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.

SRC conducted a national landscape to illuminate gaps, inconsistencies, and opportunities for which philanthropic investment could catalyze equitable improvements in K-2 practices at scale and aligned to the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation’s existing strategy. In partnership with the foundation’s Early Learning Team, SRC identified and workshopped the highest opportunity approaches to shape a proposed equity-centered investment strategy.

This report presents findings regarding the implementation of local community resource hubs, an approach piloted by 13 Minnesota organizations and dozens of designated partner agencies, with the support of federal Preschool Development Grant Birth through Five (PDG B-5) funds, along with considerations to promote the expansion of similar family and community resource hub models through a supportive state-local infrastructure.

When we say “equity in the early childhood system,” what do we mean? In partnership with Vanguard Strong Start for Kids, this effort aimed to explore this question. By leading with voices of the early childhood community, the Side by Side Playbook was created as an accessible, interactive resource to provide community-informed solutions toward meaningful change within the current structures that govern and define the early childhood system.

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 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 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).

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 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.

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.