresh process and report overview to the larger community across Baltimore City.
Mile High Early Learning - Framework for Race and Equity Professional Development
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.