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Division for Early Childhood Conference October 2015

Learn about the SSIP and how it benefits young children with disabilities. Discover the importance of collaboration and effective planning for successful implementation in early childhood systems.

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Division for Early Childhood Conference October 2015

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  1. Collaboration through State Systemic Improvement Planning: Working together to improve outcomes for young children with disabilities Division for Early Childhood Conference October 2015 Grace Kelley, DaSy Kathi Gillaspy, ECTA Brenda Sharpe, LA Part C Coordinator

  2. What is the SSIP? Multi-year, achievable plan that: • Increases capacity of EIS programs/LEAs to implement, scale up, and sustain evidence-based practices • Improves outcomes for children with disabilities (and their families)

  3. Proposed SSIP Activities by Phase

  4. Planning is something you do so when you do something it is not all messed up Christopher Robin to Winnie the Pooh

  5. What is Planning ? • Planning is an organizational management activity that is used to: • Set priorities • Focus energy and resources • Ensure that employees and other stakeholders are working toward common goals • Establish agreement around intended outcomes/results

  6. The ECTA/DaSy System Framework: Building High Quality Systems Good outcomes for children and families Implementation of Effective Practices

  7. ECTA/DaSy Self-Assessment: Purpose • Provides a structure for state Part C and Section 619 programs to evaluate their systems • Identifies relative strengths and weaknesses in the system so state can identify and address areas for improvement

  8. Some Ideas to Consider The Early Care and Education System will not be successful if the EI/Pre-school Special Ed SSIP is disconnected from the systems’ focus and work and if all partners are not included.

  9. Collaboration: • True collaboration requires a commitment to shared goals, a jointly developed structure and shared responsibility, mutual authority and accountability for success, and sharing of resources, risks, and rewards.

  10. Collaboration: Here's a definition: Collaboration is a mutually beneficial and well-defined relationship entered into by two or more organizations to achieve common goals

  11. Formula for SuccessImplementation Math

  12. Implementation Teams Support Collaboration

  13. Enabling Contexts Model for State Collaboration: • Pull in leaders from other state initiatives • early childhood advisory council • Race to the Top Initiative • state early childhood focus efforts • Within-agency and cross-agency initiatives • Determine which initiative is the best match for system improvement using the results of • data analysis • infrastructure analysis

  14. State Examples • Part C - Brenda • 619 - Kathi

  15. Begin with the End in Mind What are the desired results or outcomes for children and/or families ? How do we achieve the State Identified Measureable Result ( SiMR)

  16. DEC Recommended Practices; • The Recommended Practices are intended to be used by individuals working across a variety of early childhood settings providing services to young children who have or at-risk for developmental delays or disabilities. • The updated set of practices consists of eight domains: leadership, assessment, environment, family, instruction, interaction, teaming and collaboration, and transition.

  17. Collaboration: What makes it work • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Amu3UBj-qw

  18. Benefits of Systems Planning • Allow you to have shared vision and mission • Participation allows you to design the improvement leading to better outcomes • Allow for better utilization of resources, no one agency responsible for all • Better sustainability of implementation over time • Mutual support between organizations

  19. Benefits of Systems Planning • Shared leadership • Wider reach at levels • Allows for a united voice

  20. Benefits far outweigh the challenges;

  21. You've got to be very careful if you don't know where you're going, because you might not get there.” Yogi Berra, Former Yankees catcher

  22. Questions

  23. Resources: • ECTA/DaSY Framework: http://ectacenter.org/sysframe/ • Rising to the Challenge: Building Effective Systems for Young Children and Families, a BUILD E-Book • http://www.buildinitiative.org/OurWork/StateandLocal/EarlyLearningChallenge.aspx • Wilder Collaboration Factors Survey: • http://www.wilder.org/Wilder-Research/Publications/Studies/Collaboration%20Factors%20Inventory/Collaboration%20Factors%20Inventory.pdf

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