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Highlights of ECLI’s Professional Development Framework
- Implements Needs Assessments to customize professional development
- Evaluates program impact through (Introductory/Baseline), post-Orientation and ongoing surveys utilizing state TAS Standards, in addition to PD Feedback Forms, and focus groups.
- Utilizes Implementation Science within framework
- Provides Foundational Training (24 hours), as well as periodic practice-based role-specific training
- Utilizes feedback loops
- Employs technology to provide ongoing access to training content, resources, and a platform for collaboration
- Facilitates communities and forums to support implementation of and sustainability of new practices and promote connections within roles and across roles
- Supports leaders at all levels: state staff, TA Center & CCR&R Directors, Technical Assistance Providers, and Child Care Providers
- Offers coaching for more intense support in skill development
- Provides opportunities for engaging in reflective practice.
- Supports develop and emerge in response to the needs and direction of organization, as well as the cultural
- Spearheads research and conceptualization of leadership development in early childhood education
- Bridges training to higher education credentials. (Certificate of Graduate Studies in Early Childhood in Technical Assistance and Coaching)
- All training topics and activities are grounded in the four pillars of capacity building in adults, leadership for change, reflective practice and culturally responsive change
- ECLI spearheaded unification of definitions of PD, Coaching, etc and proposed state standards to support and guide those in Leadership and Management roles within their agencies.
