The Quest for Quality: Promising Innovations for Early Childhood Programs,New

The Quest for Quality: Promising Innovations for Early Childhood Programs,New

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Essential guidance for your quality improvement initiatives. Highquality early childhood programs have a tremendous positive impact on children's school readiness and longterm successbut with obstacles like high teacher turnover and a fragmented system, many programs don't give young children the best possible start. Decisionmakers can work toward change with the help of this forwardthinking book, the most comprehensive, uptodate research synthesis available on quality in early childhood education (ECE).Bringing together the biggest ideas and the best thinking from more than a dozen top researchers in the ECE quality movement, this book clearly lays out what we know about quality today, which areas need focused improvement efforts, and what kind of innovative programlevel changes will strengthen outcomes for children. Beginning with an indepth look at what makes a program 'highquality,' readers will fully explore the complex issues and challenges surrounding implementation ofa coordinated, comprehensive, and integrated ECE system effective teacher professional developmentboth preservice and inservice accurate quality measurement across all key facets of a program early learning standards as a tool to guide program improvement efforts technical assistance activities that enhance and sustain program quality successful Quality Rating and Improvement SystemsReaders will get a complete primer on which policies are guiding programs now, such as NAEYC's 2009 Developmentally Appropriate Practices, the NAEYC/DEC joint position statement on early childhood inclusion, and various state standards. They'll also discover the promising new directions, bold innovations, and future policy requirements that will help them break down the barriers to program quality and repair the fragmented system.With this critical, rigorously researched look at the past, present, and future of early childhood education, program administrators and other decisionmakers will have the insights they need to work for real change and ensure the highquality education every young child deserves.

⚠️ WARNING (California Proposition 65):

This product may contain chemicals known to the State of California to cause cancer, birth defects, or other reproductive harm.

For more information, please visit www.P65Warnings.ca.gov.

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