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.

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 Strategic Refresh represents updates to Minnesota's 2020 strategic plan. Updates are more representative of the needs of the community as the state has reinvigorated, reshuffled, and reshaped the system’s priorities.

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.

The National Association of State Leaders in Early Education's strategic plan serves as a road map to guide the work of the organization over the next 5 years and define the leadership role of the Executive Committee as catalysts and facilitators of the work.

Michigan’s Collective Early Childhood Action Plan provides a comprehensive overview and approach to meeting the state's four early childhood outcomes. This effort is a culmination of a 2-year needs assessment and action planning process and builds on and aligns with previous strategic planning efforts across the state.

This report provides an overview of key findings and considerations as Michigan considers ways to strengthen its approach to Family Child Care Networks across the state.

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.

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 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.

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.

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 community-facing brief complements the strategic refresh report, translating it the refresh process and report overview to the larger community across Baltimore City.