A New Approach to Supporting the Quality of Early Care and Education

She lists many successes during In each building, long corridors are covered her brief tenure (including surviving the with positive messages and children’s work uncertainty of the COVID-19 pandemic and and run from the entrance to the newly the expansion of the program from one to renovated playground. [...] As with the methods discussed above, the benefits of Array described by staff highlight the features of Array’s distinct approach—the experience of hands-on PD activities with fellow teachers, the presence Another director described calming a of the PSS “in the building,” and the distressed child who had experienced chance for staff to interact with each other. [...] The PSS could also help the and remote training to deliver the director consider the format and content balance of the PD. [...] In of a 2019–2022 Child Care Policy Research a third program, only initial interviews Project carried out by researchers at SRI with the director and two teachers and International (SRI) and the National Center a final interview with the director were for Children in Poverty (NCCP) at Bank conducted because of a long delay in the Street Graduate School of Education, in delivery of the PD, which ex. [...] Its contents are solely the responsibility of the authors and do not necessarily represent the official views of the Office of Planning, Research and Evaluation, the Administration for Children and Families, or the U.