Training/Professional Development

Presented at the 2013 Improving Data, Improving Outcomes Conference. This session highlighted the ECO Center's new COS Competency Check product. This resource offers a structured way to ensure staff completing the COS process have the basic knowledge and skills needed. Presenters demonstrated the resources developed and shared how the information may be accessed once it is complete. There was an opportunity to provide feedback on the use of the materials and how to support states' use of the resources.

The purpose of the Early Childhood Personnel Center (ECPC) is to be a national resource to State Education Agencies (SEA), Lead Part C agencies, early care and education agencies, Institutes of Higher Education (IHE), and other professional development entities responsible for professional development of personnel providing early childhood intervention to infants, toddlers, and preschool children with disabilities and their families. This webinar featured an overview of the center's activities and resources.

This program shared progress on the development of an online resource on child development as part of the professional development materials for practitioners working with young children ages 0-3 with disabilities and their families. 

This is the second in the series of data workshop activities. In this activity, we dig a little deeper into the quality of state data by reviewing statewide missing data and trend data across years in order to answer the following questions: Do we have enough data to trust the findings? Are the data stable?

This session provides background information for those new to outcomes measurement. The session provides an understanding of the historical roots of federal accountability, the current requirements, and the various purposes and uses of outcomes measurement.