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NEW Report!
PoP in Santa Clara County: Making the First Five Years Count
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Bachelor’s Degree Cohort Program Graduation Celebration Video
Learning Together
Learning Together: A Study of Six B.A. Completion Cohort Programs in Early Care and Education, Year I Report. Read the Report (PDF)
5 Years of Learning
A Report on the First Five Years of Santa Clara CARES 2002-2006.
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The WestEd E3 Institute-Excellence in Early Education was created to support and strengthen the quality of early education services by promoting professional development of early childhood educators to ensure the highest quality early learning experiences for Santa Clara County's youngest children. E3 accomplishes its goals through two primary programs-Power of Preschool (PoP) and Comprehensive Approaches to Raising Educational Standards (CARES). The CARES program offers financial incentives to early educators for completion of unit-bearing coursework relevant to their work with children. PoP enhances high-quality, preschool opportunities to children in underserved communities and provides additional resources for families and early educators. The E3 Institute is a project of the WestEd Center for Child & Family Studies.
The Santa Clara CARES Program was launched by the E3 Institute in 2002. Financial stipends are awarded to early educators based on their educational achievement. These stipends have proven to be significant incentives to qualified early educators towards furthering their education and professional development. Since 2002, the number of early educators who received higher-level stipends has increased significantly. Overall participation in CARES includes the majority of early educators in Santa Clara County providing services in licensed centers and homes. The CARES program has influenced the leadership development of participating early educators by emphasizing the connection between higher educational standards and better child outcomes. The E3 Institute CARES program has been recognized as a state model because it uses a robust data collection and analysis system to continually meet the needs of its participants.
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Santa Clara County PoP is a multi-year project launched in 2006, which builds on and integrates existing public and private early care and education programs and partnerships. PoP also supports the leadership development of early educators and of the administrators that manage the PoP programs. E3 Institute designed, developed, and implements a Quality Enhancement Support Team (QuEST) model for each of the classroom sessions. QuEST is composed of three facets: the coach, the early education program teaching staff and program administrators, and E3 Institute staff members. This collaborative triad approach allows PoP teaching staff members and administrators to identify and address quality enhancement areas in their programs through self-assessments and coaching support. The E3 Institute administers funding to the PoP program so that program areas such as facility, environment, curriculum, nutrition, and professional development changes can be implemented.
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