Category Archives: ECTA Center

Cultivating Quality COS Conversations: Tips from Families and Practitioners

Conference: DEC & ISEI Joint Conference 2022 Date: September 28, 2022 Presenters: Naomi Younggren, Lauren Barton, Stephanie Moss, Henry Matthews This session reviewed how children’s functioning relative to age-expectations is essential for quality services and effective outcomes measurement and how these family conversations can be uncomfortable. With shared insight from families and practitioners, tips to […]

No Need to Reinvent the Wheel: Resources to Reinforce Core COS Practices

Conference: DEC & ISEI Joint Conference 2022 Date: September 28, 2022 Presenters: Lauren Barton, Naomi Younggren, Henry Matthews, Stephanie Moore, Kellen Reid, Faith Scheibe, and Nicholas Ortiz This session explored the available Child Outcomes Summary (COS) professional development materials that can help teams focus on functionality, cover the breadth of the outcomes, age anchor skills, […]

Using Data Processes and Systems Thinking to Drive Impactful, Sustainable Systems Improvement Cohort

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)).