Collaborative Activities — National Projects
The Collaborative Planning Project (CPP) is a project, based at The Center for Collaborative Educational Leadership in Denver, Colorado, that is training and assisting early childhood teams in providing high-quality services for all young children. Project materials are available in the full text- "IDEA and Early Childhood Inclusion"
(PDF: 2,956kb) - "Facilitating Change in Comprehensive Early Childhood Systems" (PDF: 3,801kb)
- "Early Childhood Inclusion Policy and Systems: What Do We Know?" (PDF: 3,514kb)
- "Tasks, Tips and Tools for Promoting Collaborative Community Teams" (PDF: 163kb)
The Federal Early Learning Interagency Work Group — A collaborative Federal effort to coordinate programs supporting children’s early learning. Its goal is to develop a common early childhood message across Federal agencies and programs and identify strategies for coordinating resources to support the development of high-quality, coordinated State and local early childhood systems (scroll down to Good Start, Grow Smart Interagency Workgroup).
Not By Chance: Creating An Early Care and Education System for America’s Children synthesizes the major findings and recommendations from the Quality 2000 Initiative, a 4-year, comprehensive effort to advance new ideas about reforming America’s early childhood education system.
The National Institute for Urban School Improvement supports inclusive urban communities, schools, and families to build their capacity for sustainable, successful urban education. The Institute accomplishes this through dialogue, networking, technology, action research, information systems, alliance and consensus building in efforts to link existing education reform networks with special education networks. Their publications list has many useful publications available to download.
The Map to Inclusive Child Care Project was funded by the Child Care Bureau to provide technical assistance to states as they include children with disabilities in child care settings. This site includes the plans developed by states participating in this project.
The National Infant & Toddler Child Care Initiative at ZERO TO THREE is a project of the Child Care Bureau, Administration for Children and Families, Department of Health and Human Services. It is designed to support State and Territory Child Care Development Fund (CCDF) administrators in their efforts to effect system-wide improvements in infant and toddler child care. This three-year project will work directly with 10 states and territories per year, a total of 30, and will produce fact sheets, issue briefs and other materials that will be available to all states and territories.