Resource Library

Resource Library

Welcome to the Ready for School, Ready for Life Resource Library—your hub for practical tools and templates designed to support capacity building, effective teaming, and sustained implementation. Whether you’re a community partner, early childhood provider, or systems-level leader, this collection offers user-friendly resources to guide planning, data tracking, team collaboration, and strategic action. Explore tools that can help you implement change ideas, foster a culture of learning, and drive collective impact across Guilford County and beyond.

Teaming Resources

Foundational tools to help establish and guide team collaboration and structure.

Team Charter

Charters are used to create norms and processes for a team’s way of working.

Team Roles & Responsibilities

Outlines team roles, responsibilities, and performance attributes.

Measurement

Practical tools for tracking progress and visualizing data.

Run Chart Maker

Graph changes over time and help determine whether they are leading to improvement.

Change Ideas

Structured templates to plan and capture ideas for improvement.

Change Ideas Workplan

Track change ideas and how change will take place.

Fishbone Diagram

Visual display to identify multiple causes of a problem.

The Five Whys

Used to identity the root cause of a problem.

Gemba Data Collection

An observational walk through processes teams use.

Pareto Chart

Identifies significant causes of problems and prioritizes the “vital” few to focus on.

Process Map

A simple diagram of steps involved in a process in order to provide a service.

PDSA (Plan-Do-Study-Act) Templates

Opportunity to test small scale changes to assess what needs improvement.

Building a Culture of Continuous Quality Improvement

High-level planning and reflection tools to foster sustainable quality improvement. 

Project Planning Form

A tool to help teams think systematically about their improvement project.

Action List Template

A template that tracks the critical actions, timelines, and progress for a team.

Owner Hand-Off Checklist

Creates transitions of responsibility for process owner changes.

Mapping Infrastructure

Assesses roles and relationships; rules, routines; and resources.

Project Sustainability Checklist

This checklist assists in sustaining your project improvements. Under each task, identify ways that the ask will be accomplished.

Progress Reflection

Guides teams through an intentional reflection process. Teams can reflect on their data/learning and determine what next steps are needed.

Place-Based Collective Impact Resources

Tools and materials that support collective impact across communities, tailored to place-based collaborative approaches.

Seeding Success

Child Trends

Collective Impact Forum

Center on the Social and Emotional Foundations for Early Learning

Early Childhood Data Resources

MDRC Resource: Setting Strong Benchmarks

Institute for Child Success Measurement Tool

Measures of Success for Grade-Level Reading

Public Health Equity Dashboard

Unite Literacy Book Desert Map

Smart Start Community Indicators

Additional Resources

Early Childhood Workforce Model Standards

Childhood Interventions Benefit-Cost Estimates