2009 National Smart Start Conference Handouts
Below is a numerical listing of all the presentations made during the 2009 National Smart Start Conference. As we receive presentations/handouts from the presenters, they will be posted here. If you see nothing below the presentation title, either we have yet to receive copies of their presentation or they are unable to send them to us electronically. We will continue to update this site as we receive copies of other presentations and hope you will find it useful. 201 North Carolina ABCD Project Networking
203 Evaluator Roundtable Discussion
204 Strategies for Professionalizing the Field
205 Paid Family Leave Is Part of the ECE System
206 Research on Teacher-Child Interactions: Implications for Improving School Readiness Handout
207 Providing Technical Assistance for Local Early Childhood Systems Work
208 More at Four Roundtable
209 Standards of Experience
210 Research and Development for the Early Care and Education Industry
211 Leave No Child Inside Legislation - How Is Your State Responding?
213 Challenges Faced by Tribes and Those Wanting to Work with Tribes
214 Early Childhood Leadership Development Approaches, Challenges, Concerns and Vision
215 A Systematic Approach to Family Support Professional Development
300 Management Skills for New Managers: Building A Team Handout
301 Just Down the Hall: Mental Health in Primary Care Pediatric Practice Handout
302 Selecting and Implementing Curriculum in Preschool: It’s the Implementing
that Is So Difficult!
303 Give Children a Running Start: Child Health and Obesity
Handout
304 Doing Good or Doing Great?
Handout a
Handout b
305 The Whole Child Connection - Empowerment Through Technology
306 Get Connected: Using Online Tools to Network with Your Community and
Beyond
Handout
310 Managing for Impact
Handout a
Handout b
Handout c
311 Transforming Child Care: A New Federal Agenda
Handout
313 Unionizing Home-Based Child Care Providers: An Update
Handout
314 Safe and Sober Families: Supporting Families Impacted by Alcohol and
Drug Use
Handout
317 Improving Team Effectiveness with Psychometrics
Handout
318 FirstSchool: Seamless Education for PreK to 3rd Grade
Handout
320 Understanding & Responding to Abuse & Neglect of Infants and
Toddlers
Handout a
Handout b
323 Latino Family Group Meeting - Strategies for Facilitation and Success
324 Home Visiting As a Strategy for School Success
326 How to Effectively Engage and Connect with Latino Parents and Youth
Handout
327 Legal & Ethical Challenges in ECE Administration
Handout a
Handout b
Handout c
328 The Kaleidoscopic Leader
Handout
329 Empowering Parents to Keep Their Children Safe & Healthy
Handout
330 You Can Stop Gossip, Whining & Negativity!
Handout a
Handout b
331 Be Active Kids: Creating Healthy Habits and Engaging in Healthy Behaviors
332 Scoring Success with the RFP Process
Handout a
Handout b
Handout c
Handout d
Handout e
Handout f
Handout g
Handout h
Handout i
334 Integrating and Assessing Cultural Competence within Quality Rating
and Improvement Systems
Handout a
Handout b
Handout c
336 Supporting Positive Behavior
This workshop contains materials which are not original to our agency, but
were created by Kids Included Together (KIT). Unfortunately, KIT does not
allow their materials to be posted on other organization’s websites.
I am sorry that the other conference participants will be unable to view
this material. If anyone is specifically interested in learning more about
these topics, they can certainly contact
me and I can tell them about other training opportunities as
well as direct them to the KIT website.
