Winter 2000 | Volume 4, Number 3

OUTREACH

Bridges to

Excellence

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

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Frank Porter Graham Child Development Center
CONTENTS

From the Director 1

Improving Outreach 2

Don Bailey discusses outreach

history at FPG and changes for

the future

Committing Time 4

Examples of committing time

to the public and professions

FPG Outreach 7

Bridging the Gap between

Theory and Practice 8

Case stories for

professionals, training

Parents Take the Lead 10

Interviews with participants

in parent leadership initiative

FPG Recent Publications 13

Going the Extra Mile 14

Making research work

more accessible

NCEDL NEWS

National Directory 16

Directory of early childhood

teacher preparation programs

Errata

Editor’s Note: It should be noted

that in the article “Reaching for

the Stars” in the last issue of

Early Developments, the Rated

License Assessment Project

is administered by the

Department of Human

Development and Family

Studies at the University of

North Carolina at Greensboro,

with FPG one of seven

subcontractors. The article

focused on FPG’s work.

Winter 2000

| Volume 4 Number 3

Supervising Editors

Virginia Buysse, Pam Winton

Editor

Loyd Little

Graphic Design

Turner McCollum

Circulation

Jay Hargrove

Photography

Don Trull

Editorial Offices

521 Greensboro Street

Suite 206

Carrboro, NC 27510

www.fpg.unc.edu

www.ncedl.org
Our Core Values

THE MISSION of the Frank Porter Graham Child Development Center is to cultivate

and share the knowledge necessary to enhance child development and family well

being. To accomplish this mission, we hold five central values:

1. All children have a right to a safe, healthy, and developmentally

stimulating childhood.

2. Research is our primary mechanism for developing the knowledge

to enhance child development and family well being.

3. Improving practices and policies are essential components of our work.

4. A high standard of integrity is the benchmark of our work.

5. A collegial, diverse, and supportive environment is essential to

achieving our mission.

Earlier this year, we concluded the first phase of a major strategic planning effort

for FPG. Among the outcomes of that planning was a statement of our core values,

shown above in shortened form.

Another outcome of this planning was the crafting of a vision statement for the

center’s outreach mission. Here is a synopsis of that vision:

• We make our work accessible to the public, professions, the university

and each other.

• We provide technical assistance and teaching in our areas of expertise

to the public, professions, the university and each other.

• We commit time to the public, professions, the university and the center.

• We seek input from constituents, use this information to shape our work

when we can, and respond to constituents’ needs when possible.

• We evaluate our outreach efforts.

In this issue of Early Developments, we highlight projects that show the

relationships between research and our outreach vision. Of course, outreach

has been part of the center’s history since it began in 1966. Over the years,

many projects have had outreach components, providing technical assistance,

model programs, materials for the field, and so forth. Many of these outreach

efforts have been the work of one investigator or a group of investigators linked

via a project.

Today, we begin a more holistic approach to outreach. How can we as a center

better serve the needs of the field and the public? What broader partnerships can

be created to help meet our outreach efforts? How can technology enhance our

outreach mission? How can the center as a whole better support our investigators

in outreach work?

Inside this issue, you will find not only some our latest research, but also

projects that are good examples of how we are fulfilling our outreach vision. |ed|

From the Director

Don Bailey

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MANY PEOPLE THINK of FPG as primarily a research center.

Certainly research is at the heart of our mission. One of our core

values is to conduct the best research possible to develop the

knowledge that we need to enhance child development and family

well being.

But knowledge alone is not enough. Research organizations that

focus on issues of fundamental human concern, such as the well

being of children and families, have a responsibility to share that

knowledge with others in order to improve practice. We also have

a responsibility to learn from practitioners and parents so that our

research efforts can be better informed.

Terms such as “outreach,” “consultation,” “technical assistance,”

or just plain “TA” have become so much a part of the jargon and

history at Frank Porter Graham that we often assume that everyone

knows exactly what we are talking about. By these terms we refer to

the processes by which our center helps individuals and organizations

learn new information, improve practice, comply with regulations,

or accomplish goals.

Fortunately, outreach became a core feature of the center’s activity

early in its history. In 1968, the Bureau of Education for the Handicapped (now the Office of Special Education Programs in the U.S.

Department of Education) began to create a national network of

projects designed to demonstrate how early intervention services

could be provided for infants and preschoolers with disabilities.

As these projects emerged, it became apparent that many needed

help in different aspects of their work. Some needed assistance with

curriculum development, others with evaluation, and others with

public awareness. As a result, in 1972 FPG was awarded a grant

for TADS, the Technical Assistance Development System, under the

direction of Dr. David Lillie. The mission of TADS was to provide

support and assistance to these projects (130 at the time, now more

than 700) in whatever aspect of help was needed.

This was quite a challenge. How can one organization possibly

have the expertise to help any project with any need? In hindsight,

however, this project set the stage for a new vision of outreach, one

that still influences our work today.

The old view of outreach assumes that there is an EXPERT who

knows the answer to lots of important questions. The EXPERT’S job

is to make sure that people who need this information (the CLIENTS)

get it and use it.

Unfortunately, the expert model didn’t work very well in many

Improving Outreach Taking outreach to the next level of excellence

cases. Often the expert really did not have the needed information.

And when he or she did, that information might not have been

conveyed in a way that was acceptable or useful to clients.

So TADS took a new approach, with several key components.

A needs assessment was essential to any outreach endeavor, with

needs preferably being identified by the project staff themselves.

A plan followed, agreed upon by both the project and the technical

assistance coordinator. Then it became the responsibility of both the

local project and the TA project to locate the expertise or resources

necessary to meet the identified needs.

This process has worked so well that the project has been continuously funded for 28 years. Now known as NECTAS (the National

Early Childhood Technical Assistance System), this project provides

technical assistance to all 50 states and territories in implementing

federal legislation for young children with disabilities.

Since then we have had many other examples of outreach efforts.

Our child care program has served as a demonstration for high quality

child care practices, and thousands of visitors and student trainees

have visited or trained in the center since 1966.

A wide range of curriculum and assessment materials has been

developed for use by teachers and program administrators. We have

developed case study materials to help professionals deal with complex situations in uncertain environments.

