Author Archives: Elaine Mulligan

Recorded Data Integration Webinars

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The Center for the Integration of IDEA Data (CIID) hosts technical assistance webinars to promote the exchange of lessons learned and promising practices, and to support SEAs with the integration of IDEA Part B Sections 616 and 618 data with statewide longitudinal data systems. This page contains all CIID technical assistance webinars conducted to date, […]

Access to high quality early childhood education

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The Early Childhood Data Collaborative (ECDC) recently released a short brief, Open doors: Supporting Children and Families’ Access to Early Care and Education (2017). The brief offers strategies and recommendations for how states can use their early care and education (ECE) data to better understand the needs of families in their communities, the best ways […]

Chart with Purpose

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In this first of three 30 minute data visualization talks, presenters defined data visualization and addressed 5 common pitfalls when creating charts: Not clearly articulating your message; beginning with the visualization technique vs. the data; misrepresenting your data; being dull; and forgetting about accessibility. Presented by Denise Mauzy and Kerry Belodoff in May 2017 Webinar […]

Refining Your Evaluation: Refining S.M.A.R.T. Performance Indicators

This 2017 document is designed to assist states develop or refine their SSIP performance indicators. It includes a worksheet with a series of questions based on S.M.A.R.T. criteria (Specific, Measurable, Achievable, Relevant and Timely) that will help states write performance indicators, providing the information needed for the SSIP, and will articulate a rationale for making […]

Enhancing Trusting Partnerships at the Systems and Practice Levels: Reciprocal Opportunities for Professionals and Families

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This second session of the Engaging Families and Creating Trusting Partnerships to Improve Child and Family Outcomes series focused on the nature of trusting partnerships among professionals and families. The presenters described six research-based partnership principles, and emphasized the practices that professionals and families should demonstrate when implementing the principles. Tools for measuring partnerships and […]