Every day. In times of crisis. For our future.

Sara Poehlman, Senior Director ECCD

Quality Preschool Packages: Ensuring Outcomes & Equity

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• We work in over 75 countries around the globe • We reach directly close to 2 million children per year and we

indirectly touch the lives of over 10 million children • We support a wide range of programs - Home based,

Community-based, School-based, Parent Education, Intensive Summer Programs, among others

Save the Children’s Global ECCD Portfolio

Contents & Questions

• What does preschool quality mean? • What scaffolding is needed to create quality? • Where are children’s skills? • What gains do parents support most? • How do we impact on environment & equity? • How do we achieve big for children?

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What does preschool quality mean?

High correlation between quality of learning environment (ECERS) and IDELA emergent numeracy and literacy scores, Rwanda 2014

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Quality Environments and Child Outcomes

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Quality early learning

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Quality Preschool Package

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Getting Started

Analyze

Mobilize Environment

Training

Teaching Assess

Enhance

Scale

Quality Preschool Package

• Review & synthesis of +300 programming documents • ‘How to’ of preschool programming • Scaffolding – Find the entry point • Consider children holistically • Maximize adult engagement • Build programs on evidence • Support transitions • Start where you are and think big

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Sample School Readiness Across Countries: IDELA as Grade 1 Baseline

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Figure 13. Average baseline and gain scores for children in the ELMI Center group and ELMI Parenting group with 4+ learning activities at home at endline

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Preschool affects parent engagement

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Figure 11. Baseline and gains in learning and playing activities at home, by intervention group

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Environments Matter

Environment & Interactions = Outcomes

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Build for sustained gains: Rwanda

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Figure 9. Average baseline and gain scores, by group

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Mozambique: Scaling from the ground up

Results for Children

US$29.1 per child / 1 year preschool Source: The Promise of Preschool in Africa: a Randomized Impact of Early Childhood Development in Rural Mozambique

24% more likely to enroll in primary school

7.2 additional hours/wk on

learning activities

40% stunting

87% increase in the cognitive

domain scores; strong results

motor and emotional

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Results for Families

6% increase 10-15 year-olds going to school

Caregivers 37% more

likely to work

Instances of physical

punishment – 46% drop vs.

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Quality Preschools & Quality Systems

Expand access to quality ECD + build foundations for national

ECD system

Quality Preschool Package: Putting together all the instruments

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spoehlman@savechildren.org

Thank you!