We help university faculty change the ways they teach and the

content of their coursework. For example, we recently received a

grant from the U.S. Department of Education to help university programs around the nation better prepare professionals to work with

infants with vision impairments or blindness.

A parent leadership development project helps parents of children

with disabilities gain the skills and confidence to take on leadership

roles at the state and local level.

 Our publications and dissemination office helps with the visual

design side of dissemination, including the graphic design of print

materials and slides. In recent years, the center has created a popular

web site and has launched this national magazine, Early Developments.

All of this work has been important and we hope helpful to the field.

However, almost all of this work thus far has relied on individual

initiatives by center investigators.

 Last year we began to think more broadly. We began by creating

a strategic planning group that was primarily comprised of individuals

outside the center. This group was positive about our outreach efforts,
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but recommended that we consider establishing a central outreach office and to identify,

as a center, what are the most important

outreach needs of the field.

With funding from the Z. Smith Reynolds

Foundation, we have created a new position,

director of outreach. We want the outreach

director to look outside the center and

examine the needs of the field, see who

our potential audiences are, and analyze the

various ways in which we could expand our

outreach efforts.

One issue facing the new outreach director

will be how to provide enduring support for

the center’s outreach activities. Most of our

projects are time-limited in their funding or

designed for specific audiences.

Once funding ends, we often don’t have

the resources to continue. We want the outreach director to help find ways to continue

to support outreach efforts beyond the

funding periods of specific projects. This will

require working with our newly established

development office in fund-raising related

to outreach.

A recent report on the state of early childhood teaching says that even if we did not

generate any new knowledge about children

over the next decade, we would have a full

agenda in just getting current knowledge to

be applied in making policies and

implementing programs.

Research and outreach are both essential

functions of a center such as FPG. We are

committed to expanding our outreach role

and making it even more responsive to the

needs of the field over the next 10 years.|ed|

[see page 7 for more about outreach at FPG]

by Don Bailey

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Mary Ruth Coleman

SHE SETS ASIDE A DAY A WEEK FOR OUTREACH

She’s president of The Association of the Gifted

(a division of the Council for Exceptional Children).

She’s on the editorial/review boards of five national

trade journals. She’s on three national committees.

She meets from time to time with staff members

of congressional legislators to discuss pending

educational issues. Her research includes directing

a science-based model for recognizing and

nuturing K-2 students with hidden potential in

poor and diverse communities.

While the time that Mary Ruth Coleman

commits to the public and the professions (it adds

up to more than a day a week) may be unusually

high for a researcher at the Frank Porter Graham

Center, it is by no means rare.

Much of Coleman’s national work involves

teachers who work with gifted children and with

children with exceptional learning needs.

For example, she’s on the Knowledge and Skills

Committee that sets the professional standards

used by the National Council for Accreditation of

Teacher Education and the Interstate New Teacher

Assessment and Support Consortium to review

and accredit institutes of higher education that

prepare teachers to work with children with

exceptionalities.

Another committee that she’s on is revising the

standards for gifted education. And she’s on the

National Association for the Gifted Legislative

Committee. She said, “This year has been really

exciting because for the first time ever, we have

federal legislation addressing, identifying and

serving gifted and talented students.”

Her commitment to helping others is reflected

in her research. One of her projects is U-STARS

(Using Science Talents and Abilities to Recognize

Students). “The search for hidden talent has

become one of the most important educational

objectives in the last decade. The limited number

of children from economically disadvantaged and

culturally diverse families found in programs for

gifted students across the nation is proof that there

is something seriously amiss in the identification

and nurturing of exceptional talent,” she said.

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Committing Time to the Public and Professions “SCIENCE IS AN IDEAL BASE TO

RECOGNIZE AND CULTIVATE

POTENTIAL BECAUSE THROUGH

HANDS-ON ACTIVITIES CHILDREN

CAN DEMONSTRATE THEIR

THINKING AND PROBLEMSOLVING ABILITIES AND IT

PROVIDES A HIGH-INTEREST

BASE TO INTEGRATE READING,

MATH, WRITING AND THE ARTS.

SCIENCE IS IDEALLY SUITED FOR

OBSERVING POTENTIAL BECAUSE

IT IS NOT HEAVILY DEPENDENT

ON EARLY LANGUAGE

EXPERIENCES.”

– MARY RUTH COLEMAN

DonTrull
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Jim Gallagher

OVER THE YEARS, one of the most visible FPG

researchers has been James Gallagher, who also

directed the center for a decade. Recently he

received the Razor Walker Award for service

from the Watson School of Education at

UNC-Wilmington.

The Walker Award is considered one of the

state’s most prestigious and unique service awards.

It is presented to “those who have, through

personal commitment and tenacity, made a

significant impact on the lives of our young

people.” The awards are so named to honor

individuals who have “walked the razor’s edge”

by taking risks to benefit children and youth in NC.

The citation for Gallagher reads, in part, “Much

of what we think of now as standard acceptable

systems of services, practices, and expectations for

accomplishment in special education and education

assistance and training to states and local projects,

he led efforts to adopt and implement policy and

service initiatives at the national, state and

local levels.”

Gallagher recently received a “paper of the year”

award from the Gifted Child Quarterly published by

the National Association of Gifted Children,

Washington, DC. He is also on a national advisory

committee that is examining educational opportunities for gifted and talented youth in the US.

of the gifted have their origin in research, leadership, and advocacy by James Gallagher.”

In the 1960s, he was the first director of thethen Bureau of Education for the Handicapped and

deputy assistant secretary for planning, research

and evaluation in the US Office of Education.

The citation said that he “helped to establish a

national agenda to grant special educational rights

to gifted children and individuals with disabilities.

With a three-pronged approach working directly

with federal agencies and providing technical

“MUCH OF WHAT WE THINK

OF NOW AS STANDARD

ACCEPTABLE SYSTEMS

OF SERVICES, PRACTICES,

AND EXPECTATIONS FOR

ACCOMPLISHMENT IN

SPECIAL EDUCATION AND

EDUCATION OF THE GIFTED

HAVE THEIR ORIGIN IN

RESEARCH, LEADERSHIP,

AND ADVOCACY BY

JAMES GALLAGHER.”

