Early Childhood Iowa Governance Retreat August 15, 2008

1. Early Childhood Iowa Governance RetreatAugust 15, 2008 Frameworks for defining and assessing state early childhood system building efforts Michelle Stover Wright Child and Family Policy Center

2. Produced by the Early Childhood Systems Working Group

4. Evaluation and Self-Assessment Framework CONTEXT Successfully building a political context leads to resources that COMPONENTS Establish effective programs and services and CONNECTIONS Create better linkages between components and INFRA-STRUCTURE Create supports that enable continuous improvement so that SCALE The system can produce broad impacts for system beneficiaries From “A Framework for Evaluating Systems Initiatives”, Julia Coffman www.buildinitiative.org

5. Evaluation and Self-Assessment Questions CONTEXT COMPONENTS CONNECTIONS INFRASTRUCTURE SCALE • Has the initiative changed the political environment through its activities? • Has the initiative produced changes to investment, policy, or practice that will enable changes in components, connections, infrastructure, or scale? • Did the initiative design and implement system components as intended? • Did the components produce their intended impacts for beneficiaries? • Did the initiative design and implement connections and linkages as intended? • Did the connections and linkages produce their intended impacts? • Did the initiative establish infrastructure or supports that are consistent with its objectives? • Did the infrastructure or supports achieve their objectives for effectiveness, sustainability, and quality? • Did the initiative enable system scale up with quality and fidelity? • Did scale up result in broad impacts for beneficiaries at a system-wide population level? From “A Framework for Evaluating Systems Initiatives”, Julia Coffman www.buildinitiative.org