Resource Library

This White paper from the Assessing the Implementation and Cost of High-Quality Early Care and Education project presents results from an experiment of tokens of appreciation to support survey response among staff in child care and early education centers

Explore the Field Guide for Implementation of Breakthrough Series Collaborative in Early Care and Education to learn about the practical aspects of leading a BSC to support the use of evidence-based practices in ECE centers.

State and regional early care and education (ECE) leaders can learn about a quality improvement methodology called the Breakthrough Series Collaborative (BSC) that can help ECE programs build their capacity for continuous improvement and make sustained changes in evidence-based practices.

This report describes the development of new center-level measures of implementation and cost for use in early care and education centers.

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.

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.

Explore the survey instrument used to capture information about Head Start Grantees’ and Delegates’ Experiences during the COVID-19 Pandemic

Explore the findings from OPRE's Culture of Continuous Learning (CCL) project which explored the feasibility of implementing an innovative continuous quality improvement methodology, the Breakthrough Series Collaborative (BSC), in early care and education (ECE) settings.

 

This snapshot uses data from the 2019 NSECE (Jan. 2019 — July 2019) and NSECE COVID-19 Longitudinal Follow-up Center-based Workforce Surveys (Jan. 2021 — Mar. 2021) to describe the employment experiences of the CCEE workforce by role, education level, and certification during the pandemic.

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.