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What's New at CEED |
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Job
Opportunities in
Early Childhood
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 Check out our web page with
job opportunities in early childhood.
Tenured or
Tenured Track Associate or Full Professor of Early Childhood
Education, 50% Appointment as CEED Research Fellow |
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CEED Evaluation Services
Information
Download a document detailing our evaluation services
(pdf) |
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CEED’s
approach to evaluation is client-centered and adheres to the highest
research standards and data management strategies to benefit young
children and those who care for them. CEED provides a credible and
objective source for determining program effectiveness through
external program evaluations.
Read about CEED Evaluation
Services and expertise.
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Minnesota's
Birth-to-Three Conference:
Engaging Fathers:
Strengthening Families
January 13-15, 2010
Register Online
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Registration is now available online for Minnesota's
Birth-to-Three Conference on Engaging Fathers: Strengthening
Families.
Preconference: Wednesday, January 13,
2010
Conference: Thursday to Friday, January 14-15, 2010
Arrowwood
Resort, Alexandria, MN
Keynote Presenters:
- Dr. James McHale, Chair
of the Department of Psychology at the University of South
Florida and author of Charting the Bumpy Road of Coparenthood
- Dr. Kyle Pruett, Clinical
Professor of Child Psychiatry at Yale School of Medicine and
author of Fatherneed
- Vicki Turetsky,
Commissioner, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
Office of Child Support Enforcement
Read
more about the conference
Register online |
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Race, Culture, and Children's Mental
Health
2009-10 Lessons from the Field Series
Coffman Union Theater, University of Minnesota,
Minneapolis East Bank Campus and broadcast live to host sites in
Greater Minnesota
December 4,
2009
Time: 9 a.m. - 12:30 p.m.
For more
information and to register:
http://www.cmh.umn.edu |
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Historical Trauma, Microaggressions, and
Identity: A Framework for Culturally-Based Practice
The
Center for Excellence in Children's Mental Health and Harris
Programs have partnered to develop a series on culture in the
context of children's mental health. The combined series will
feature three Lessons from the Field workshops as well as the annual
spring Harris Forum.
Register now for the first workshop in the 2009-10 Lessons from the
Field Series titled Historical Trauma, Microaggressions, and
Identity: A Framework for Culturally-Based Practice, featuring lead
presenter Karina Walters, University of Washington.
Karina L. Walters, Ph.D., a member of the Choctaw Nation of
Oklahoma, founded and directs the university-wide, interdisciplinary
Indigenous Wellness Research Institute at the University of
Washington and is an affiliate faculty of the
West Coast Poverty
Center. Her research focuses on historical, social, and cultural
determinants of physical and mental health among Native American
individuals, families and communities as well as cultures of poverty
and two-spiritedness. |
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Consider Enrolling in
an
Online Course
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: Winter/Spring 2010 Session
January 25 to April 26, 2010
Seeing is Believing®:
Videotaping families and using guided
self-observation to build on parenting strengths
February 1 to April 5, 2010
Supporting Stressed Young
Children Through Relationship-based Teaching (formerly called
Relationship-based Teaching With Young Children)
February 8 to April 12, 2010
Parent-Infant Pathways:
An educator's guide to providing information and support to new
parents
February 15 to April 19, 2010
Introduction to Infant
Mental Health
February 22 to April 26, 2010
Premature Babies and
Their Parents:
Information and Insights for
Early Intervention Personnel
March 1 to May 3, 2010
Bridging Education and
Mental Health
March 8 to May 10, 2010
Prenatal Developmental
Intervention: For Professionals Working with Families During
Pregnancy
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Two CEED Projects Have a
New Home at UROC
2001 Plymouth Ave. N.
Minneapolis, MN 55411
612-626-UROC |
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CEED's Five Hundred Under Five
and CRTiEC (Center for
Response to Intervention in Early Childhood) became residents of
the University's newest site, the
Urban Research and Outreach/Engagement Center (UROC) at Plymouth
and Penn Avenues North in Minneapolis. |
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2009 Round Table
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Thank you to the 2009 Round Table panelists,
organizers, our moderator, and to all who attended and participated
in the 2009 Round
Table. The event was filmed and we hope to make that available
for viewing on our website sometime in the near future. |
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Questions About Kids
Publication Has A New Look!
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Questions About Kids tackles
common issues of concern to parents and
professionals. Each issue addresses one question
about young children. This publication is intended for distribution at places where caregivers
gather.
Questions
About Kids web page
Questions About Kids flyer
This flyer lists all of the Questions About Kids topics.
Distribution of this flyer is welcome and encouraged. |
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Save the Date
2010 Minnesota
Early Intervention Summer Institute
June 17 and 18, 2010
St. John's University
Collegeville, MN |
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Evidence-based Practice for
Early Childhood Special Educators and Collaborative Partners
More information about the Summer Institute
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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.
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Dr. Heather Weiss |
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April 22, 2009 McEvoy
Lecture
View or
listen to:
Prioritizing
Involvement in Building Minnesota's Early Childhood System
Guest Lecturer Dr. Heather Weiss |
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2009 MN Summer Institute |
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View
photos from the 2009 Minnesota Early Intervention Summer
Institute. |
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Search for Early
Childhood Program Information in Your Area of Minnesota
For those from
other states requiring assistance regarding early childhood
concerns, we recommend these resources:
Contact the state affiliate of the
National
Association for the Education of Young Children (NAEYC),
1-800-424-2460
Search the Children, Youth, &
Family Consortium Experts Database |
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The Minnesota Department of Education has a
search feature on their website that provides
search information (by county and school district) for early
childhood program types such as:
- Early Childhood Family
Education (ECFE)
- Early Childhood Screening
- School Readiness
- Early Childhood Special
Education (ECSE)
- Head Start
- Even Start
- Interagency Early
Intervention Committees (IEIC)
Early Learning Services email contact:
mde.els@state.mn.us
Another resource:
Infant and Toddler Intervention Services
http://www.health.state.mn.us/divs/fh/mcshn/ecip.htm
To locate your local early
intervention office or to request a referral, call
1-866-693-4769.
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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
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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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Minnesota Center for
Professional Development Registry
Trainers
can also use the Registry, making it easier for practitioners to
find them. Visit the
Minnesota Center for Professional Development
for more details and to sign up. |
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Attention Practitioners of Early
Childhood and School-Age Children:
Now you can advance your career online with the new
Minnesota Center for Professional Development Registry,
developed in collaboration with Metropolitan State University. The
Registry can help you:
- Create a learning record
quickly and easily.
- Find quality training
with a searchable database including MNSTREAMS.
- Advance on Minnesota’s
12-step Career Lattice.
- Seek credit for prior
learning.
- Access career guidance
resources.
- Receive recognition for
your accomplishments.
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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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Policy Brief
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Promoting Effective Preschool Programs
The RAND Corporation has published a new
policy brief, entitled Promoting
Effective Preschool Programs, which examines existing
research on federal and state level early childhood education
programs. The authors find gaps in both access and quality.
Recommendations for federal policy to improve preschool education
services are provided.
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CEED Sampler
View
November 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 Sampler
is 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
New address:
1954 Buford Avenue
Suite 425
St. Paul, MN 55108
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.
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