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What's New at CEED |
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CEED Closed For Holiday
CEED, along with the University of Minnesota, will be closed on
Friday, July 4. Happy independence day! |
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In Person Summer Courses
and Trainings Offered
Earn graduate
credit or CEUs
Classes begin
in July
Seats limited,
register soon
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The
Institute of Child Development and CEED is offering in-person courses and trainings at the University
starting in June and July:
Assessing and
Managing Cases of Child Sexual Abuse with Preschool Children
July 24 and 25, 2008
Instructor Sandra Hewitt, Ph.D.
DC: 0-3R (CANCELED)
NCAST
(REGISTRATION CLOSED, Course in session)
June 9-12 and June
30-July 2
(Nursing Child
Assessment Satellite Training) |
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Online Training
Available from Minnesota Department of Health
View the module |
A new online training opportunity to learn about developmental and
social-emotional screening in Minnesota, especially for providers of
Child & Teen Checkups (Early Periodic Screening, Diagnosis, and
Treatment (EPSDT), is now available via the Minnesota Department of
Health web site. MDH is offering an easy to use online training
module for a wide variety of child-serving providers such as staff
in private and public clinics, day care providers, Early Childhood
Screening (ECS), and Head Start screeners, home visitors, and
others. |
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Zero to Three Issues
Statement Regarding NBC Reality Show
Read the Zero to Three Statement |
Zero to Three is a national nonprofit multidisciplinary organization
that advances their mission of supporting healthy development and
well being of infants, toddlers, and their families by informing,
education, and supporting adults who influence the lives of infants
and toddlers.
Zero to Three issued a statement
regarding the NBC reality show Baby Borrowers. |
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McEvoy Lecture to Air
Again on
Minnesota Public
Television
McEvoy Lecture of September 13, 2007:
Quality in Early Child
Care and Education
Featured speakers
Robert Pianta, Ph.D., and Byron Egeland, Ph.D.
More information
about the lecture
More information about
Mary McEvoy |
The McEvoy lecture that took place on
September 13, 2007, will be aired on Minnesota Public Television
tpt:
July 18, Friday, 7pm
July 19, Saturday, 1am
July 19, Saturday, 7am
July 19, Saturday, 1pm
Currently there are two ways
to view MN Channel programs--analog tpt17 and the
digital MN Channel. While the focus of tpt programs
has historically been on tpt17, the digital MN Channel
can now be viewed statewide on all six Minnesota public television
stations. As of February 17, 2009 tpt will be
broadcasting exclusively in digital.
More information
about digital TV conversion is on the tpt web site. |
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Workshop:
Emotionally Responsive
Practice in the Classroom
Monday, August 4,
2008
Eisenhower Community
Center, Hopkins, MN
CEUs available |
St. David's Child Development and Family
Services, Washburn Center for Children, and CEED are pleased to
co-sponsor this workshop with presenter Lesley Kopkow, MS, ACSW,
Director of the Center for Emotionally Responsive Practice at Bank
Street College in New York and acclaimed author of several books on
children's mental health.
Print the flyer with more
information
Registration available online
at St. David's web site
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Center on Response
to Intervention in Early Childhood (CRTIEC)
Read more about the Center
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Scott McConnell,
University Professor and CEED's Director of Community Engagement,
leads Minnesota's efforts in a collaboration between the University
of Kansas, The Ohio State University, and Dynamic Measurement Group.
The Center on Response to Intervention in Early Childhood (CRTIEC)
is funded by a $10 million grant to the University of Kansas, with
$2 million of those funds subcontracted to the University of
Minnesota for research and development primarily on screening and
progress monitoring assessments.
The mission of CRTIEC is to reduce
the number of children with reading problems by increasing the
number of children entering school with knowledge and skill in early
literacy and language. |
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CEED Stories: A
Report
Contact Sara Zettervall
for requests for paper copies at
sarazet@umn.edu or 612-625-2252. |
CEED
Stories: A Report provides highlights of CEED's projects
and activities in recent years alongside stories from our people "on
the ground," CEED staff and affiliates who discuss how our work
impacts their lives.
This document is available for free as a pdf.
Note: You can click on any link in the
pdf to open the relevant CEED web page.
