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New State Spotlight: Florida Builds Local Data-Use Capacity
This state spotlight highlights the Florida Department of Education's strategies to build local data literacy capacity and the positive impacts those efforts had on student outcomes. Access this resource here. Discover other helpful information in the NCSI Resource Library. … [Read more...]
State Spotlight: Using MTSS Data to Improve Graduation Rates
To facilitate problem solving within an MTSS, SEAs and LEAs need efficient systems and processes for analyzing and integrating data across initiatives. Creating the infrastructure to support data-based problem solving can be a challenge. This spotlight shares how three states use different approaches to promote data use within an MTSS to improve graduation rates for students with … [Read more...]
New Guidance Document: Social & Emotional Practices – Examples of relationship-based practices for working with families
This tool includes simple ideas for for early intervention practitioners to use to support the parent-child relationship towards supporting the child’s social and emotional development. Access this resource here. Discover other helpful information in the NCSI Resource Library. … [Read more...]
New Resource: Three Circles of Evidence-Based Decision Making in Early Childhood
This resource presents steps in an evidence-based decision-making process to collect and integrate information from multiple sources. Access this resource here. Discover other helpful information in the NCSI Resource Library. … [Read more...]
New Tool Available: Part C APR and SSIP Phase III Development and General Supervision Activities: An Integrated Timetable
This product is a tool that integrates Part C APR and SSIP Phase III development and general supervision activities into one easy quick reference tool for Part C coordinators and other state leadership staff as they plan out their annual deadlines and key activities. Access this resource here. Discover other helpful information in the NCSI Resource Library. … [Read more...]
Managing the Implementation Dip – Guiding Questions & Strategies for the State Systemic Improvement Plan Implementation
An implementation dip may occur at any point during a change process but particularly when something new is introduced. Anything that requires different skills and understandings is NEW to those who have to implement it. The plan may have been too loosely defined or need more management, results might be poor or unknown, and momentum may have been lost. What often happens after this blip or … [Read more...]
New Resource: NCSI Early Childhood TA Opportunities for 2018
NCSI has developed a quick reference sheet to help Part C and 619 leaders to know what early childhood technical assistance offerings are available this year from NCSI to support their work in implementing SSIPs and improving General Supervision Systems. Access this resource here. Discover other helpful information in the NCSI Resource Library. … [Read more...]
New Report: Measuring Children’s Developmental Progress – Perspectives of State Early Intervention and Early Childhood Coordinators and Technical Assistance Facilitators
The National Center for Systemic Improvement (NCSI) conducted a series of focused conversations on child assessment with 31 Part C (Infant–Toddler) and Part B-619 (Preschool) program state representatives and NCSI Technical Assistance (TA) Facilitators. The purpose was to learn more about how state early intervention and early childhood programs use measures, tools, and other assessment approaches … [Read more...]
Early Childhood IDEA Centers On Call
OSEP has released a document meant to help states better understand the content focus of the six TA Centers. The U.S. Department of Education’s Office of Special Education Programs (OSEP) has funded six national TA Centers to respond to requests for technical assistance from state Part C & Part B 619 agencies. The TA Centers focus on distinct but also overlapping areas and are working together to … [Read more...]