– CITATION FROM

THE WALKER AWARD

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Pam Winton

PAM WINTON SERVES on three local boards, five

state boards and 12 national committees, councils,

or boards related to her areas of interest, which

are personnel preparation in early childhood

intervention, family-professional collaboration

and disability/inclusion.

She said, “The invitation to be on national

boards comes because they want my professional

expertise and help with their work. If it’s a grantfunded effort, it helps them (and it helps us) to

work together, sharing knowledge in the same

areas of interest but reflecting different experiences

and approaches.”

Winton said that her membership on several

of the local and state boards came about “because

of relationships in the community around advocacy.

These new joint ventures are valuable exchanges

for both sides,” she said. She organized and chairs

the Constituents Advisory Board for the National

Center for Early Development & Learning at FPG.

“As FPG moves into our new outreach mode

whereby we invite more constituents to advise us,

it is important to recognize the reciprocal nature of

these relationships,” she said.

About the many presentations she makes and

other programs she participates in annually, Winton

said, “I view these as part of my responsibilities to

the field. Many of the invitations are from people

with whom I have worked. I feel it is part of the

dissemination and follow-up work associated with

grants that fund my position.”|ed|

If you want to know more

USTARS www.fpg.unc.edu/~USTARS

NCATE www.ncate.org

INTASC: <http://education.uindy.edu/intasc.html

Constituents Advisory Board at NCEDL

www.fpg.unc.edu/~ncedl/PAGES/constit.html

“THE INVITATION TO BE ON

NATIONAL BOARDS COMES

BECAUSE THEY WANT MY

PROFESSIONAL EXPERTISE

AND HELP WITH THEIR WORK.

IF IT’S A GRANT-FUNDED EFFORT,

IT HELPS THEM (AND IT HELPS US)

TO WORK TOGETHER, SHARING

KNOWLEDGE IN THE SAME AREAS

OF INTEREST BUT REFLECTING

DIFFERENT EXPERIENCES

AND APPROACHES.”

– PAM WINTON

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Early Developments (magazine)

Target Audience: Administrators,

Educators, Policymakers, Families,

Researchers, Practitioners

The largest outreach project at FPG is

the National Early Childhood Technical

Assistance System (NECTAS), which

provides responsive technical assistance

to programs supported under the

Individuals with Disabilities Education

Act (IDEA). These include programs

designed for infants and toddlers with

disabilities (Part C of IDEA) and for

preschoolers with disabilities (Section

619-Part B of IDEA) in all states and

participating jurisdictions.

Last year, NECTAS delivered 7,500

client-centered services. The NECTAS

consortium includes Zero to Three, the

National Association of State Directors

of Special Education, Georgetown

University Child Development Center,

the Federation for Children with

Special Needs, and the Center on

Disability Studies at the University of

Hawaii at Manoa.

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All Together Now (magazine)

Target Audience: NC Early Childhood

Educators, Interventionists, and Families

Selected Early Intervention

Training Materials (Resource Guide)

Target Audience: Legislators,

Administrators, Funding Agencies

ECERS-R, FDCRS (assessment scales)

Target Audience: Evaluators, Administrators, Consultants, Child Care Providers

NEW SCRIPTS is one in a series of

projects aimed at producing long-lasting

and meaningful changes in university

training programs. Core values of the

project include commitments to building

on existing personnel resources and

expertise, interprofessional participation,

family-centered, and team-based

ecological approaches that include

administrators, faculty, families and

practitioners in personnel development.

NEW SCRIPTS has expanded the model

developed in early projects by focusing

on diversity and community college

participation.

Smart Start (brochure)

Target Audience: Administrators,

Professionals, Faculty, Families

ENewsletter (on the web)

Target Audience: Administrators,

Media, Policymakers, Professionals

Press releases

Target Audience:Public

Outreach Publications and Projects at Frank Porter Graham

For more information on any of the publications shown on this page, please contact us at www.pubs@mail.fpg.unc.edu

(PFI) provides a variety of technical

assistance activities to NC communities to develop and improve

inclusive services to young children

with disabilities and their families.

Services include training, product

development, referral and resource

linking, and consultation to local

agencies.

Last year, PFI held 162 events with

about 4,000 parents and professional

participants across North Carolina.

Training ranged from bilingual child

development workshops to on-site

consultation.

Spotlights (research summaries)

Target Audience: Administrators,

Educators, Policymakers, Professionals

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How would you handle these?

A home-based interventionist arrives at an

inner-city apartment and discovers that the

young mother she was supposed to visit is

out and has left her baby in the care of a

6-year-old girl.

An early interventionist is shocked when

the mother of a 12-month-old with anencephaly announces that they have decided to

institutionalize the baby and forfeit parental

custody.

What should these interventionists do next?

ANALYZING AND DISCUSSING dilemmas

based on real life situations can be a powerful

bridge between theory and practice, and this

is what the Case Method of Instruction (CMI)

is all about.

 “It’s important to know theory, facts and

skills, but only insofar as someone can use

those in problem-solving and decision-making

when confronted with real-life situations,”

said P.J. McWilliam, co-director of the

CMI-Outreach Project at FPG.

In CMI, trainees are presented with narrative descriptions of situations that practitioners

are likely to encounter. These case stories

present a dilemma from the point of view of

a practitioner or group of practitioners and,

in the end, the situation is left unresolved.

Just like real life, the situations are complicated with many factors contributing to the

dilemma. There’s no one obvious solution but,

rather, several alternative ones.

In disseminating their work, the CMI project

team has gone beyond the expectations of its

funding agencies to create a web site that

includes more than two dozen case story

narratives as well as role-plays and team

simulation activities. The web site also offers

tools for incorporating these stories into

teaching and other aids such as general

teaching tips for using CMI. Also, McWilliam

has this year published Lives in Progress: Case

Stories in Early Intervention with an accompanying instructor’s manual.

Bridging the Gap between Theory and Practice

Don Bailey, director of FPG, said the CMI

project is an “excellent example of one of our

projects that offers much more to instructors

than just information. It’s a way of helping

people make the kinds of complicated

decisions they face every day, for which there

are no easy answers.”

CMI trainees are taught to sort through the

facts of a situation, identify the issues or

problems, analyze various factors contributing

to the problems, and to use sound judgment

in deciding upon a course of action. During

discussions, the instructor creates an atmosphere of suspended judgment, encourages

independent problem-solving and keeps the

discussion going without becoming involved

in the actual problem-solving.

