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We want to welcome current and new ECEAP contractors
to this new ECEAP program year! DEL would
like to introduce and welcome our newest ECEAP Contractors:
- Bellevue School District #405
- Lummi Indian Business Council
- Skagit Islands Head Start and
- Tender Moments LLC Daycare and Preschool.
We look forward to a productive
new program year!
DEL has planned a year of
supports for new ECEAP contractors and new directors. Along with the monthly contractor calls, this
year we will have an introductory New Director Webinar, a pull-out session at
the October Directors Meeting, and quarterly webinars. We will gather your
input at the October Directors Meeting for further supports. Dates for these
opportunities will be coming soon.
Our ECEAP Directors Meeting is from October 1 – 2, 2015. Location to be
announced and registration information will be available soon.
ECEAP becomes a statutory entitlement in
school year 2020-21 which means that by Fall 2020, all eligible children in our
state whose families choose to participate, will be able to attend ECEAP. Because
the number of requested slots from applicants did not reach our expansion goals
for this year, we will be having another round of requests for applications for
part day ECEAP slots. An announcement on the RFA Round 2 Application will be coming
soon.
Electronic copies of the ECEAP contracts
and amendments are coming soon! Once you
receive your long awaited contract or
amendment, return the signed
copies to DEL. Print two copies, one for
you and one for DEL. Sign both signature pages with an ORIGINAL signature. Scan
one signature page and email it to del.contracts@del.wa.gov. Mail the complete document and both
signature pages with original signatures to:
DEL Contract
Office
PO Box 40970
Olympia, WA
98504-0970.
The single signature page will be
signed by DEL and returned to you for your files. We cannot pay your vouchers
until the signed contract has been returned to DEL. Please feel free to contact
us at eceap@del.wa.gov if you have any questions.
It has always been important to make sure that your ECEAP slots are full
for all months your classes are in session in accordance with the ECEAP Performance
Standard B-109. DEL staff have monitored
this weekly. For the 2015-16, this will
also be part of the monthly processes run by the Caseload Forecast Council in
the Governor’s Office of Financial Management. To make sure they have accurate
data, be sure to enter actual start dates in ELMS for each child once they have
shown up to class in person. Also, be sure to assign children to waiting list
once you’ve completed their prescreen or application. If you have trouble filling or re-filling any
of your ECEAP slots, please work closely with your assigned DEL Pre-K
Specialist. If you need assistance with
ELMS, contact elms@del.wa.gov.
• Please note the August 26 ELMS Administrators Training below.
• See the short handout on Starting the new school year in ELMS.
• ELMS Administrators should now remove ELMS access from any staff who will not be returning for the coming school year.
• DEL released improvements to ELMS on July 23, including the following:
- The Enrollment Maintenance report now tracks enrollment by class instead of site.
- Child records from 2014-15 are now all correctly rolled forward to 2015-16.
- Priority points are corrected on the waiting lists for specific 4-year-olds.
• If you experience a difficulty with ELMS, or have suggestions for enhancing ELMS, please email elms@del.wa.gov.
- As you hire
ECEAP lead teachers, assistant teachers, and family support staff over the
summer, please ensure that they enter the education that qualifies them for
their ECEAP role into the MERIT system.
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There is a
substantial financial award to the individual staff member based on the
education entered (unless the staff person has already received their full
award).
- The education
verification process requires that staff send official transcripts or copies of
official transcripts. If you send copies of unofficial transcripts, grade
reports, or documents printed from the web, they will not be processed and it
will delay your staff qualifications verification and your education
award. Several ECEAP staff have made
this mistake recently. If you are
copying two-sided documents, be sure to copy and send both sides.
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Read the
full instructions here.
Teaching Strategies GOLD® has
extended the following DEL discounts to ECEAP contractors, Head Start,
childcare and private pay programs that are participating in Early Achievers.
- 5%
discount on any sets of The Creative Curriculum for Preschool purchased after
7/1/2015 through 12/31/2015.
Programs participating in Early
Achievers will need to contact Travis Moss at Teaching Strategies GOLD®
directly to receive these discounts.
With Child
Care Aware (CCA) support, DEL developed 2 flyers – one for parents and one for
existing providers. The purpose of the Early Start Act flyers is to provide
initial information and clarify the Early Achievers mandates and supports that
are stated in the Early Start Act. Please visit the new Early Start Act pages on DEL’s website to view this information.