337 Making the Case for Prevention: Using New Research on Trauma, Brain
Development, and Long-Term
Adult Health Issues
Handout
338 Understanding Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorders: Impact on Children,
Family and Community
339 A National Study of Maltreated Infants & Toddlers: Early Indicators
Associated with School-Age Special Education Services
340 Quality ECE: A Critical Economic Asset Against Global Competition
341 You're "On-Board", Now What?
Handout
343 Effective Marketing with Hispanic Parents
Handout
344 Hiring New Staff
345 Who's Caring for Our Babies Now?
Handout
346 New Developments Toward Building Infant Toddler Teacher Support Systems
Handout
347 Data-Driven Advocacy and Policymaking
Handout
348 Using KIPS to Assess Parenting Outcomes in SC First Steps
Handout a
Handout b
350 Using Tax Credits to Promote High Quality Early Care and Education Services
Handout
351 Food Security and Hunger among Immigrant Latino Children: Link to Obesity?
Handout
352 Educating Spanish-Speaking Parents about Environmental Health Risks
for Young Children
Handout a
Handout b
Handout c
Handout d
Handout e
Handout f
Handout g
Handout h
Handout i
Handout j
353 Anticipatory Innovation
Handout
354 Helping Child Care Providers Develop A Budget
356 Chronic Sorrow, Joy, and Strength in Families of Children with Disabilities
Handout
357 No Dead End Ahead: Giving Reliable Referrals
Handout
358 Comprehensive Insurance Benefits for Child Care Providers and Partnerships
– YES, It’s Do-able!
359 Engaging Doctors in Advocacy Work
361 Making the Navy's Military Model Work for Your Organization
362 Early Childhood Tooth Decay – Risk Factors and Prevention
363 Wyoming’s Developmental Preschools – A Different Approach
364 Grief and Loss in Young Children: What should we know and how can we
help?
Handout a
Handout b
Handout c
Handout d
Handout e
365 Babies & Toddlers in the Policy Picture
Handout
366 The ABCs of Advocacy
367 Understanding Domestic Violence and Its Effects on Children
Handout a
Handout b
372 Michigan's Great Start Initiative: Lessons Learned
Handout a
Handout b
Handout c
Handout d
Handout e
373 Quality Assurance: Making Sound Investments in Centers Using Public
and Private Funds
Handout
374 Evaluating Arizona's First Things First Initiative
377 Dynamic Staff Meetings
Handout
378 Sustaining Quality: Enhancing Child Care Management Practices
Handout
379 A Strategic Community Planning Process to Meet the Needs of Infants
& Toddlers
Handout
380 Perspectives on Meeting the Early Childhood Workforce Challenge
381 Teachers Matter: Planning for the Next Generation of Leaders in Early
Care and Education
Handout
382 Group Meetings That Keep Parents Coming Back
384 Embracing Personal & Organizational Leadership
Handout a
Handout b
Handout c
385 Building a Dynamic & Diverse Parent Coalition
386 Improving the Delivery of Early Care & Education in Oklahoma
Handout
387 Looking Into the Paper Room ™
Handout
388 The 7 Keys of Effective Teams
Handout
389 Managing Food Allergies in Early Childhood and School Settings
391 A Systematic Approach to Technical Assistance
393 Emergent Literacy Matters!
Handout a
Handout b
Handout c
395 Following the System: A Look at the Health Check System from the Smart
Start World
Handout
396 Collaborative Planning for Inclusion
Handout
397 A National Overview: Quality Rating & Improvement Systems that Meet
the Needs of Infants, Toddlers and School-Age Care
Handout a
Handout b
400 Perspectives on Supporting Culturally and Linguistically Diverse Families
in Early Care Policies and Practice
The handouts from our Smart Start presentations are available through our
website, at: http://www.childcareandearlyed.clasp.org/presentations.html#smartstart2009
401 Respectful Accommodations
This workshop contains materials which are not original to our agency, but
were created by Kids Included Together (KIT). Unfortunately, KIT does not
allow their materials to be posted on other organization’s websites.
I am sorry that the other conference participants will be unable to view
this material. If anyone is specifically interested in learning more about
these topics, they can certainly contact
me and I can tell them about other training opportunities as
well as direct them to the KIT website.
