Early Childhood Personnel Center
Project Description:
The purpose of this project is to fund a cooperative agreement to support the establishment and operation of an Early Childhood Personnel Center (Center) to (1) serve as a national resource on personnel standards, competencies, and recommended practices for professional development for personnel providing services to infants, toddlers, and preschool children with disabilities and their families; (2) assist states in aligning their personnel standards to national professional organization standards for all personnel providing services to infants, toddlers, and preschool children with disabilities and their families, aligning or integrating those standards with standards for early childhood personnel of all children, and linking those standards to state competencies and certification or licensure requirements; (3) assist state agencies and IHEs in developing partnerships with each other to support alignment between preservice and inservice training for all personnel providing services to infants, toddlers and preschool children with disabilities and their families; and (4) in alignment with the vision outlined in RTT-ELC, assist states in developing integrated early childhood professional development systems to ensure that IDEA Part C and Part B preschool programs and personnel in each state are included within the states professional development initiatives and that all early childhood personnel have the competencies to effectively serve infants, toddlers, and preschool children with disabilities and their families. The project will utilize a regional approach to technical assistance using implementation science and scaling up practices to develop, implement and evaluate its activities. The project will be spearheaded by a project director (Bruder) and co-director (Sugai) and three regional directors (Horn, Squires, Woods) each of whom is at a research one university across four regions of the country: University of Connecticut; Florida State University; University of Kansas and the University of Oregon.
Keyword(s):
Preservice, Inservice, Teacher Training
Core Function(s):
Performing Research or Evaluation, Developing & Disseminating Information
Area of Emphasis
Education & Early Intervention, Other - Leadership
Target Audience:
Professionals and Para-Professionals, Legislators/Policy Makers
Unserved or Under-served Populations:
Other
Primary Target Audience Geographic Descriptor:
Regional
COVID-19 Related Data:
N/A