Longtime San Juan County ECEAP
Director Sage MacLeod is retiring in October.
Congratulations Sage! We wish you all the best. San Juan County invites
applications for the ECEAP Coordinator (Director) position located on Orcas
Island. Please see the job posting on the county’s website
Personnel/Human Services page located at http://www.sanjuanco.com/administration/employment.aspx.
Pre-K CLASS Observation and Reliability Training
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Date/Time: Aug. 11 – 12, 2015, 9:00 am - 4:00 pm
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Location: The Landing at Northcut, 5001 25th Ave NE,
Seattle WA 98105
Please contact Melissa Brown at
mbrown26@uw.edu or at 206-886-9218 with any questions.
Training for New ELMS Administrators
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Date/Time: Aug. 26, 2015, 9:00 am - 3:30 pm
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Location: South Seattle Community College
Deadline to register is August 19. This free one-day training is for new ELMS
Administrators who will be the ELMS super-users for their ECEAP contractor.
See details and register by one week in advance here.
Coach Framework Training
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Date/Time: Oct. 13 – 16, 2015, 9:00 am - 5:00 pm
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Location: The Landing at Northcut, 5001 25th Ave NE,
Seattle WA 98105
Register at https://www.regonline.com/coachframeworkOCTOBER2015. Participants will be responsible to arrange their own
travel/accommodations and meals.
Washington Association for Education of Young
Children (WAEYC) Requesting Proposals
Early Achievers Institute
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Date/Time: Nov. 19 – 22, 2015
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Location: Edward D. Hansen Conference Center, 2000 Hewitt Ave, Everett, WA 98201
ECERS 2-Day Training
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Date/Time: Dec. 7 – 8, 2015, 8:30 am - 5:00 pm
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Location: The Landing at Northcut, 5001 25th Ave NE,
Seattle WA 98105
Register at https://www.regonline.com/ECERS2daytraining. Participants will be responsible to arrange their own
travel/accommodations and meals.
WERA/OSPI Annual
Conference
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Date/Time: Dec. 9 – 11, 2015
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Location: Hilton Seattle Airport Conference Center
WERA brings together educational
leaders, teachers and researchers. Registration will open in September. Keynote
Presenters include Pat Wasley, Chief Executive Officer, Teaching Channel
Timothy Shanahan, Distinguished Professor Emeritus, University of Illinois at
Chicago.
P-3 Symposium
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Date/Time: March 10, 2016
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Location: Hilton Seattle Airport
Hotel and Conference Center
Current Resources
A Professional Development, Department of Early Learning
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as well as tips, ideas, current research, and more.
Active Supervision to Keep Children Safe
Office of Head Start (OHS) and the National Center on Health look at how six
active supervision strategies can help staff keep children safe. The 30-minute webinar includes a
question and answer (Q&A) session.
Strategies from the Field: Active Supervision
Learn about strategies around child supervision and use redundant systems to
make sure all children are accounted for in the classroom and on the playground
in this 30-minute webinar.
What We Can Continue to Learn from Fred Rogers
– July 2015
In this July edition of What We Can Continue to Learn from
Fred Rogers, read about how to help children
refuel and learn from their mistakes.
Health
Advancing a Community-Based Model for Violence Prevention
Watch Advancing a
Community-Based Model for Violence Prevention, the 21st National Health Equity
Research Webcast. This interactive symposium explores the intersection of
health, policy, and diversity through panel discussions with experts and a
question-and-answer session.
AFIRM Modules Facilitate the Use of Evidence-Based Practices with
Learners with ASD
These modules will help you
learn the step-by-step process of planning, using and monitoring evidence-based
practices with learners with autism.
Head Start Health Services Newsletter on
Asthma
Asthma is a leading chronic
illness among children and youth. In this newsletter, learn to promptly treat asthma symptoms and prevent future episodes.
Self-Regulation and Toxic Stress: Foundations for
Understanding Self-Regulation from an Applied Developmental Perspective
This
is the first in a series of four inter-related reports titled Self-Regulation
and Toxic Stress. The first report, Foundations for Understanding
Self-Regulation from an Applied Developmental Perspective,
provides a comprehensive framework for understanding self-regulation in
context, using a theoretical model that reflects the influence of biology,
caregiving, and the environment on the development of self-regulation.
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