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SUMMARY:Learning Roundtable #5: Exploring Pay Equity in Early Childhood Education: Lessons from Washington\, D.C.
DESCRIPTION:Background:\nCompensation for early care and education professionals has long lagged behind that of K-12 educators\, despite the critical role they play in supporting children and families. At the same time\, addressing low pay is complicated by the already high cost of child care for families. Washington\, D.C.’s Early Childhood Educator Pay Equity Fund offers a groundbreaking solution to this challenge\, aiming to increase pay and address longstanding inequities within the workforce. Join us for a one-hour virtual learning session to explore the implementation\, impact\, and potential for replicating this innovative policy. \n  \nGuest Speakers:\nErica Greenberg:\nGreenberg is a senior fellow and PK–12 team lead in the Center on Education Data and Policy at the Urban Institute. Her research spans early childhood and K–12 education with a focus on public prekindergarten. She also investigates the causes\, consequences\, and measurement of educational inequality. \nHannah Matthews:\nMatthews is the director of policy\, planning and research for the Division of Early Learning in the Office of the State Superintendent of Education (OSSE) for the District of Columbia. In this role\, Hannah provides leadership for the development and implementation of child care\, pre-K\, early intervention and subsidized child care policies and regulations; supports development of the Division’s strategic plan; and engages with other District agencies. \n\nAgenda:\n \n\nWelcome and Introductions\nPresentations from Erica and Hannah\nQ&A\nClosing\n\n  \nREGISTRATION LINK: bit.ly/LearningRoundtable5
URL:https://sites.rutgers.edu/first-1000-days-coalition/event/roundtable5/
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SUMMARY:Learning Roundtable #4: How “Let’s Grow Kids” is Solving Vermont’s Child Care Crisis
DESCRIPTION:Background:\nOn June 20\, 2023\, lawmakers united together and passed Vermont’s most  comprehensive child care bill into law. The 2023 Child Care Bill – Act 76 – makes Vermont’s child care system one of the most expansive in the nation. The bill promises to stabilize Vermont’s child care sector and make a quantum leap forward in providing access to affordable\, quality child care for all Vermont families who need it. \n\nGoal(s):\nTo learn about Vermont’s historic new child care law\, the progress that has been made so far\, and the child care movement that made it possible. \n\nAgenda:\n• Welcome/opening remarks (3 minutes)\n• Review of agenda and goals (2 minutes)\n• Introduction of speaker (2 minutes)\n• Presentation by Sarah Kenney (30 minutes)\n• Q&A and discussion (20 minutes)\n• Closing and next steps (3 minutes) \nGuest Speaker:\nSarah Kenney\, Chief Policy Officer\, Let’s Grow Kids \n  \nREGISTRATION LINK:\nhttps://rutgers.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJYucuCtqD0vG9XgV5wmqkbDFb0tLFZsLY5A
URL:https://sites.rutgers.edu/first-1000-days-coalition/event/roundtable4/
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SUMMARY:Learning Roundtable #3: Critical Components Framework for Infant and Toddler Development and Well-Being in NJ
DESCRIPTION:Background: \nThe National Institute for Early Education Research has identified a framework that outlines critical components for enhancing infant and toddler development and well-being. This framework is grounded in developmental theory and evaluation of effective practices/initiatives\, providing a roadmap for identifying effective programmatic goals and building on the Grow New Jersey Kids (GNJK) quality rating and improvement system.\nWhat supports the healthy development and well-being of our youngest learners? Here’s some of what we know: \n\nThe science of early childhood reveals that healthy development in the earliest years provides the building blocks for future success\, including educational achievement\, economic productivity\, and lifelong physical and mental health.\nExperiences during the first three years have lifelong impacts and require special attention from public policies.\nRenown longitudinal studies of early interventions collectively find positive educational and employment effects for children and their families. Together\, these research studies offer evidence that early interventions can alter children’s future experiences; however\, benefits are not always sustained\, creating difficulties to providing clear\, specific policy guidance.\nAlthough the research base is limited\, benefits of high-quality initiatives have been shown in center-based\, home-based\, and dual generation programs.\nLonger hours per week in lower quality settings have shown negative effects on young children. Most infant and toddler out-of-home care has been found to be of lower quality and unlikely to boost optimal learning and well-being.