Labs to Support Developing Analytics from Early Childhood Data

ECDataLab brings your agency teams together, alongside other teams, to develop analytics that answer real policy and program questions using your agency’s own integrated early childhood data.

Join the 2027 Waitlist Waitlist now open

From a state partner

“I like being part of the cohort. It’s helped to engage some key folks in our state in a different way and love hearing from other states about their issues.”

Ana Hicks — Policy Director, Human Services, Governor’s Office of Policy Innovation and the Future, Maine

About the Lab

What to expect.

ECDataLab facilitates an expert-led cohort that supports your team’s development of skills that stay with your agency long after the lab concludes.

  • ✓Co-developed analytic work built around your agency’s specific policy priorities and data
  • ✓Customized coaching from analytic, data science, and technical specialists throughout the lab
  • ✓Cross-agency peer learning structured around shared methodological questions
  • ✓Asynchronous self-study modules accessible to all team members at varying experience levels
  • ✓Coaching sessions and onsite support to advance your agency’s analytic work

From a state partner

“The dedicated time, structured support, and practical tools provided through the cohort have enabled us to make progress much faster than we anticipated.”

Dianna Tullier, M.Ed. — B-5 Partnerships Director, Alabama Department of Early Childhood Education

Is this right for your agency?

A good fit if your agency is…

Working with integrated early childhood data from two or more programs or systems

Interested in one or more of the 2027 lab topic areas

Ready to dedicate staff (program, technical, analytic)

Looking to build internal capacity through hands-on experience

Willing to contribute to and learn from cohort-based conversations with other teams

2027 Lab Topics

Our lab work is organized around strengthening coordination across early childhood programs and data systems, improving access and program quality, and better understanding outcomes for children and families.

Labs may focus on the following:

Analytics to support strengthening coordination across the early childhood system
–Program sequencing and child outcomes
–Planned enrollment
–Understanding workforce movement
Analytics to support improving program quality and access
–Addressing the needs of the workforce pipeline
–Referral and common eligibility
Analytics to better understand and address the needs of children
–Literacy development and educational outcomes
–Community assessments
Analytics to support informed family choice
–School readiness

How to join

Four steps.

Step 1

Review the labs

Step 2

Join the waitlist

Step 3

Connect with us

Step 4

Apply