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Illinois Early Learning Council
November 18, 2019
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Agenda1. Welcome and Introductions
2. PDG B-5 Initial and Renewal
3. Prenatal to Three Initiative (PN3)
4. Break
5. B-3 Continuity Project
6. State Department Updates
7. Committee Reports
8. Announcements & Public Comments
9. Adjourn
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PDG B-5 Initial & Renewal
Artiya Nash & Dr. Cynthia Tate
Overview of the Initial & Renewal PDG B-5 Grants
November 18, 2019
January 2019
• Illinois awarded Preschool Development Birth to Five Planning Grant – effective Dec. 31, 2018 thru Dec. 30, 2019
Feb – May 2019
• Contracts (AIR, INCCRRA, Erikson Institute, Illinois Action for Children, YWCA)• IGAs (IDHS, DCFS, UIUC, NIU, SASED (Early CHOICES) • Workplans created and executed to support all grant activities and projects
June – Sept 2019
• Hire New Staff to Support Grant:• Project Director, Business Manager, Family Engagement Manager, Data Manager
Oct – Dec 2019
• 55% of all final deliverables near or at completion as of Nov 2019 • Applied and approved for 2 month no cost grant extension to end Feb 29, 2020 • Planning, completion, and submission of renewal grant Nov 5, 2019 (45 million over the course of 3
years)
• Develop, update, or implement a strategic plan that facilitates collaboration and coordination among existing programs of early childhood care and education in a mixed delivery system across the State
• More efficiently use existing Federal, State, local, and non-governmental resources to align and strengthen the delivery of existing programs
Purposes of the PDG B-5 Initiative
• Activity One: Needs Assessment • Activity Two: Strategic Plan • Activity Three: Maximize parental choice and
knowledge • Activity Four: Share best practices among early
childhood care and education program providers to increase collaboration and efficiency of services
• Activity Five: Improve the overall quality of early childhood care and education programs in the State
Five Required Activities (Initial Grant)
• Conduct a literature review of best practices for needs assessment.
• Analysis of existing state and federal needs assessments and other existing needs assessments.
• Conduct external stakeholder focus groups and analysis.
• Support updating the Illinois Early Learning Council (ELC) research agenda.
• Develop a set of research plans. • Prepare a statewide birth-to-5 early childhood needs
assessment report.
Activity One – Needs Assessment
• Define Key Terms: These terms and constructs, guided by GOECD and PDG B-5 federal requirements, helped to guide the coding process of Illinois’ existing strategic plans.
• Develop Criteria for Inclusion of Existing State Plans: We included documents that provided strategic plan guidance related to ECCE programs throughout the past six years—since 2013—and approved recommendations from the ELC during the past two years—since 2017.
• Search and Collect Strategic Plans: AIR collaborated with GOECD and ELC committee chairs to collect existing strategic plans and ELC committee minutes.
• Develop Coding Protocol: Based on GOECD and federal guidance, we created a systematic coding protocol to guide our review.
• Thematic Analysis and Cross Walking: We analyzed our coded constructs and conducting thematic analysis to determine the prevalence of categories of themes.
Activity Two – Strategic Plan Approach
• Collected 46 documents for review. After reviewing the strategic planning documents based on our inclusion criteria (i.e., date, content, completeness and client recommendations)22 remained.
• We also collected information from other GOECD vendors supporting the GOECD strategic plan and 14 approved ELC recommendation reports from various committees.
Activity Two – Strategic Plan
There were a total of 125 specific goals found across the 22 strategic documents . The goals and objectives were categorized into three overarching themes: • Access—Expanding accessibility and equity to ECCE
services, often with certain populations in mind. • Coordination – Enhancing coordination and
collaboration across multiple types of ECCE services. • Quality—Improving the quality of the ECCE services.
Activity Two – Strategic Plan
• Call upon the ELC Strategic Planning Advisory Group• Present the results of the activities and findings to
date• The ELC, in collaboration with the Governor’s Office,
will prioritize and organize goals • AIR will finalize a strategic plan draft for final review by
the ELC (date TBD because of the no-cost extension)• Year 1 PDG B-5 Strategic Plan will be submitted to the
feds by February 28, 2019
Strategic Plan Next Steps
• Parent Café’s • Family Engagement Subcommittee• Homelessness Resource Directory and Toolkits• Parent Resources on Inclusion • Increase access and easier navigation of DCFS
Sunshine & ExceleRate website for parents
Activity Three – Maximizing Parent Choice
Example:• Parent Cafés• The Parent Café program is a nationally recognized peer-to-peer
learning process to keep children safe and families strong. Parents and caregivers create safe spaces to explore their strengths and learn from themselves and each other how to use the Strengthening Families Protective Factors™ with their loved ones.