402 Sustaining Early Childhood Initiatives
Handout a
Handout b
403 Help Me Grow: A Statewide Model for Screening Children’s Development
and Connecting Families to Resources
Handout a
405 Strengthening Families: Empowering Communities to Prevent Child Maltreatment
Handout
406 Aligning the Efforts - Strengthening Families/Supporting Children
407 The Medical Home - the “Smart Start” for all Children
412 Program Consultation to Support Early Childhood Inclusion
Handout
413 Babies and Toddlers in Child Care: State Policy and Practice for Healthy
Development
The handouts from our Smart Start presentations are available through our
website, at: http://www.childcareandearlyed.clasp.org/presentations.html#smartstart2009
414 Extending Home Visiting Programs to Family, Friend, and Neighbor Caregivers:
Opportunities and Barriers
The handouts from our Smart Start presentations are available through our
website, at: http://www.childcareandearlyed.clasp.org/presentations.html#smartstart2009
415 Launching an Outdoor Learning Environments Initiative
Handout
416 Rhode Island’s Quality Rating and Improvement System: Findings
from the Design and Field Test Phase
Handout
417 Strategies for Involving the Legal Services Community in Early Care
& Education
418 Conducting a Community Needs Assessment
Handout
419 Collaboration of Accountability – Blending Program, Fiscal and
Contracts Monitoring
Handout
422 Including Family Culture When Developing Quality Systems to Include
Special Needs
423 Early Brain Development, Early Learning and the Effects of Stress and
Violence on the Developing Brain
Handout a
Handout b
424 Implementing Teacheread: A Professional Development Opportunity
425 The Touchpoint Approach: Strengthening Families and Communities
426 Partnership between Colorado’s Early Intervention System and the
NICU: A Model for Collaboration
428 Building a Statewide Business Coalition
429 Smart Start Fiscal Update
430 Smart Start Program Match
431 Smart Start Year-End Close
433 Harnessing the Power of Data for Effective Decision-Making
Handout
435 Building Cross-Sector Early Childhood Professional Development Systems
Handout
437 Communication Tools You Can Use
Handout
438 Data Collection for the Texas School Readiness Certification System
Handout a
Handout b
439 Early Educator Certification
The powerpoint from this session is not available for distribution at this
time. Please refer readers to free information and forms available on the
website for the NC Institute for Early Childhood Professional Development
information on EEC. The address is www.ncchildcare.org,
click on Early Educator Certification.
440 Beyond Collaboration: Arizona’s Innovative Approach to Creating
a Quality Improvement and Rating System
Handout a
Handout b
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Handout f
Handout g
Handout h
441 Assistive Technology to Facilitate Literacy Learning in All Children,
Including those with Significant Disabilities
444 Fiscal Mapping: A New Tool for Early Childhood Financing and Systems
Reform
Handout a
Handout b
Handout c
Handout d
Handout e
Handout f
445 Practical Approaches for a Successful Merger of Local Partnerships
Handout
446 Cultivating the Seed of Leadership
449 Changes in Federal Policy for Child Care, Head Start and Other Early
Childhood Programs
450 A Blueprint for State Professional Development System Policies
Handout Additional handouts provided are
available already online at www.naeyc.org/policy/ecwsi.
451 The Starting Place: Connecting Services in a Rural Community
Handout
452 Stay and Play Outdoors All Day!
455 Innovative State Policy Approaches to Spending Investments On At-Risk
Children Birth to Five
Handout
457 The Effects of Violence on Brain Development in Children
458 Infant Mortality, Racial Disparities, and Institutional Racism –
Social Justice and the Mission of Public Health
Handout
459 Developing Virginia’s Quality Rating and Improvement System
467 Play Outside! Adventures with the NC Outdoor Learning Environments Alliance
469 Choices of Care among Latino Low Income Working Families
470 Examining Classroom Quality Measures in State Child Care Quality Rating
Systems: Lessons from Tennessee
473 When Young Children Are Homeless
Handout
474 Recruiting and Engaging Board Members so They Become an Active Part
of Your Team
Handout a
Handout b
Handout c
Handout d
Handout e
Handout f
Handout g
476 Rock Soup Reheated! Parents Making Dreams Out of Life’s Hard Places
from Early Intervention to Young Adulthood
478 North Carolina Curricula Review Process: Who, What, When and Why (and
What it Means for Programs)
