2024 in Review
As we enter a year of change, the team at the New Practice Lab remains focused on delivering outcomes for families.
Service Delivery and Policy Implementation
Conversation in Colorado
Two leaders share how Denver’s long-time investment in early childhood education helped catalyze a statewide transformation.
How Local Early Childhood Initiatives Can Shape State Policy
With some localities moving faster than states on early childhood education expansion, how can their lessons have an upward impact?
Participatory Planning to Build Stronger Early Childhood Policy and Programs
Participatory planning is a strategy to build better public services across policy sectors, including early care and education.
Participatory Planning: the Key to Building Successful Early Childhood Education Programs
Participatory planning is a strategy to build better public services across policy sectors, including early care and education.
Elections Have Consequences
Local politics can hinder or enable effective implementation, and understanding how to navigate changes in the local politics is critical.
Meet the Early Care and Education Implementation Working Group
A group of municipal, county, and state leaders dedicated to effective implementation in early childhood programs is reconvening.
Connecting More Families to Early Care and Education Programs Through Streamlined Enrollment
Once families understand their early childhood opportunities, how do we make enrollment as seamless as possible?
Enrolling Children in Early Childhood Education Programs is a Puzzle
Technological tools like centralized enrollment portals help manage the early care and education chaos that so many families are navigating.
Back to School with America’s Local Early Care and Education Leaders
What is top of mind for implementation working group members this fall?