“IT’S VERY REWARDING TO WORK WITH INSTRUCTORS

AND TO WATCH THEM TAKE THE RISK OF TRYING

OUT THIS VERY DIFFERENT METHOD OF TEACHING.

IT’S EVEN MORE REWARDING TO HEAR FROM THEM

A FEW MONTHS AFTER THEY HAVE PARTICIPATED IN

THE WORKSHOP AND HAVE TRIED THE METHOD

WITH THEIR OWN STUDENTS OR TRAINEES. ’BECAUSE

IT IS ONLY THEN THAT INSTRUCTORS COME TO TRULY

UNDERSTAND THE IMPORTANT BENEFITS OF CMI.”

 - RESEARCHER P.J. MCWILLIAM

According to McWilliam, “CMI requires

instructional skills and a philosophy of

teaching that are quite different from traditional methods of teaching.” Because of this,

the project provides intensive three-day

workshops for university faculty as well as

individuals responsible for inservice education.

Instructors in Louisiana, Kentucky, Georgia,

Iowa, Delaware, and West Virginia have

already attended workshops or will do so over

the coming year. Instructors include representatives from early childhood special education,

early childhood education, social work,

psychology, nursing, and the allied health

professions. After the training, ongoing

support helps instructors incorporate CMI into

their own training of early interventionists.

Plus, a follow-up session is held about six

months later.

“Our long-range plan,” explained

McWilliam, “is that project-trained instructors

will teach other instructors in their home state

about CMI and we will provide supports for

their teaching.”

She and co-director Pat Snyder of Louisiana

State University Health Sciences Center, who

have worked together in promoting and

evaluating the case method for nearly a

decade now, conduct all of the project’s

workshops.

One of the case stories on the CMI website

Pink Slip (abridged)

 “What is it about children’s biting that

pushes people’s buttons so?” wonders Stacy,

as she contemplates the current situation in

her classroom of two-year-olds. One of the

toddlers in her class, Carly, started biting the

other children about two months ago. At one

point, Stacy had thought the problem was

resolved but, then, Carly started biting again.

And yesterday, Carly bit the wrong childMichael. Michael’s mother was outraged.

She blames Stacy for not protecting her son

from Carly’s assaults and now she is out for

blood. She has told Stacy that Carly should be

dismissed from the child care and has

threatened to sue Carly’s parents if she ever

bites Michael again. Michael’s mother isn’t the

only parent who feels this way. Another

mother has also voiced her concerns to Stacy

and suggested that Carly be dismissed.

Stacy thinks the parents are overreacting

and doesn’t feel as though it’s right that she,

alone, be held respon-sible. After all, wasn’t

she already doing everything she could to

stop Carly’s biting? It just wasn’t easy. Carly’s
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Among the other items on the CMI

project web site are teaching tips.

Here are excerpts:

• Use open-ended questions

to guide the discussion

• Allow the audience to

carry the discussion

• Encourage audience members to talk to one another

• Maintain a nonjudgmental

stance

• Make good use of boards

or flipcharts

• Encourage full audience

participation

www.cmiproject.net

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results in death before two. Elizabeth has

severe developmental delays and has spent

much of her short life in the hospital. The case

describes a visit that therapist Linda Cummings

makes the day before Elizabeth is due for

another surgery. Linda is made aware that

Carla’s feelings about the child are not

necessarily shared by her husband, Bill. This

case also touches upon the sometimesinevitable effects of the professionals’ personal

lives on their work with children and families

and vice versa. |ed|

If you want to know more

CMI web site:

www.cmiproject.net

McWilliam, P.J. (2000). Instructor’s guide for lives in

progress. Baltimore, MD: Paul H. Brookes.

McWilliam, P.J. (2000). Lives in progress: Case stories in

early intervention. Baltimore, MD: Paul H. Brookes.

Snyder, P., & McWilliam, P. J. (1999). Evaluating the

efficacy of case method instruction: Findings from

preservice training in family-centered care.

Journal of Early Intervention, 22, 114-125.

Synopses of several case stories

Jack and Jill—and Sam?

Sam’s mother, desperate for summer child

care, enrolled him at Jack and Jill Child Care

Center without explaining the extent of his

special needs. His persistent misbehavior was

infuriating to the staff, and serious consideration was being given to dismissing him from

the program. This story describes the efforts

of a consultant, Monica, to assist the child care

staff and support Sam’s inclusion in this lessthan-perfect integrated setting.

Supermom

Wilson Jordan is a 10-month-old who has

Down syndrome. With the exception of

frequent ear infections and a mild heart

defect, Wilson is doing quite well. Wilson’s

mother, Ellen Jordan, concerns the early

intervention professional more than Wilson

himself. Ellen seems so intent on making

Wilson “normal” that she doesn’t appear to

enjoy the little boy behind the Down

syndrome. Ellen knows everything there is to

know about Down syndrome and all that goes

with it. She has therapists coming to their

home as often as possible and now, she is

talking about cosmetic surgery, weight control,

and computers.

Close to Home

The last few months have often seemed like

a nightmare for Bill and Carla Johnson. Their

five-month-old daughter, Elizabeth, was born

biting was simply too quick and too unpredictable to prevent it from happening

completely.

Each case story has a series of questions to

kick-start discussions. For example, here are

several of the more advanced discussion

questions about the “Pink Slip” story:

• In the story, Stacy asks herself why it is that

parents react more emotionally to children’s

biting than to other forms of aggression. Is

this true? If so, how would you answer her

question?

• Not only are other parents complaining,

some are also suggesting that Carly be

dismissed from the child care. Is this a fair

request? Could Stacy have done anything

differently to avoid having the situation

escalate to this point?

• The story includes a brief description of

one incident involving Carly’s biting. What

clues does this incident have to offer about

the reasons for Carly’s biting?

• What additional or alternative strategies,

if any, does Stacy have for handling Carly’s

biting? Which of these would you choose

and why?

• Is there anything that Stacy could do to

defuse the situation involving the parents

of other children in the classroom?

