Your QEC:
Participants engage in joint activities and discussions, help each other, and share information. They build relationships that enable them to learn from each other. They develop a shared repertoire of resources: experiences, stories, tools, ways of addressing recurring problems—in short a shared practice that includes: Problem solving, Requests for information, Seeking experience, Reusing assets, Coordination and synergy, Discussing developments, Documentation projects, Visits, Mapping knowledge and Identifying gaps.
Content Area Experts: Each Quality Enrichment Circle will be facilitated by a Content Area Expert, a respected peer who has the on the ground experience, extensive knowledge and skill in their content area. Special feature this year will include an opportunity for each QEC to interact with each other in a dedicated online community. In this network, users share their knowledge, ask questions, converse, and collaborate outside of their meeting dates. It is a perfect resource for staying connected and providing and receiving useful information!
First QEC Meeting Agenda Items:
Coaching
Social / Emotional Development
Attendance & Enrollment
Performance Standards Measures
Quality Teaching and Learning
Teachers Parterning with Parents
Family Services:
Parent Curriculum
Attendance/Enrollment
Family Outcomes (monitoring)
Parent Guage vs. Tracking Now
Goal Setting with Families
Data with Family Engagement
Performance Standards Measures
Mental Health & Disability
Social Emotional
Challenging Behaviors
Suspension / Expulsion
Referrals
MH Consultations
10% Mandate
Health & Nutrition
CACFP Standards
Safety Training / required
Data - report /Child Plus
Health Status
PIR
Dental
Vision
Hearing
Bed Bugs
EHS
Attendance
Practice Based Coaching
Curriculum for Socialization
Transitions
Social /Emotional
Potential Themes to be Included in Education QEC:
School Readiness Planning—Systems Approach, Data Analysis / Planning for Program Improvements, CLASS / Implementation Planning, Professional development to improve CLASS scores, Practice Based Coaching—Supporting Change in Teacher’s Practices, QRIS , Intentional Teaching—Planning for CLASS, Gateways (Credentials/Registry)
State Systems, Continuous Quality Improvement, Serving Dual Language Learners-Policy and Practices, Engaging Families
Successful Transitions, Dealing With Challenging Behaviors, RTI, Autistic Children, Revised Child Outcomes Framework
Content Will Be Driven By YOU!
Potential Themes to be Included in Family Services/Family Engagement QEC:
Framework, Measuring family outcomes, Self assessment of current family and community engagement strategies
Family outcomes and school readiness, Data analysis and planning program improvements, Community resources to support family outcomes, Relationship based competencies for staff, Financial Literacy, Support strategies for Family Service Staff, Dealing with stress, Using technology to work smarter not harder, Two-Generation Approach
Content Will Be Driven By YOU!
Potential Themes to be Included in the Disability/Mental Health QEC:
School Readiness goals related to disabiities and mental health, Dealing With Challenging Behaviors, RTI, Autistic Children, documentation and record-keeping system(s), accessibility, disability services plans, health and safety, screenings, identifying children with disabilties, individualization, transitions, engaging families of children with disabilities, disability laws and policies, social-emotional development, mental health consultation tool, motivational interviewing, challenging child mental health concerns, trauma, adult mental health, Center on the Social Emotional Foundations of Early Learning (CSEFEL)
Potential Themes to be Included in the Health & Nutrition QEC:
School Readiness goals relating to health and nutrition, Family outcomes relating to health and nutrition, program planning, health tracking and recordkeeping, PIR, communication, Healthy nutrition, physical activity and obesity prevention , Oral Health and dental homes, Health Literacy , Cooking Matters
Health Care Act, healthy active living, growing healthy, active play, nutrition assessment, food and nutrition assistance, nutrition education, nutrtion policies and procedures
Potential Themes to be Included in the EHS QEC:
School Readiness, Quality in Approaches to Early Childhood Development and Health, Family Partnerships, EHS and Expectant Families, Home based and center based, learning environments, brain development, comprehensive services.