• Illinois will pilot 4 parent café’s in partnership with DHS and Head Start to explore the following topics:
1. Chronic Absenteeism 2. Suspension and Expulsion
Activity Three – Maximizing Parent Choice
• Align Existing T& TA systems • Community Systems Portal• Family Friend and Neighbor Training • Develop Infant/Early Childhood Mental Health
Database/Registry• FAN (Facilitating Attuned iNteractions)
Community of Practice
Activity 4 – Share Best Practices
• Increase environment quality – goal • Provide funding for infant toddler classrooms and
home base providers to purchase materials/supplies to increase quality rating
• Provide funding for credential fees and tuition reimbursement – support workforce
• Plan and Host (5) regional communities of practice designed for early care and early childhood leaders to learn from each other strategies and activities to enhance program culture relating to quality
Activity Five – Improve Quality
• Original PDG B-5 Deadline Date: Dec 30, 2019• No Cost Extension Submitted: Oct 2, 2019• No Cost Approval: October 16, 2019• No Cost Extension Deadline: Feb 28, 2020 • Key deliverables impacted by the No Cost
include, but are not limited to, the Needs Assessment and Strategic Plan
Initial PDG B-5 - No Cost Extension
• Builds upon PDG B-5 Initial Grant which IL received for 2019• 3 Year Renewal Grant will cover 2020-2022 (start 12/31/19)• Competitive grant—estimated 23 awards, total $206
Million/year• Illinois eligible to apply for $15 Million/year• 30% Cost Sharing/Matching (w/ non-federal funds)• Can be used to:
– Strengthen coordination within the “mixed-delivery system”– Improve program quality– Expand services
• Submitted November 4, 2019
Renewal Grant Opportunity
Six Activities, each with several specific components that must be addressed to earn points in scoring rubric:1. Refine and update needs assessment2. Refine and update strategic plan3. Maximize parent/family knowledge & choice about services4. Sharing best practices among ECCE providers5. Improve overall quality of services (can include subgrants for service expansion)
Note: must prioritize rural areas; may emphasize infant-toddler services, and/or services for children experiencing homelessness
6. Refine/enhance/implement Program Performance Evaluation Plan and enhance data use
Bonus Points for:• Coordinated application, eligibility, enrollment• Infant/Toddler emphasis• Collaborative Transition & Alignment from Birth to the Early Grades
Grant Structure
• Increase access to quality in multiple settings• Strengthen programs’ support of children’s social-emotional
development and inclusion support• Strengthen transition to Kindergarten & P-3 Alignment• Strengthen the workforce pipeline and address staffing
shortage• Increase ease of access for families• Strengthen family voice in the system• Strengthen cross-system data systems to support greater
coordination in governance
Strategic Themes in IL’s Application
• Child Care Centers - Pilot program to support– CCAP contracts with enhanced rate to increase staff compensation and
add site staff for CQI; leadership training – Focus will be Group 2 Counties, centers with at least 2 infant-toddler
rooms• Planning for Networks to support Home-based providers• Home Visiting
– Expanded efforts to connect DCFS-involved families • Community Based Planning for Expansion
– Intensive supports for developing expansion plans for communities with especially large “slot gaps” for PFA, PI, licensed child care
Increase Access to Quality in Multiple Settings
• Increase training and support for Infant/Early Childhood Mental Health Consultants– Training for consultants and supervisors– Expanded registry capacity
• Pyramid Model (PM) training expansion, registry build out, & PBC– Trainings to further integrate PM into all PD systems– Registry to integrate all PM PD– Expand practice-based coaching to ISBE and childcare – Trauma-informed and wellness modules for PM training
• Support inclusion in community-based settings– Expand Early Choices to community-based settings in 2 regions
• FAN trainings and CoPs– Head Start, ISBE, HV programs across all ECCE
Strengthen Program Quality
• Connect ECE and K PD through Pyramid Model implementation– Included in PM funds previously noted
• Scale Kindergarten transition promising practices through ROE/Community partnership grants– Builds off Kindergarten Transitions Advisory Report and work
done in PDG B-5 initial planning year (2019)• These themes are aligned to Birth to Third Grade (B-3) Continuity
Project eight areas that comprise an aligned B-3 continuum: community partnerships, comprehensive services, family engagement and parent leadership, supported transitions, joint PD, aligned curriculum and instruction, aligned assessments, and data-driven improvement
