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Welcome to PDIS 101
An Introduction to the Professional Development Information System (PDIS)
Welcome to PDIS This presentation is meant to introduce early childhood professionals to the Professional Development Information System, or PDIS for short.
September 2014

2. The Professional Development Information System (PDIS)
The PDIS is a web-based system supporting professional development for Colorado’s early childhood workforce.
The PDIS is a web-based system supporting professional development for Colorado’s early childhood workforce.
Colorado’s New Quality Rating and Improvement System

3. The PDIS: Vision and Guiding Principles
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The PDIS: Vision and Guiding Principles
We are building a professional development system that is accountable, innovative, accessible, inclusive, aligned, well-financed, and collaborative
We are working to ensure positive outcomes for young children and their families by recruiting, preparing and supporting highly effective, caring and diverse early learning professionals
We know that strengthening and supporting early childhood professionals is critical to young children’s success
According to Colorado’s P-3 Professional Development System Plan, we are working to build a system that is accountable, innovative, accessible, inclusive, aligned, well-financed and collaborative.
Teachers are a key component of positive outcomes for children and the PDIS will strengthen and support the professionals that work with young children and their families. 3

4. PDIS Overview Supports individual professionals
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PDIS Overview
Supports individual professionals
Provides professional development
Tracks training and education
Calculates Credential level
Provides information to QRIS
The Competencies are the foundation
Better picture of the workforce
The PDIS will do a few different things for the early childhood professional. It will track training and education, it will provide high quality online professional development and it will help individuals choose professional development according to their competency level, their professional development goals, their job role and their geographic location. The PDIS will also allow individuals to store their professional information all in one place.
It will also calculate Credential level and pass this, along with other relevant information, to the system that will support the Quality Rating and Improvement System, or QRIS. Colorado’s Competencies for Early Childhood Educators and Administrators are the foundation of the system. Through the PDIS, we will be able to learn more about Colorado’s early childhood workforce. This information will help us better support the early childhood workforce.
PDIS supports individuals, whereas QRIS supports programs. 4

5. Components of the PDIS Learning Management System
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Components of the PDIS
Professional Portfolio
Contact information
Demographic information
Employment information
Education and training information
Credential Information
Learning Management System
Delivery of 13 QRIS Level 2 Trainings and other courses as developed
Course catalog
Trainer Approval
Training Approval
Full website
PD Advisor
Personalized Competencies Self-Assessment
Goal setting tool
Individualized Professional Development Plan
One way to think about the PDIS is to think about its major components: A Professional Portfolio, a Learning Management System, and a Professional Development Advisor. Colorado’s Competencies for Early Childhood Educators and Administrators are the foundation of the system.
Colorado’s Competencies for Early Childhood Educators and Administrators 5

6. PDIS Components and User Inputs
Contact information
Demographics
Current employment
Register for QRIS Level 2 Trainings
Competencies
These next few slides go into more detail about the different elements of the PDIS and the related user inputs, at the top left of the slide. The purple arrow illustrates that the Competencies are a part of each component of the system.
Initially, an individual will go in and establish and account. They will then enter demographic and contact information, along with connecting themselves with a current employer. They can then take the QRIS Level 2 Trainings.
Registration and Level 2 Courses
Colorado’s New Quality Rating and Improvement System

7. PDIS Components and User Inputs
Years of experience
Formal education
Ongoing professional development
Demonstrated competence
Competencies
By entering years of experience, education, training, they can then earn an Early Childhood Professional Credential. Later, when this area is more fully developed, an individual will also be able to earn Credential points for ways that they are demonstrating competence.
EC Professional Credential
Registration and Level 2 Courses
Colorado’s New Quality Rating and Improvement System

8. PDIS Components and User Inputs
Review Colorado’s Competencies for Early Childhood Educators and Administrators and assess your current level of competence
Competencies
A professional will be able to go in and do a Competencies Self-Assessment, resulting in a competencies profile, if you will.
Self-Assessment
EC Professional Credential
Registration and Level 2 Courses
Colorado’s New Quality Rating and Improvement System

9. PDIS Components and User Inputs
Choose goals
Receive a customized professional development plan
Competencies
PD Plan
The self-assessment is followed by the generation of a PD Plan, based on professional goals, job role, formal education, ongoing professional development, geographic location and the competency profile referenced in the last slide.
Self-Assessment
EC Professional Credential
Registration and Level 2 Courses
Colorado’s New Quality Rating and Improvement System

10. PDIS Components and User Inputs
Take, connect to and track education and training
Competencies
Ongoing PD
PD Plan
The individual will be able to participate in online courses and this will be tracked and connected to the individual.
Self-Assessment
EC Professional Credential
Registration and Level 2 Courses
Colorado’s New Quality Rating and Improvement System

11. PDIS Components and User Inputs
Ongoing PD
PD Plan
Competencies Self-Assessment
EC Professional Credential
Registration and Level 2 Courses
Competencies
The purpose of this is that we have intentional professional development choices, increasing levels of competence and formal recognition for this increased competence.
Colorado’s New Quality Rating and Improvement System

