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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 Policylhood@ilstu.edu

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:

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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:

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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

Pk-3TeachLeadGrow Website

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

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