A number of Promise Neighborhoods grantees are well into the implementation phase and adopting different approaches to achieve the common result that all children enter kindergarten ready to succeed. In 2012, the Center for the Study of Social Policy (CSSP) authored a report with snapshots of the early learning work taking shape in the first cohort of Promise Neighborhoods grantees. As current grantees continue building their cradle-to-career pipelines, it is useful to examine what strategies some of these pioneer neighborhoods are adopting and why, how neighborhood stakeholders are implementing these strategies and how they are measuring progress and tracking results. This promising practices guide builds on the original 2012 report and offers a more in-depth and behind-the-scenes look at the experiences of three Promise Neighborhoods grantees. (author abstract)