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Albanese, Gretchen Kirby, Lizabeth Malone, Katie Gonzalez, Anne Douglass, and Reggie Gilliard  \nMeasuring leadership in center-based early care and education settings: What we can learn from teaching staff and center managers  \nOPRE Brief \\#2024-347  \nEffective leadership is important in providing high-quality education and a range of services, based on research in other fields such as K–12 education, management, and health care. Yet, there is little information available about what leadership looks like in center-based early care and education (ECE) settings and how it can improve center quality and outcomes for staff, children, and families. There is also a gap in the information existing measures of leadership in ECE can provide about what teaching staff and center managers contribute to leadership and what they do as leaders (Malone et al. 2021).  \nThe Early Care and Education Leadership Study (ExCELS) team developed a measure of ECE leadership based on a theory of change that grew from research findings in ECE and related fields. The measure features surveys of teaching staff and center managers to get their perspectives on what leadership looks like in their centers. Using data from 110 ECE centers, we tested the soundness of the ExCELS measure from these two perspectives.  \nIn this brief, we discuss what we can learn from teaching staff and center managers to understand ECE leadership. We begin by describing the ExCELS measure we used to get teaching staff and center managers’ perspectives about elements of leadership. Next, we discuss how those perspectives can help us understand the link between a type of leadership we call distributed leadership and positive outcomes for staff and centers (for example, how satisfied the teaching staff were with their jobs, and how much teaching staff turnover there was in the center) . Then, we look at what the two perspectives can tell us about relational coordination in ECE centers and how much relational coordination matters for promoting positive outcomes for staff and centers. Finally, the brief presents ideas for using the ExCELS measure in research and practice and ideas for further testing what teaching staff and center manager perspectives each contribute to understanding leadership. Box 1 shows the key terms we use in the brief.  \nBox 1. How we define key terms in this brief  \n• Teaching staff. Teachers and assistant teachers who provide care and education to children in ECE center classrooms.  \n• Center managers. A center director or site leader (responsible for day-to-day operations) and other people who oversee center operations, the care and education program, center finances, and other areas.  \n• ECE centers. Center-based early care and education settings that serve children ages birth through 5 who are not yet in kindergarten.  \n• Distributed leadership. When center managers, teaching staff, and families are involved in decision-making, change, and improvement.  \n• Relational coordination. How center managers, teaching staff, and families develop shared goals, shared knowledge, mutual respect, and high-quality communication together.  \n• Work environment. A center’s culture, climate, and lines of communication among staff and with families.  \n• Concurrent validity. Demonstration of the association (usually measured as a correlation) between a score on a given measure and performance on another measure obtained at approximately the same time.   \nA measure of leadership in ECE centers  \nWe developed the ExCELS measure to learn what leadership looks like in ECE centers. We also wanted the measure to help assess how ECE leadership can promote positive outcomes for staff, center quality, children, and families. A technical report has details about how we developed the measure and presents evidence about the measure’s validity (it measures what it is supposed to measure) and reliability (it measures things the same way in","cbCaim3h6cdnlNey","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaim3h6cdnlNey","pdf",1154514,15,"English","# A measure of leadership in ECE centers\n## The ExCELS leadership study approach\n## How the measure captures three leadership elements\n## Distributed leadership and positive outcomes\n## Relational coordination and work environment\n## Using ExCELS in research and practice","[{\"question\":\"What problem does the brief address about ECE leadership?\",\"answer\":\"The brief addresses the limited information on what leadership looks like in center-based ECE settings and which contributions teaching staff and center managers make as leaders. 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