The quality and quantity of early childhood care and education services have risen as a key reform area for influencing educational and economic outcomes. However, changes in this policy arena are stymied by the fragmentation of this policy arena. Collaborative approaches have been proposed to create systems-level change. Collective impact is one such approach; however, few examples exist in the early childhood care and education literature, especially at the state level. This ethnographic case study conceptualizes collective impact as a policy network capable of change in a fractured policy arena and reports the results from the first year of a statewide collective impact effort examines stakeholder perceptions of mobilization and development of a common agenda, or shared understandings. The results illustrate the importance of relationship building, ongoing attention to common understandings through multiple processes and mechanisms, the importance of the backbone organization, and the need to attend to mindset shifts that accompany early collective impact work.

幼儿保育和教育服务的质量和数量已经提高，成为影响教育和经济成果的关键改革领域。但是，此策略领域的分散阻碍了该策略领域的变化。已经提出了协作方法来创建系统级的更改。集体影响就是这样一种方法。但是，在幼儿保育和教育文献中，尤其是在州一级，几乎没有例子。这项民族志案例研究将集体影响概念化为能够在破碎的政策领域中进行变化的政策网络，并报告了全州范围的集体影响工作第一年的结果，考察了利益相关者对动员和制定共同议程或达成共识的看法。