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Pre-K ESE Contact meeting: May 5 & 6, 2010, Lake Mary
Documents from the meeting
One hundred and thirteen participants attended the TATS Pre-K ESE Coordinators’ Meeting on Wednesday and Thursday, May 5 and 6th in Lake Mary. Fifty-four districts, ten FDLRS, three local Early Steps, two VPK regions and three Head Start grantees were represented at the meeting. The two days were filled with updates from state level staff, presentations on what is happening around the state, and brainstorming sessions on current issues. Judging from the evaluations, it was successful in meeting people’s needs!
The theme of the meeting was Taking Stock and Moving Forward: Next Steps. Wednesday morning and afternoon featured opportunities to hear updates on the State Performance Plan (SPP) Indicators from DOE/BEESS presented by Marilyn Hibbard, an overview of the new Speech and Language rules by Shannon Hall-Mills, and an Early Steps update by Sally Golden-McCord.
These were followed by three break-out sessions:
- Best Practices in Inclusion (Pinellas County Schools, VPK Northeast Regional Facilitator)
- Best Practices in Transition (Florida’s Transition Project Coordinator, Escambia County Schools & Western Panhandle Early Steps Team, Pasco County Schools & West Central Early Steps
- Q&A Session with Sally Golden-McCord.
Focused size-alike discussions followed the breakout sessions. Topics included BDI-2 questions/issues, VPK, late referrals, what’s working well when districts collaborate with Early Steps, family involvement, children with challenging behaviors, use of on-line application and/or registration for Pre-K services.
On Thursday morning, Heather Diamond from the DOE/BEESS presented an overview of Response to Intervention (RtI), Lilli Copp from the Head Start State Collaboration Office discussed the changes in Head Start, and Batya Elbaum from the University of Miami discussed SPP Indicators 7 and 8.
The three break-out sessions in the afternoon were:
- Response to Intervention (Collier County School Team, Monroe county Schools & MCS Head Start, Palm Beach County schools)
- Head Start Collaboration (Head Start State Collaboration Office, Duval, Orange, and Volusia County Schools)
- Using BDI-2 Data for Program Planning (Batya Elbaum, UMiami)
The final size-alike discussion centered on "Moving Forward: Successes, Challenges, Solutions, Next Steps".
Documents from the meeting are available below:
- Agenda (Word, 79 KB)
- Participants List (Word, 194 KB)
- Breakout Session Presenter List (Word, 41 KB)
- Synopsis of Discussion Topics (Word, 24 KB)
State-Level Presentations:
- DOE Update - Marilyn Hibbard (Power Point, 1,146 KB)
- Early Steps Update – Sally Golden-McCord (Power Point, 504 KB)
- Speech & Language Rules Update – Shannon Mills-Hall (Power Point, 7,415 KB)
- Problem-solving & Response to Instruction/Intervention – Heather Diamond (Power Point, 922 KB)
- Head Start – New Disabilities Services Requirements for Head Start – Lilli Copp (PDF, 100 KB)
- SPP Indicators B-7 and B-8: Overview and Results to Date for the Florida Prekindergarten Program for Children with Disabilities (Power Point, 311 KB)
- Sample Questions to Guide District Analysis of BDI-2 Assessment Data (Word, 13 KB)
- Status by Growth Charts for Fl Child Outcome Data (2008-09) (Word, 574 KB)
- Parent Survey Sample (PDF, 1,589 KB)
- Comparison of Four Florida Pre-K Programs on Child Outcomes (2008-09) (Word, 25 KB)
- Inclusion
- Making Inclusion Work – Pinellas (Power Point, 98 KB)
- Transition
- Response to Intervention
- Collier County Public Schools Pre-K Assessment Team and FDLRS (Power Point, 146 KB)
- Pre-K in Monroe County Schools (PDF, 558 KB)
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