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This brief is designed to assist states with developing or revising their Program Performance Evaluation Plans. It provides guidance and recommendations on showing the state’s logic behind the state’s strategic plan, making decisions about measurement, and setting priorities to make the evaluation manageable.
The Annual Program Performance Review (APPR) Crosswalk aligns the proposed questions for the 2021 APPR with the existing questions in the OMB approved 2020 APPR. The crosswalk provides a reference for Grantees to identify data and narrative responses to assist in preparing responses to the proposed 2021 APPR questions.
This podcast is geared towards early childhood professionals and strategic partners, hoping to use research to inform policy and better serve children, families, and their communities. This series features state leaders and national experts who discuss early childhood policy and efforts supporting the Preschool Development Grant Birth through Five initiatives happening across the country.
Each episode focuses on topics including the development of strategic partnerships, establishing financing models for mixed delivery and coordinating eligibility and enrollment processes across agencies and across states. Tune in for an informative and engaging look at early childhood policy initiatives and learn from the nation's top early childhood professionals and leaders.
The Administration for Children and Families’ (ACF) latest Workforce Wednesday Webinar: Helping Early Childhood Educators Thrive: Promoting ECE Staff Mental Health and Well-Being, held on May 31, 2023. Slides from the webinar are now available.
In this eblast you will find research, data, and strategies to help local programs, states, territories, and Tribal communities promote early childhood educators’ mental health and well-being. Past Workforce Wednesday eblasts and webinars have highlighted increasing wages and benefits and access to health care, which are also critical to the well-being of the early care and education(ECE) workforce.