Michigan DEC will celebrate our 10th annual conference this year! This conference couldn't happen without the MiDEC Board of Directors, volunteers, speakers and YOU!
Our goal for each participant is to have a productive learning experience and an opportunity to share with colleagues through quality, research-based sessions, and productive organizational meetings.
2020 Call for Proposals deadline has been extended to December 13, 2019! Please reference the proposal instructions if you have questions about completing the proposal.
The theme this year is 'Meeting the Needs of ALL Learners'. Our goal is to provide families, practitioners, and faculty in higher education with a variety of meaningful sessions and dynamic presentations that encourage continuity of strategies and richness of skills for meeting the needs of all children and students, birth to age eight regardless of background, ability, or cultural differences. Session proposals addressing the following topics will be given our top consideration:
* Supporting children in inclusive settings,
* Promoting Universal Design for Learning,
* Advancing Cultural Competency,
* Understanding Implicit Bias,
* Encouraging Mindfulness, being present
* Developing Resilience, and
* Expanding Social-emotional Supports
Session proposals should be relevant to family members, early interventionists, early childhood and early childhood special education professionals, related service personnel, administrators, faculty, college students or policymakers representative of cross-sector personnel.
Call for Input: Multi-Tiered System of Support Framework in Early Childhood: Description and Implications Revised Position Statement (2019)
Feedback Needed: Public Draft #2 of the Leveling of the Professional Standards and Competencies
The Power to the Profession Task Force recommended that the 2010 NAEYC Standards for Initial and Advance Early Childhood Professional Preparation Programs be explicitly positioned as the foundation for the standards and competencies of the unified early childhood education profession, with the specific expectations for the revision of these standards. Since January 2018, a workgroup made up of practitioners and experts have been working to revise the standards in accordance with the recommendations of Power to the Profession.
Now known as the Professional Standards and Competencies for Early Childhood Educators, Public Draft #2 of the leveling of these standards is now available for comment. The leveling is intended to serve as a guide to the profession regarding expected mastery of the standards and competencies at the ECE I, II and III designations outlined in Decision Cycles 3,4,5 and 6 of Power to the Profession. NAEYC welcomes and needs your feedback on this draft to ensure that the final version is as strong as possible!
The Michigan DEC 2019 Election results are in!
President-Elect Katie Bourbina
Treasurer Mark Kuipers
Member at Large Holly Hoffman
Congratulations and welcome to the Michigan Division for Early Childhood Board of Directors!
Other Board members include:
President Christy Callahan
Past President Lydia Moore
Secretary Julie Ricks-Doneen
Parent Representative Barb Schinderle
Past Parent Representative Lisa Cook Gordon
Member at Large Sophia D'Agostino
Honors and Awards Chairperson Colleen O'Connor
Professional Development Chairperson Nancy Surbrook-Goins
Outreach Chairperson LaShorage Schaffer
Governmental Relations Co-Chairs Katie Bourbina and Lisa Cook-Gordon
Greetings MIDEC!
The next issue of the MIDEC Newsletter is available to MIDEC members. This is an added benefit to being a member of the Michigan Division for Early Childhood. Share your thoughts on Facebook or by contacting us.
Newsletter link:
https://drive.google.com/open?id=16C-Xv3NBrNM14BccZJcT3WNWF0rSSEgh
Please send your inquiries, comments, and article submissions to:
LaShorage Shaffer
Newsletter Editor Email: michigandec@gmail.com
Michigan early childhood special education pioneer, Jane Scandary, passed away on February 9, 2017. To honor her legacy, her family has asked that memorial contributions to go toward continuing the annual presentation of the Jane Scandary Award for excellence in the field of early intervention/early childhood special education, presented by the Michigan Division for Early Childhood.
Checks for contributions for the Jane Scandary Award should be written out the Michigan Division for Early Childhood, with "Jane Scandary Award" in the memo, and sent to:
Michigan Division for Early Childhood
Attn: Jane Scandary Award
240 S. Bridge Street, Suite 250
DeWitt, MI 48820
