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McCormick Center for Early Childhood Leadership Publications

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The Changing Landscape Of Early Childhood Education Leadership Development, Mccormick Center For Early Childhood Leadership Sep 2013

The Changing Landscape Of Early Childhood Education Leadership Development, Mccormick Center For Early Childhood Leadership

McCormick Center for Early Childhood Leadership Publications

An executive summary of the second edition of the "Early Childhood Education Leadership Development Compendium: A View of the Current Landscape." The compendium provides comparison data, highlighting noteworthy differences in the findings between 2009—the year the first edition was published—and 2013, and identifies emerging trends in leadership development in early childhood education.


Accreditation As An Alternative Pathway To Quality In Qris, Mccormick Center For Early Childhood Leadership Feb 2013

Accreditation As An Alternative Pathway To Quality In Qris, Mccormick Center For Early Childhood Leadership

McCormick Center for Early Childhood Leadership Publications

Of the 24 statewide quality rating and improvement systems (QRIS), 21 include linkages to national program accreditation and 15 include accreditation status as an alternative pathway to quality at a specific level of a statewide QRIS. While there is general agreement that program accreditation status is a valid measure of overall quality, little attention has been paid to the relationship between accreditation status and the threshold scores on classroom assessment tools such as the Environment Rating Scales (ERS: ECERS-R, ITERS-R, SACERS) and administrative assessment tools such as the Program Administration Scale (PAS), frequently used to determine incremental levels of program …