This 2016 guide includes key considerations and resources to support states in implementing the SSIP and evaluating implementation progress and outcomes. Particularly useful are the Key Terms section, the lists […]
SSIP Phase III Process Guide
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How Data Empowers Parents
This 2016 resource from the Data Quality Campaign offers both an infographic and a short video with examples of ways that access to data that can help parents participate effectively […]
Student Privacy 101: FERPA for Parents and Students
This 2013 short video highlights the key points of the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act (FERPA) for parents and students. Student Privacy 101 (Video)
What is an Early Childhood Integrated Data System?
This 2016 short video from the SLDS Grant Program describes early childhood integrated data systems (ECIDSs) that collect, integrates, maintain, store, and report information from multiple early childhood programs within […]
GAO Report on PFS
This is a 2015 Government Accountability Office (GAO) report examining how selected PFS projects have been structured and what potential benefits they can provide, how contracts have been structured to […]
Social Impact Bonds: The Early Years
This 2016 Social Finance white paper provides an updated of summary the 60 PFS-financed projects launched across the globe between 2010 and 2016. It also features perspectives from individual PFS […]
Framework Self-Assessment Comparison Tool
The Excel-based Self-Assessment Comparison Tool is intended to provide states with a mechanism to examine changes over time in the implementation of one or more components/subcomponents of the ECTA and […]
Improving Programs through Data-Driven Decisions: The Journey From Critical Questions to Data Visualization
Conference: National Association for the Education of Young Children (NAEYC) Date: June 2016 Presenter: Colleen Murphy This session provides states with a roadmap for identifying, organizing, and visually displaying the […]
Pay for Success (PFS): An Innovative Funding Structure in Early Childhood
This 2016 national webinar introduces Pay for Success (PFS), an innovative funding model used to address complex social problems. In a typical PFS Financing model, private investors finance the cost […]
Assessing the Impact of SSIP Infrastructure Improvements
This 2016 national webinar was hosted by NCSI, ECTA, and DaSy, for state Part B and Part C staff focused on strategies for assessing the impact of SSIP infrastructure improvements. […]