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Our What's New page tries to keep you up to date on various child care issues.  To read updates and information from previous months, visit the What's New Archive.   If you have suggestions for this page, please contact us.  We look forward to hearing from you!

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What's New - May 2013

North Carolina Technical Assistance Practitioner Competencies
What knowledge, skills and dispositions are needed by technical assistance (TA) practitioners who work in early care and education and school-age child care settings? A diverse group of stakeholders was invited to address this question. Their dialogue informed the development of this Framework for North Carolina Technical Assistance Practitioner Competencies. Read more about this effort here. The TA Competencies document, and more on technical assistance, can be found on the website of the NC Institute for Child Development Professionals.


What's New - April 2013

Public Hearing on North Carolina’s Child Care and Development Fund (CCDF)
The federal Child Care and Development Fund (CCDF) provides block grant funding to states to support early care and education services. Members of the public are invited to review and comment on the proposed 2013-2015 CCDF Plan and the services that it will provide. Read this public notice for more information about the CCDF Plan and how it is used in North Carolina. The public notice includes information about your opportunities to offer comments and recommendations on the proposed plan: in-person at a public hearing on April 25 or in writing through email or US Mail.


What's New - March 2013

NC Pre-Kindergarten Program Evaluation Results for the 2011/2012 Program Year The North Carolina Pre-Kindergarten Program (NC Pre-K) is a state-funded initiative for at-risk 4-year-olds, designed to provide a high quality, classroom-based educational program during the year prior to kindergarten entry. The 2011–2012 evaluation study included information about charac¬teristics of the NC Pre-K Program statewide and observations of class room quality and teacher surveys in a random sample of 100 class rooms. The primary research questions addressed by this evaluation included:

What were the key characteristics of the local NC Pre-K programs?

What was the quality of the NC Pre-K classrooms attended by children?

What factors were associated with better quality?

To what extent were these results similar to past years under the More at Four Program?
Please click here to access the Evaluation Summary and click here to access the Full Report.

NC Pre-Kindergarten Rule changes
NC Pre-Kindergarten Rule .3008 Formative Assessments became effective on March 1, 2013.

Phase-Out of DCDEE Print Publications / Retiración Progresiva de Publicaciones de Impresión de DCDEE
Print publications will no longer be sold by the Division of Child Development and Early Education. Child care center and family child care home handbooks, child care law and rulebooks for centers and homes, and Infant Toddler Foundations will be available online only. Read this memo in English and en Español for details about the change and links to the online publications.

Change to the NC Family Child Care Credential adds EDU 114 as a course to earn the credential certificate.
Read this flyer to learn how EDU 114 - Introduction to Family Childcare can now be used to qualify for the NC Family Child Care Credential (NCFCCC) certificate. You can apply for the NCFCCC certificate by completing the revised NC Credential Application (DCD.0168) which now includes EDU 114 as a course to earn the credential.





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