• To what extent should Carly’s mother be

involved in developing and implementing

plans to stop Carly’s biting?
AN EARLY CHILDHOOD TEACHER in

Pembroke, NC, said, “I joined the parent

leadership program because I felt this type

of information would be of value for me to

share with service providers as well as with

students.”

Parents of a child with disabilities in Kings

Mountain, NC, said, “We wanted to do more

than what we had been doing, and we

wanted to learn how to help others, too.”

A woman who lives in Marion, NC, said,

“I thought this would be a good opportunity

to learn new ways to help me be a more

effective voice in the community.”

These are the voices of some of those

taking part in one of the newest projects at

the Frank Porter Graham Child Development

Center (FPG) and one that is creating a model

to increase family involvement and empowerment in early childhood arenas. The Parent

Leadership Development Project (PLD) offers

training and support to parents who want to

develop their leadership skills. Many will go

on to assume a variety of advocacy and

advisory roles with state and local agencies

and organizations in North Carolina.

 The project builds on a growing body of

research showing the benefits of involving

parents and other family members in all

aspects of planning, delivering, and evaluating early education and intervention services.

“Developing strong parent-professional

alliances is a critical first step in improving

the quality and cultural responsiveness of

services to children and families,” explained

FPG Researcher Pat Wesley, co-principal

investigator of PLD.

FPG Director Don Bailey said, “This is one

of our projects in which seeking input from

constituents is more than just a byword; it is

critical to the investigators’ work. Our project

staff interview parents about their leadership

ideas and work with them to make sure the

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Parents Take the Lead seeking input from constituents

“ABSOLUTELY! WHY WOULD

YOU MAKE POLICIES WITHOUT

CONSULTING THE PEOPLE

WHO ARE MOST AFFECTED

BY IT? THAT JUST DOESN’T

SEEM VERY LOGICAL!”

– TAMMY ARNOLD

PLD PROJECT PARTICIPANT
New study shows challenges

of parental involvement

Smart Start provides children under age six access

to high-quality and affordable childcare, health care

and other family services. A new study reveals the

challenge of involving parents in Smart Start board

decision-making. Smart Start is a public-private

initiative to help North Carolina children enter

school healthy and ready to succeed.

Among the study findings were these

• The “interested public” views parents as

important and qualified to make decisions

about how Smart Start money is spent,

but not involved and not having influence

compared to other stakeholder groups.

• Challenges to parent involvement, cited by local

Smart Start administrators, include:

– Recruiting and retaining parents on local boards

– Defining the role of parents on boards

• Three major factors affect how meaningfully

parents are involved in board activities:

structure, logistics, and climate. In terms

of climate, a prominent theme in survey

interviews was that some parents on boards

feel intimidated.

• Boards are actively addressing some of these

factors; however, factors such as climate are

not defined in the same way by everyone.

• These factors (structure, logistics and climate)

are more likely to be described as impediments

rather than supports, which validates the fact

that parent involvement on boards is a major

challenge.

• Smart Start boards identified as being successful

in involving parents on boards are

- sensitive to power and equity issues and

embed such considerations in all board

activities, according to board members.

- make board decision via a consensus

decision-making process versus a more

formal and structured majority rule

(e.g., Robert’s Rules of Order).

- acknowledge that meaningfully involving

parents on boards is a continual struggle.

This study is funded by the National Center

for Early Development & Learning, also based

at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

early developments 11| Winter 2000

“DEVELOPING STRONG PARENTPROFESSIONAL ALLIANCES IS A

CRITICAL FIRST STEP IN IMPROVING

THE QUALITY AND CULTURAL

RESPONSIVENESS OF SERVICES

TO CHILDREN AND FAMILIES.”

 – RESEARCHER PAT WESLEY

Features of the PLD model

• A series of leadership retreats for parents

focusing on information about early care

and intervention systems to increase parent

leadership skills

• Follow-up activities with parents as they

implement action plans to expand their

partnerships with professionals

• Production of a Parent Leadership Directory,

a Facilitator’s Guide to Parent Leadership

Development, and a videotape about parent

leadership roles

• Support to professional organizations, programs,

and agencies across North Carolina as they

address their goals to increase parent

representation and involvement

• A comprehensive program evaluation and

dissemination of findings to a wide audience

training they receive through the project

meets their needs.”

PLD has recruited 72 parents and other

family members of children with disabilities

interested in working with professionals to

improve services to children and families.

These parents are receiving intensive training,

including follow-up activities to develop

communication, collaboration, and presentation skills while they learn about the early

care and intervention systems. Project

participants represent diversity of culture,

language, family constellations (single parents,

teenage parents, foster parents, grandparents)

and socioeconomic resources.

Parents will then be linked to institutions

of higher learning and organizations and

agencies that provide early education, early

intervention, and family support services.

Tammy Arnold, who lives in Marion and

has two children with disabilities, said that

although she was already involved in

community activities, she wanted to know

even more. So she signed up for the parent

leadership project. One of the particularly

useful aspects of the training, she said, is

that it is especially for parents. “Most of the

things I had previously been involved in were

directed at professionals, but parents were

invited. It was really nice to have something

specifically designed for parents.”

Tammy is the community resource coordinator for a family resource program in Marion.

It is staffed by employees of the Family Infant

and Preschool Program (FIPP). “FIPP is the

lead agency for providing the early intervention in the area, but our resource program is

for ALL families.”

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committees, there are a number of barriers,

according to Virginia Buysse.

• Logistical problems such as lack of

transportation or difficulty in making child

care arrangements and balancing family

needs

• Administrative constraints

• Lack of money for parent reimbursement

• Parents’ lack of knowledge or experience

with leadership roles

• Limited opportunities and support for

parents in these positions

• Inadequate representation of the full

spectrum of families who participate in

early intervention.

“Our assumption is that most early intervention professionals already understand the

importance of collaborating with families,

but lack effective strategies for putting this

philosophy into practice,” explained

Pat Wesley.

[continued from page 11]

“FAMILIES SHOULD BE

CONSIDERED ESSENTIAL

ADVISORS IN PUBLIC POLICY,

RESEARCH, PERSONNEL

PREPARATION, AND

PROGRAM DEVELOPMENT,

AS WELL AS PARTNERS

IN ALL ASPECTS OF

THEIR CHILDREN’S CARE

AND EDUCATION.”

