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Examining Family Child Care Quality From A Business Perspective, Mccormick Center For Early Childhood Leadership
Examining Family Child Care Quality From A Business Perspective, Mccormick Center For Early Childhood Leadership
McCormick Center for Early Childhood Leadership Publications
Research has demonstrated that center-based early childhood programs that have sound administrative practices are more apt to promote high-quality learning environments and positive development outcomes for children. There is a growing concensus that sound business practices are equally important in family child care settings. While there are several instruments that measure the quality of provider-child interactions and the quality of the learning environment in family child care, there has not been a valid and reliable measure of business and professional practices of family child care. With this in mind, the Business Scale for Family Child Care (BAS) was developed to …
Developing A Unified Performance Measurement System, Mccormick Center For Early Childhood Leadership
Developing A Unified Performance Measurement System, Mccormick Center For Early Childhood Leadership
McCormick Center for Early Childhood Leadership Publications
In recent years, a host of studies have exposed wide inconsistency in quality of early childhood education programs in the United States. Findings reveal that large populations of young children receive poor or inadequate services. Policymakers have responded by pursuing a variety of strategies to measure and ultimately enhance children's early learning experiences. However, with numerous measurement tools available, the meaningful and consistent measurement of quality has proven challenging. It is unclear how quality measures compare, what they specifically measure, and how they function across three early childhood education systems—child care, Head Start, and state-funded pre-kindergarten. To address these questions …
The Role Of Leadership To Integrate The Learning Continuum, Mccormick Center For Early Childhood Leadership
The Role Of Leadership To Integrate The Learning Continuum, Mccormick Center For Early Childhood Leadership
McCormick Center for Early Childhood Leadership Publications
The American education system developed in separate sectors at different times (early childhood, K-12, and postsecondary), creating a disconnected chain of educational experiences for students. Recently, work has begun to integrate these sectors into a coherent whole and the concept of a learning continuum has emerged. A learning continuum aligns curriculum and instruction across developmental levels and grades, shares goals for student readiness and proficiency, and communicates and coordinates among caregivers, educators, and families to support student learning. To study the current status of learning continuum activities in Illinois, a panel of early childhood and K-12 representatives convened in 2008 …
A Window Into The Business Practices Of Family Child Care Providers, Mccormick Center For Early Childhood Leadership
A Window Into The Business Practices Of Family Child Care Providers, Mccormick Center For Early Childhood Leadership
McCormick Center for Early Childhood Leadership Publications
This Research Notes offers a window into the business practices of licensed or registered family child care providers across the country so that agencies tasked with improving family child care quality can structure technical assistance efforts effectively based on aspects of provider practices that are in most need of support and resources.