Goal 1: Strengthen connections and communications among state agencies and with community partners and families. (Activity 1, 3)
Child Development Campaign
Goal 2: Recruit, prepare, and retain early childhood workforce (Activity 4)
Child Development Campaign
Child Care Scholarships for New Educators
Workforce Compensation/ Workforce Navigator/Salary Supplement Evaluation
Professional Development for ECE Educators—Includes: Training for elementary principals in ECE, Trauma Maine Resilience Building Network (MRBN), Inclusion practices, MRTQ.
Promote and expand ECE programming at CTEs
Goal 3: Increase availability of affordable and responsive childcare and family services (Activity 3?)
Child Development Campaign
Align Quality Bumps for Child Care Assistance
Child Care Cost Modeling/Estimation
Parent Leadership Program for New Mainers
Goal 4: Improve transition between early care and K-12 (Activity 5 – area 4??)
Professional Development for ECE Educators—Inclusion practices
Vertically aligned Pre-K to Grade 2 Instructional Programs
Kindergarten Entry Inventory
Goal 5: Improve program quality (Activity 5 – areas
Incentives to move up the quality rating scale
Quality Bumps for Child Care Assistance
Workforce Compensation/ Workforce Navigator/Salary Supplement Evaluation
Public Pre-K through Partnership Slots Expansion
Inclusionary Practices in Child Care and Pre-K
Maine's Early Learning and Development Standards (MELDS)
Vertically aligned Pre-K to Grade 2 Instructional Programs
Kindergarten Entry Inventory
Goal 6: Cross agency integrated early childhood data (ECIDS) (Activity 1 – area 4)
Goal 7: Cultural Responsiveness and Racial Equity (Activity 3, where else?)
Wondershare EdrawMind
