To provide a comprehensive picture of the quality of Boston’s early care and education programs with the goal of informing strategic planning, Boston EQUIP and the Boston Child Care Alliance worked with the Wellesley Centers for Women to create the Boston Quality Inventory. Three reports were generated about Center-Based Preschool classrooms, Infant and Toddler Center-Based classrooms and Family Child Care.
Boston Quality Inventory – Preschool
Executive Summary
Full Report
PowerPoint presentation
Boston Quality Inventory - Infant and Toddler
Full Report
Boston Quality Inventory - Family Child Care
Full Report
PowerPoint presentation
The use of child assessment tools is becoming increasingly popular as a means to improve early care and education quality and demonstrate accountability. Curious about where Boston programs and providers were with respect to implementing and using child assessment tools, Boston EQUIP recently conducted a survey of Boston ECE programs. See the results here:
Summary of Findings
Methods
C. Zimmerman and K. Connaghan. Boston EQUIP. April 2007.
This fall we were hearing from many programs in the community that they were having a hard time filling their enrollment. Everyone we talked with had a hypothesis about why this might be happening, so we set out to test the hypotheses using data, and to find out where are the children?!
Executive Summary
Data & Results
K. Connaghan and C. Zimmerman. Boston EQUIP. Feb 2007.
This report describes the supports and barriers to post-secondary education in the voices of Boston’s early care and education workforce members themselves. These data are complemented with lessons learned by other entities, evidence-based best practices, and policy recommendations. This information is all summarized in tables that include actionable steps to assist all levels of stakeholders in supporting the post-secondary education of Boston’s ECE workforce.
Executive Summary
Full Report
Demographics of the Early Care and Education Workforce
K. Connaghan and C. Zimmerman. Boston EQUIP. Feb 2007.
This brief summarizes findings from surveys of Boston’s early care and education teachers and family child care providers. Understanding the characteristics of workforce members is essential to planning effective educational supports.
Boston EQUIP. June 14, 2006.
Demand for Subsidized Care and Education in Boston.
K. Connaghan and C. Zimmerman. Boston EQUIP. April 2006.
Mapping Early Care and Education in Boston: The purpose of this tool is address transportation as a barrier to young children receiving special education services. The maps include all of the early care and education programs, family child care providers, and Boston Public Schools ELCs, EECs, K-5s and K-8s, with distance rings of .25 miles and .5 miles around each BPS school. Each zone has its own PowerPoint.
Click here for North Zone.
Click here for East Zone
Click here for West Zone
2005 Allston-Brighton Neighborhood Profile Presentation
2005 Allston-Brighton Neighborhood Profile Report
Boston EQUIP. 2005.
2005 Charlestown / North End Neighborhood Profile Presentation
2005 Charlestown / North End Neighborhood Profile Report
Boston EQUIP. 2005.
2005 Dorchester Neighborhood Profile Presentation
2005 Dorchester Neighborhood Profile Report
Boston EQUIP. 2005.
2005 East Boston Neighborhood Profile Presentation
2005 East Boston Neighborhood Profile Report
Boston EQUIP. 2005.
2005 Roslindale/West Roxbury/Hyde Park Neighborhood Profile Presentation
2005 Roslindale/West Roxbury/Hyde Park Neighborhood Profile Report
Boston EQUIP. 2005.
2005 Jamaica Plain/Roxbury Neighborhood Profile Presentation
2005 Jamaica Plain/Roxbury Neighborhood Profile Report
Boston EQUIP. 2005.
2005 Mattapan Neighborhood Profile Presentation
2005 Mattapan Neighborhood Profile Report
Boston EQUIP. 2005.
2005 South Boston Neighborhood Profile Presentation
2005 South Boston Neighborhood Profile Report
Boston EQUIP. 2005.
2005 South End/Chinatown/Fenway Neighborhood Profile Presentation
2005 South End/Chinatown/Fenway Neighborhood Profile Report
Boston EQUIP. 2005.
Early Childhood in Boston: What do children and families need? What's available? How good is it?
Boston Early Education Quality Improvement Project Family Survey Report.
Unmet Need for Early Care and Education in Boston.
Committee report: Access and Affordability.
Committee report: Evaluation.
Commitee report: Family Child Care.
Committee report: Head Start.
Committee report: Program services.
Committee report: Public education.
Committee report: Workforce.
Boston EQUIP Fourth Inventory Report. (Contact us for copies.)
1999 Neighborhood Profiles: Allston-Brighton, Kenmore.
1999 Neighborhood Profile: Charlestown / North End.
1999 Neighborhood Profile: Dorchester.
1999 Neighborhood Profile: East Boston.
1999 Neighborhood Profile: Hyde Park / Roslindale / West Roxbury.
1999 Neighborhood Profile: Jamaica Plain / Roxbury.
1999 Neighborhood Profile: Mattapan.
1999 Neighborhood Profile: South Boston.
1999 Neighborhood Profile: South End / Fenway / Chinatown.
Boston EQUIP Third Inventory Report. (Contact us for copies.)
MAKING TOUGH CHOICES, MAKING ENDS MEET: The Economic and Other Effects of Child Care Subsidy Waitlists on Families in Boston September.
Boston EQUIP Second Inventory Report. (Contact us for copies.)
Boston EQUIP First Inventory Report. (Contact us for copies.)
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