After the Grant: Sustainability & Scale-up of the NC/CSEFEL Initiative

NC/CSEFEL Panel

Norman Allard

Lanier DeGrella

Brenda Dennis

Khari Garvin

Marta Koesling

Mary Lee Porterfield

Jackie Quirk

May 16, 2012

Session Objectives

To share & discuss with participants NC’s Partnership with CSEFEL

(Center on the Social and Emotional Foundations for Early Learning)

NC/CSEFEL Planning Team efforts to implement, sustain, & grow

Challenges & lessons learned

Center on the Social & Emotional Foundations for Early Learning

Collaboration of 6 universities & research institutes

Federally funded by Office of Head Start & Child Care Bureau

National center to promote social emotional development & school readiness of children birth to age 5

Purpose of CSEFEL

Analyze & synthesize research translate into practical materials

Disseminate practices & materials via interactive website

Engage in training & technical assistance to selected states

The Pyramid Model

Supporting Social Emotional Competence in Infants & Young Children

Intensive Intervention

Targeted Social Emotional Supports

High Quality Supportive Environments

Nurturing & Responsive Relationships

Effective Workforce

NC/CSEFEL Partner Agencies

NC Division of Child Development and Early Education

NC Child Care Resource & Referral Council

NC Head Start – State Collaboration Office/ East Coast Migrant Head Start

NC Partnership for Children (Smart Start)

NC Dept of Public Instruction/Office of Early Learning

NC Division of Public Health/Early Intervention

FPG Child Development Institute at UNC-CH

NC Community College System

CSEFEL Grant Requirements

Develop a cadre of trainers

Create coaching capacity

Select & support Pyramid Model demonstration classrooms

Evaluate outcomes

Sustain the efforts& scale-up

Sustainability & Scale-up

NC/CSEFEL Partnership Vision

To develop and sustain a unified professional development system to

address the emotional and social needs of all children birth-5 through

the use of the Pyramid Model integrated with other relevant efforts

for North Carolina’s early care and education workforce

Division of Child Development & Early Education

Project-Level Support Funding for NC/CSEFEL Coordinator Meetings, training, materials for

coaches & demo site staff Two statewide special initiatives

Division of Child Development & Early Education

Project-Level Support Infant Toddler Quality Enhancement

Project & Promoting Healthy Social Behaviors in Child Care Centers

On-site Pyramid Model-based technical assistance available to any NC licensed child care program

Pyramid Model-based learning events offered statewide

Division of Child Development & Early Education

System-Level Efforts Weaving Pyramid Model concepts &

language into revised ELDS Including in revised QRIS

NC Head Start – State Collaboration Office

Brokered agreement (based on coaching model) with PFI & 3 Head Start grantees to build capacity & sustain the initiative

East Coast Migrant Head Start

Pre-service training for teachers

Ongoing training, technical assistance & support throughout work season

Systematic use of TPOT & TPITOS in subset of classrooms

NC Partnership for Children

Webinar for Smart Start Partnership executive directors & program staff

Strongly encourage programming & activities that incorporate the Pyramid Model at the local level

NC Dept of Public Instruction/ Office of Early Learning

Training & external coaching in 9 inclusive pre-K classrooms

Development of local Leadership Teams

3-5 year plan for program-wide implementation

NC Division of Public Health

5 bulletins highlighting Pyramid Model sent to all licensed child care programs

Professional development opportunities for Early Intervention staff

CSEFEL information disseminated through Local Interagency Coordinating Councils

FPG Child Development Institute

Partnerships for Inclusion Trainings for early care &

education teachers & administrators

Train-the-trainer materials

FPG Child Development Institute

NC Technical Assistance Preschool Project Program-wide implementation for

13 local school districts

Coaching for demonstration classroom

Community College System

Training for early childhood faculty

Embedding concepts into child guidance classes & other early childhood courses

Grassroots Efforts

NC/CSEFEL Training & Technical Assistance Community (>500)

Local Peer-amid Discussion Groups for consultants/trainers

Challenges

Competing priorities for partner agency leadership

Cross sector implementation became individual agency efforts

Lack of drivers for systemic implementation of the CSEFEL Pyramid Model

Challenges

Lack of public awareness of CSEFEL Pyramid Model

Lack of state-wide access to train-the-trainer

Turnover within demonstration sites

Lessons Learned

Funding for project coordination

Tiered process for demonstration classrooms

Guided observations

Flexibility

Celebrate Successes!!

Where to Go to Learn More

Center on the Social & Emotional Foundations for Early Learningwww.vanderbilt.edu/csefel

Technical Assistance Center on Social Emotional Interventionwww.challengingbehavior.org

Coming Soon… www.ncpyramidmodel.org