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Early Learning Challenge Technical Assistance, 2016
This resource was prepared in response to a request from a Race to the Top-Early Learning Challenge (RTT-ELC) State for information about the Transformation Zones that 10 RTT-ELC States had included as key projects in their RTT-ELC plans. This information will be helpful to other States as they consider how to continue to increase the quality of…
Descriptors: Educational Legislation, Federal Aid, Federal Legislation, Federal Programs
Friedlaender, Diane – Stanford Center for Opportunity Policy in Education, 2019
What does it take to transform a large, bureaucratic institution with a fractured culture and a compliance orientation into a nurturing, collaborative, vision-directed organization? This report and the accompanying research brief endeavor to answer that question by examining a humanistic and systems thinking approach to cultural change that took…
Descriptors: Humanism, Organizational Change, Change Strategies, Systems Approach
Watts, Charlotte – Exchange: The Early Childhood Leaders' Magazine Since 1978, 2011
Jewel's Learning Center won the honor of being the first center to win an Extreme Makeover, courtesy of "Exchange" magazine and its partners! The author was over the top! Not only were they getting a new playground, but all new furnishings and toys for the entire center! Wow! It really happened! Changes just keep coming and coming. They have made…
Descriptors: Child Care Centers, Educational Facilities Improvement, Playgrounds, Technical Assistance
Sirinides, Philip; Fink, Ryan – Regional Educational Laboratory Mid-Atlantic, 2014
Faced with rising demand for information about early childhood programs, states need to find tools and strategies to monitor the progress of and to identify high-quality early childhood programs. In response, REL Mid-Atlantic convened a regional workgroup for state personnel who work with the systems containing early childhood data. The workgroup…
Descriptors: Early Childhood Education, Educational Strategies, Educational Practices, Effective Schools Research
de Aguiar, Gabriela Azevedo; Barker, Gary; Nascimento, Marcos; Segundo, Marcio – Bernard van Leer Foundation (NJ1), 2007
This paper describes important issues in the promotion of the development of children 0 to 6 years of age in Brazil, particularly in education, health, children's rights and public policy. Brazil exhibits tremendous disparities and some of the worst welfare indicators in Latin America. Much of the population faces poverty, limited educational…
Descriptors: Low Income, Early Childhood Education, Childrens Rights, Foreign Countries
Stebbins, Helene – Zero to Three (J), 2004
The State Early Childhood Policy Leadership Forum seeks to build state capacity to develop and strengthen statewide, cross-system early childhood policies and programs. The Forum provides intense leadership retreats, professional development opportunities, policy discussions, and one-on-one technical assistance for individuals who are leading…
Descriptors: Early Childhood Education, Educational Opportunities, Technical Assistance, Leadership