Strengthen Transition to Kindergarten & P-3 Alignment
• Home Visiting Coordinated Intake– 5 Coordinated Intake pilots– Connected CCR&Rs and Head Start
Increase Ease of Access for Families
• Family representation in ELC– Implement plan from Family Advisory Committee for family representatives in ELC
• Parent and Community Cafes– Scale cafes that were piloted in Initial Grant– Create, pilot and implement 2 new café topics– Total of 35 cafes held throughout the state, engaging approx. 1,000 families
• Early Choices– Family voice in Public Awareness– Access to inclusion/EI/ECSE resource– Increase family engagement in choice of ECCE
• ExceleRate website updates• Qualitative Research project to gather information from families on their experiences across the
system– Focus groups and surveys
Strengthen Family Voice in the System
• Post-Secondary Cohorts to address specific needs– Approximately 6 cohorts
• Course modularization– Built upon competency work—breaking course work into smaller pieces
to allow for assessment of prior learning, mini-courses, etc.• Supports for credential applicants
– Credential fee waivers– Support to overcome barriers such as frozen transcripts, etc. (built off of
success at end of RTT-ELC)• Credential development for Home Visitors
– Credential crosswalk and development– Registry enhancements needed to capture HV workforce
Strengthen Workforce Pipeline & Address Staffing Shortage
• Further refinements to needs assessment and strategic plan
• Data systems enhancements• Staffing support for Funding Commission • Performance Evaluation
Other Data-Related Investments
Thank you!
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Prenatal to Three Initiative (PN3)
Karen Berman & Theresa Ramos
ILLINOIS EARLY LEARNING COUNCIL MEETING
Illinois Prenatal to Three InitiativeNovember 18, 2019
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Expand equitable access to and participation in high quality services for at least one million more low income infants and toddlers and their families by 2023 to get them on track for school by assuring healthy beginnings, supported families and high quality child care.
Pritzker Children's Initiative
PCI VISION
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PLANNING GRANT DELIVERABLES
• Create a public/private coalition of diverse partners inside and outside of government working at both the state and local levels. Likely and unlikely allies.
• Create a prenatal to age three policy agenda focused on the policy priorities
• Create an action plan to move forward elements of the proposed policy agenda.
• Minimum target goal of proposed state policy agenda - expanded services to an additional 25%of infants and toddlers and their families over the baseline at start of the initiative. How many are you going to reach?!
Pritzker Children's Initiative
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2 AREAS of FOCUS
Pritzker Children's Initiative
• Goal: Increase the number of low-income families with children prenatal to age three who are connected to essential and high-quality health, development and social-emotional support services.
• Can include: prenatal care, home visiting, early intervention, child care, mental health, health and developmental assessments that are linked to follow-up referral services, and other evidence-based practices that research shows get children on track for school readiness by age three.
• Key Question: What are the services and supports that low-income infants and toddlers and their families need to get them ready for school?
• Goal: Increase the availability of affordable,high-quality child care for low-income infants and toddlers across diverse settings.
• Can include : quality enhancement supports, coaching and mentoring, increased workforce compensation and other strategies necessary to increase the supply, access and affordability of high-quality child care for low-income infants and toddlers in both center and home-based settings.
• Key Question: What are the strategies necessary to achieve the goal of an increased supply of affordable, high-quality child care for low-income infants and toddlers?
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Illinois Targets
Pritzker Children's Initiative
PCI aims to expand services to an additional 50% of the total number of low-income infants and toddlers by 2025, with benefits to the physical, social, and emotional development of infants and toddlers:
• Healthy beginnings
• Supported families
• High quality care and early learning
Illinois BenchmarksBy 2023 25% increase = 50,250 reached By 2025 50% increase = 100,500 reached
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USE AN EXISTING PLAN OR CREATE A BRAND NEW PLAN?
