BUILD Initiative Track at the Smart Start Conference

Using the Data We Have to Drive Equitable Early Childhood System Building

• Race to Opportunity - Building a Path to Opportunity for all Children includes the Race for Results Index, a new collection of data disaggregated by racial and ethnic groups and by state, illustrate how far we are from positioning all kids for success in school and in life.
• Fifty State Chart Book - Dimensions of Diversity & the Young Child Population includes different data and indicators available to states on young children which can, as much as possible, be broken down by race, language, culture, income, and/or parental educational status.
• Building Public Early Childhood Data Systems for a Multi-Ethnic Society focuses on developing an early childhood data system through a multi-ethnic lens to better understand the diversity of the children needing/being provided services.
• Using Data to Drive Equitable Early Childhood Systems PowerPoint presentation

Are High-Quality Programs, High Quality for Dual Language Learners?

• Supporting Our Young Dual Language Learners (DLL): From Policy to Practice details the knowledge and skills that educators need at different stages of their careers based on their language ability and cultural competency.
• The three-part Dual Language Learner Teacher Competencies includes information on competencies, disposition needed, and recommendations for advancing workforce development that is inclusive of the needs of DLLs.
• Core Qualities for Successful Early Childhood Education Programs Toolkit serves as a guide for the early education of DLLs and Latino children, families, programs, and communities. 

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• What Does Your Workforce Look Like is a worksheet that helps a program list the breakdown of a workforce, whether they are multicultural, multilingual, etc.
• Dual Language Learners Social Emotional Component focuses on social emotional development and its relationship to second language development in young children.
• Challenging Common Myths about Dual Language Learners is a brief under the pre-K to grade three series written by Linda Espinosa.
• Dual Language Learners PowerPoint presentation

Teaching Children from Diverse Backgrounds: Supporting Teachers to Go from Good to Great

• Early Childhood Cultural Competence Scan
• Resource List Spreadsheets include an extensive array of resources related to cultural competence that Sharon Glover has gathered and is graciously sharing.
• Teaching Children from Diverse Backgrounds PowerPoint presentation

Other Key Resources

• Building Early Childhood Systems in a Multi-Ethnic Society is an overview of the BUILD Initiative’s briefs on diversity and equity.
• Village Building and School Readiness - Closing Opportunity Gaps in a Diverse Society focuses on issues and opportunities for building early learning systems in vulnerable; disinvested; or poor, immigrant, and minority communities.
• Young Children's Healthy Development and Learning in a Diverse Society describes the  early childhood field’s progress in developing ethnically, culturally and linguistically responsive early childhood systems.
• Top 10 Things We Know About Young Children and Health Equity….and Three Things We Need To Do with What We Know looks at the nexus of health and other developmental needs of young children and offers recommendations for promoting health equity.
• Families Know Best proposes a framework to better gather and use information from families in the kindergarten entry assessment process.
• Crafting Early Learning Standards for a Multi-Ethnic Society – Lessons Learned from Washington and Alaska
• From All to Each and Every: The Intentional Journey of Georgia’s Quality Rated System details Georgia’s approach to building a QRIS that is responsive to the needs of all children of diverse culture, language, and race.
• Health Equity and Young Children is a 2014 PowerPoint presentation that explains why states and communities need to focus on health equity in early childhood and the role for practitioners.