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What's New at CEED |
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CEED Congratulates
New Co-Directors
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 Richard Weinberg,
director of CEED, is stepping down from serving as director of CEED.
We thank Dr. Weinberg for his service to CEED and to the College of
Education and Human Development.
 
Drs.
Amy Susman-Stillman
and Christopher
Watson have assumed the role of interim co-directors for CEED for the 2008-2009 academic year. We thank them for taking on
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Consider Enrolling in an
Online Course for Fall 2008
New
2009
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 2008 Sessions
September 8 to December 15, 2008
Seeing is Believing®
September 15 to November 10, 2008
Relationship-based Teaching
With Young Children
September 22 to November 24, 2008
Parent-Infant Pathways: An
Educator's Guide to Providing Information and Support to New Parents
September 29 to December 1, 2008
Introduction to Infant Mental
Health
October 6 to December 8, 2008
Addressing Needs of Young
Children Who Engage in Challenging Behavior
October 13 to December 8, 2008
Bridging Education and Mental
Health
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Scott McConnell
Named 2008-2009 Fesler-Lampert Chair in Urban and
Regional Affairs
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Scott McConnell,
Ph.D., professor in the Department of Educational Psychology and
director of community engagement at CEED, has been named the
2008-2009 Fesler-Lampert Chair in Urban and Regional Affairs.
Read
more on the CURA web site |
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Article on Family,
Friend, and Neighbor Child Care
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Read an article authored by Amy Susman
Stillman, CEED co-director, and published by the National Center for
Children in Poverty:
Demographics of Family, Friend, and Neighbor Child Care in the
United States, August 2008 |
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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 |
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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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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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
Executive Report
Strong
Foundations website |
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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 August
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 |
