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Enhance Family Navigation Supports: Create more outreach and information sharing platforms to ensure all families can effectively navigate options, understand quality indicators, access application processes for programs and financial assistance.

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Enhance Family Navigation Supports: Create more outreach and information sharing platforms to ensure all families can effectively navigate options, understand quality indicators, access application processes for programs and financial assistance.

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Address Critical Supply Gaps: Develop a strategic expansion plan prioritizing partnerships between public schools and community-based providers to maximize existing facilities and staff resources.

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Address Critical Supply Gaps: Develop a strategic expansion plan prioritizing partnerships between public schools and community-based providers to maximize existing facilities and staff resources.

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Support Middle Income Families: Establish a local scholarship or sliding-scale tuition program targeting these families, who earn too much for subsidies but too little to afford full-price care.

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Support Middle Income Families: Establish a local scholarship or sliding-scale tuition program targeting these families, who earn too much for subsidies but too little to afford full-price care.

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Support Middle Income Families: Other Solutions

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Support Middle Income Families: Other Solutions

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Align Program Hours with Family Needs: Explore coordination between half-day programs and complementary care options to create seamless full-day experiences that accommodate working families' schedules.

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Align Program Hours with Family Needs: Explore coordination between half-day programs and complementary care options to create seamless full-day experiences that accommodate working families' schedules.

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Align Program Hours with Family Needs: Other Solutions

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Align Program Hours with Family Needs: Other Solutions

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Strengthen Kindergarten Readiness Alignment: Develop community-wide kindergarten readiness indicators that acknowledge the Massachusetts Early Learning Guidelines and Frameworks while providing concrete, measurable outcomes that all programs—regardless of curriculum—can work toward.

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Strengthen Kindergarten Readiness Alignment: Develop community-wide kindergarten readiness indicators that acknowledge the Massachusetts Early Learning Guidelines and Frameworks while providing concrete, measurable outcomes that all programs—regardless of curriculum—can work toward.

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Enhance Professional Development Systems: Create a coordinated, accessible professional learning community that spans all provider types. 

Support early childhood-specific training, curriculum implementation strategies, and inclusive practices with cross-program collaboration and mentorship opportunities.

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Enhance Professional Development Systems: Create a coordinated, accessible professional learning community that spans all provider types. 

Support early childhood-specific training, curriculum implementation strategies, and inclusive practices with cross-program collaboration and mentorship opportunities.

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Improve Assessment Practices:  Implement a community-wide approach to measuring and sharing child outcomes that respect programmatic differences while ensuring all are assessed on key developmental domains critical for kindergarten success.

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Improve Assessment Practices:  Implement a community-wide approach to measuring and sharing child outcomes that respect programmatic differences while ensuring all are assessed on key developmental domains critical for kindergarten success.

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Streamline Service Delivery: Expand the itinerant service model to bring more specialized services directly to community-based settings where children are enrolled, minimizing disruptions while maintaining service quality.

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Streamline Service Delivery: Expand the itinerant service model to bring more specialized services directly to community-based settings where children are enrolled, minimizing disruptions while maintaining service quality.

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Reconsider Two-Day Program Structure: Continue to evaluate the possibility of extending programming for children receiving specialized services to ensure adequate exposure to curriculum and intervention time.

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Reconsider Two-Day Program Structure: Continue to evaluate the possibility of extending programming for children receiving specialized services to ensure adequate exposure to curriculum and intervention time.

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Support Inclusive Practices: Develop targeted professional development on differentiated instruction, behavior management strategies, and creating supportive learning environments for children with diverse needs.

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Support Inclusive Practices: Develop targeted professional development on differentiated instruction, behavior management strategies, and creating supportive learning environments for children with diverse needs.

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Strengthen Transitions:  Focus on improving coordination during key transition points—from Early Intervention to preschool and preschool to kindergarten—to ensure consistent information-sharing, aligned expectations, and seamless service continuation for children with special needs.

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Strengthen Transitions:  Focus on improving coordination during key transition points—from Early Intervention to preschool and preschool to kindergarten—to ensure consistent information-sharing, aligned expectations, and seamless service continuation for children with special needs.

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Improve Data Collection & Analysis:  Implement consistent, coordinated data collection on enrollment patterns, service utilization, and kindergarten readiness to better identify system gaps, measure progress, and inform strategic decision-making across the mixed delivery system.

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Improve Data Collection & Analysis:  Implement consistent, coordinated data collection on enrollment patterns, service utilization, and kindergarten readiness to better identify system gaps, measure progress, and inform strategic decision-making across the mixed delivery system.

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