Handout
481 Communicating for Influence
Handout
488 Improving Children’s Environment: Healthy Homes and Lead
489 Overview of the North Carolina Pyramid Model Partnership
490 Maternal Depressive Symptoms: More than the "Baby Blues"
491 Addressing Child Poverty: Building Assets for Children, Families and
Communities
492 Naturalizing Play Areas: Using Design as a Preventative Health Intervention
493 Ready Schools Miami
Handout
494 What Grows in Your Garden? Much More Than You Imagine!
Handout
496 Public Policies to Support Parental Child Care and Workplace Flexibility:
Making the Case
497 National Alliance for Family, Friend and Neighbor Child Care
498 United Way/Success by 6 PreCon Session
499 Question & Answer About North Carolina Environment Rating Scale
Assessments
500 Early Childhood and Autism Screening
501 Social-Emotional Development in Infancy and Early Childhood - Understanding
Risk, Screening, and Resources for the Primary Care Practice
Handout a
Handout b
502 Assessing the Special Health Care Needs of Children in Foster Care
Handout
503 Amp it Up: How to Build Word of Mouth Movements and Mobilize Your Brand
Ambassadors
504 Natural Playscapes: Creating Outdoor Play Environments for the Soul
505 How To Get Home Before Midnight: Basic Parliamentary Procedure and Effective
Meeting Strategies
506 Launching and Sustaining a Statewide Incredible Years Program
Handout
507 From Mass Markets to Mass Customization: Crafting the Right Public Awareness
Responses
508 Promoting Positive Mental Health in Children
509 Using the National Early Literacy Panel Findings to Enhance Literacy
Development
Handout
510 Children with Special Health Care Needs
Handout a
Handout b
Handout c
511 Putting the Pieces Together to Build Your Local Ready Schools Initiative
Handout
512 Building Connections between Preschool and Kindergarten Teachers
Handout
513 We've completed the Ready Schools Assessment…now what?
514 Ohio's Ready Schools Program: Strong Foundations, Smooth Transitions
and Continuous Learning
515 Assessing and Acting on the Critical Components of Ready Schools
Handout
516 Launching a Community-based Approach to Ready Schools
517 Escaping Program Silos and Moving to the Nirvana of an Integrated Early
Childhood System
Handout a
Handout b
520 Inclusion: What is it & How do I do it?
521 Improving Standards Using State Rankings of Child Care Center and Family
Child Care Home Licensing and Oversight
522 Making On-Site Technical Assistance Effective: Research, Policy and
Best Practice
523 Trends in Child Care Licensing
Handout
525 Inclusion: The Who, What, and How with an Emphasis on State Strategies
that Make it Work
Handout
526 Child Care and Development Fund Administration: Overview of Federal
Requirements
Handout
527 Child Care and Development Fund Quality Initiatives: National Trends
Handout
528 Quality Rating Systems: A Strategic Movement for Defining Quality
Handout
529 Relationship-based Professional Development
Handout
530 Child Care and Development Fund Administration in the Current Environment:
National Trends
Handout
531 The Early Childhood Professional Development Systems Toolkit
Handout
532 Raising A Reader Part II: The North Carolina Experience
Handout
533 The Incredible Years BASIC Parent Program Implementation
Handout a
Handout b
535 Get Ready, Get Set, Go! Using Research to Inform Program Selection
536 Recruitment - Getting it Right the First Time
Handout
537 Building a Strategic Marketing and Promotional Campaign on a Budget
Handout
538 How Do We Get the Parents on the Floor and Keep Them There?
539 Research on the Impact of Teacher-Child Interactions
540 The ABCDs of Child Development
Handout
541 Helping the Early Care and Education Businesses Attain Economies of
Scale: The CCA Global Approach
542 Shared Services for the ECE Industry
Handout a
Handout b
Handout c
Handout d
543 Teacher-Child Interactions: Professional Development and the CLASS in
Early Childhood Classrooms
