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NEW Report!
PoP in Santa Clara County: Making the First Five Years Count
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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 -- Child Signature Program (CSP) 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. CSP 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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The Child Signature Program (CSP) evolved from the Santa Clara County Power of Preschool (PoP) program, which continues to build on and integrate existing public and private early care and education programs and partnerships. The CSP supports the leadership development of early educators and of the administrators that manage early education programs by supporting assessment of program quality and teacher educational levels. The CSP has been designed to enhance the quality of preschool programs and includes proven elements of other First 5 California-funded programs, selected core components of Educare, and continued alignment with the California Department of Education Infant/Toddler and Preschool Foundations and California Preschool Curriculum Framework.
Designed for children, teachers, and parents, the CSP also builds upon past and present First 5 California programs with proven track records of effectiveness. These include Comprehensive Approaches to Raising Educational Standards (CARES), CARES Plus, PoP and PoP Bridge, and the Special Needs Project.
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