Toolkits
Strategies for Improving Quality in
Early Care and Education
NICCA created quality improvement toolkits to help you generate ideas for strengthening your programs and resources to put those ideas into action. The toolkits cover over 20 system-building areas to consider and include templates, sample budgets, job descriptions, and research.
Explore the Toolkits
Toolkits Coming Soon!
Employee
Wellness & Development
This kit will provide an overview of how to improve and implement an employee-centric professional development program that promotes individual wellness.
Building an Early Care and Education Facility
This kit will provide resources and information to support a program's efforts in constructing an early care and education facility.
Improving Onboarding and Retention
This kit will provide a comprehensive orientation plan that can help in fully informing program employees in an effort to retain them.
Lowering
Classroom Ratios
This kit will provide resources to help programs lower classroom ratios.
Utilizing Substitute Teachers to Improve Programming
This kit will provide resources and information on adding full-time substitutes into a program's service strategy as a way to ensure continuity and improve training efforts.
Promoting Healthy Food and Good Nutrition
This kit will provide resources and information on incorporating family style dining into daily routines and sample menus from current child care programs.
Using Classroom Observations to Improve Care
This kit will provide resources and information on classroom observation techniques and how utilizing these practices can improve the quality of care.
Creating Engaging Outdoor Learning Spaces
This kit will provide resources and information on developing outdoor learning spaces, including resources for incorporating natural play elements and utilizing resources to incorporate language.
Establishing
Sick Child Care Services
This kit will provide resources and information on what is needed to establish sick care options within a program.
Making Grants to Stabilize
the Child Care Field
This kit will be an update to NICCA's grantmaking toolkit already available.
