Division for Early Childhood 2024 Conference: Full Schedule

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9:00am CDT

Advancing Specialized Competence: A Statewide Early Intervention Credential

Friday September 20, 2024 9:00am - 10:00am CDT

This session will share how one state revised the existing early intervention (EI) credential, partnered with higher education, and garnered inservice professional development initiatives to prepare, evaluate, and recognize highly specialized, effective EI professionals who are responsive to all families and the systemic marginalization of those from diverse identities.

Speakers

Bonnie Keilty

Sabrina Crowe

Birth to Three Professional Development, Connecticut Office of Early Childhood

Sabrina Crowe joined the CT Office of Early Childhood Birth to Three division in early 2021 in the Education Outreach position and more recently supporting Professional Development. Her background is as a Speech Language Pathologist. She has spent over the past 20 years working within... Read More →

Koleen Kerski

Personnel and Development, Office of Early Childhood: Birth to Three

Advancing Specialized EI Competence pptx

Friday September 20, 2024 9:00am - 10:00am CDT
GrandSalon 18- 1st fl

Professional Development

Age 0-3
Audience 1 Administrators
Audience 2 Faculty
Content Level Advanced

10:15am CDT

Inclusion as a Personnel Retention Strategy: Making Collaboration Work

Friday September 20, 2024 10:15am - 11:15am CDT

GrandSalon 18- 1st fl

Collaboration, essential to effective inclusion, can be challenging for adults. Join us to reframe collaboration challenges as relationship building opportunities that result in effective inclusive practices. In this interactive session, we will discuss strategies for building collaborative relationships that promote staff retention while facilitating inclusion.

Speakers

Paula Grubbs

Technical Assistance Specialist, ECTA Center at UNC

Jani Kozlowski

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Every Child Can Fly: An Early Childhood Educator's Guide to Inclusion: https://www.gryphonhouse.com/books/details/every-child-can-fly-an-early-childhood-educators-guide-to-inclusion

DEC 2024 Inclusion as a Personnel Strategy Resources docx

DEC 2024 Reflection Guide for Collaboration Continuum docx

DEC 2024 Inclusion as a Personnel Strategy Upload version pptx

Friday September 20, 2024 10:15am - 11:15am CDT
GrandSalon 18- 1st fl

Practice

Age 0-5
Audience 1 Administrators
Audience 2 Practitioners
Content Level Intermediate

12:00pm CDT

Teachers’ Use of Effective Feedback: Inclusive Early Childhood Settings 

Friday September 20, 2024 12:00pm - 1:00pm CDT

GrandSalon 18- 1st fl

Early childhood (EC) educators seek professional development (PD) to gain new strategies for teaching young children. Offering coaching is more effective for impacting change than one-time PD sessions. We explore how PD with coaching impacts the creation of high-quality inclusive preschools using the Inclusive Classroom Profile (ICP) to measure feedback.

Speakers

Age 3-5
Audience 1 Practitioners
Audience 2 Researchers
Content Level Intermediate

Division for Early Childhood 2024 Conference

9:00am CDT

Bonnie Keilty

Sabrina Crowe

Koleen Kerski

10:15am CDT

Paula Grubbs

Jani Kozlowski

12:00pm CDT

Angel Greer

Thomas Lipscomb

Audra Classen

Alicia Westbrook