Resources
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Apprenticeships: Building a Strong Child Care Workforce Pipeline
This report, developed by the Bipartisan Policy Center, discusses registered apprenticeship programs (RAPs) as an innovative model for increasing the supply of child care. It provides information about how to start a RAP; includes examples of diverse strategies that states are using to plan, coordinate, fund, build, and expand apprenticeship opportunities; and includes examples of…
Published 2024
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Individualized Professional Development Plan: Guide
This practical tool developed by the Office of Head Start is designed to support Head Start staff in developing an individualized professional development plan. This tool can help early educators in any type of early care and education setting to: identify their professional goals; articulate their goals in ways that are specific, measurable, achievable, relevant,…
Published 2023
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Child Care Policy Roadmap 2023
This policy brief by the Alliance for Early Success highlights action steps that policy leaders in different states have taken to achieve a more equitable, ambitious child care system. As the need for affordable child care increases, given ongoing program closures, state and local policy leaders are taking steps to identify and implement meaningful policy…
Published 2023
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The Early Educator Workforce Crisis: How Legislators Can Make a Difference for Kids, Families, and Educators
This fact sheet from the Center for the Study of Child Care Employment (CSCCE) provides legislators with key issues facing the ECE workforce, state-based solutions, and four action steps to take to champion workforce policies.
Published 2024
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North Carolina Early Childhood Compensation Collaborative Model Salary Scale for Early Education Teachers
This toolkit by the North Carolina Early Childhood Compensation Collaborative is designed to serve as a model for child care programs that want to adapt or change their own salary structure to establish better compensation for their workforce that is tied to educational attainment. Early educators must have required education, skills, and licenses, and should…
Published 2023
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Wage Comparability: A Guide for Conducting a Wage and Fringe Benefits Comparability Survey
This toolkit by the Administration for Children and Families provides Head Start and Early Head Start program leaders with a guide to conduct a comparability survey that analyzes employee compensation across similar organizations with parallel services. With wage parity being a challenge in the early care and education workforce, understanding how to conduct a wage…
Published 2023
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The NC Model Salary Scale: NCICDP Compensation Toolkit and Trainings
This toolkit, developed by the North Carolina Institute for Child Development Professionals (NCICDP), provides compensation information and resources for anyone working with and within early care and education (ECE) programs (both center-based and home-based) to provide them with resources on implementing a compensation salary scale. As ECE programs struggle to attract and retain qualified staff,…
Published 2023
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Early Childhood Workforce “Data for Impact” Convening: Exploring Partnerships, Strategies, and Opportunities to Build and Strengthen Workforce Data
This summary, developed by the Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation and NORC at the University of Chicago, shares key themes that emerged from a virtual convening focused on effective data use to address early care and education workforce issues and how federal agencies can offer technical assistance to support states, localities, and Tribes. Readers…
Published 2023
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Wellness Garden: Activities
This collection of wellness activities developed by the Office of Head Start is a companion resource to Cultivating Wellness: Eight Dimensions of Staff Well-being. It includes hands-on activities for each of the eight dimensions of well-being. Program leaders and staff in a variety of early care and education settings can use these activities to support…
Published 2022
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Cultivating Wellness: Eight Dimensions of Staff Well-being
This infographic developed by the Office of Head Start describes eight dimensions of staff well-being—including both individual and organizational dimensions—and how they can be nurtured in Head Start program settings. Program leaders and educators in a variety of early care and education settings can use this information, together with the companion resource Wellness Garden: Activities,…
Published 2022