\n\n  \nGoal(s): \n\nTo learn about the Critical Components Framework for Infant Toddler Development and Well-Being in New Jersey.\nTo provide feedback and commentary to the authors of the proposed framework through thoughtful discussion.\nTo consider how the framework might inform the work of the First 1\,000 Days Policy Coalition.\n\n  \nAgenda: \n\nWelcome/opening remarks (8 minutes)\nReview of agenda and goals (2 minutes)\nIntroduction of speaker (2 minutes)\nPresentation by Dr. Ellen Frede (25 minutes)\nQ&A and discussion (20 minutes)\nClosing and next steps (3 minutes)\n\n  \nSpeakers: \n\nDr. Ellen Frede\, Senior Co-Director at the National Institute for Early Education Research (NIEER)\nDr. Allison Friedman-Krauss\, Senior Co-Director at the National Institute for Early Education Research (NIEER)
URL:https://sites.rutgers.edu/first-1000-days-coalition/event/roundtable3/
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SUMMARY:Learning Roundtable #2: Centering Family Child Care
DESCRIPTION:Background:  \nFamily child care plays an important role in the child care landscape\, though often gets less attention when it comes to policy discussions. When selecting child care\, parents may consider their own beliefs and values\, the child care options in their own community\, and their ability to afford the options that are available to them. In contrast to with licensed child care centers\, family child care providers may offer less expensive services\, flexible hours\, community based locations\, smaller groups of children\, and more comfortable environments for parents and children. From 2001 through 2019\, New Jersey saw a steady decline in registered family child care providers\, and then a steeper drop in numbers in 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic. In 2023\, the numbers began slowly rising again. \n  \nGoals:  \n\nTo acquire a foundational understanding of the role of Family Child in New Jersey\, including how it is defined\, how it is regulated\, and what we know and don’t know about capacity and utilization.\nTo learn about working with family child care providers as partners and leaders in our communities.\nTo learn about initiatives and innovations focused on strengthening New Jersey’s network of family child care providers.\nTo build relationships among coalition partners and with state leaders.\n\n  \nAgenda:\n \n\nWelcome/opening remarks\nReview of agenda and goals\nIntroductions\nFamily child care facts and figures briefing by the Rutgers Center for Women and Work\nPresentation by New Jersey Communities United: Working with Family Child Care Providers as Partners and Leaders in Our Communities\nPresentation by All our Kin: Strengthening Family Child Care Supports in Mercer County: A Partnership Between All our Kin\, the Burke Foundation\, and the Macmillan Family Foundation\nQ&A and discussion\nClosing and next steps\n\n  \nSpeakers: \n\nTrina Scordo\, Executive Director\, New Jersey Communities United\nJennifer Drake\, Director of Network Development\, All Our Kin
URL:https://sites.rutgers.edu/first-1000-days-coalition/event/roundtable2/
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SUMMARY:Learning Roundtable #1: New Jersey’s Child Care Assistance Program
DESCRIPTION:Background: \nChild care subsidies are provided through the Child Care Development Block Grant\, a federal program. States are charged with administering the program to help support families with accessible\, affordable\, quality child care. States vary significantly in how they implement various aspects of the program: income eligibility\, subsidy rates\, cost burden to families\, work requirements\, etc. Policy makers and advocates often look to their state’s Child Care Assistance Program as a pathway to improve access to child care for low- and moderate-income families. There is a fair amount of scholarly research and policy analysis on the role that child care subsidies play. In general\, research evidence indicates that child care subsidies are associated with increasing maternal employment and improvements in parents’ ability to work. \nGoals: \n\nTo acquire a foundational understanding of New Jersey’s Child Care Assistance Program\, including its unique features.\nTo build relationships among coalition partners and with state leaders.\n\nAgenda: \n\nWelcome/opening remarks\nReview of agenda and goals\nIntroductions\nPresentation by state leadership\n\nNatasha Johnson\, Assistant Commissioner\nNew Jersey Division of Family Development\, New Jersey Department of Human Services\nMargaret Milliner\, Assistant Director\, Child Care Operations\nNew Jersey Division of Family Development\, New Jersey Department of Human Service\n\n\nQ&A and discussion\nClosing and next steps\n\nRegister Today: https://rutgers.zoom.us/j/95241080087?pwd=ZWRUek1BOHdlODNtRUF5aEpNUzRjdz09
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