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This brief summarizes critical workforce knowledge and competencies to effective education practices in early childhood settings.The report organized the discussion of knowledge and competencies into two distinct groups. The first is foundational knowledge, essential to work with young children, and the second is specialized knowledge and competencies needed to provide young children with high quality learning experiences. Both the foundational and specialized knowledge and competencies are drawn from existing research on child development as well as national and state expectations for teachers of young children.

The Early Learning Career Pathways Initiative: Examining and Supporting Credentialing in the the Early Care and Education Field report describes the Six Key Elements of Career Pathways (CP) Framework which outlines the foundational components in building a career pathway system: Build Cross-Agency Partnerships and Clarify Roles; Identify Sector or Industry and Engage Employers; Design Education and Training Programs; Identify Funding Needs and Sources; Align Policies and Programs; and, Measure System Change and Performance.

This report introduces a career pathways framework 4 in use by several federal agencies, provides a national landscape of states’ requirements for ECE staff related to credentialing, highlights five states at various points in the development of ECE career pathways, and shows how early learning system components used in the majority of states align with the Six Key Elements of Career Pathways Framework that other industries use.

Tribal Partnership CCDF EHS Highlight - Partnering in Rural Northern California

This document summarizes the Federal policy recommendations released in December 2014, and profiles innovative policies and workforce supports adopted by States and local leaders around the country who are leading the way by proactively addressing expulsion and suspension in early childhood settings.

This briefing highlighted innovative and exciting efforts in AIAN communities to prevent disparities in early learning experiences and outcomes for infants and toddlers.

This 50-state profile project plus the District of Columbia, excluding territories, migrant and tribal information provides a snapshot of early childhood data available for children who are experiencing homelessness in each state. The Office of Early Childhood Development hopes these profiles will provide information for local, statewide and federal conversations and planning toward the goal of ending family homelessness by 2020. 

This report provides information from the 14 States about the impressive progress they are making in reforming their early learning and development systems.

This document provides an overview of implementation from the fourteen Race to the Top-Early Learning Challenge (RTT–ELC) States' Annual Performance Reports for 2013.

Birth to 5 Summary

April 9, 2014

This document provides a summary of Birth to 5: Watch me Thrive!