Early Education

Explore this toolkit aimed at helping organizations use data to align preschool offerings with the needs of real families. 

This tool, a resource from the NHSA, can be used in a Community of Practice or other group setting to facilitate a conversation about how agency staff define and address salient problems of practice using existing data resources.

This timeline template shares key dates, milestones, and decision points that should be in place to make timely, accurate, policy-relevant, and collaborative preschool supply and demand projections for the upcoming school year.  

This flexible protocol is intended for agencies hoping to conduct focus groups with families, providers, and partners around ECE needs within the community. 

This guide is meant to help agencies and partners determine the best ways to link and deduplicate preschool supply and demand data based on available data, both in terms of the method and software.

This program monitoring planning tool and framework—which includes guiding instructions and two excel workbook templates—is intended for LEAs and SEAs who are newly implementing preschool expansion programs or who have not yet enacted data-based

This set of protocols and notetaking guides collects information on how each agency’s or partner’s data systems function—how data is entered, processed, maintained, and updated.

The STEP Forward with Data Framework Metric Deep Dive for Supply provides agencies and partners with metrics that can be used to measure supply and demand.