12. PDIS Usage at Different Levels of QRIS
Individual Registration + Current Employment
Access to Level 2 and other PD
Education and Training, Credentials and Licenses
Triggers Evaluation of EC Professional Credential
Competency Self-Assessment
Individual PD Plan
The Quality Rating and Improvement System (QRIS) and PDIS are connected. These next 2 slides are intended to provide information on how the PDIS will be used at different levels of QRIS.
For a program to get a Level 2 in the new QRIS system, they must complete the individual registration and current employment fields. They must then take the QRIS Level 2 courses.
Colorado’s New Quality Rating and Improvement System

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QRIS Level 2 Trainings
These trainings are designed to support the workforce as they make the change to the new QRIS. The modules will:
Introduce the elements of the Next Generation QRIS and assist the completion of the Self-Assessments and QI Plan
Familiarize early childhood professionals with the Colorado Early Learning and Development Guidelines and the Colorado Early Childhood Competencies for Educators and Administrators
Provide more depth to various aspects of the framework including social and emotional well-being, family engagement, cultural competence and supportive learning environments
A major part of QRIS Level 2 are the QRIS Level 2 Trainings. These trainings are meant to support the transition into the new QRIS.
They will introduce the elements of the new QRIS and present some big structural pieces that were recently developed like the Early Learning and Development Guidelines and Colorado Early Childhood Competencies for Early Childhood Educators and Administrators.
They will also provide more depth to various aspects of the QRIS, like family engagement and cultural competence.

14. PDIS Usage at Different Levels of QRIS
Individual Registration + Current Employment
Access to Level 2 and other PD
Education and Training, Credentials and Licenses
Triggers Evaluation of EC Professional Credential
Competency Self-Assessment
Individual PD Plan
At levels 3-5, an individual must provide the information that allows the PDIS to calculate a Professional Credential, they must complete a Competencies Self-Assessment and they must provide information that allows the PDIS to generate an Individual Professional Development Plan.
Colorado’s New Quality Rating and Improvement System

15. Components of the Early Childhood Professional Credential
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Components of the Early Childhood Professional Credential
(credential levels 1=lowest through 6=highest –level is based on total points earned)
Points
Points
Points
Points
Experience
(Points awarded for each year worked in the field )
Formal Education
Professional Development
(Points awarded for Training Hours/CEUs completed in the last 3 years; extra points awarded courses related to children with high needs, completed as a series, and completed with at least 8 hours of coaching. Points also awarded for specific Licenses, Endorsements, and Certifications that are kept current)
Demonstrated Competencies
(Point system to be developed)
Points
Points
Points
Degrees
(Points awarded for highest degree attained)
Areas of Study
(Extra points awarded for 6 specific areas of study in degrees earned in the last 25 years)
Course-work
(Points awarded for each 3 credit college course with grade “C” or above in ECE or courses aligned with competencies)
A big part of QRIS Levels 3-5 is the Early Childhood Professional Credential. The new Credential will recognize a broader range of ways that professionals gain competence. Individuals will be able to earn points in four different areas: experience, formal education, ongoing professional development and demonstrated competencies.

16. Competencies Self-Assessment
Domain: Child Growth, Development, and Learning Category: Knowledge of Developmental Domains, Changes and Milestones
Select the answer that best describes your level of ability.
I am a novice in this area.
I am able to describe typical development of children and the materials that may be used to support their growth.
I am able to apply current research and theory of developing children. I ensure the program meets the needs of children and families by using them.
I am able to determine materials to share with community partners that will help them identify children who may have delays.
I am able to build and support referral systems that help meet the needs of all children and families (includes those with disabilities or who are dual language learners).
Another major component of the PDIS is the Competencies Self-Assessment. The purpose of this self assessment is:
Help professionals become familiar with the body of knowledge and skills associated with their profession
Discover strength and challenge areas
Connect individual to professional development
Take ownership of their knowledge and skills and take charge of their professional development
Through the self-assessment, the individual creates a competency profile and each professional development offering will have it’s own competency profile.
This is how a “match” happens
The more effort and authenticity go into the self assessment, the more accurate and meaningful the professional development plan will be
This is an example of how one of the self-assessment questions will look. This question is from the Child Growth, Development and Learning Domain. Each question begins the same way, has the same first answer, begins with a basic level of competency and progress through to the advanced level of competency.

17. Individualized Professional Development Plan
After the Competencies Self-Assessment is complete, the PDIS will create a Professional Development Plan according to:
Results of self-assessment
Role
Formal education
Ongoing professional development
Professional goals
After the individual has completed the Competencies Self-Assessment, the PDIS will generate an Individual Professional Development Plan based on the results of the self-assessment, his/her role, formal education, ongoing professional development and professional goals.

18. System Development Summer and Fall 2014
PDIS Timelines
System Development Summer and Fall 2014
User Acceptance Fall 2014
Pilot Fall and Winter 2014/15
Full Rollout Spring 2015
Here is a high level timeline of the PDIS.
We are currently in the thick of system development and will start user acceptance testing in the fall. User acceptance testing is testing to determine if different parts of the system are working in the way they are supposed to.
We will be piloting in the winter and are expecting a full rollout in the spring of 2015.

19. Visit www.cde.state.co.us/early/pdis
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The CDE website contains more information about the PDIS. You can find a Fact Sheet, an FAQ document, Key Messages and a Top 10 List. 19