Resources
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The Shifting Supply of Regulated Family Child Care in the U.S.: A Literature Review and Conceptual Model
This literature review and conceptual model examine research on the factors that may contribute to the decrease of regulated FCC supply.
Published 2023
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Retirement for Early Educators: Challenges and Possibilities
This brief discusses why retirement plans are an important element of compensation. The researchers summarize conversations with 11 local, state, and national leaders and innovators at the intersection of child care and labor, identifying challenges and possibilities related to providing retirement benefits to early educators.
Published 2023
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Guidance for Reporting Data on Your Early Care and Education Workforce
This brief offers an accessible, uniform format to effectively communicate the story of your early care and education (ECE) workforce. Developed by the Early Childhood Data Collaborative (ECDC), the National Workforce Registry Alliance, and the Center for the Study of Child Care Employment at UC Berkeley, this data-reporting guidance prioritizes key data elements that policymakers can use to identify…
Published 2024
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Early Childhood Workforce Index 2024
This report, developed by the Center for the Study of Child Care Employment, provides a state-by-state look at policies and conditions affecting the early care and education workforce. This major report has tracked state progress since 2016. The fourth edition of the Index continues to track state policies in essential areas like workforce qualifications, work environments, and early…
Published 2024
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Early Care and Education Workforce Salary Scale Playbook: Implementation Guide
This implementation guide from the National Center on Early Childhood Quality Assurance guides readers through five actions that are essential to creating and implementing a comprehensive, equitable salary scale, or structured schedule of compensation, for early educators. The “Salary Scale Playbook” is intended for all ECE program and system leaders, no matter if they are at the…
Published 2024
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Foundational Technical Assistance Webinar Series
Using the five policy areas from the Center for the Study of Child Care Employment’s (CSCCE) Early Childhood Workforce Index as a framework, this series activates early childhood leaders to strengthen the early care and education (ECE) workforce through innovations in policies, programs, working conditions, compensation, and professional development. Informational Webinar Learn more about the Foundational Technical Assistance…
Published 2024
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Early Childhood Workforce Data Snapshots: State-Level Partnership and Policy Drive Data for Impact
This brief, developed by the Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation and NORC at the University of Chicago, illustrates how five states have used early care and education workforce data for impact. Snapshots for Florida, Iowa, Nebraska, Oregon, and Virginia each offer insight on how these states have utilized partnerships, their policy contexts, concrete ways…
Published 2023
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Partners in Employment Reporting
This overview provided by the National Workforce Registry Alliance (NWRA) shares about Partners in Employment Reporting (PER), which is a process by which states committed to the collection and use of high-quality early care and education workforce registry data are recognized. Linked resources provide details around core data elements within workforce registries and the application…
Published 2023
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The National ECE Workforce Dataset: What Is It, What’s In It, and Who Does It Represent?
This resource, developed by the National Workforce Registry Alliance (NWRA), provides an overview of the National Workforce Dataset, including available data and related sources, as well as FAQs (e.g., who is represented, data collection process). In an effort to strengthen the early care and education workforce, the NWRA sets data quality standards to facilitate development…
Published 2023
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Peer Support as a Strategy for Enhancing Home-based Child Care Providers’ Well-being and Equitable Engagement
This brief developed by the National Center on Early Childhood Quality Assurance discusses the role that peer support can play in enhancing the well-being and professional development of home-based child care providers, examines the ways staffed family child care networks and family child care provider-led associations use peer support, and provides practical tools for planning…
Published 2023