Entries for the 'Early Childhood Advisory Councils' Category

• Erika Beltran, Senior Policy Analyst, National Council of La Raza.  To email Erika please click here.
• Hannah Matthews, Senior Policy Analyst, Center for Law and Social Policy (CLASP).  To email Hannah please click here.
• Reyna P. Hernandez, Research and Policy Associate, Latino Policy Forum.  To email Reyna please click here.

• Presentation
   
• Written by Hannah Matthews and Danielle Ewen.   Early Education Programs and Children of Immigrants: Learning Each Other's Language.  This paper was written for the Urban Institute's roundtable on Young Children in Immigrant Families and the Path to Educational Success, held on June 28, 2010. It discusses the federal and policy landscape for serving young children of immigrants in early care and education and includes policy recommendations for improving access for immigrant families.
   
• Written by Hannah Matthews.  Support a Diverse and Culturally Competent Workforce.  Ensure the diversity and cultural competence of infant and toddler providers and caregivers in order to meet the needs of the state's children under three and their families.
   
• CLASP DataFinder is a custom, easy-to-use tool developed to provide select demographic information as well as administrative data on programs that affect low-income people and families.
   
• Written by Erika Beltran.  Responding to the Needs of Young Latino Children: State Efforts to Build Comprehensive Early Learning Systems.  Recent federal and state policy developments and investments in early care and education reflect a renewed commitment to improving the shcool readiness and, ultimately, the school success of young children.
   
• Written by Erika Beltran and Sarah Dolan, New Leaders, New Directions: Tools for Advancing an Early Childhood Agenda for the Latino Communty.  As Latino children enter the American school system in increasing numbers, it is imperative that they enter ready to learn and be successful. Unfortunately, this is not currently the case. Young Latino children face many challenges in accessing high-quality early care and education (ECE) programs.
   
• Written by Patricia Foxen, America’s Future: Latino Child Well-Being in Numbers and Trends.  This data book offers a comprehensive overview of the state of Latino children by integrating a range of key factors and outcomes in the areas of demography, citizenship, family structure, poverty, health, education, and juvenile justice. It provides an overview of current national and state-level trends for Latino children under age 18 relative to non-Hispanic White and Black children, documenting both regional variations and changing trends since the year 2000.
   
• NCLR, Census 2010: Hispanics in the U.S.
   
• Click here to read the Proposed Early Childhood Bilingual/English as a Second Language Staff Qualifications in Illinois.
   
• RFP Recommendations Summary IELC Linguistic and Cultural Diversity Committee.  The Linguistic and Cultural Diversity Committee recommends the following additions to the current Preschool for All Children Request for Proposals.  These recommendations were discussed with Kay Henderson and members of her staff in May, and were later submitted to ISBE in written form in August.
   
• Click here to read the Illinois Early Learning Council Joint Workforce Development/Cultural & Linguistic Diversity Work Group Recommendations.
   
• Click here to read the RFP recommendations summary.  Recommendations offered on behalf of the Linguistic and Cultural committee for the FY 1- Preschool for all 3-5 Request for Proposals and the infant and toddler committee for the prevention initiative RFP.
   
• Click here to read public comment on proposed rule changes to 228 and 235 of the Illinois Administrative Code.
   
• Click here to read the Illinois office of the governor state advisory council on early childhood education and care application narrative.
   
• Click here to read the Illinois state board of education meeting minutes from June 24, 2010.

• Barbara Merrill, Executive Director, Iowa Association for the Education of Young Children and Program Manager, T.E.A.C.H. Early Childhood (R) IOWA
• Tom Rendon, Iowa Head Start State Collaboration Office, Iowa Even Start State Coordinator, Iowa Department of Education
• Darlene Ragozzine, Executive Director, Connecticut Charts-A-Course
• Sarah LeMoine, Director of State Workforce Systems Policy, NAEYC

• NAEYC’s Early Childhood Workforce Systems Initiative’s purpose is to assist states in developing, enhancing, and implementing policies for an integrated early childhood professional development system for all early childhood education professionals working with and on behalf of young children. The website resources include a state policy blueprint and guide, a database of example state policies, web seminars, and additional related resources. 
   
• NAEYC’s Workforce Designs: A Policy Blueprint for State Early Childhood Professional Development Systems focuses on the policies that connect professional development activities and that support and make possible an effective implementation of a state system of professional development. It highlights policy principles and essential policy areas that build or sustain an integrated system—a system that ensures quality in all settings in which early childhood professionals work. These principles and highlighted policy areas look beyond the status quo; they are aimed at the development and retention of a competent and stable early childhood workforce—a skilled cadre of effective, diverse, and adequately compensated professionals.
  • Click here to access the full report.
  • Click here to access the brief.
     
• NAEYC’s State policy blueprint planning guide
  • Companion environmental scan recording tool
  • Companion plan recording tool
     
• Building an Early Childhood Professional Development System: an NGA Center for Best Practices Issue Brief, written in partnership with NAEYC and based on the NAEYC blueprint.
   
• A Policy Framework for an Early Childhood Iowa Professional Development System:  Early Childhood Iowa's integrated system plan, a state adaptation of the NAEYC blueprint.
   
• Connecticut Charts-A-Course, statewide professional development, program improvement and Registry system for early care and education.

State Advisory Councils must conduct periodic statewide needs assessments on the quality and availability of early care and education programs and services.  What kinds of demographic, policy and outcome data are available to help states draw the picture of early care and education programs and services in their states?  What methodologies are being used to link data from state needs assessments to plans to improve access to higher quality programs?

Speakers:

• Danielle Ewen, Director, Child Care and Early Education, Center for Law and Social Policy

Resources:

• Session Recording.  Part I.  Part II.
   

• Presentation
   

• NCCP:  Demographics Wizard test users create custom tables of national- and state-level statistics about low-income or poor children under the age of six.
   

•  NCCP:  Young Child Risk Calculator provides state-specific graphs on incidence of individual risks that are known to increase the chance of poor health, school, and developmental outcomes for young children.  The calculator also produces the incidence of young children with multiple risks, who are exceptionally vulnerable.
   

• NCCP:  Improving the odds for Young Children provides state-specific, regional, and national profiles that integrate data about an array of policies that affect early childhood development.
   

• Children in Newcomer and Native Families presents a large number of indicators reflecting the characteristics of children from birth through age 17 in immigrant families by country or region of origin and in native-born families by race-ethnicity.
   

• FRAC's Federal Food Programs State Profiles include information on state demographics, poverty, food insecurity, participation in federal nutrition programs, and state economic security policies.
   

• ZERO TO THREE:  Baby Matters is a searchable data base of state policies and initiatives impacting infants and toddlers.

  
  State Examples
   

• Pennsylvania Reach and Risk Assessment provides information about how well the commonwealth is reaching its young children with quality early learning services, with special attention to at-risk children for fiscal year 2009-2010.

• Connecticut Commission on Children 2010 Results-Based Accountability Report and Annual Report identifies indicators and monitors trends to promote the health, safety, and learning of children in the state.

State profiles created in partnership with the NGA Center and the Department of Health and Human Services.  Each profile provides an overview of a state council, including its administering agency, history, membership, activities, and priorities for the ARRA grant, and communication strategies.

For the past two years, the Early Childhood Data Collaborative has been working with state leaders to understand the current status of state early childhood data systems, and to make recommendations on how to move states toward more coordinated data systems.

Although ECACs represent a common governance mechanism across states, they differ based on each state’s particular policy context. How are ECACs developing and operationalizing their work?