All meetings will be 10:00am - 3:00pm
Education:
April 30, 2018
Family & Community Engagement:
May 1, 2018
Disabilities & Mental Health:
May 2, 2018
Health & Nutrition:
May 3, 2018
Early Head Start:
May 4, 2018
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Member Rate: $295.00 per person
Non Member Rate $445.00 per person
5 or More Registrations from the same Agency will receive a discounted rate of $270.00 per person (*Agency must be an IHSA member is order to receive discounted rate)
QECs: A Unique Learning Experience- Special For YOU!
Quality Enrichment Circles (QEC’s) are a group of your peers/colleagues who share ideas and insights, help each other solve problems and develop a common practice or approach to your content area. QEC’s are groups of people who share a concern or a passion for something they do and want to learn how to do it better. Most professionals, like you, learn about new tools and developments in their field not by reading journals, but by consulting their colleagues. Colleagues are not only sources of information. They are also sources of judgement about how valid and useful information will be. Each QEC helps "pull" insights from each participant when they need it, rather than "pushing" it out to them. Most of us have had the experience of sitting through long discussions that were not immediately relevant. Even when there are gems of insights in these discussions, they are hard to pull out and remember. Most of us learn best when faced with a problem and need ideas to solve it, when we "pull" information currently relevant. Your Quality Enrichment Circle is designed to respond to pull rather than push information out to people.
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.
First QEC AGENDA
ADDITIONAL POSSIBLE TALKING POINTS:
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!