Contents (click to jump to that section):
Early Childhood Environmental Assessment
- Early Care and Education
- Early Learning Program Standards: Professional organization recommendations, state examples and measurement tools.
- NAEYC Early Childhood Program Standards
- Head Start Performance Standards
- “Elevating the Field: Usng NAEYC Early Childhood Program Accreditation to Support and Reach Higher Quality in Early Childhood Programs”: The report highlights strategies that states are using to improve the quality of early childhood programs and, in turn, their early care and education systems by linking policies to NAEYC early childhood program accreditation.
- “The National Afterschool Association Standards for Quality School-Age Care: Standards at a Glance”
- Tribal Child Care Technical Assistance Center: Minimum Tribal Child Care Standards
- Child Care Resource and Referral Quality Assurance Program: Best Practices Criteria, National Association of Child Care Resource and Referral Agencies
- Virginia’s Alignment Project: Aligns expectations of children’s growth and development with expectations of adults working with them and with standards for early childhood programs
- “On Buckets, Banks and Hearts: Aligning Early Childhood Standards and Systems”
Program Standards
- Health and Family Support
- National Health and Safety Performance Standards: Guidelines for Out-of-Home Child Care
- “Guidelines for Childhood Obesity Prevention Programs: Promoting Health Weight in Children
- Healthy Families America Credentialing
- Analysis of Correspondence Between Parents as Teachers Standards and Healthy Families America Credentialing Standards
- Parents as Teachers Standards for Quality
- Principles of Family Support
- Family-Centered Care Self-Assessment Tool, Family Voices
- Iowa Family Support Standards
- http://www.ces.ncsu.edu/pitt/fcs/childObesity.html
- Principles for Family Resource Centers, Institute for Family-Centered Care
- Model fidelity papers on family support activities
Early Learning Standards
- National Resources
- State Examples
- North Carolina’s Early Learning Standards (Foundations): Includes strategies, effective practices brief, and toolbox of training resources.
- Course of Study and Infant-Toddler Early Learning Guidelines
- Iowa Early Learning Standards
- Pennsylvania Early Learning Standards for Infants and Toddlers and Prekindergarten
- Colorado Early Childhood Standards Crosswalk: Compares several early childhood education program standards with Head Start Performance Standards and Colorado’s “Building Blocks.”
- Arizona Early Learning Standards
- Virginia’s Foundation Blocks for Early Learning: Comprehensive Standards for Four-Year-Olds
- State of Alaska Early Learning Guidelines
Early Childhood Environmental Assessment
- Environment Rating Scales (ECERS-R, ITERS-R, FCCERS-R)
- NAEYC Early Childhood Program Standards
- Preschool Outdoor Environment Measurement Scale (POEMS): An assessment tool for evaluating the quality of outdoor environments in child care centers serving children 3-5 years old. May be ordered from Kaplan Company
- Nutrition and Physical Activity Self Assessment for Child Care Program (NAPSACC): An intervention in child care centers aimed at improving nutrition and physical activity environment, policies and practices through self-assessment and targeted technical assistance.
- Quality Rating Systems
- North Carolina’s Star Rated License
- Tennessee’s Child Care Evaluation & Report Card/Star-Quality Programs
- Iowa’s Quality Rating System
- Pennsylvania’s Keystone STARS
- Colorado’s Qualistar Early Learning
- Oklahoma’s Reaching for the Stars
- Virginia’s Star Quality
- Kansas Quality Rating System Pilot Project
- “Stair Steps to Quality: A Guide for States and Communities Developing Quality Rating Systems for Early Care and Education.
- “Child Care Quality Rating and Improvement Systems: What Can We Learn from Early Adopters?”: A RAND Corporation research brief.
- “QRIS Design Process”, Rene Doran, PowerPoint presentation on Washington’s QRIS, 2006
- “Strengthening Families Through QRIS: National Alliance of Children’s Trust and Prevention Funds works with 18 states to embed the Strengthening Families Protective Factor Framework into state’s early care and education systems
Early Childhood Staff Assessment Instruments and Professional Standards
- Program Administration Scale (PAS): Measuring early childhood leadership and management
- Model Work Standards for teaching staff in child care centers/homes
- North Carolina Early Educator Certification (EEC)
- Early Childhood Special Education/Early Intervention Professional Standards, The Division for Early Childhood®
- North Carolina Infant-Toddler Program: Guidance for Personnel Certification
- The Division for Early Childhood, Recommended Practices : To be used by individuals working in a variety of early childhood setting that provide services to young children with disabilities and other special needs from infancy through age five.
- Iowa’s Family Development Specialist Certification
- Head Start Family Worker Credential
- Cornell University’s Family Development Credential
- Rutgers Family Development Credential Program, School of Social Work Institute for Families
- “Creating a Workforce in Early Childhood Mental Health: Defining the Competent Specialist”: The report summarizes a comparison of efforts to define standards and professional competencies for early childhood mental health specialists developed by groups of professionals in California, Connecticut, Florida, Indiana, Michigan, and Vermont
- “TA Provider Standards”: Effective Practices, North Carolina Partnership for Children “ Intersections of Professional Development Systems and Quality Rating and Improvement Systems: Implications for Research
General Resources
- Aligning Public Finance Systems: How can we most effectively maximize resources and build cohesive early care and education systems at the state level?: 2004 Learning Community on Early Care & Education Finance Reform.
- Links to documents showing the alignment of High Scope Curriculum with state early childhood development standards.
- Aligning IEPs with State Standards and Accountability Systems
- PreK Standards and Alignment: National and state resources, PreK Now.
- Taking Stock: Assessing and Improving Early Childhood Learning and Program Quality, The Report of the National Early Childhood Accountability Task Force,
- Early Childhood Today Interviews: Forming Partnerships with Parents.
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