2010 WHSA Achieving Excellence Awards – Community Partner and Parent & Staff Scholarship Award Recipients
Congratulations to the 2010 Wisconsin Head Start Association Achieving Excellence Awards recipients! Each year WHSA is honored to present Achieving Excellence Awards to our outstanding community partners—those individuals or organizations who benefit our Head Start...
New from CSEFEL – Teaching Your Child to Become Independent with Daily Routines
Both parents and practitioners who work with families will be interested in the latest "Teaching Your Child to . . ." resource from the Center on the Social and Emotional Foundations of Early Learning (CSEFEl) at Vanderbilt University--Teaching Your Child to: Become...
Fragile Families Journal from the Future of Children
The Future of Children, a collaboration between Princeton University and the Brookings Institution, has released its latest journal Fragile Families (vol 20, no. 2) with an accompanying Executive Summary and related Policy Brief. As described in the Executive...
WISCAP’s 2010 Poverty Matters! Conference – Sustaining Economic Opportunity
WHAT: 2010 Poverty Matters! Conference, Sustaining Economic Opportunity SPONSOR: Wisconsin Community Action Program Association (WISCAP) WHEN: November 17-18, 2010 WHERE: Radisson Paper Valley Hotel, Appleton DESCRIPTION: This annual conference brings together human...
Desired Results Access Project Launches Digital Video Initiative for Professional Development Activities
The Desired Results access Project, a part of the Desired Results System accountability initiative from the California Department of Education to assist its Special Education Division, has launched a digital video initiative to help practitioners enhance their...
Blueprint for Early Education Compensation Reform from the Bessie Tartt Wilson Initiative for Children
The Bessie Tartt Wilson Initiative for Children (BTWIC) Ad Hoc Task Force on Early Education Compensation facilitated by Dr. Valora Washington, President of CAYL Institute, has released its Blueprint for Early Education Compensation Reform to guide states...
Draft FY 2012-13 CCDF Plan for States and Territories Released for Public Comment
The Office of Child Care (OCC) has released a draft of the FY 2012-2013 Child Care Development Fund (CCDF) plan for public comment. States, territories, and others may comment on the proposed plan until Tuesday, November 23, 2010. OCC reorganized the CCDF plan to...
ACF Announces Office of Child Care to Replace Child Care Bureau
On October 4, 2010 the US Department of Health and Human Services’ Administration for Children and Families (ACF) announced a reorganization that established an Office of Child Care (OCC) to support low-income working families through childcare financial assistance...
5th Annual ESL/Bilingual Networking Conference, “The Power of Dialogue & Stories for Change”
WHAT: The 5th Annual ESL/Bilingual Networking Conference, The Power of Dialogue & Stories for Change SPONSORS: Edgewood College and Wisconsin Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages (WI TESOL) WHEN: Thursday, October 28, 2010 from 9:00 a.m to 3:30 p.m....
The Unique History of 4K in Wisconsin – New Great Start Brief from WCCF
The Wisconsin Council on Children and Families has released the sixth policy brief in its Great Start series, "The Unique History of Four-Year-Old Kindergarten in Wisconsin." The new brief provides a historical overiew of 4K in the state and explores key...
New Center for Early Literacy Learning Video – Interests Lead to Learning
The Center for Early Learning Literacy Learning (CELL) has released a new video, Child Interests--Interests Lead to Learning, to help parents or practitioners explore how to identify a child’s personal and situational interests and how those interests can be used for...
The Center to Mobilize Early Childhood Knowledge Releases CONNECT Module 3: Communication for Collaboration
The Center to Mobilize Early Childhood Knowledge has released CONNECT Module 3: Communication for Collaboration, new module focused on communication practices that can be used to promote collaboration with professionals and families in early care and education, and...
Family-Focused Interventions for Promoting Social-Emotional Development in Infants and Toddlers with or at Risk for Disabilities
The Technical Assistance Center on Social Emotional Intervention for Young Children (TACSEI) has published its fifth Roadmap to Effective Intervention Practices, "Family-Focused Interventions for Promoting Social Development in Infants and Toddlers with or at Risk for...
FY 2010 Ends; Passage of Continuing Resolution to Keep Federal Funds Flowing
Today marks the beginning of the 2011 fiscal year. Neither the House nor Senate passed into law any of the twelve FY 2011 appropriations bills prior the end of FY 2010, so this week each arm of Congress passed into law a continuing resolution (CR), a "stop-gap"...
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