1. Essential Elements to California’s Early Learning System
By Linda Lovett, former owner/director of Lovett’s Children, Inc.

2. Objectives Looking back to share my career path journey
Present Day California Early Care and Education Facts
Review California’s Early Learning System
Look at trends
Share valuable resources you can use for professional development and instruction
Answer questions

3. 1976 Private Preschool for 34 Children
ROP Training Site, Advisory Committee
1984 Parent ROP Student, ROP WASC Criterion and Steering Committee (Pat Ainsworth)
 Senate Bill 2123 for ROP Students in Entry Level Positions; Home Economics Connection
1985 Designed & Built Facility for 115, Preschool, Multi-Age Primary, School-Age
1991 – 1995 Private Representative for Advancing Careers in Child Development
Pacific Oaks Project for California Child Development Permit; California Baptist Univ. Project
1998 Awarded California State Preschool Contract (CSPP)
2001 Renovated for Natural Learning Initiative Nature Learning Playgrounds
Ongoing CTE Model Curriculum Standards
QRIS Rating “5”; NAP SACC Certified
2018 Retired

5. Early Care and Education Today
Private Sector, Fee-Based Child Care
Subsidized Child Care
Transitional Kindergarten kindergarten-a- quickgguide/585073?gclid=EAIaIQobChMIqLLMq9bn2QIV2bb ACh3QjAwgEAAYASAAEgLyEfD_BwE

6. Licensed Child Care http://www. cdss. ca
Child Care Licensed Programs are to ensure the health and safety of children in care. The Child Care Licensing Program strives to provide preventive, protective, and quality services to children in care by ensuring that licensed facilities meet established health and safety standards through monitoring facilities, providing technical assistance, and establishing partnerships with providers, parents, and the child care community. 
73,488 facilities; 1,383,680 children served
Infants, toddlers, preschool, before-and-after school care
Private providers include home-based, center-based, community-based, for-profit, non-profit, church related, corporate, franchises
Subsidized and non-subsidized

7. Subsidized Child Care https://www. ccrcca
California Resource and Referral Network provides assists with child care funding and provider training (licensed exempt and non-exempt) Licensed Title 22; Child Care Portfolio /2017_CA_Child_Care_Portfolio.pdf?
California Department of Education (CDE) provides 3.8 BILLION subsidized child care 700 LEA’s, private non-profit, agencies for approximately 450,000 children (Note: LEA’s are exempt from Title 22 Licensing; others are required to be Title 22 Licensed. BOTH SECTORS MUST FOLLOW TITLE 5 EDUCATION CODE REQUIREMENTS
HEAD START serves approximately 103,000
Other Funding (e.g., First 5, CAL WORKS, Community Block Grants, After-School Programs, and more

9.
CDE/ECE Faculty Initiative Project Instruction Guides for Learning Foundations and English Learner Guides

10.
CDE/ECE Faculty Initiative Project Instruction Guides for Learning Foundations and English Learner Guides

11. The Instructional Guide written to accompany the Preschool English Learners Resource Guide (Second Edition, 2009), as well as companion PowerPoints and a Knowledge and Skills matrix, are available below. The purpose of this Instructional Guide is to support faculty in deepening their students’ understanding of how to promote language, literacy, and learning in preschool English learners. This guide provides suggested activities and resources for use by faculty in community college and university courses in California.
CDE/ECE Faculty Initiative Project Instruction Guides for English Learners

12. https://cainclusion.org/camap/tag/preschool/page/2/
This volume is an essential
resource for administrators
and teachers of preschool
programs. Eight chapters
include recent research on
brain development, the
preschool child, the role of the administrator, strategies to support dual language learners, interactive media and young children, and program guidelines. Eleven appendixes make this a comprehensive resource for all preschool programs in California. 

14. https://www.cde.ca.gov/sp/cd/re/cddprofdevtrain.as p
Professional Development Training Resources provided by the Early Education and Support Division (EESD) to train professionals in the child care field. p

15. Other Resources CDE Early Learning System
CDE Child Care and Development Programs
Child Development Permits child-dev
CDE Webinar Presentations
Alignment of the Learning Foundations with Key Early Educational Resources
Resources for child development contractors, families and the child care community.

16. California Early Education
The Budget
Analysis of Child Care and Preschool Proposals
- Comparing California’s Two Major Preschool Programs
- Quality Improvement Activities (Required for CDE funded programs, Prop 5 Grantees)
 Quality Rating Improvement System (QRIS)
 CLASSROOM ASSESSMENT SCORING SYSTEM (CLASS)
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17. More of What’s Happening…..
 California Collaborative on the Social & Emotional Foundations for
Early Learning (CSEFEL) resources/california- collaborative-on-the-social-emotional-foundations- for-early-learning/
Center on the Social and Emotional Foundations for Early Learning (CSEFEL) Resources and Training Modules
NAP SACC Certification required for many programs for health, safety and nutritional practices ; /gonapsacc.org/resources/nap-sacc-materials
 NAEYC Accredited Programs

18. Essential Resources for Practice
California Training and Technical Assistance links/training-and-technical-assitance/
Crosswalk of 15-Minutes In-Service Suites with the CLASS development/article/15-minute-service-suites
EESD Professional Development Training Resources
Marvelous Explorations Through Science and Stories (MESS): Our Natural World explorations-through-science-stories-mess-our-natural-world
World Forum Foundation Toolkits for Early Childhood Programs and Families Activities, Experiences and Resources for Use with Children
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19. More Resources for Practice
ACT Raising Safe Children’s Programs
- ACT Fact Sheets sheets/index.aspx
- ACT Webinars
 Illinois Early Learning Project Tip Sheets