From the executive summary: "Throughout the school year of 2021-2022, the Center for the Ecology of Early Childhood Development (CEED), worked in partnership with Children’s Literacy Initiative (CLI), to pilot a curriculum audit tool used to evaluate their Pre-K curriculum, Blueprint for Early Learning©, and the curriculum’s accompanying language and literacy resources (i.e., storybooks). This work resulted in the refinement of methodology used by Franco- Jenkins, Iruka, and Curenton (2021) to evaluate Jumpstart’s preschool curriculum.

From that work, the researchers at CEED learned the potential benefits of engaging in a curriculum and literacy resource audit for all schools and early learning programs, leading to a reconceptualization of a framework focused on culturally responsive, anti-bias and anti-racist (CRABAR) learning principles and instructional values. From that framework, Curenton and Franco-Jenkins (2023a, 2023b) developed two new audit tools that can be used by educators and education leaders in Head Start, childcare, or public elementary schools to provide data about the quality of their teaching and learning resources as it relates specifically to themes related to justice, equity, diversity, and inclusion (JEDI).

This work resulted in two publicly available audit tools for reflecting on curricula and detailed criteria for reviewing the features of storybooks. These tools can be used by teachers, education leaders, and administrators working with children in early childhood and elementary school, and are called Reading for Justice, Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion (JEDI): Storybook Audit Tool (Curenton & Franco-Jenkins, 2023a) and Learning for Justice, Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion (JEDI): Curriculum Audit (Curenton & Franco-Jenkins, 2023b).