Building a High-Quality Child Care and Early Learning Infrastructure for New York City

• creates a language-rich learning environment that optimizes children’s cognitive, social, and emotional development
• engages in developmentally appropriate, culturally responsive, and linguistically sustaining practices

• creates a language-rich learning environment that optimizes children’s cognitive, social, and emotional development
• engages in developmentally appropriate, culturally responsive, and linguistically sustaining practices

• creates a language-rich learning environment that optimizes children’s cognitive, social, and emotional development
• engages in developmentally appropriate, culturally responsive, and linguistically sustaining practices

Throughout this report, high-quality child care means a program that

• creates a language-rich learning environment that optimizes children’s cognitive, social, and emotional development;
• engages in developmentally appropriate, culturally responsive, and linguistically sustaining practices;
• uses curricula, learning materials, and resources that encourage respect for diversity as well as respect for children’s racial identities and cultural heritages;
• fosters consistent relationships with caring, responsible educators and child care staff who are attuned and appropriately responsive to children’s social-emotional needs; and
• recognizes that families are essential to children’s well-being and engages them in an inclusive, supportive way.