Sharing Web Resources

1.In my exploration of the Zero to Three early childhood website I followed some of the outside links. These links included:

·         NTI (National Training Institute)-professional development available for all in the early childhood field in the form of a large conference held annually. In this conference, professionals may pick and choose which courses they would like to partake in.

·         MIECHV TACC (Maternal, Infant, and Early Childhood Home Visiting/ Technical Assistance Coordinating)- These programs provide support to grantees implementing the home visiting program. They provide experience and expertise in achieving high quality program implementation, creating integrated service systems, and improving program outcomes.

·         Early Head Start- this link provides information about the early head start programs. It includes the latest news and highlights, resource spotlights, web resources, and ways to stay connected.

2.On the MIECHV page I learned about how support is provided to programs to help make them better programs. This support comes in the way of facilitating connections with technical experts, identifying best practices through webinars, phone correspondence, email, interactive website portal, and individual site visits.

3.The Zero to Three May e-newsletter focused on parenting skills. It included articles that covered how to prevent biting and how to make sure the mental health of your child is good. It did not include any outside links other than the link to the Zero to Three website.

4.The website included information that added to my understanding of equity and excellence in ECE when I learned about the DOHVE (Design Options for Home Visiting Evaluation) program. This program works with the TACC program to help grantees under the MIECHV program on strengthening their evaluations of promising programs, developing and adapting data systems to facilitate tracking and reporting on federal benchmarks, and implementing quality improvement systems.

5.Something new from the Zero to Three website that I found interesting was the 2013 Federal Policy Agenda for the Administration and 113^th Congress. The past two courses in my program have mentioned the importance of policy and I have become interested in what the current policies are in my area. This was new information to me as the policy contends that school readiness starts at birth and so should early childhood policy.

Reference: Zero to Three www.zerotothree.org