Special Quest Preview February 11, 2004

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Strategies for Sustaining Inclusive Practices
Lessons Learned from State and Community
SpecialQuest Teams

Welcome!
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Strategies for Sustaining Inclusive Practices
Lessons Learned from State and Community
SpecialQuest Teams
Welcome to Strategies for Sustaining Inclusive
Practices Lessons Learned from State and
Community SpecialQuest Teams.
Kathy Whaley NECTAC
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Outcome

• Participants will learn from the experiences of
  teams at the state and community levels that have
  utilized the SpecialQuest approach, materials,
  and resources to create and sustain effective
  early childhood inclusive practices.

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Agenda

• What is SpecialQuest?
• Principles of Sustainability lessons learned
  from state and community teams
• Questions and Answers
• Reflections

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Presenters
Linda Brekken Director, SpecialQuest Birth-Five
Susan Stewart SpecialQuest Birth-Five Community
of Practice Curriculum Coordinator
Pat Cameron Massachusetts SpecialQuest State
Leadership Team Liaison and Section 619
Coordinator in the MA Department of Early
Education and Care
Pam Wildnauer Assistant Head Start and Early Head
Start Director and a member of the Massachusetts
Fall River Community Team
Holly Wilcher Early Childhood Mental Health
Educator and the Liaison for the Colorado
SpecialQuest State Leadership Team
Rosie Moreno Early Childhood Supervisor for the
Eagle County Health and Human Services Department
and a Member of the Eagle County Community Team
in Colorado
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What is SpecialQuest?
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What is SpecialQuest?
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The SpecialQuest Community
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The PIP/PEP Cycle
Adapted From Fixen Blasé, NIRN http//www.fpg.un
c.edu/nirn/
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Holly Wilcher
Colorados State Leadership Team

• Office of the Lt. Governor
• Head Start State Collaboration Office
• Director of the Division of Child Care
• Colorado Department of Education
• Colorado Department of Public Health and
  Environment
• Colorado Part C System Early Intervention
  Colorado
• Higher Education
• Head Start and Early Head Start programs
• Colorado PEAK Parent Center
• Parents
• SQ B-5 Community Graduates and Ambassador
• DU Fisher Early Learning Center

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Holly Wilcher
Colorados State Leadership Team

• Our Vision
• Early childhood inclusion in Colorado will embody
  the values, policies, and practices that support
  the right of every infant and young child and his
  or her family, regardless of ability, to
  participate in a broad range of activities and
  contexts as full members of families,
  communities, and society.
• Adapted from Division of Early Childhood and
  National Association for the Education of Young
  Children joint position statement on Inclusion.

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Holly Wilcher
Colorados State Leadership Team
SpecialQuest Colorado Progress

• Informed RFP for Center for Best Practices on
  Early Childhood Social and Emotional Competence
  and Inclusion
• SpecialQuest Approach adopted within college
  coursework
• SpecialQuest Approach being embedded within
  required training for Part C personnel
  development
• Service Coordinators
• Developmental Intervention Assistants/Para

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Rosie Moreno
Eagle County, Colorado Community Team

• Rural Community
• School District Characteristics
• Goals and Action Plans
• Graduate Community

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Rosie Moreno
Eagle County, Colorado Community Team
SpecialQuest 2003-2007 Achievements
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Pat Cameron
Massachusetts State Leadership Team

• Head Start Association
• Head Start State Collaboration Office
• Dept. of Public Health (Part C)
• Dept. of Early Education and Care (619)
• Dept. of Elem. Secondary Ed (big B)
• Higher Education
• Head Start and child care programs
• Parents

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Pat Cameron
Massachusetts State Leadership Team

• Our Vision
• Recognizing that all children
• are born with possibilities,
• families and children birth to five
• will have access to high quality,
• child- and family-centered
• inclusive settings
• in a seamless system of
• coordinated supports and services.

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• Three demonstration sites
• Citizens for Citizens Head Start
• Holyoke Chicopee Springfield Head Start Migrant
  Program
• Cape Cod Child Development Program

• Six colleges/universities
• UMass/Boston
• Lesley University
• North Shore Community College
• Wachusett Community College
• Bristol Community College
• Cape Cod Community College

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Pam Wildnauer
Fall River, Massachusetts Community Team

• Southeast Region
• Low-Income
• Multi-cultural

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Pam Wildnauer
Citizens for Citizens, Inc. Early Head
Start/Head Start

• Enrollment
• Options
• Locations
• Staff

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Pam Wildnauer
2007 SpecialQuest Graduate Team

• Original Team
• State Leadership Team Member
• Current Team

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Pam Wildnauer
Fall Rivers Vision

• To achieve and sustain
• a local, integrated and collaborative
• system between community providers,
• including families, that supports children
• birth to five in reaching their full potential.

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Questions
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What questions do you have?
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Questions
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Developing a vision can be difficult. Do you have
any tips for others since we know its very
important?
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Questions
?
How do you support childcare or other early
childhood education programs that have had little
or not experience with inclusion?
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Questions
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What supports do you offer family members to
participate at local community levels and at
state levels?
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Questions
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Have you had issues with the special education
staff not thinking the children with significant
disabilities arent ready to be in the childcare
setting?
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Principles of Sustainability

• Change literature
• Six principles
• Principles Strategies Staying Power

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Sustain the Quest

• Principles of Sustainability
• Clear direction and vision
• Administrative support
• Active involvement by all
• Reciprocal community partnerships
• Time and practice
• Continuous Improvement

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Sustainability
Clear Direction and Vision
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Sustainability
Administrative Support
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Sustainability
Active Involvement by All
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Sustainability
Reciprocal Community Partnerships
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Sustainability
Time and Practice
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Sustainability
Continuous Improvement
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Colorados Experience
SpecialQuest Work within Early Childhood
Colorado Framework

• Colorado has adopted an Early Childhood Systems
  Building Framework
• Office of the Lieutenant Governor staffs an Early
  Childhood Systems building team
• Team membership from Office of the Lt. Governor
  ensures SpecialQuest is represented at state and
  local levels

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Colorados Experience
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Colorados Experience
Principles of Sustainability

• Vision
• Administrative Support
• Active Involvement by All
• Reciprocal Community Partnerships
• Time and Practice
• Continuous Improvement

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Questions for Colorado
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Lets Take Some Questions
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Questions for Colorado
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Could explain your states funding sources that
support inclusion within community based
childcare programs?
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Questions for Colorado
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How is the cost for the time of
training/professional development covered?
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Questions for Colorado
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How have you ensured that families have
meaningful opportunities for leadership and the
state and local levels?
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Questions for Colorado
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Has the work state of the state leadership team
or the work been affected by the climate?
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Massachusetts Experience
Principles of Sustainability

• Vision
• Administrative Support
• Active Involvement by All
• Reciprocal Community Partnerships
• Time and Practice
• Continuous Improvement

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Questions for Massachusetts
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Responses to Prior Questions About Funding
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Questions for Massachusetts
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What is the grant cycle for the Center for Social
Emotional Foundation for Early Learning?
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Questions for Massachusetts
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What has facilitated the local to state and state
to local interactions, and have you always been
doing it this way?
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Questions for Massachusetts
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How is MA integrating SpecialQuest with CSEFEL
resources/practices?
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Follow-up
Questions?webinar_at_specialquest.org Follow-Up
Materials www.specialquest.org/webinar
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Additional Resources
http//www.specialquest.org
Web-based SpecialQuest Multimedia Training Library
http//www.specialquestlibrary.org
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Reflections
Use the chat feature to share one thing that you
heard on this call that you plan to carry forward
into your work.
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