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The Early Care and Education Leadership Study (ExCELS) measure administration and scoring guide provides information to support users in administering and scoring the ExCELS measure.

Explore this new OPRE-funded Early Care and Education Leadership Study (ExCELS) measure that was developed to capture three leadership elements in center-based early care and education settings, including who participates in leadership, what individuals bring to leadership, and what center staff do as leaders.

Explore this brief from the OPRE-funded Early Care and Education Leadership Study (ExCELS) to understand what is known about what leadership looks like in center-based early care and education settings and how it functions to improve center quality and, in turn, children’s experiences and outcomes.

This user’s guide provides information to support researchers who are conducting secondary analysis with the ExCELS descriptive data.

Learn about ExCELS theory of change which is an illustration of what leadership looks like in center-based ECE settings and how leadership by center managers and teaching staff can influence outcomes.

Explore this OPRE-funded brief that presents findings from a review of research on Early Care and Education (ECE) leadership development initiatives from the Early Care and Education Leadership Study (ExCELS) that focuses on leadership in center-based ECE settings.

The Distributed Leadership brief presents an overview of distributed leadership and its role in supporting quality improvement, as well as provide an example of how ECE settings can achieve distributed leadership from a quality improvement initiative called the Culture of Continuous Learning (CCL) project.

This ExCELS compendium describes measures of leadership relevant to early care and education (ECE) settings by identifying what information exists and what information is needed to better understand leadership and its influence in ECE settings.

This literature review and the ExCELS project as a whole focus on leadership within center-based ECE settings, at the building or center level.