• Build on what you’ve already created including other proposals like PDG or CCDBG or MIECHV or EHS-CCP or…fill in the gaps
• Create something new if you have done no planning around Prenatal-to-Age-Three
Pritzker Children's Initiative
PLANNING PROCESSCovering significant ground in four months to arrive at a plan
Coalition Team Coalition Team Coalition Team
Community Meetings/Working Groups by topic
Council Meetings
September
Coalition Team
October November December
Topic
Topic
Topic
Topic
Topic Topic
Final Proposed AgendaProject GroundingFramework Revision and
Validation
PLANNING TOPICS
Across these topics, strategies include:• Enrollment in existing services and working from existing infrastructure• Expansion of existing services with a focus on priority populations, racial equity, and
geographic need• Improved quality of services• Coordination of services across the system• Innovative models and new services that don’t exist or should be scaled
Find out more about the detailed strategies here:https://www2.illinois.gov/sites/OECD/Pages/PN3.aspx
Home Visiting Child Care/Center Based Care
Family Economic Security
Early Intervention Perinatal/Birth Supports
Cross-System Issues
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ILLINOIS PN3 COALITIONCOMMUNICATIONS
November 12, 2019
+ WE CANNOT WIN OUR POLICY AGENDA WITHOUT POWER
• What is power?• Power is the ability to act, create, control, or prevent
change.• Types of power: organized people and organized money.• We cannot win by being right alone• The survey is a preliminary assessment of our power.• What were the results?
+ LET’S GET SOCIAL!
Format # of Responses Followers/Subscribers
Twitter 11 34,591-> 36,931
Facebook 21 73,121-> 88,130
Instagram 8 4,178 -> 5,603
Direct Mail 8 220,500-> 290,600
Newsletter 7 9,500
LinkedIn 1 2,173
+ COMMUNITY ORGANIZING CAPACITY
• Four organizations responded that they develop community leaders through community organizing
• Current leadership totals to• Five organizations organize on other topics
– Early Childhood Workforce– Home Visiting– Health– Child Exposure to Violence– Public Benefits– Immigration
635-> 1680
75-> 120
+ WHAT’S OUR GEOGRAPHIC FOOTPRINT?
• 6 Statewide Organizations
• Regions– Metro Chicago,
East St. Louis/ Metro East, Northern Illinois, Western Illinois, Southern Illinois
• Counties– Cook– Champaign– Douglas– Franklin– Gallatin– Hardin– Hamilton– Iroquois
– Kane– Jackson– Jefferson– Johnson– Macon– Massac– Marion– Perry– Piatt– Pope– Pulaski– Sangamon– Union– Vermillion– White– Williamson
+ MOBILIZING OUR BASE
• Activity—Organized people– Find someone you don’t know– Partner for last word/ first word activity– Set up a time to have a 1:1 with them
• Quick Action: from last time – Grab your phone.– Follow an organization on the list you don’t already follow. – Take a photo of you and your neighbor.– Post your photo and this message on facebook, twitter,
instagram or all three!• “I’m here with @______ . We’re building a coalition to make Illinois #1
in supporting children prenatal to 3”. #ILPN3 #ChildCare #EarlyEd– Then lie & share with folks using the same hashtag.
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Break
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B-3 Continuity Project
Dr. Lisa Hood
Early Learning CouncilNovember 18, 2019
Lisa Hood, PhDIllinois State UniversityCenter for the Study of Education [email protected]
IL Birth-to-Third Grade (B-3) Continuity
Vision of a Seamless Learning Continuum
A coherent set of educational experiences and supports for students, families and the professionals and organizations that serve them, that begins at birth and continues through college completion and beyond.1
1Ounce of Prevention Fund and The University of Chicago Urban Education Institute, 2014.
• Prioritizing high need communities • Serving more children from priority populations • Increasing number of slots that meet the Preschool
Expansion model (full-day, comprehensive services) • Encouraging/supporting community collaborations• Building birth to 3rd grade continuum of high quality
services
ECBG: Five Policy Priorities
B-3 Project Supports
• B-3 Awareness & State Support• B-3 Conference• Webinars/Trainings• Networking• Technical Assistance available to
Preschool Expansion Communities
B-3 Strategies
https://education.illinoisstate.edu/csep/b3/B3-Report.php
Reflecting on the First Four Year of Preschool Expansion
Adequate early care and education funding provides legitimacy
Stable funding over time is necessary to support this work
Communities have to manage and attempt to align and integrate programs governed by different regulatory entities
Data is tremendously helpful to better clarify community needs and make the case for needed services
Reflecting on the First Four Year of Preschool Expansion
B-3 Strategies must be responsive to community context
Commitment over time is key to sustaining momentum
Building relationships is at the heart of accomplishing change
Serving the most at-risk children and families requires a different approach and sets of services
Maintaining the Momentum
B-3 & Expansion Growth
2015 2016 2017 2018 2019
B-3 ConferenceAttendees: 48 Communities:
10
B-3 ConferenceAttendees: 75 Communities:
13 Website: 201
views*
B-3 ConferenceAttendees: 111 Communities:
20 Website: 879
views*
B-3 ConferenceAttendees: 154 Communities:
24 Website: 1,692
views*
B-3 ConferenceAttendees: 164 Communities:
29
B-3 Project Website: n/a
B-3 Project Website: 324
views*
B-3 Project Website: 2,323
views*
B-3 Project Website: 3,712
views*Communities receiving funding and eligible for B-3 Continuity Project Supports
PDG-E: 25 PDG-E: 25 PDG-E: 25 PFAE: 24Total: 49
PDG-E: 29 PFAE: 54Total: 83
PDG-E: 29 PFAE: 61Total: 90
*The number of page views represents the unique number of views during the indicated calendar year.
