1. State Strategies to Support All Early Childhood Professionals
Cross-sector Professional Development Systems:
State Strategies to Support All Early Childhood Professionals
A Service of the Child Care Bureau
2007 OSEP National Early Childhood Conference
December 3, 2007

2. Welcome & Overview Sarah LeMoine, Information Services Manager
Go over the goals for the session
Lori will then do the where are you from and what are your issues/concerns
Sarah LeMoine, Information Services Manager
Lori Connors-Tadros, Early Learning and Literacy Coordinator & State TA Specialist

3. “The nature of social systems is counter intuitive
“The nature of social systems is counter intuitive. A series of actions all aimed at short-run improvement can eventually burden a system with long-run depressants so severe that even heroic short-run measures no longer suffice. Many of the problems we face today are the eventual result of short-run measures taken as long as two or three decades ago.”
J.W. Forrester

4. Cross-Sector Professional Development
Designed to include and serve professionals in:
Public schools
Child care
Head Start
Early intervention
Preschool special education …
… and other early childhood professionals.

5. Moving from Functional Silos …
Early
Childhood
Education
Health
Transitional
Assistance
Social
Services
Workforce
Finance
Higher
Education

6. … to cooperation … to coordination. … to a collaborative,
… to cooperation … to coordination … to a collaborative, comprehensive approach

7. State Early Childhood Development System
Early Learning
Health, Mental Health and Nutrition
Family Support
Definition: An early childhood development system is made up of interrelated parts working together toward a common goal:  to ensure the healthy growth and optimal development of young children in the context of their families.
Special Needs/ Early Intervention

8. “Always keep your eyes and your ears to the success of your partners—if you do, everyone can succeed.”
Ann Nutt

9. Individual  Systems What does “professional development” mean to me?
Mention the NPDCI definition
What does “professional development system” mean to me?

10. PD System Principles
Provide a continuum of training & follow-up activities
Systematically design, sequence, & implement activities
Embed opportunities for ongoing evaluation
Build on a clearly articulated philosophical framework & on a core body of knowledge
Tie to a system of licensure, credentialing, or certification
Mention the NPDCI definition

11. Cross-Sector Strategies
Focus on content
Use standards to unify
Build on strengths
Think all sectors

12. Simplified Framework for a Professional Development System
Outreach
Access and
Credentials,
Qualifications,
and Pathways
Assurance
Quality
Knowledge
Core
Funding

13. Core Knowledge Simplified Framework What is it?
Section 4 of the toolkit
Knowledge
Core

14. Access and Outreach Simplified Framework Why does it matter and
what is available?
Outreach
Access and

15. Credentials, Qualifications, and Pathways
Simplified Framework
Credentials,
Qualifications,
and Pathways
How can we work
toward it?

16. Simplified Framework
How can we afford it?
Funding

17. Quality Assurance Simplified Framework How do we ensure and
measure achievement?

18. Toolkit Overview
Targeted to State/Territory policy-makers and stakeholders.
Intended to serve as a practical guide.
Includes:
Definitions;
Overviews;
State stories;
Selected resources;
State examples; and
Planning tools.

19. Table Discussions Choose one of the five elements to discuss Or
System infrastructure
Use the system infrastructure or other discussion tools at tables
Choose an area and then one or two of the questions

20. Cross-Sector Lens How does [this issue] play out in each sector?
What opportunities for unifying the sectors does [this issue] present?

21. Wrap-Up

22. Thanks for all you do!

23. Alliance for Early Childhood Finance The Build Initiative
The Build Initiative
The Children’s Project
Center for Law and Social Policy (CLASP)
Council of Chief State School Officers (CCSSO)
National Center for Children in Poverty (NCCP)
National Child Care Information Center (NCCIC)
National Conference of State Legislatures (NCSL)
National Governors Association Center for Best Practices
Smart Start National Technical Assistance Center
State Early Childhood Policy Technical Assistance Network (SECPTAN)
ZERO TO THREE

24. CCB’s Child Care Technical Assistance Network
Resources
CCB’s Child Care Technical Assistance Network
Child Care and Early Education Research Connections
Healthy Child Care America
After School Investment Project
National Child Care Information Center (NCCIC)
Tribal Child Care Technical Assistance Center (TriTAC)
Center on the Social and Emotional Foundations for Early Learning
National Infant & Toddler Child Care Initiative

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Thank You
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