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Great start community conversation: Indicators Conversation ended June 25, 2004 Documents used for this community conversation: Response from Michigan's Communities of the Recommended Indicators To create Michigan's strategic plan for a comprehensive early childhood system, the Early Childhood Comprehensive System (ECCS) project is following the results and performance accountability approach created by Mark Friedman and colleagues at the Fiscal Policy Studies Institute (www.resultsaccountability.com). The ECCS project believes that the results and performance accountability approach is currently being successfully used by more than 40 states, counties, cities, and other municipalities. A set of consensus results was finalized by the Early Childhood Core Team (ECCT) of the ECCS project on May 7, 2004. Those consensus results were developed with the participation of 54 counties and nine early childhood organizations. A set of recommended indicators has been prepared for each result. Indicators are the data markers that track changes over time. Indicators help to quanitfy the achievement of result. Indicators answer two questions: (1) How would we recognize the results in measurable terms, if we fell over them? and (2) How will we know if we are making progress toward the results? In June 2004, the ECCT asked Michigan's communities to review and comment on the recommended indicators and made adjustments to the indicators accordingly:
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