B-3 Project Strategies & Accomplishments
• B-3 Leadership Team to drive work• Group Convenings• Individualized Supports for Communities• Thriving Community of Practice• Curated Materials, Tools, and Resources
https://education.illinoisstate.edu/csep/b3
B-3 Strategy Overviews & helpful resourcesB-3 Self-Assessment and Action Planning GuideDevelopmentally Appropriate Practices Training SeriesArchived B-3 Conferences and Webinar materials
About PK-3 Teach Lead Grow
PK-3 Teach Lead Grow is a video library and toolbox, organized around the Danielson Framework and Early Learning Best Practices, that provide
professional development and evaluation resources PK-3 teachers and school leaders need to be effective early childhood educators.
In the videos, highly effective teachers and leaders invite you into their classrooms to view their student-focused management, assessment, instruction,
and environment practice, as well as collaborative planning and reflection in action.
About PK-3 Teach Lead Grow
PK-3 Teach Lead Grow is a video library and toolbox, organized around the Danielson Framework and Early Learning Best Practices, that provide
professional development and evaluation resources PK-3 teachers and school leaders need to be effective early childhood educators.
In the videos, highly effective teachers and leaders invite you into their classrooms to view their student-focused management, assessment, instruction,
and environment practice, as well as collaborative planning and reflection in action.
About PK-3 Teach Lead Grow
Professional Growth
Teachers, principals and other education leaders can observe, reflect, and connect to early
childhood classrooms in action to learn more about PK-3 teaching best practices, and how to target
these practices in their own classrooms.
Evaluation
The videos provide a clear benchmarking tool for school
leaders to evaluate their teachers and make specific
recommendations on how to improve any and all of their
classroom practices, from planning to assessment.
B-3 Resources – P-12 Principal Preparation in Illinois
• Preparing Principals for Pre-K in Illinois: The Prairie State’s Story of Reform and Implementation
• https://www.newamerica.org/education-policy/reports/preparing-principals-pre-k-illinois/
• Published by the New America Foundation
Recommendations for Next Steps
• State leadership and representation
• On going B-3 systems of community practice
• Content knowledge and practice
State Leadership
Knowledge Manage-
mentSystem Mindset
B-3Alignment
Access Resources & Learn More!
CSEP Exchange Newsletterhttp://education.illinoisstate.edu
#ILbirthto3rd@CSEP_ISU
https://education.illinoisstate.edu/csep/b3/
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State Department Update: IDHS
Nakisha Hobbs
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State Department Update: ISBE
Kristy Doan
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Committee Report:Access Committee
Maria Whelan
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Committee Report:Home Visiting Task Force
Gaylord Gieseke and Diana Rauner
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Committee Report:Integration & Alignment Committee
Shauna Ejeh and Karen Berman
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Integration & Alignment (IAC)IAC Committee• Early childhood funding
• Slot gap and ease of access including mixed service delivery recommendations
Health• Managed Care Organization engagement to enroll families in early childhood
services including a desk reference
Inclusion• Mixed delivery service system supports inclusion in both school
and community-based programs
Data, Research & Evaluation (DRE)PDG B-5: Early childhood cost modeling, needs assessment and strategic plan
Community Systems Development• Funders guide and collaboration highlights
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Committee Report:Quality Committee
Dan Harris and Teri Talan
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Committee Report:ELC Membership Ad Hoc
Phyllis Glink
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Announcements & Public Comments
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Adjourn
