Workshop 3, Part 1 of 2 "Constructing a Comprehensive and Cohesive Birth through Grade Three System" April 10, 2015 (Southbridge, MA) Introduction: Linda Warren, President, Early Childhood Associates Inc.

1. GETTING IT RIGHT FOR CHILDREN:
EARLY EDUCATORS LEADERSHIP INSTITUTE
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2. Welcome
Pam Kuechler, Executive Director
Massachusetts Head Start Association
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3. Recap & Day 3
Preview
Dr. Linda Warren, President
Early Childhood Associates, Inc.
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4. EELI Workshops
EMBRACING THE
CONTINUUM
BUILDING AND
SUSTAINING B-3
SYSTEMS
CONSTRUCTING
COMPREHENSIVE
B-3 SYSTEMS
DRIVING THE
INSTRUCTIONAL
AGENDA
2
1
3
4
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5. Day 2: Building and Sustaining B-3
Systems
•Massachusetts Initiatives
•Policy and Advocacy
•NGA Building Foundations Document
•Leading Day-to-Day
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6. Building the Foundation for Future Success
Learning and Growth Across Multiple Domains
Approaches to Play and
Learning
Cognitive Development
and General Knowledge
Language and
Communication
Development
Physical Development
and Well-Being
Social and Emotional
Development
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7. Comprehensive Policy Agenda
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8. Small Group Discussions
1)Standards
2)Assessments
3)Educator Effectiveness
4)Family And Community Engagement
5)Comprehensive Support Services
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9. • Discussed initiatives currently
implemented in regions and
policy gaps or issues that must
be better addressed
• Identified strategies to advance
the work.
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10. Enhancing Early Learning Standards
• Develop coherent, aligned standards in social emotional
domain and approaches to learning across birth through
grade three continuum.
• Embed standards in higher education courses of study
and in credentialing.
• Integrate new Foundation for Future Success document
and policy agenda in Birth through Kindergarten policies
and practices.
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11. Enhancing Educator Effectiveness
• Build a birth through grade 3 license and credential
• Address issue of equity compensation
• Include Early Education and Care in publicly funded education
• Create competency based educator preparation programs
• Broaden and better define what constitutes professional
development
• Clarify confusion around PD Currency (PDPs, CEUs, Course Credit)
• Ensure that program administrators have a solid grounding in child
development.
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12. Increasing Family and Community
Engagement
• Define family engagement
• Adopt a strength based belief system that considers the full range
of family needs
• Build stronger and explicit links between family engagement and
children’s success
• Network with partners to share information about best practices
for family engagement.
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13. Providing Comprehensive Support Services
• Reach consensus statewide regarding what constitutes a core
support service
• Assess where the gaps are
• Better define the Commonwealth’s role in providing core support
services
• Identify core services in a broad manner so communities can
address diverse needs.
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14. Building a Robust Assessment System
• Examine current assessment tools to eliminate redundancy,
simplify the assessment process and to ensure that the tool fits
the measurement
• Customize assessment processes to better address needs of
different age groups, grade levels, communities and State
mandates
• Dedicate ourselves to fidelity including how we share data
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15. Day 3: CONSTRUCTING COMPREHENSIVE B-3
SYSTEMS
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16. Goals for the Session
• Develop a shared vision for what is needed across the continuum
• Identify the difference between alignment efforts and the status quo
• Recognize different approaches to and stages of alignment in the room
• Strengthen connections among and within communities
• Network with and learn from other attendees and their experiences and
lessons learned.
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17. What We will Cover
• Thinking and Acting Systematically from Birth to 3rd
Grade
• Framework for Planning, Implementing and Evaluating
PreK-3rd Grade Approaches
• Primer on the Eight Framework Buckets
• Bucket Speed Dating
• Reflection & Strategic Planning
• Mixed Community Groups
• Community Groups
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18. Featured Speaker
Kristie Kauerz, Ed.D.
Research Assistant Professor of
P-3 Policy and Leadership
University of Washington
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19. Publications
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20. University of
Washington
Research Assistant
Professor of P-3
Policy and
Leadership
EC and P-3 Policy
Advisor for 2
Governors
Harvard School of
Education Director
PreK-3rd Grade
Initiative
National Center of
Children and
Families
Research Fellow
Teachers College
Columbia University
Experiences
Birth to Five System Building K-12 Reform
40 STATES
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21. GETTING IT RIGHT FOR CHILDREN:
EARLY EDUCATORS LEADERSHIP INSTITUTE
Supporting Birth Through Grade Three Alignment 4/10/2015MA Dept. of Early Education and Care