Cross-Sector Work
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Cross-Sector Work
Cross-Sector Work
The way we work together and the resources we share reflect a shared vision, which fosters strong partnerships and ensures mutual accountability between early childhood and K-12 education systems.
Strategic Roadmap
Leadership
Leadership
Create a joint board or committee across different sectors to formalize decision-making, ensure partners understand their roles, and prioritize B-3 initiatives.
Funds
Funds
Fund B-3 initiatives by generating new revenue and reallocating existing public and private funds.
Long-Range Planning
Long-Range Planning
Collaborate on a B-3 strategic plan and update it regularly to ensure collective commitment to enhancing outcomes for children.
Your Role...
District/Community Administrators
District/Community Administrators
Form a Guiding Structure: Establish an authoritative board or group with defined duties. Formalize partnerships with key organizations using Memorandums of Understanding (MOUs) to clearly establish mutual leadership.
Define the Direction: Direct the creation and public announcement of a unified B-3 vision and strategic plan. Base this strategy on a thorough review of local data and community requirements.
Resource Management: Intelligently merge and coordinate various funding streams (federal, state, local, private, and grants). Fund a high-level staff position dedicated solely to leading and managing these B-3 cooperative activities.
Principals/Site Administrators
Principals/Site Administrators
Solidify ECE Pathways: Identify and establish official ties with the main Early Childhood Education (ECE) providers that transition children into your school.
Form Collaborative Leadership: Create a B-3 steering committee that includes educators from both the school and community settings, tasked with fostering joint work across all years of the P-3 continuum.
Embed and Resource Goals: Visibly back the B-3 framework, ensuring its objectives are integrated into your school's annual improvement plans. Actively pursue outside funding (like grants or gifts) to support smoother transitions, staff development, and assistance for children and families moving from ECE into elementary grades.
Teachers, Families, & Community Members
Teachers, Families, & Community Members
Participate in Leadership: Help form a B-3 leadership committee that includes educators from both school and community settings to foster cooperation and align practices across different years of instruction.
Promote Consistent Communication: You can ensure a smooth experience for children by actively using consistent terminology and clearly communicating the primary objectives of B-3 efforts.
What is Nevada Doing?
What is Nevada Doing?
B-3 Approach in Action.pdfNevada’s use of the National P-3 Framework aligns birth–3rd grade systems through Cross-Sector Work to ensure educational continuity and equity for students, families, and educators.
Nevada B-3rd Grade (B-3) Buckets.pdfNevada’s B-3rd plan uses the National P-3 Framework to align early learning systems and professional practices for equitable transitions.
Nevada Pillars of the P-3* Promise.pdfThe Pillars of the P-3 Promise framework aligns Nevada's B-3 systems through unified messaging, summer transitions, and development-based professional learning. It establishes "Lighthouse Schools" and provides coaching and grants to scale developmentally appropriate instruction statewide.
The Nevada Institute for Children’s Research and Policy (NICRP) supports the National P-3 Center’s cross-sector goals by conducting community-based research and advocacy that aligns early childhood systems, data, and policies across Nevada to improve outcomes for children from birth through third grade.
Guinn-Center-Report-Nevada-2024.pdfThe 2024 Guinn Center report identifies Nevada’s early childhood system as a fragmented network of over 60 entities that creates significant inefficiencies and barriers for families.
Statewide_Plan_for_the_Improvement_of_Pupils.pdfIncorporates Birth-3rd Grade goals to align Nevada's educational systems through developmentally appropriate practices. It mandates professional training for educators to ensure equitable, high-quality instruction across early childhood and elementary programs.
The Nevada Early Childhood Advisory Council website serves as a strategic hub to coordinate and align state-level programs ensuring children from birth to age eight are healthy, safe, and thriving.
2025_Prek_12_Nevada_State_Literacy_Plan.pdfThe 2025 PreK–12 Nevada State Literacy Plan provides a vertically aligned blueprint for improving literacy outcomes through evidence-based instruction, data-driven interventions, and comprehensive professional learning across the state's educational system.
ECCS-Strategic-Plan-2023.pdfThe Nevada Early Childhood Comprehensive Systems (ECCS) Strategic Plan outlines a multi-sector framework to improve maternal and infant health while increasing developmental screening and service coordination for children birth through age three.
This interactive platform provides Nevada PDG B-5 grant information and project updates for the early childhood community and stakeholders. We invite you to share ideas, stay informed, and engage with our team.
Nevada Senate Bill 460 establishes a statewide accountability system mandating school achievement plans, tiered state interventions for underperforming entities, and enhanced teacher requirements for literacy instruction and licensure.
The B-3rd Grade Data Dashboard serves as a fiscal map visualizing early childhood education metrics and the strategic allocation of state and federal funds to support learning from birth through 3rd grade.
CCDF FFY 2025-2027 For Nevada.pdfThe Nevada 2025–2027 Child Care and Development Fund (CCDF) Plan outlines the state’s strategy for administering federal funds to improve access, affordability, and quality of childcare services for low-income families.
Areas of overlap
Contact Information
Nevada Department of Education - Office of Early Learning and Development
Anna Severens – aseverens@doe.nv.gov
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