1. Early Development
instrument (EDI)

2. Education
The United Way of El Paso County is committed to
ensuring that every child has the best start in
achieving success in school.

3. State Partnership
The Texas Community Campaign for School Readiness (TCCSR)
is a 19 member state advisory council established by Gov. Rick Perry
in 2009.
TCCSR Aims to improve school readiness in Texas through targeted
strategies stemming from the Council’s four priority areas:
• Parental Outreach and Communications
• Early childhood workforce and professional development
• Collaborations and standards
• Data systems and Quality Rating and Improvement Systems

4. National Partnership
UCLA – Center for Healthier Children, Families and
Communities—Uses the Early Development
Instrument (EDI)
Transforming Early Childhood Community Systems
(TECCS) system identifies local needs, helps generate
solutions in collaboration with local leaders.
TECCS involves three parts:
• Mapping needs for community school readiness
• Helps local leaders develop & implement solutions
• Shares best practices across communities

5. Why Early Learning
Matters
• Children are born learning.
• The neurosystem is pre-programmed
to develop skills and neuropathways,
depending on the experiences it
receives
• Children’s earliest environments &
experiences determine the strength
or weakness of the brain’s
development

6. Early Development
Instrument
• Monitors populations of children over time in different
communities. (On handout there is a map of other
communities using EDI)
• Provides information about:
• Developmental strengths /vulnerabilities
• Ways to help improve service systems for children
• Results from the EDI enable us to:
• Look forward to adjust school programs for incoming
students
• Look backward to adjust service systems
• Overall objective : Students are READY to LEARN
EDI is not intended to be used as a diagnostic tool to screen or
identify children with special needs.

7. Early Development
Instrument
• Extensively validated, reliable, and an appropriate measure
for children
• Based on a checklist completed by kindergarten teachers
• For each child in the class
• 104 questions grouped into five domains
• Physical Health and Well-being
• Social Competence
• Emotional Maturity
• Language and Cognitive Skill Development
• Communication Skills and General Knowledge

8. Anticipated Outcomes
• Increased community awareness of the importance of early
childhood development
• Facilitates collaborative relationships
• Allows analysis—the impact of past investments &
guides future investments
• Emphasizes prevention & focus on the population
• Effective approaches to improve early childhood systems
• Gains public support
• Helps to sustain resources dedicated to early childhood

9. Anticipated Outcomes
The EDI project provides:
•Each community with a Community Profile Report which is
public information that contains EDI tables and maps (based on
where children live-physical address)
•Each district with a confidential district report that provides
information on how children are doing developmentally.
•Each school with a confidential campus report that provides
information on how children are doing developmentally.

11. EDI Maps
The EDI data maps allow stakeholders to compare
children’s development:
• By geography to identify areas of greatest need
• To socio-economic indicators
• Observed outcomes
• To identify service gaps
• (Handouts-less=vulnerability and dark=more vulnerable)

14. Developmental Domains with
16 Sub-Domains—(on your handout)
Physical health and well-being (3)
Child is healthy, independent, ready each day
Social competence (4)
Child plays, gets along with others and shares, is self-confident
Emotional maturity (4)
Child is able to concentrate, help others, is patient, not
aggressive or angry
Language and cognitive development (4)
Child is interested in reading and writing, can count and
recognize numbers, shapes
Communication skills and general knowledge (1)
Child can tell a story, communicate with adults and children,
articulate themselves

15. Timeline-Now
January
• District uploads student rosters to central
database
• Distribute teacher training packets
• Begin Teacher orientation – One hour session
via web conferences
• Class lists /student rosters assembled
• Parent letters distributed

16. Timeline-Future
February
• Teachers complete the EDI
• Teachers fill out the feedback form
• Teachers are compensated
• UCLA begins analysis
August / September
• Share data with district

17. Teacher Compensation
Teachers will be compensated for their time while administering the
Early Development instrument. Teachers will receive a Wal-Mart gift
card determined by the following schedule.
Teachers that complete fewer than 10 surveys………$10.00 Gift Card
Teachers that complete 10 – 20 surveys………...……$20.00 Gift Card
Teachers completing 21 or more surveys………….....$30.00 Gift Card
All teachers with an 80% or higher completion rate will also be eligible
for one of three $100 Wal-Mart gift cards to be drawn for after all the
surveys have been completed.

18. Year One Schools
Barron Lee
Bliss Logan
Bonham Milam
Bradley Moye
Burnet Newman
24 Northeast schools in
Cielo Vista Nixon
Collins Park year one (2012)
Crosby Powell
Dowell Schuster All additional elementary
Fannin Stanton schools in year two (2013)
Hughey Travis
Tom Lea Whitaker

19. Contact
Jason Brewer
VP, Marketing & Community Building
United Way of El Paso County
915-533-2434
jbrewer@unitedwayelpaso.org