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Minnesota
Professional Development Council
September
19, 2002
Attendees:
Claudia Freund (Resources for Child Caring),
Mary Wynne (MN CCR&R Network), Heidi Malloy (Metro
State University), Michelle Thole (MLFCCA), Wendy Nielsen
(Resources for Child Caring), Marie Jahnson (CAC CCR&R),
Dawn Goldschmitz (Development Corporation for Children),
Valerie Peterson (MNCCR&R), Claire Chang (MnAEYC
Board), Kate Zabertini (MnAEYC Board), Betty Cooke (CFL),
Sue Dion (Concordia University), Deb Colling (PLA),
Margaret Boyer (Alliance of Early Childhood Professionals),
Kelly McKown (ACCESS, St. Paul College)
The
meeting began while attendees filled in the blank of
the following statement:
As
conveners of this meeting, MnAEYC strives to COORDINATE
the education and training NEEDS of those invested in
the lives of children WITH the OPPORTUNITIES available.
You are here to contribute to this process and its outcomes.
Please fill in the blank in the following sentence:
An
early childhood an out-of-school care STATEWIDE PROFESSIONAL
DEVELOPMENT COUNCIL COULD BE _______________________________.
Kate
Zabertini led the group in welcome and introductions,
while everyone shared their responses to the statement.
The
responses included:
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Clearinghouse of information
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Include communities of color, family child
care
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Youth development is growing/families
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Include education
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Clearinghouse concept, coordinating systems
and efforts
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Coordinate direction, goals and training
needs of providers
·
Out of metro, clearinghouse, translated
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Training needs, out in the field, not
even knowing how to access the services of professional
development.
·
Rule 3 and training, understand the coordination
of all programs, understand working with MECSATA’s.
·
Innovative approach to include new professionals.
·
R &R’s coordinate the training, a
need to continue to define the standards in the system.
Legislative: use market-based incentive, TEACH,
Rate Reimbursement strategies, have teachers trained,
used NCATE standards as an example.
·
Support to read and understand the language.
·
Clearinghouse opportunity, access to knowledge,
especially bi-lingual
·
Provide information to the community at
large, establish a guide and introduce a vision.
·
Help train the bilingual staff
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Directly effects practice.
·
Build the professional link into higher
education
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Educational tool that could direct all
early childhood professionals, giving the career base
people need.
·
Clearinghouse, but more than that, coordinate.
Relook at the notes and work that has been done back
in March 2000 that Barbara O’Sullivan initiated
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Health background, health care is really
developing in the field. Bridge the conflict.
She would like to see a product. How can it help
the children? Support standards, develop core
competencies.
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Collaborative place to share and create
access.
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Explanation is difficult. Clearinghouse
is difficult, but glad the information, influence.
We have a lot of power, influence. Need to be
real clear, realistic. Terminology problems.
·
Easier flow from credit to non-credit.
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Enhancing and coordinating to impact practice.
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Power and governance structure, catalysts
for growth, the care children receive.
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Project understanding, cogs, yellow pages,
user friendly, more than a clearinghouse, gaps need
to be looked at. Coordinate, motivate, promote.
·
Wages, strategies, what else could we
do? Pay attention to inclusive of the breadth
of this field.
·
Catalyst public awareness, create a world
of motivation, strength,
This
council is convened by MNAEYC.
As the convener, MnAEYC is not the lead organization.
This is a group of those interested in early
childhood and school age care professional development,
who all have an equal voice on the work of the group. MnAEYC is convening, because:
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CFL
has commissioned MnAEYC to get these meetings started
as part of MnAEYC’s work plan
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MnAEYC
is a statewide organization whose members come from
a variety of settings, including: family child care,
center-based care, providers, directors, school
age care providers.
We
are gathered here today to gain expertise about the
field. We want to support those who care.
Currently those who are serving children and services
are not gathered at a formal setting. We want
professionals to gather together to share our voices
as one representation.
Exceptions:
Out
of the category of formal systems.
End
Task.
Making
it easy for all levels to have a way of looking at all
the options and accessibility.
All
of us helping each other to access the training and
spread the word of training.
History:
How
did we Get Here?
See
handout.
Public
awareness, and making a stronger impact on society.
Look at the developing themes.
·
Leave the age groups off of the name
·
Educare Professional Development Council,
make the name simple
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Mn Early childhood care and education
·
Mn Professional Development Coordinating
Council
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Tagline: Focusing on children, supporting
professional, supporting the childhood professional,
and supporting professionals who work with and for children,
youth and families.
·
Supporting professionals who care for
and educate children, youth and families.
·
Use the word advocate.
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Mn Child: Caution about it being
a program? What is the difference between a council,
committee, or coalition?
Action
Step: Form subcommittee for list of names
to choose from.
What
do you want to See?
Vision
has already been developed, was can move forward on
this. North Dakota has developed a 5-year plan.
Acknowledge
the work that has been done. Core Competencies
should be used, they are researched based. Include emerging
leaders in the field.
Work
is still going to happen, Trainer’s Credential.
This council is supporting and is happening.
We are not starting over.
Criteria
of who we endorse or support. Connected to the
clearinghouse. This is
an actions register piece. Clearinghouse.
Would MNAEYC be the clearinghouse of acceptance?
Do we need to develop criteria and who and what we are
supporting?
We
need a framework and a process for this.
Let’s
sign up for workgroups and taskforces. Administration
or Logistics. What are some of the products that
have not been addressed?
The
Mobius integrates the plan to reach the vision.
Let’s share this virtually.
Everyone should receive the Mobius model.
Need
a marketing group/need a structure.
Orientation
and recruitment of the group.
Revisit
what the tasks are. Finding out what is out there,
developing criteria. We need to focus on the continuum,
identify career latticing. We need to revisit.
Simplify
the vision and mission.
Career
Lattice: needs to be a committee.
Everyone
should receive the Mobius model.
Subcommittees
developed. Identified person that the information
gets back to MNAEYC to disseminate. Committees should
meet before the next full-group meeting on December
12th (see below for details).
The
meeting concluded with participants signing up for some
of the task forces that were agreed on, including:
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Vision, Mission Strategies
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Structure of Council
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Orientation, Recruitment, Inclusiveness, Welcome to
New Members
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Name/Marketing
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Criteria for Clearinghouse
If
you wish to be included on one of the task forces, please
call Katie Connor at MnAEYC, 651-646-8689.
The next meeting of this group will be:
December 12, 2002
1:30 p.m. – 3:30 p.m.
Junior
Achievement Center
1800
White Bear Ave N
Maplewood,
MN 55109 |