– RESEARCHER

VIRGINIA BUYSSE

Tammy said she thinks there should be

more family involvement in public policy,

research, and program development.

Gwen Locklear, another program participant, works with child care providers in

Robeson County and is also a part-time early

childhood instructor at Robeson Community

College. She said, “All of the [FPG] training

that I have attended has been very informative, user-friendly, and productive.”

She said, “I think that collaboration is a

must in the child care industry with parents

as advocates for quality child care. I hope

more parents of children with disabilities will

get involved and voice their concerns about

issues that affect their child.”

Locklear is also coordinator of the Robeson

County Wage Enhancement Project, a salary

supplement project for child care providers

in the county who increase their educational

background.

Although many professionals recognize

the value of having families as consultants,

advisors, and members of boards and

Charles and Lucy Plyler of Kings Mountain

joined the Parent Leadership project and praised

the training: “The course was set up in a way that

gave us a chance to use what we were learning

as we were learning it.”

Even before their training was complete the

Plylers became key figures in starting a parent

council in the school that their daughter attends.

Don Bailey said that another center under

FPG’s wings -the National Center for Early

Development & Learning - has used a strong

and active constituents advisory board for more

than four years. “This board, whose members

include parents, professionals, teachers &

administrators, gives us excellent feedback about

our outreach products, and also offers opinions

to our investigators even as they begin planning

a research project. This kind of interactive,

responsible, and educated input from constituents

is one of our most valuable resources.

Why involve families?

• Families are in the best position to judge how

services are delivered and the extent to which

services address their priorities and concerns.

• Families offer authentic experiences and fresh

insights about their children, and may identify

problems or inconsistencies in early care and

intervention systems with which professionals

have been accustomed.

• Family stories and perspectives help professionals make the connection between

theory and practice.

• Families of young children with disabilities

constantly are required to adapt, to find

solutions among resources that are sometimes limited, and thus, their observations

and ideas can be powerful tools for

improving the quality of services.

• Families of young children envision an ideal

system of early care and intervention services

differently than professionals, and their view

is not limited by bureaucratic tradition.

This Project is funded for three years by the US Department of

Education, Office of Special Education Programs, with additional

funding from the divisions of Women’s and Children’s Health and

Early Intervention, NC Department of Health and Human Services. |ed|

If you want to know more

Capone, A., Hull, K., & DiVenere, N. (1997). Parentprofessional partnerships in preservice and inservice

education. In P. Winton, J. McCollum, & C. Catlett (Eds.),

Reforming personnel preparation in early intervention.

Baltimore, MD: Paul Brookes.

Winton, P. (1996). Family-professional partnerships and

integrated services. In R. McWilliam. (Ed.), Rethinking pullout services in early intervention: A professional resource.

Baltimore, MD: Paul Brookes.
early developments13| Winter 2000

The beginnings of federal help

for young children with disabilities.

Gallagher, J. (2000). Topics in Early

Childhood Special Education, 20(1),3-6.

Behavior and autonomic nervous

system function assessed via heart

activity measures: The case of

hyperarousal in boys with fragile x

syndrome. Boccia, M.L. & Robert, J.E.

(2000). Behavior Research Methods,

Instruments and Computers (32), 5-10.

Children’s social and cognitive

development and child care quality:

Testing for differential associations

related to poverty, gender, or

ethnicity. Burchinal, M. R., PeisnerFeinberg, E., Bryant, D., & Clifford, R.

(2000). Applied Developmental Science,

4, 149-165.

Computer-assisted integration

of physiological and behavioral

measures. Boccia, M.L. & Robert, J.E.

(2000). In Thompson, Felce & Symons,

(Eds.). Behavioral observation:

Innovations in technology and

applications in developmental

disabilities (pp.83-97). Baltimore:

Paul H. Brookes Publishing.

Conditions of teaching students

with exceptionalities: A technical

report for CEC. Coleman, M.R. (2000).

Council for Exceptional Children:

Reston, VA.

Relating quality of center-based

child care to early cognitive and

language development longitudinally. Burchinal, M. R., Roberts, J. E.,

Riggins, R., Zeisel, S. A., Neebe, E., &

Bryant, D. (2000). Child Development,

71, 339-357.

Resources within reason: Materials

that support families as leaders.

Catlett, C. & Winton, P. (2000). Young

Exceptional Children,3(2),28.

State and jurisdictional eligibility

definitions for infants and toddlers

with disabilities under IDEA.

Shackelford, J. (Analyzes states’ Part C

definitions of developmental delay,

established conditions, and biological

and environmental risk categories.

A chart lists definitions and identifies

states serving at-risk children.)

Notes #5 rev. [The full text of this

resource also is available on-line at

www.nectas.unc.edu/pubs/pdfs/

nnotes5.pdf ] (2000). Chapel Hill:

University of North Carolina, NECTAS.

The consistency and predictability

of teacher-child relationships during

the transition to kindergarten.

Howes, C., Phillipsen, L., & PeisnerFeinberg, E. (2000). Journal of School

Psychology, 38, 113-132.

Early childhood intervention

personnel preparation: Backward

mapping for future planning.

Winton, P. (2000). Topics in Early Childhood Special Education, 20(2), 87-94.

The Federal role in early intervention: Prospects for the future.

Bailey, D. (2000). Topics in Early Childhood Special Education, 20(2), 71-78.

Observed engagement as an indicator of child care program quality.

Ridley, S. M., McWilliam, R. A., &

Oates, C. S. (2000). Early Education

and Development, 11, 133-146.

Programs for young children

with disabilities under IDEA.

(A compilation of excerpts from the

Twenty-first Annual Report to Congress

on the Implementation of the

Individuals with Disabilities Education

Act by the U.S. Department of

Education that focus on IDEA programs

under Part C and Section 619 of Part B.

Narrative reports and data tables are

presented.) (2000). Chapel Hill:

University of North Carolina, NECTAS.

Recent Publications by Researchers at The Frank Porter Graham Child Development Center Winter 2000
AFTER STUDYING INTERVENTION PRACTICES in the

early elementary grades in North Carolina, investigators

at FPG have created checklists to help families,

professionals, school administrators and teachers.