545 Building for Sustainability from the Start
546 Promoting Equity in Child and Family Outcomes: Using the "Race
Matters" Framework
Handout
547 Venture Grant Meeting
548 Recruiting, Orienting & Retaining Superior Board Members
549 Parents as Teachers Pre-Conference Session - Neurotoxins: Their Effects
on Development, Learning and Behavior
550 The Role of Schools in the Early Care and Education Delivery System
551 Dad's In the Mix: Getting Fathers Involved in Your Program
552 Recognizing Child Abuse Using Case Examples
553 National Accreditation and Quality Rating & Improvement Systems:
A Generative Discussion
554 Essential Components of Establishing a Nurse-Family Partnership Program
in your Community
555 Diversity in Early Childhood Leadership: Exploring the Issues, Challenges
and Opportunities
Handout a
Handout b
Handout c
Handout d
Handout e
556 Beyond the B.A.: Pre-K Teacher Quality From Research to Policy
Handout
557 The Pre-K Pinch: Early Education Costs and the Middle Class
Handout
558 Widening the Lens: Looking at Quality from a Program Administration
Perspective
559 Early Childhood Assessment: Why, What and How
Handout
560 Civic Engagement in Early Childhood Strategic Planning: South Carolina
First Steps Vision 2013 Early Childhood Summits
Handout
561 Ready Schools, Ready Communities: Making the Connection
Handout
562 NCPC Development & Public Awareness Committee Meeting
565 SPARK Georgia: Year 5 Evaluation Results and Lessons Learned
Handout a
Handout b
Handout c
Handout d
566 Storytime: A New Approach to a Traditional Practice
567 North Carolina’s Automated Record Review Process
Handout a
Handout b
Handout c
Handout d
568 Putting North Carolina's Early Learning Standards Online
569 Framing Early Child Development for Public Understanding and Support
Handout a
Handout b
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Handout f
Handout g
571 Social Marketing: A Tool for Behavioral Impact
Handout a
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Handout e
572 Smart Start and DSS: A Roadmap for Successful Collaboration
574 Smart Start Financial Reporting
575 IRS Form 990
576 Smart Start Governance Operations and Monitoring
Handout
577 Governance as Leadership: Leveraging the Collective Wisdom of the Board
of Directors
Handout
578 Leading from Within: Five Keys to Living Our Lives as Authentic Leaders
Handout
579 Setting the Bar for Online Early Childhood Professional Development
Content
Handout a
Handout b
Handout c
580 Logic Models for Effective Planning and Communicating About Programs
Handout a
Handout b
581 Smart Start Governance Strengthening Initiative
582 Ethics & Conflict of Interest: Achieving Exemplary Standards in
Nonprofit Governance
584 Raising A Reader Part I
585 NC Ready Schools Grantee Meeting
586 Quality Enhancement for the Outdoor Classroom
587 Connecting Children with Nature: A Statewide Action Collaborative for
Children
588 The Development of Social Competence for Children in Early Education
Programs
589 Thirst to Learn Dialogue
590 Paying Employees Fairly and Equitably
Handout
591 Ending the Employment Relationship
Handout
592 Managing Your Labor Dollars in a Difficult Economy
Handout
593 Leadership for Changing Times
595 Dealing with Harassment in the Workplace
596 Understanding and Working with Different Ages and Generations
Email presenter directly to request this handout emily@emilyballance.com
597 Raising the Bar: Increasing the Quality of Family Support
598 Lost Boys and the Failure to Launch
Handout
599 Early Childhood Mental Health Systems Development: A Public Health Approach
to Young Children's Social Emotional Development
Handout
KEYNOTE PRESENTATIONS
600 Keynote Presentation by Dr.
David Tayloe, President, American Academy of Pediatrics
601 Keynote Presentation by Dr. Pat Levitt, Director, Vanderbilt Kennedy Center for
Research on Human Development
602 Link to website of Keynote
Speaker Jerry Tello, Director, National Latino Fatherhood and Family
Institute