The prevalence of preschool expulsion, coupled
with racial disparities in expulsion rates and the potential long
term negative effects of challenging behaviors in the early years,
has created an urgent need to build early childhood systems to
address these issues. The teaching and guidance policy essen￾tials checklist (TAG-PEC) has been developed to assess nine
essential features of high quality early childhood discipline
policies and can be used by early childhood programs in a
variety of settings to evaluate, refine, and revise existing policies
or guide in the development of new policies. Using data from
282 guidance policies assessed using the TAG-PEC, the authors
use a framework for systems building developed by Coffman
(A framework for evaluating systems initiatives, 2007) to po￾sition the TAG-PEC as a powerful tool that can be used to help
build and support an effective and cohesive early childhood
system. Findings indicate that, overall, discipline policies were
not high quality and there was a great deal of variability in the
TAG-PEC scores. By bringing evidence based practices to the
field via a simple to use checklist, the authors hope to help
contribute to the development of a comprehensive early child￾hood system and that supports programs in the provision of high
quality services to children and families.

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• Using the Teaching and Guidance Policy Essentials Checklist to Build and Support Effective Early Childhood Systems

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