Public Notice to PARS and Trainer Registry members about the Kansas and Missouri Core Competenices for Early Childhood Professionals Revision Process

This message is being shared from the SPOE: 
The early care and education bi-state Core Competencies were published in January 2001 after an extensive development process in both states. Broad-based dissemination of the document has been achieved and the Core Competencies document serves as a foundation piece for system-level planning in both states. As advancements in the field are made, we must ensure that the competencies adequately represent all of the important knowledge and skills necessary to provide high quality early learning. To that end, the OPEN Initiative (MO) and Child Care Aware (KS) (formerly KACCRRA) have partnered to revise the Core Competencies and prepare a Second Edition.

Request for Your Participation in the Revision Process

To date, we have completed the first three of five stages of the revision process and are requesting additional feedback from early childhood and other professionals in both states on the revised document.

We invite you to participate by providing feedback through the following survey link.
www.surveymonkey.com/s/GYWGGKM

The survey will be available through August 31, 2010. Please forward the survey link to your colleagues and associates to ensure that your program and/or community are adequately represented in the Core Competency for Early Childhood Professionals revision process.

Revision Process

1. General Feedback Period (February – May 2010)

• Web-Based Survey
• Paper Comments
• 3 General Meetings

    2.  Specialized Content Meetings(February – May 2010)

• Supporting and Strengthening Families
• Physical Health, Oral Health, and Nutrition
• Mental Health
• Inclusion/Special Needs
• Technology/Professional Development

    3.  Bi-State Committee Review (June 2010)

• Review suggested revisions, deletions, and additions
• Finalize draft for review by stakeholders in KS and MO

    4.  General Feedback Period (August 2010)

• Web-based survey
• Written comments

    5.  Bi-State Committee Finalizes Content (Fall 2010)

• Review feedback from stakeholders
• Finalize document

If there are any questions/concerns regarding survey, please contact at Michelle.C.Mathews@gmail.com.

Michelle Mathews, Ph.D., Core Competency Consultant



M & T Educational Consulting, Inc.

3855 Hartford Street

St. Louis, MO 63116

St. Louis Area EIT Zone Updated Maps (St. Charles Added)

In order to assist with the process of developing teams, we'd like to share the current map showing the EIT zone areas for St. Louis City, North County, Central-West County, and South-West County. These are tentative maps as we may need to make changes at any time based on referrals, staffing, etc. However, at this time, this is what Regions 1 & 2 are using as guidelines for the set up of teams.

The above map is of St. Louis City St. Louis County. St. Louis City is defined by the natural borders of the city. Any teams assigned to St. Louis City will need to be able to take referrals within the entirety of the city boundaries. North County is the area of the map north/west of the green and blue lines. Central-West is the area of the map south of the green line and north of the red line (Manchester Rd.). South-West is the area south of the red line.

At this point, we are looking at dividing St. Charles County based roughly on the existing school district divisions. The divisions may be different than on the map based on referral numbers and balancing population.

Please click on the maps for a detailed view

As we have more information, we will pass it along.

Thank you!

New EIT Applications for St. Louis Area SPOE

We would like to announce that the applications for St. Charles County, Central-West County, South-West County are now available on line.
The applications for St. Charles County, Central-West County, South-West County are available via the following links:
Click here to apply for St. Charles County

Click here to apply for Central-West or South-West County
In addition to these, we have re-opened the St. Louis City and North County applications which can be accessed by following this link:
Click here to apply for St. Louis City and/or North St. Louis County
These applications are only available online and we will be accepting applications starting today, August 4, through Thursday September 30 at 4pm CT.