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Consider Enrolling in an
Online Course in Fall 2008
2008
Course Schedule
(pdf file)
Earn
Continuing Education
credit towards professional development
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CEED offers online courses
on a variety of
topics related to early childhood education. Find out more
about our classes and how to register:
Fall Sessions
September 8 to December 15
Seeing is Believing®
September 15 to November 10
Relationship-based Teaching
With Young Children
September 22 to November 24
Parent-Infant Pathways: An
Educator's Guide to Providing Information and Support to New Parents
September 29 to December 1
Introduction to Infant Mental
Health
October 6 to December 8
Addressing Needs of Young
Children Who Engage in Challenging Behavior
October 13 to December 8
Bridging Education and Mental
Health
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Although we don't yet have a
wealth of rigorous, controlled studies that allow us to make a
definitive statement about cause and effect, we do have a variety of
studies that collectively point to an association between outdoor
play and an array of good outcomes for kids.
- Martha Farrell Erickson |
Read an article featuring the
Children & Nature Network
(Building a Movement to Reconnect Children & Nature) that includes
Q&A from Martha
Farrell Erickson, Ph.D.
More
Marti Erickson in the news!
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Division for Early Childhood (DEC)
2008 International Conference
Renew Your Energy
October 27-30, 2008
Hilton Minneapolis Hotel
Minneapolis, MN
For more information:
DEC Conference web page
Print a flyer |
DEC's conference is designed to cover a
wide range of vital issues facing those who work with young children
with special needs and their families. Every year, DEC brings
together experts, students, practitioners, and family members to
learn about important research, policy, and practice happening in
the field of early childhood special education.
Scott McConnell,
University Professor and CEED's Director of Community Engagement, will deliver
the keynote presentation
Renewing Our Energy: Finding and Maintaining Commitment and
Enthusiasm in Professional Practice. |
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Save the Date!
Strong Foundations
Conference
Minnesota's
Birth to Three Conference for Healthy Development
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The 4th Annual Winter Conference
2009 of Strong Foundations, Minnesota's Birth to Three Conference
for Healthy Development, will be held January 15-17, 2009 at
Cragun's Resort near Brainerd, MN.
Jan. 15: Pre-conference, Thursday
afternoon
Jan. 16: Conference, full day
Jan. 17: Conference, half day
Save the Date flyer
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Center at the
Center!
Assessment and Training
Center
Amy Susman Stillman,
Principal Investigator
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The
Assessment and Training Center
(ATC) has been conceptualized as a way to transmit CEED’s unique observation and
assessment skill and knowledge to the greater early childhood
community, for program evaluation and improvement purposes.
Read more about ATC |
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Web Site Resource
for Parents
Parents Know
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Visit the
Parents Know web
site created by the Minnesota Department of Education for parent
information, resources and activities to help children grow,
develop, and learn from birth through high school.
http://www.parentsknow.state.mn.us |
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New Environmental
Toolkit for ECFE Programs
from Hennepin County
and Community POWER
Questions?
Contact Erin
Bowley,
Project Manager of
Community POWER
Phone: 612-729-4155
Email: erin@erinb.org |
Hennepin County and Community POWER are
pleased to announce availability of a
new free online
environmental toolkit for ECFE programs. The toolkit will help
you educate and actively engage families in creating a healthier
environment in the home by reducing waste, properly disposing of
hazardous items, reducing chemical use, and rethinking reuse and
recycling.
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Job
Opportunities in
Early Childhood
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Check out our web page with
job opportunities in early childhood. |
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CEED Sampler
View July
2008 issue
(pdf file)
View past issues
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The CEED Sampler is the monthly CEED
e-newsletter that includes brief updates on CEED people, projects, and
events.The CEED Sampler
will be emailed to the CEED email list and made available on the
website each month.
Join
the CEED email list |
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CEED also serves as the Early Childhood
Program Area for the Institute on
Community Integration (ICI), a federally designated
University Center for Excellence in
Developmental Disabilities (UCEDD), part of a national network of
programs across the country known as the American Association of
University Affiliated Programs (AAUAP). |
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Effective September 1, 2005, CEED and the
Harris Center officially united their efforts. The new organization
retains the CEED name while it benefits from both CEED and Harris
Center expertise. |
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Our new
address:
Center for Early
Education and Development
University of Minnesota
Education Sciences Building, Suite 40
56 East River Road
Minneapolis, MN 55455
Phone: 612-625-3058
Fax: 612-625-2093
For more
information about CEED, please contact us at
ceed@umn.edu.
CEED is
supported by the
College of Education and Human Development at the University
of Minnesota and
by grants from project agencies such as the
Minnesota Department of Education and
the
U.S. Department of Education.
Direct comments regarding this
web site to Karen Anderson, WebTender, at
ander352@umn.edu or 612-625-6617.
The University of Minnesota is an equal opportunity educator and
employer |
