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Educator and Provider Support
Grant: FY13 Planning
Summary Presentation
January 2012
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Proposed Changes to FY13 EPS Grant
Educator and Provider Planning:
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Broader consultation on local professional development
needs and sharing opportunities with public schools, HS,
EI, and others, in addition to CFCEs.
Incentives for educators to participate in coursework
using MOUs and EEC’s career ladder.
EEC’s on-line courses offered on a regular and frequent
basis.
Publicize and facilitate access to resources beyond the
grant like WGBH’s media platform, children’s museums,
and library resources
Promote anti-bias curricula and culturally/linguistically
appropriate practices to
 maintain and expand workforce diversity
 increase competency in these areas.
Proposed Changes to FY13 EPS Grant:
Coaching and Mentoring
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Support evidenced-based coaching and mentoring practice.
Define qualifications, content, and duration.
Continue building incentives with MOUs:
 Between educators and the programs that employ them
 Train-the-trainer agreements to disseminate core
knowledge and to imbed it in programs
 Recognition of educators who are “peer leaders” who can
influence practice
Intentional collaboration with new DHE Early Education and
OST College Completion Specialist with a focus on ELL
educators.
Intentional collaboration with Regional Readiness Centers on
academic advising and career counseling.
Proposed Changes to FY13 EPS Grant
Competency Development
Areas: social-emotional development, English language development,
formative assessment and data use, family engagement, children
with high needs, STEM, standards alignment.
 Examples:
 Online courses with professional learning communities (PLCs).
 Promote anti-bias curricula, culturally/linguistically appropriate
practices.
 Promote English Language Development (ELD) Standards to be
developed in FY 2013.
 Provide assessment tools and training for QRIS (requirement for
FY 2014; initial steps in FY 2013)
 Increase the number of educators trained in family engagement
(Strengthening Families) with CFCEs.
 Offer online course on standards alignment (Infant/Toddler &
Preschool Guidelines, and MA Frameworks).
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Proposed Changes to FY13 EPS Grant:
Overall Grant Requirements:
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Initiatives and activities clearly linked to QRIS.
Initiatives and activities clearly linked to Brain Building In
Progress.
Intentional arrangements for academic advising and career
counseling with Readiness Centers.
Clarify role as “boundary spanners” who implement statewide initiatives at the regional and local levels.
Prioritize services for educators serving “high needs”
children and programs in QRIS.
Hold accountable for joint professional development with
other EEC grantees, school districts, ESE, EI, Readiness
Centers, etc.
Continue work on regional acceleration plans.
Satisfaction survey of educators and providers.
Proposed Changes to the Educator and
Provider Support Grant for FY13
Anticipated RFP Timeline:
October 27, 2011 and November 29, 2011:
Presented to Planning and Evaluation
Committee
 December 13, 2011: Presented to EEC Board
for discussion
 January 10, 2012: Vote by EEC Board on
proposed changes for FY13
 February 2012: RFP issued
 April – May 2012: Grants awarded
 July 1, 2012: Grants go into effect
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