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Child Care Physical Environment Checklist

The Physical Environment Checklist  was created to provide a unique tool to help Early Care and Education providers assess their facilities and create a quality improvement plan. Date Published: April, 2021 Publisher: LISC Rhode Island Child Care Facilities Fund Click To View

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Rhode Island Early Learning Facility Self-Assessment Tool

This tool is designed to guide you through the process of assessing the physical space of your early learning facility. In developing the criteria the following regulations were considered: Rhode Island Department Program Regulations for Child Care Licensure Rhode Island Department of Education Comprehensive Early Childhood Education Programs Standards for Approval of Preschool and Kindergarten

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Developing Early Childhood Facilities

Volume 1 on Developing Early Childhood Facilities identifies all of the steps in the real estate development and financing process, and helps early childhood providers and their partners carry out early feasibility and planning activities, building an appropriate project development team, selecting and acquiring a site, raising money, and completing construction. english spanish Published by

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Designing Early Childhood Facilities

Volume 2 on Designing Early Childhood Facilities highlights the connection between well-designed space and high quality programming, and helps early childhood providers, community developers, and architects plan effective spaces for young children. The guide includes an overview of design principles, a tour through a center’s functional areas, and information on materials, lighting, security, urban settings

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Child Care Facilities: Quality by Design

Discussions about the quality of child care most often revolve around what takes place inside any given child care center: curriculum and program content, adult-child ratios, teacher qualifications, and so on. Yet many of those factors — and ultimately, the quality of care in general — depend in no small part on the design of

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