What Does a Federal Transition Mean for Local Early Childhood Initiatives?
With a new administration in place, the ECE Implementation Working Group takes stock of what to expect and how to prepare.
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Building a Stronger Early Childhood Workforce
Challenges facing the early childhood workforce are vexing, but efforts to address compensation, training, and career paths offer solutions.
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2024 in Review
As we enter a year of change, the team at the New Practice Lab remains focused on delivering outcomes for families.
Conversation in Colorado
Two leaders share how Denver鈥檚 long-time investment in early childhood education helped catalyze a statewide transformation.
How Local Early Childhood Initiatives Can Shape State Policy
With some localities moving faster than states on early childhood education expansion, how can their lessons have an upward impact?
Participatory Planning to Build Stronger Early Childhood Policy and Programs
Participatory planning is a strategy to build better public services across policy sectors, including early care and education.
Participatory Planning: the Key to Building Successful Early Childhood Education Programs
Participatory planning is a strategy to build better public services across policy sectors, including early care and education.
Elections Have Consequences
Local politics can hinder or enable effective implementation, and understanding how to navigate changes in the local politics is critical.
Meet the Early Care and Education Implementation Working Group
A group of municipal, county, and state leaders dedicated to effective implementation in early childhood programs is reconvening.