PURPOSE: Build the capacity of participants to impact equity in early childhood education to address disparities, close achievement gaps and create positive child outcomes among learners Birth to 3rd Grade. As a result of the meeting, participants will develop a plan to take back to their state that identifies useful resources, good ideas, and new colleagues to support continued efforts to ensure equity for all young children.

 

OUTCOMES:

• Increase understanding and develop a shared language of how inequity impacts children and families. 

• Increase knowledge of tools and strategies that state early childhood specialists can use to ensure more equitable services at the local level.

• Increase knowledge of the research on policy and practice that impacts equitable access to high quality early childhood education.