PD Guides
PowerPoints:
Ethical, Policy, and Historical Foundations of Trusting Family-Professional Partnerships
Conceptualization, Measurement, and Application of Family Quality of Life
Group Action Planning: Enhancing Family and Individual Quality of Life Across the Life Span
Trusting Family-Professional Partnerships in Special and General Education
Handouts:
Case Study
Case Study: Family-Centered Practice and Culture
The case study follows a family-centered IEP process for 3-year-old Malik, a child with global developmental delays, highlighting how educators and service providers build equity, respect, effective communication, advocacy, and long-term commitment with Malik’s Haitian immigrant family to ensure meaningful participation and culturally responsive support.
Multimedia Illustrations
The video library is a compilation of almost 500 videos that may be used in early childhood intervention pre-service courses or in-service training. Each video contains the following relevant information:
- Title with a description
- Link to video
- Suggested citation
- Length of the video
- EI/ECSE standard
- DEC Recommended Practice
Resources
Resources to supplement the syllabus:
- CEC Initial Practice-Based Professional Preparation Standards for EI/ECSE (2020)
Link to the standards and supporting resources. - Center for Parent Information and Resources
Link to family-friendly materials and resources. - CONNECT Modules (Module 3)
A module about effective communication practices to support collaboration. - CONNECT Modules (Module 4)
A module to learn about building family-professional partnership practices. - Early Childhood Recommended Practices Modules (Module 5)
A module to learn about effective family-professional partnership practices. - ECPC Cross-Disciplinary Competencies
Core cross-disciplinary competence areas for use by ECI professionals. - Professional Standards and Competencies for Early Childhood Educators
Link to the standards of the National Association for the Education of Young Children (NAEYC).
