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What's New at CEED |
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Note a Change
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You can now find CEED conferences,
courses, training institutes, lecture series, and trainings included
under the Professional Development
link on the navigation bar.
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Rebroadcast of
Harris Forum
on tptMN Public Television

Professor Greenbaum and Naama |
The 2007 Harris Forum (filmed live on March 7, 2007),
Children's Risks & Children's Rights, featuring Professor
Charles W. Greenbaum of The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, will be
rebroadcast on tptMN on the following
dates:
- Friday, July 17 at 7:00pm
- Saturday, July 18 at
1:00am
- Saturday, July 18 at
7:00am
- Saturday, July 18 at
1:00pm
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In-Person
Course:

Assessing and
Managing Cases of Child Sexual Abuse with Preschool Children
Number of CEUs
based on
licensing board
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Earn Continuing Education Credit
July 23 and 24, 2009
9:00am to 4:00pm
This training can enhance the
professional development of teachers, students and mental health
providers working with this population. Research highlighting the
importance of intervention in abuse with even very young children
will precede a review of assessment techniques for children 18-36
months and children 3-4 years when sexual abuse is suspected. This
will be followed by a discussion of intervention and management
techniques to help protect these children's safety.
Read more about
the course and how to register
Location: University of Minnesota
East Bank Minneapolis, Room 325 Education Sciences Building, 56 East
River Road, Minneapolis, 55455
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Consider Enrolling in
an
Online Course
2009
Course Schedule
(pdf file)
Plan ahead!:
2010
Course Schedule (pdf file)
Earn
Continuing Education
credit (clock hours) 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 Session 2009
September 8 to December 15,
2009
Seeing is Believing®:
Videotaping families and using guided
self-observation to build on parenting strengths
September 14 to November 16, 2009
Parent-Infant Pathways:
An educator's guide to providing information and support to new
parents
September 14 to November 16, 2009
Prenatal Developmental
Intervention: For Professionals Working with Families During
Pregnancy
September 21 to November 23, 2009
Bridging Education and
Mental Health
September 21 to November 23, 2009
Premature Babies and
Their Parents:
Information and Insights for
Early Intervention Personnel
October 5 to December 7, 2009
Introduction to Infant
Mental Health
October 12 to December 14,
2009
Supporting Stressed Young
Children Through Relationship-based Teaching (formerly called
Relationship-based Teaching With Young Children)
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View CEED poster
presentations from
SRCD Conference
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CEED staff from the
Minnesota Early Learning
Foundation Evaluation project and the
Ounce Project have poster presentations
available to view from the 2009 Society
for Research in Child Development Conference (SRCD) that
took place in Denver, CO April 2-4:
MELF: Godber, Y.,
Kovan, N., Susman-Stillman, A., & McConnell, S.,
Minnesota
Early Learning Foundation (MELF): The Influence of a Research-Based Taxonomy on Funding and Evaluation
Efforts.
(pdf, 1 page)
MELF:
Susman-Stillman, A., McConnell, S., & Godber, Y.,
Using a Common
Conceptual Framework to Coordinate Evaluation of MELF Initiatives.
(pdf, 1 page)
OUNCE: Pleuss, J.,
Susman-Stillman, A., & Shkolnik, A.,
Coding Speech Samples: Combining Qualitative and Quantitative
Methods.
(pdf, 1 page)
OUNCE: Susman-Stillman, A., Englund, M., Pleuss, J., Cleveland, J.,
& Shkolnik, A.,
Changing
Beliefs and Knowledge of Child Care Providers: The Ounce Research
Project. (pdf, 1 page)
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MultiMedia on the CEED
web site
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We have a variety of multimedia presentations available on our
MultiMedia web page.
Experience past CEED events such as the McEvoy Lectures and Harris
Forums.
Newly
Posted Video
Presentations:
Evidence-based Practice and Recommended Practices,
presented by Virginia Buysse, Ph.D., and Patricia Wesley, Ph.D.,
keynote presentation from the 2008
Minnesota Early Intervention Summer Institute. |
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Positive Behavior Supports, presented by Kellie Krick,
M.Ed., condensed presentation of breakout session from the 2008
Minnesota Early
Intervention Summer Institute.
Full list of
multimedia |
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CEED In the News
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Arthur
Reynolds |
Congratulations to Arthur Reynolds, appointed by Governor Tim
Pawlenty to the State Advisory Council on Early Childhood
Education and Care.
Read the press
release. |
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Scott McConnell |
Congratulations to Scott McConnell, who received the College of
Education and Human Development's Community Outreach and Engagement
Award. |
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Sara Zettervall
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Congratulations to Sara Zettervall, CEED's Events and Outreach
Specialist. Sara received the Jeanne T. Lupton Civil
Service/Bargaining Unit Outstanding Service Award. |
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Brooke Rafdal
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Brooke Rafdal is highlighted in the
Spring 2009
issue of CEHD's Connect online magazine (page 31). |
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Center on Response
to Intervention in Early Childhood (CRTIEC)

Read more about the Center
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Scott McConnell
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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Online Training
Available from Minnesota Department of Health
View the module |
An 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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CEED Stories:
A
Report
Contact Sara Zettervall
for requests for paper copies at 612-625-2252 or
sarazet@umn.edu. |
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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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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Job
Opportunities in
Early Childhood
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Check out our web page with
job opportunities in early childhood.
Two
Parent Aware observers needed at CEED |
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CEED Sampler
View June 2009 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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Center for Early
Education and Development
University of Minnesota
Education Sciences Building
56 East River Road
360 Education Sciences Building
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
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