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Connecting Practice-Based Preparation with State Systems of Professional
Development: What Role Can
Higher Ed Faculty Play?
Christy Kavulic, OSEP | Pam Winton, FPG Child Development Center | Carol Trivette, Orelena Hawks Puckett
Institute | Lise Fox, University of South Florida | Barbara Smith, University of Colorado Denver
OSEP Project Directors Meeting | Washington, DC | July 18, 2011
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Personnel Development Program
• Help address state-identified needs for highly qualified personnel to work with children with disabilities
• Ensure that these personnel have the necessary skills and knowledge, derived from practices that have been determined through scientifically-based research and experience, to be successful in serving those children
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Focus on Effectiveness
• Linking student outcomes to teacher performance
• Linking teacher performance to preparation programs
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Transforming Personnel Preparation
• Focus on practices that improve children’s outcomes
• Extensive clinical preparation throughout the program
• Multiple forms of feedback on practice• Collaboration between higher education and
local programs• NCATE, 2010
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State Systems of Professional Development
• Providing professional development on specific practices
• Putting implementation supports in place so providers use evidence-based practices with fidelity
• Working across early childhood professional development systems
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RTT-ELC Proposed Criteria
• A Great Early Childhood Education Workforce– Developing Workforce Knowledge and
Competencies and a progression of credentials– Supporting Early Childhood Educators in improving
their knowledge, skills, and abilities– Partnering with postsecondary institutions and
other professional development providers in developing effective Early Childhood Educators
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Overview
• Evidence-based professional development• Professional development to implement
evidence-based practices in home and center settings
• Example of how one state is working to develop an effective PD system in collaboration with higher education
• Discussion
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Practitioners are expected to use evidence-based practice but what does that mean?
Increased focus on clinical practice in teacher education (NCATE Report, 2010)
Context
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identifying specific research-based practices that have been validated through a rigorous review processOdom, Brantlinger, Gersten, Horner, Thompson, & Harris, 2005
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Buysse & Wesley, 2006; Buysse, Wesley, Snyder, & Winton, 2006
Evidence-BasedPractice is…… A decision-
making process that integrates the best available research evidence with family & professional wisdom & values
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Faculty & PD providers are expected to incorporate EBP into PD.
But what does that mean?
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Two Aspects of Evidence-based Professional Development
• The PD content focuses on specific research-based teaching and intervening practices
• The PD delivery focuses on evidence-based methods for building practitioners’ knowledge and application of evidence-based practices and decision-making skills
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Increased Attention to Research on Effective PD
Effective professional
development
Increase in teachers’ knowledge and use of evidence-based
practice
Improved child and family outcomes
Context
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Complications in Implementing & Studying PD
The “How”” The “Who” & the “What”
Increase in practitioners’
knowledge and frequent, accurate use
of evidence-based practice
Improved child and family
outcomes
Effective delivery of professional development
curricula done with fidelity
access
policies
resources
outreachFactors (e.g., adm. support, learner characteristics) that affect application of PD learning
Factors (e.g., ratios, turnover) that affect children’s learning opportunities
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Themes from Research on Effective PD (Dunst & Trivette, 2009; Wei, Darling-Hammond, et al., 2009)
• Focused on specific instructional strategies rather than general content,
• Sustained over time and of considerable duration,
• Infused with active learning opportunities, guided practice and corrective feedback,
• Characterized by collective participation• Connected with program standards, curricula,
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Focus on the Quality of Professional Development within Systems Context
Context
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Fiefdoms of Early Childhood
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Emphasis on Cross-Sector Collaboration
Early Learning
and Development
Health Family
Leadership and Support
Thriving Children
and Families
Early Childhood Systems Working Group 2011
Context
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National Professional Development Center on Inclusion. (2011). The big picture planning guide: Building cross-sector professional development systems in early childhood, 2nd ed. Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina, FPG Child Development Institute, Author.
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Professional Development with Practitioners who Provide Home Visiting
• Center on Everyday Child Language Learning
• Center for Early Literacy Learning
• U.S. Office of Special Education Programs
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What is the Primary Goal of Home Visiting?
• Building the capacity of parents of young children to support their children’s development
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Who Is Delivering the Intervention?• Parents of young
children
• Parents are guided in their use of the practices by Child Development
Specialists Speech
Pathologists Occupational/ Physical
Therapists
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What are the outcomes of professional development for home visitors?
• To ensure that practitioners have the knowledge of and can use evidence-based practices that enhance the child’s development
• To ensure that practitioners have the knowledge of and can use evidence- based practices that will build the capacity of the parents to successfully use the practices with their children
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• Practitioners should be trained using adult learning practices that provide experiences that allow them to learn, demonstrate, and master the evidence-based practices in their content area.
• Practitioners should be provided experiences that allow them to learn, demonstrate, and master the evidence-based practices that build parents’ capacity.
How should professional development be delivered to practitioners who provide
home visitors?