“Our School Practices Project looked at three

specific areas: family-centered practices, integrated and

coordinated services and individualized and developmentally appropriate practices,” said Robin McWilliam,

principal investigator of the School Practices Project of

the Early Childhood Follow-Through Research Institute.

“As lists of barriers to implementing good practices were

developed, we saw a need for something practical that

could be easily understood. That led to the checklists.”

These lists are designed for use by families, school

personnel, and professionals who work with children

with disabilities and their families. Each checklist is

focused on a particular area. For example, one of the

lists is “Family-Centered Intervention Planning: Family

Preparation.”

“This research team did more than just present data

and analysis from their study; they went the extra mile

to help constituents. They prepared the information in

a highly readable format and made it readily available

by posting it on our website. Checklists were created to

help families, professionals and school personnel begin

to lower some of the barriers to more quality services,”

said Mark Wolery, director of the Early Childhood

Follow-Through Research Institute at FPG. The School

Practices Project is one of a number of projects under

the institute.

FPG Director Don Bailey said work such as this

helps the center fulfill one aspect of its overall mission.

“A value held by this center is that our work be accessible to the public and the professions. One critical

aspect of this is that the work also be readily understandable and available.”

Participants in McWilliam’s study included special

educators, regular educators, families of children with

disabilities, and families of typically developing children

in kindergarten through third grade from 93 schools

across North Carolina. A total of 93 special educators,

72 regular educators, 111 therapists (speech-language,

occupational, and physical therapists), 89 families of

children with disabilities, and 56 families of typically

developing children from elementary schools were

involved.

early developments 14| Winter 2000

Going the Extra Mile making research work accessible

Here are some of the study findings

1. Family-centered practices

- Families report less communication occurring than

do school personnel.

- All four groups (special educators, regular educators,

families of children with disabilities, and families of

children without disabilities) thought ideally that

families and school personnel should work together

more than they currently do.

2. Integrated and coordinated services

- Regular educators, special educators and therapists

agreed on their descriptions of current practices,

reporting that services are moderately collaborative

(average scores were around 3 on a 5-point scale).

- Special educators, regular educators and therapists

thought ideally that school professionals should

collaborate and communicate more than they

currently do.

- Of the three disciplines surveyed, special educators

had the highest ideals for how school personnel

should work together.

3. Individualized and developmentally

 appropriate practices

- Regular education teachers and teacher assistants

thought ideally that classroom practices should be

more individualized and developmentally appropriate

than they currently are.

McWilliam said, “Solutions to these kinds of

problems are complex, of course. Participants in the

study cited barriers and made recommendations. In

addition to that, we broke out a few easy things that

could be done.”

He said that although this study involved North

Carolina schools and reflects the regional nature of

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PARTICIPANTS IN MCWILLIAM’S

STUDY INCLUDED SPECIAL EDUCATORS, REGULAR EDUCATORS,

FAMILIES OF CHILDREN WITH

DISABILITIES, AND FAMILIES OF

TYPICALLY DEVELOPING CHILDREN

IN KINDERGARTEN THROUGH THIRD

GRADE FROM 93 SCHOOLS ACROSS

NORTH CAROLINA. A TOTAL OF 93

SPECIAL EDUCATORS, 72 REGULAR

EDUCATORS, 111 THERAPISTS

(SPEECH LANGUAGE,

OCCUPATIONAL, AND PHYSICAL

THERAPISTS), 89 FAMILIES OF

CHILDREN WITH DISABILITIES,

AND 56 FAMILIES OF TYPICALLY

DEVELOPING CHILDREN FROM

ELEMENTARY SCHOOLS WERE

INVOLVED.

ROBIN MCWILLIAM

PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR

SCHOOL PRACTICES PROJECT
A sample checklist: “Working Well With Families”

(Use this checklist to facilitate positive relationships

among school personnel and families.)

 When working with families, do you

❍ 1. Treat families with the same respect you

show friends?

❍ 2. Ask families if they are happy with how things

are going at school?

❍ 3. Listen to and acknowledge each person’s

concerns?

❍ 4. Ask what you can do to help address

these concerns?

❍ 5. Put yourself in the family’s shoes?

❍ 6. Use clear, simple words?

❍ 7. Give families choices about as many things

as possible?

❍ 8. Communicate frequently with families?

❍ 9. Tell families the good things about their child

(not just the bad)?

❍ 10. Refrain from complaining to the families?

❍ 11. Ask for families’ input before making

decisions that affect them (e.g., assigning

homework that requires their help)?

❍ 12. Invite families to be involved in school-wide

decision making?

❍ 13. Support families’ decisions about their child?

❍ 14. Look for and support the things that parents

do well?

❍ 15. Ask families to tell you about their child’s

strengths and needs? (This may be particularly

useful at the beginning of the school year.)

❍ 16. Show an interest in the whole family, not

just the child?

❍ 17. Respond to messages within a day?

❍ 18. Thank the person for talking with you?

❍ 19. Follow through with your assigned/

volunteered tasks?

❍ 20. Convey to families a positive attitude

about the parents?

Brief description of checklists

Getting Your Foot in the Door:

Strategies for Promoting Collaboration

Concrete ideas to promote more collaborative relationships between school professionals serving the same child.

Collaborative Consultation Meetings

A guide to joint problem-solving meetings.

Reading the checklist items can help

prepare educators for these meetings.

Completing the checklist after a meeting

can provide useful feedback about how

participants promoted collaborative

consultation during the meeting.

Family-Centered Intervention Planning:

Routines-Based Interview

A guide to help school professionals

through interviews with families and

teachers and help identify strengths

and needs of children within the home

and school activities.

Family-Centered Intervention Planning:

Interviewing Tips

Useful “dos and don’ts” for leading a

family-centered planning meeting and

keeping everyone focused on the task

at hand.

Family-Centered Intervention Planning:

Family Preparation

To help prepare families for family-centered

intervention planning meetings.

Family-Centered Intervention Planning:

Staff Preparation

To help prepare teachers for familycentered intervention planning meetings.

How to Recognize a Quality Classroom

An observation scale which emphasizes

individualized and developmentally

appropriate practices for use in kindergarten through third-grade general education

classrooms that include children with

special needs.

