Author: Nancy K Perez
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Missing Out on What Matters: Early Care and Education Quality and Stability Gaps for Children in Foster Care
This brief presents findings about the quality and stability of early care and education program participation among Arkansas children in foster care.
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Using the Reimagining Instructional Coaching Framework in the Development of Pre-K Classroom Observation Tools
SRI Education conducted a formative evaluation to examine a new observational tool’s alignment with the Reimagining Instructional Coaching framework.
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Balancing Priorities: Foster Parents’ Child Care Search and Selection Process
This brief presents findings from a foster parent survey about how foster parents navigate the process of finding ECE and the factors they prioritize when selecting an ECE program.
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Early Care and Education Is an Essential Component of the Foster Care System: A View From Arkansas
This brief presents findings from a foster parent survey about the impact of ECE on their ability to accept new foster placements and the challenges they face in searching for ECE.
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Observing Classrooms Through a Digital Lens: Examining the Reliability and Feasibility of Video Observations in Pre-kindergarten Classrooms
The Early Childhood Classroom Observation (ECCO) study was designed to better understand how video recordings can support high-quality measurement of pre-kindergarten classrooms, using two common measures of early learning programs, CLASS and ECERS-3. The study team compared the reliability of observations gathered through video and live (in-person) classroom observations.
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Improving Participation of Children in Foster Care in Stable, High-Quality Early Care and Education: Administrative Data Findings (Conference poster)
This conference poster presents findings from administrative data analyses about the experiences of young Arkansas children in foster care in subsidized child care.
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Improving Participation in High-Quality Early Care and Education for Young Arkansas Children: Perspectives of Resource Parents and Early Childhood Educators
This brief presents key findings from focus groups and interviews with resource parents (that is, foster parents), ECE center-based program directors, and ECE home-based providers about their experiences caring for children ages birth through 5 in foster care.
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Early Childhood Throughout the COVID-19 Pandemic: The Experiences of Arkansas Educators
This brief, which represents the second of two reports, highlights findings from a second sample of Arkansas (AR) educators who completed surveys and focus groups in spring 2021.