The Early Childhood Gateway

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Webinar Series

• Innovative Online Professional Development Resources (11/13)
• Online ECAS-- Summer 2012 Enhancements Webinar (9/12)
• IFSP Enhancements Webinar Resources (2/28/12)
• Family Outcomes Webinar Resources (2/16/12)

Tool Enhancements

• Online IFSP -- Summer 2011 Enhancements
  
• Online ECAS Summer 2012 New Releases
  
• Online IFSP—Winter 2012 Enhancements

• Best Practices: Public Awareness/Child Find
  This webinar provides an overview of public awareness/child find strategies utilized throughout the state, including a spotlight on two jurisdictions’ best practice efforts. To view a recording of the webinar, please click here. https://connect.johnshopkins.edu/p6pqyx51imb/. Supporting PDF document.

• Baby Talk is a free, one-way listserv that is distributed monthly. Each issue features one or more resources, the majority of which are available to download at no cost. To join the listserve, send an email with no message to subscribe-babytalk@listserv.unc.edu.
• State Scan of Social and Emotional Learning Standards, Preschool through High School - is a report that highlights preliminary findings from the first year of a two-year project conducted by The Collaborative for Academic, Social, Emotional Learning and the University of Illinois at Chicago Social Emotional Learning Research Group.
  
• 2011 Preschool Spring Administration Briefing materials now available! See Child Outcomes Systems (scroll to bottom)
  
• Birth to 3: A Guide to Early Intervention Services in Maryland- Research shows that early intervention makes a difference!   This guide is a valuable resource that helps families understand early intervention services in Maryland.  It is available in 15 different languages!
  
• MSDE Employment Opportunities
  

Check out the podcasts, webinars, webcasts, and online videos on a variety of topics of interest to both families and service providers.

Learn more about Maryland’s Early Childhood Intervention and Education System of Services for children Birth through age five.  Maryland has received grant funding that will allow families who have children in early intervention that are also determined eligible for preschool special education to chose which service best meets their needs.  For public review please check out the revised version of the Policies and Procedures document.

1-28-13 Targeted Reading Intervention Identified as Promising Practice

1-23-13 Children’s complex thinking skills begin forming before they go to school

11-2-12 Free Resources for Incorporating an Emphasis on Cultural, Linguistic, and Ability Diversity

Be sure to check out News and Feature archives, as well as News Sources for up-to-date news, articles and other important information related to early childhood education.