DaSy, ECTA, and the Waters Center For Systems Thinking are offering an opportunity for 3-5 states to participate in the Data and Systems Thinking cohort. Focusing on improving states’ ability to collect, report, analyze and use data to support state systems change efforts and will build on previous state systems change work (such as the State Systemic Improvement Plan (SSIP)).
Category Archives: ECTA Center
2023 State Learning Opportunities

The OSEP-funded Early Childhood Technical Assistance (TA) Centers are pleased to announce a variety of new and ongoing opportunities to build individual and state capacity around implementation of IDEA 0-5 in 2023.
Improve Your Child Outcomes Data: Introducing the Child Outcomes Summary Knowledge Check Webinar

Recording now available! Does your state or program use the Child Outcomes Summary (COS) Process? Join us for an overview of a new, free, online tool (the Child Outcomes Summary Knowledge Check or COS-KC) that assesses practitioner knowledge of the COS process.
OSEP Part B 619 Child Find Self-Assessment (CFSA)
OSEP, with the collaboration and support of ECTA Center and DaSy Center (for Sections II and III), developed this voluntary self-assessment tool to help Local Education Agencies (LEAs) strengthen their child find system with the goal of ensuring children eligible for special education and related services are referred and enrolled.
Leadership with an Equity Mindset Webinar Series: Using Preschool Special Education Data

This 4-part call series focuses on collaboration between Part B, Section 619 Coordinators and Part B Data Manager or data staff responsible for preschool special education data.
Early Childhood Technical Assistance (ECTA) Center’s System Framework
The ECTA System Framework and the DaSy Data System Framework were developed in coordination. DaSy was tasked with developing a framework for data systems, DaSy and ECTA agreed that the DaSy data system framework would serve as the Data Systems component in the ECTA framework.
Early Hearing Detection, and Intervention Program (EHDI) and Early Intervention
Partnerships between the Early Hearing Detection and Intervention (EHDI) program and Part C of the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA) program can support and improve outcomes for children who are deaf or hard of hearing (DHH) and their families. Collaboration between these programs is specified in the IDEA Part C Regulations
Part C Indicator 4: Family Outcomes Data FFY 2020
DaSy and ECTA staff discuss FFY 2020 results from the Indicator C4 Family Outcomes data, including state approaches to surveys, data quality, performance trends, and resources.
Fiscal Data Trend Profile Template (2023)
For a Part C system, the fiscal data profile depicts demographic, service delivery, infrastructure, and administrative data in a variety of ways to make the fiscal data more comprehensible to users.
The Basics of Identifying and Correcting Noncompliance

Conference: IDIO 2022 Date: August 24, 2022 Presenters: Julie Austen, Sharon Walsh, Thomas McGhee, Stacy Callender, Christina Commons, Janet Timbs Presenters described in depth the requirements related to identifying and […]