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This report presents a summary of the 23 Preschool Development Grant Birth through Five (PDG-B5) renewal states’ planned CEE activities as they were written into their grant applications in late 2019. The report analyzes the states’ proposed activities for six defining features: 1) nature of the main activities, 2) scope of programs (or funding streams) involved, 3) characteristics of the state’s CEE approach, 4) implementation stage of the CEE activities, 5) geographic level of implementation (i.e., local/regional, state), and 6) use of a data system to support CEE. It also describes the challenges that a sample of states faced in implementing these CEE activities due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The report discusses the strategies these states used to adapt their work to the pandemic context and meet new needs as well as the implications of these pandemic experiences on states’ broader efforts to implement CEE within their comprehensive early childhood care and education systems.

Tribal Home Visiting Grantee Profile

This report describes the strategies states used to adapt their intended PDG-B5 kindergarten transition activities as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic. Several themes emerged from interviews with Grantees including a delayed start to activities, shifts in priorities throughout the state, impacts on staffing, and adapting to virtual environments.

This webinar  provides information about states with successful, enduring processes in place that result in an ongoing strategic plan for their early childhood system. State presenters focus on their context, how they are sustaining this work, and their peer recommendations to other states. Participants receive ideas that states can consider about how to create enduring processes that result in an ongoing (rather than intermittent) early childhood strategic plan that is seen as an integral component of the state’s early childhood system

All grantees were required to create a Program Performance Evaluation Plan (PPEP) as part of their initial PDG B-5 grants with the intent that Grantees would continue to use and update their PPEPs throughout their grant period and in the future. This webinar  will increase Grantee knowledge and capacity for updating and using their PPEPs for continuous evaluation of their birth through five mixed delivery options within their early childhood care and education system.

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.

Tribal Home Visiting Grantee Profile

Tribal Home Visiting Grantee Profile

ECD July Newsletter, released July 7th, 2022.

2012 ECD Dear Colleague Letter on Investing ARP and PDG funds to address the Early Childhood Workforce Shortage