Five Years Plan
The First Five Years
- An overview of the Initiative
- The First Five Years
- Current Project Goals and Objectives
The guiding principles of the Professional Development Initiative were to be:
- Collaborative: A partnership that brought together university facilitators, organization CEOs, site directors, and teachers to engage in a dialogue about professional development needs.
- Holistic: Create professional development plans that articulate agency goals and strategies for recruitment, training, and retention of the childcare staff.
- Flexible: Funding from the Foundation to address needs in these areas as determined by each of the agencies.
- Sustainable: Five-year plans that address professional development protocol and the long-term fiscal health of the program.
The specific project goals and objectives were:
| GOALS | Shorter-term outcomes: | Longer-term outcomes: |
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| Facilitate the participating childcare programs development and implementation of their five-year professional development plans. |
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| Create and document purposeful collaborations with other MTF-funded partners to facilitate each agency’s implementation of their professional development plan. |
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| Increase the capacity of the nine participating agencies to be informed of changes in childcare policy and standards that occur at the local, state and national levels |
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Outcomes:
For more information about the first five years of the CURL/McCormick Foundation Early Childhood Initiative and an overview of the outcomes, please visit: An Overview of the Initiative
To request a copy of the 2007 Evaluation Report, please contact Dana Wagner (dwagne2@luc.edu).