Working Well With Families

Use this checklist to facilitate positive

relationships among school personnel

and families.

early developments 15| Winter 2000

School Practices Project Homepage

www.fpg.unc.edu/~schoolpractices

the schools and services, checklists could still be

used as general guidelines for other regions.

Checklists such as these created by the School Practices Project are some of dozens of products produced

annually by FPG for many types of users. “When our

investigators plan dissemination, they develop different

products for different constituents,” said Bailey. “For

example, it would not be unusual for data from a

study to be presented traditionally through an

academic journal, but then also as one of our onepage Spotlights aimed at administrators and then

perhaps included in an article in All Together Now, a

FPG magazine that goes to upwards of 20,000 people

involved in early intervention and education in North

Carolina.”

In addition, he said, dissemination through the

public media, such as press conferences, is often used

when data warrant it. An example is the national

release of information last fall from the Carolina

Abecedarian Study, one of the longest-running studies

of its kind. A key finding from that study is that early

childhood education significantly improves the

scholastic success and educational attainments of poor

children even into early adulthood, according to

Investigator Frances Campbell.

One research project at FPG sends its findings to

targeted constituents via an email-delivered newsletter.

Other partners in the School Practices Project are

the University of Kentucky and the Orelena Hawks

Puckett Institute in North Carolina. |ed|

If you want to know more

School Practices Project

www.fpg.unc.edu/~schoolpractices

McWilliam, R.A. (Ed.). (1996). Rethinking pull-out services

in early intervention: A professional resource. Baltimore, MD:

Paul H. Brookes.

Bailey, D.B., & Winton, P.J. (1997). Family-centered care:

The revolution continues. Exceptional Parent, 27, 16-29.

McWilliam, R.A., Young, H.J., & Harville, K. (1996). Therapy

services in early intervention: Current status, barriers, and

recommendations. Topics in Early Special Education,

16, 348-374.
NCEDL National Center for Early Development & Learning 16| Winter 2000

Sample listing from

North Carolina state section

ALBEMARLE

Stanly Community College

EARLY CHILDHOOD

141 COLLEGE DRIVE

ALBEMARLE, NC 28001

Contact: SARAH L. POTTER

Title: PROGRAM HEAD

Contact number: 704-982-0121x314

ECE program: 1 AND 2-YEAR

ECE Coursework:

INFANT TODDLER

Sample listing from

California state section

Santa Ana

Santa Ana College

HUMAN DEVELOPMENT

1530 WEST 17TH STREET

SANTA ANA, CA 93706

Contact:

GWEN MORGAN-BEAZELL

Title: CHAIR

Contact number:

714-564-6000x6810

Email Address:

ECE program: 2-YEAR

ECE Coursework:

INFANT-TODDLER

PRESCHOOL

SCHOOL-AGE

DISABILITIES

FAMILY CHILD CARE

DISTANCE LEARNING PROGRAM

If you want to know more

• The directory may be accessed at

www.cdacouncil.org

• For information about buying

printed copies which are $8

each, call 1-800-424-4310.

• National Center for Early

Development & Learning:

www.ncedl.org

A NEW NATIONAL DIRECTORY of institutions that offer programs for early childhood teachers

has been published by the National Center For Early Development & Learning (NCEDL), based at

the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and the Council for Professional Recognition (CDA),

a nonprofit agency in Washington, DC. The data for the directory was gathered as part of a

national survey conducted by NCEDL. This is the first such collaboration between NCEDL and CDA.

The National Directory of Early Childhood Teacher Preparation Institutions, which contains

listings for nearly 1,400 two- and four-year colleges, is available on line at the CDA web site

www.cdacouncil.org and in print from CDA.

The directory is organized alphabetically by state/jurisdiction, and then alphabetically by city.

Each listing contains the name of the school, address, phone number, a contact person, email

address (if provided), and the early childhood specialty area (i.e. infant/toddler, preschool,

school-age, etc.). Information has been compiled also for institutions in Guam, Puerto Rico

and the Virgin Islands.

Carol Brunson Day, director of the Council for Professional Recognition, said, “There has been

a major increase in government attention to the needs of young children. At least 42 states have

some sort of early childhood initiative underway, and schools are showing an increasing interest in

serving children prior to kindergarten entry. Early childhood teacher preparation programs are

playing an increasingly important role in ensuring that the stronger standards for early childhood

teachers translate into a more competent, confident workforce, able to serve ALL young children.”

She said that the directory also identifies institutions offering CDA training and distancelearning programs. Institutions that offer a CDA training program develop their curriculum

independent of the council’s participation or endorsement.

Day said that individuals choosing to study in these programs should ensure that the training

meets the educational requirements stated in the Child Development Associate Assessment System

and Competency Standards book.

Survey of Sample Programs

A phone survey of program chairs was also made of a sample of the early childhood teacher

preparation programs. Pam Winton and Diane Early of NCEDL, who directed the survey, said

highlights of the survey findings include these:

•

 Students graduating from bachelor’s programs are most likely to teach in kindergarten and

elementary settings, and students from associate’s degree programs are most likely to work

with infants, toddlers, and preschoolers.

•

 There are more early childhood programs offering associate’s degrees (57 percent) than there

are offering bachelor’s degrees (40 percent.)

•

 The mission of most programs, whatever the degree, includes preparing future teachers to

work with infants, toddlers, and preschoolers, preparing early interventionists, and providing

training to the existing early childhood workforce. |NCEDL|

Directory of early childhood teacher prep programs available

“THE IMPORTANCE OF TEACHER

EDUCATION AS A KEY FACTOR

IN HIGH-QUALITY EARLY CHILDHOOD PROGRAMMING HAS

BEEN WELL DOCUMENTED. STATE

AND FEDERAL PROGRAMS ARE

SLOWLY STRENGTHENING THEIR

STANDARDS FOR STAFF. HEAD

START HAS MANDATED THAT 50

PERCENT OF TEACHING STAFF

MUST HAVE AN ASSOCIATE’S

DEGREE BY 2003. THE DIRECTORY IS IMPORTANT BECAUSE IT

PROVIDES A WAY FOR EARLY

CHILDHOOD TEACHERS TO

LOCATE COLLEGES AND

UNIVERSITIES TO GET

THEIR DEGREES.”

 - PAM WINTON
Winter 2000 | Volume 4 Number 3

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