Description

Cultivate Learning advances the fields of early childhood education and expanded learning opportunities through expertise and resources that bridge theory and practice to ensure every child flourishes from a foundation of quality learning.

Cultivate Learning is committed to supporting the early childhood education (ECE) and expanded learning opportunity (ELO) workforce. We leverage expertise in community-based research and practice to develop innovative state and national technical training, tools and implementation strategies for quality recognition systems, and higher education initiatives that create equitable pathways to the profession. We participate as quality recognition specialists to assess and support the improvement of quality in learning environments and work with like-minded evaluation partners on local and national projects aimed at informing policy and systems at state and national levels.

Partners

UW Seattle;

Alliance for Early Success, Child Care Aware, Early Childhood Policy in Institutions of Higher Education (ECPIHE)
Fond du Lac Tribal Community College, The Imagine Institute, National Center on Early Childhood Development, Teaching, and Learning, National Center on Parent, Family, and Community Engagement, Start Early, Rutgers/NIEER (National Institute for Early Education Research), School’s Out Washington, WestEd, Zero To Three

Funders

U.S. Department of Health & Human Services, Administration for Children and Families, Office of Head Start, Washington State Department of Children Youth and Families, City of Seattle Department of Education and Early Learning, Bezos Family Foundation, Ballmer Group, District 1199C Training & Upgrading Fund, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, The Office of Head Start, Oregon Department of Education – Early Learning Division, Raikes Foundation, Seattle Department of Education and Early Learning, Stranahan Foundation