This article is a summary of a longer paper published in 2010 by the Brookings Institution with the support of the Bernard van Leer Foundation, Scaling-up Early Child Development in Cuba – Cuba’s Educate Your Child Program: Strategies and lessons from the expansion process, by Alfredo R. Tinajero, an early childhood development research specialist for Latin America at the Founders’ Network and research associate in the Hincks-Dellcrest Centre in Toronto.