Overview
Community-wide implementation of the Pyramid Model refers to the coordinated adoption of the framework across an entire community’s early childhood system—not just within individual classrooms or programs, but spanning multiple agencies, service systems, and settings (childcare centers, Head Start, home visiting, mental health services, etc.) that serve young children and families.
The Community-Wide Benchmarks of Quality (CW-BoQ) was developed to provide Community Leadership Teams (CLT) with a tool to identify the critical elements for implementing the Pyramid Model for Promoting the Social and Emotional Competence of Infants and Young Children within early childhood education and care programs across the community. This tool might be used by a regional entity that has oversight for early childhood education programs in an area (e.g., county, service district), by a school district or Head Start grantee that has classrooms across multiple schools and programs, or by a community-level cross-sector team that has been formed to implement and scale-up Pyramid Model implementation.
