Resource Library

This brief describes information about coaching that we gathered in 2021—about 18 months into the pandemic—from surveys and qualitative interviews with coaches, FCC providers, and center directors. We focus on understanding remote coaching and various coaching strategies, such as modeling and observation, during this time frame.

This brief draws from data collected in the 2019 NSECE Center-based Provider Survey and Wave 1 of the NSECE COVID-19 Longitudinal Follow-up. In the NSECE, a center-based provider delivers CCEE services to children aged five and under, not yet in kindergarten, at a single location. This brief describes calendar year 2020 experiences of CCEE centers that were operating in 2019, including changes in their enrollments and their instructional staff.

This page includes copies of three national surveys conducted in 2023 by the TRLECE project team; survey respondents include: 1) state and territory child care and early education (CCEE) licensing administrators, 2) front-line CCEE licensing staff who conduct monitoring and inspections for licensed providers in each state and D.C. and 3) licensed CCEE providers (both center-based and family child care settings) in each state and D.C.

This study examines the association between licensing violations and QRIS ratings in three states.

This report summarizes results from a national survey of child care and early education front-line licensing staff and presents a high-level description of who front-line licensing staff are, what they do, and how they view licensing.

This brief draws on data from the 2021—2022 Study to examine the strategies programs used to improve staff retention and well-being.

This report describes the methodology for the TRLECE project’s three surveys regarding child care and early education (CCEE) licensing (i.e., surveys of CCEE licensing administrators, front-line licensing staff, and CCEE providers).

This brief explores Head Start teachers’ health, anxiety symptoms, depressive symptoms, stress, and job satisfaction; the supports programs offered and the ones teachers used; and the associations between teachers’ well-being and those supports. It draws on data collected in fall 2021 and spring 2022 from the 2021-2022 Study of Family and Staff Well-Being in Head Start FACES Programs (the 2021-2022 Study), after nearly two years of the COVID-19 pandemic. 

A case study of four state child care and early education licensing agencies’ approaches to working with license-exempt providers.

This resource defines terms used in The Role of Licensing in Early Care and Education products.