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Featuring Oakland Starting Smart & Strong

Early Childhood x Oakland, CA Advancing Community Solutions: A Spotlight; Stanford Center on Early Childhood, May 2024.

Three Golden Rules for Improving Early Childhood Systems
; New America, October, 2024. 

Co-Creation: Approaches to Sharing Power in a Place-Based Initiative; The David and Lucille Packard Foundation, November 2024

Meet Our Partners: Priya Jagannathan; Engage R+D, August 2024

How Oakland Overcomes Racial Disparities in Child Care (Live at KDOL-TV); No One is Coming to Save Us Podcast, Lemonada Media, 2023

In the San Francisco Bay Area, Two New Funds Support Early Care and Education; New America, May 2023

Incorporating Anti-Racist Principles into Preschool Classrooms; New America, April 2022

Seeing a Birth of Hope: Training Teachers in Trauma-Informed Classroom Practice; New America, July 2019​

​Parents Know Best: How Family-Led Data Collection and Advocacy Lead to Increases in Early Childhood Funding in Alameda County; National Institute for Children's Health Quality, 2021

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  • About
    • Our Purpose
    • Our Team >
      • Staff & Consultants
      • Supporters
      • Lead Planning Team
      • Committees and Task Force
      • Featured Leaders
    • Contact Us
  • Our Work
    • Racial Justice >
      • Promising Practices
      • ROCK >
        • ROCK TOOLKIT
    • Community Leadership >
      • Early Learning Symposium
      • Family Child Care Policy Program
    • Systems Change >
      • Developmental Screening
      • Strategic Plan
    • Data, Policy & Advocacy >
      • Policy & Advocacy
      • ECEcosystem Data Portal
      • Early Development Instrument
    • Collective Impact >
      • Year in Review
      • Results & Impact
  • RESOURCES
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    • Tools
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