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Two Types of Evidence-Based
Practices
• Evidence-Based Implementation Practices• Adult learning methods
• Evidence-Based Intervention Practices• Early childhood
intervention practices
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Matrix of Implementationand Intervention Methods
Language Intervention Model Component
Child Interests
Everyday Activities
Learning Opportunities
Responsive Teaching
Introduce
Illustrate
Practice
Evaluate
Mastery
What’s Next?
Cap
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dult
Lear
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Pro
cess
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Measuring Fidelity at All Levels
• Consistency of practitioner’s practices with the model
• Extent to which the practitioner uses the model practices with each parent
• Extent to which the parent can use the practices with their child
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Pyramid Model: Promoting Social Emotional Development and Addressing Challenging
Behavior
UniversalPromotion
SecondaryPrevention
TertiaryIntervention
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Pyramid Model
• Complex model of practices
• Requires active ongoing data-based decision-making
• Designed to support all children within inclusive environments
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Professional Development
• Initial training using evidence-based approaches for adult skill acquisition and behavior change
• Implementation supports – practice guides, classroom materials, video models, practice reflection tool
• Data-driven coaching linked to implementation fidelity measure
• Performance feedback
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Coaching for Implementation
ID Focus Evidence-based practicePractitioner needs and “buy-in”
Learning about the “practice or intervention”
Active and passive methodsMultiple exemplars
Observe Needs assessmentSet goals and develop action plan
Coach Rapport and collaborationActive methodsPerformance feedback
Observe Needs assessmentRevise goals and action plan
Measure implementation Fidelity of implementation measures
Measure outcomes Practitioner/”setting” measuresChild measures
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Program-Wide Adoption
ALL Levels Require Administrative Support
Data-Based Decision Makingincluding screening and progress monitoring
Program-Wide Commitment
Teacher Training and Technical
Assistance: Coaching
Well-Defined Procedures
Partnerships with Families
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Focusing on Fidelity
• Implementation of Pyramid Practices by All Teachers
• Implementation of the Infrastructure for Classroom Fidelity and Data-Based Decision-Making– Fidelity of program-wide implementation
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Implications
• Outcomes for teachers, children, and families
• Teachers receptiveness and buy-in
• Complexity of the framework requires intensive implementation support
• Resources (time, personnel) for coaching
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Issues related to PD and Pre-service
• Coaching as a consultation skill set• Practitioner fluency with evidence-based
practices and decision-making• Expansion of roles, responsibilities,
expectations within program-wide adoption– Leadership teams– Behavior specialists– Data systems– Coaching
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Key Concepts & One State Example
Pyramid Plus: The Colorado Center for Social Emotional Competence and Inclusion
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Key Concepts
• Planning Effective PD systems
• Including preservice as well as inservice
• Evidence based practices (EBPs)
• PD approaches to ensure people can use EBPs with fidelity (coaching)
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Key Concepts, cont.
• Measures of whether the EBPs are being used as intended (fidelity measures)
• Measures of outcomes
• Data based decision making
• Cross-agency involvement and buy-in
• Expansion of ECE/ECSE professional roles (leadership teams, coaching, etc)
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One State Example: Colorado• Cross-agency State Leadership Team developing a state
PD system comprised of:– Training people who can train and coach others to use EBPs
with fidelity– Building program and community infrastructures/procedures
to sustain high fidelity implementation– Collecting data on fidelity, child outcomes, program and
community procedures– Making decisions based on this data at the child, teacher,
program, community and state level to evaluate fidelity and outcomes and make decisions about needed changes
• Cross-agency funding of a PD center to oversee, sustain and scale-up the above
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One State Example: Colorado, cont.• Quality assurance thru certification of trainers and
coaches and programs– Fidelity measure– Coaching to fidelity– EB Coaching skills
• EB practices• Higher ed participation and involvement throughout:
– state leadership team – certification candidacy – preservice: embedding materials in courses, creating new
courses, child care rules requiring these courses – inservice: giving credit and ceu’s for trainings
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Questions/Discussion• How do you approach practice-based preparation in your
program?• What is the role of higher ed in these key concepts?
– Coaching skills– Measuring the use of EBPs as intended (fidelity)– Preparing people for new roles and expectations: coaching,
receiving coaching, serving on leadership teams, sharing decision making, etc
• How can higher ed participate in the development of state PD systems?
• Other questions/discussions?• What examples can you share?
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Resources• CONNECT
– http://community.fpg.unc.edu/connect• National Professional Development Center on
Inclusion – http://community.fpg.unc.edu/npdci
• Center for Early Literacy Learning– http://www.earlyliteracylearning.org/
• Center on Everyday Child Language Learning– http://www.cecll.org/
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Resources
• Technical Assistance Center on Social Emotional Interventions– http://www.challengingbehavior.org/
• Colorado Pyramid Plus– http://www.pyramidplus.org/
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Additional Sessions
• Monday from 4:00 to 5:30 in Washington 5– Early Childhood Personnel Development Grant
Area Discussion• Wednesday from 9:45 to 10:45 in Maryland A
– But Can They Do What You Taught Them? A Discussion About Measuring Implementation Fidelity and Its Relationship to the Adoption and Outcomes of Early Childhood Practices
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