This session held during the 2018 Improving Data – Improving Outcomes Summer Data Institute aimed at helping participants better understand the characteristics of a good leader and reflect on their own leadership skills. State experiences and resources were shared that support knowledge and skill development in individual leaders. (August 2018)

This presentation reviewed the findings of the recent report PreK-3rd Grade Systems: Lessons Learned from New York School Districts. Delivered at the New York State Department of Education Summer Institute (July 2018).

This presentation focuses on three essential characteristics of high performing early childhood efforts: individual and organizational capacity, organizational effectiveness and efficiency, and leadership and staff capabilities. CEELO’s Jana Martella and Diane Schilder presented at the 2018 NAEYC Professional Learning Institute in Austin, TX.

This presentation provides strategies and tools to identify high-quality research and practice and strategies for applying research to program and classroom use. CEELO’s Melissa Dahlin and Diane Schilder were joined by Kathleen Theodore (AIR) at the 2018 NAEYC Professional Learning Institute in Austin, TX.

CEELO Director Lori Connors-Tadros and Susan Mitchell, AEM/PDG TA lead conducted a one day training for the Arkansas Preschool Development subgrantees.

CEELO Co-Director Jana Martella presented key opportunities to support early childhood education within the new elementary and secondary education act at the New Jersey ASCD Early Learning Summit

CEELO Director  Lori Connors-Tadros presents information on using the Cost of Preschool Quality and Revenue tool to get good data on costs of high quality early learning programs to drive policy decisions.

Ellen Frede, Co-Director at NIEER, also addressed the chiefs’ summit drawing on research and critical state experiences concerning equity and high fidelity implementation of Pre-K in New Jersey.

NIEER and CEELO Director Steve Barnett presented research on different funding schema drawing from national models, highlighting cost of quality and state education infrastructures, and effective state support systems.

This presentation discusses the powerful policies needed to lead and drive state efforts to improve the workforce and teaching quality with an equity lens. It explores the question – How can policy leaders identify and remedy disparities throughout the systems they lead so that the workforce is equipped to ensure each child’s learning and development can be optimized? CEELO’s Jana Martella presented with BUILD’s Kate Tarrant, Debi Mathias, and Aisha Ray on June 13th, 2017 at the NAEYC Professional Learning Institute.

This presentation identifies ways to address common barriers in implementing family engagement in programs by sharing resources from research and from various settings. Participants engaged in a demonstration of the Maryland Family Engagement Toolkit, which offers accessible and field-tested practices that can be used in any type of early learning setting (e.g., infant/toddler programs, child care, pre-K, Head Start). CEELO’s Melissa Dahlin presented with Sue Mitchell (PDG TA) and Cynthia Lessner (Maryland State Department of Education June 11th, 2017 at the NAEYC Professional Learning Institute.

This presentation shares tools to support leadership, including habits of systems thinking, driving with data, self as an agent of change, powerful communicating, and collaborating to get things done. This presentation was given by Jana Martella at the Sustainability Planning Meeting held by the Massachusetts Department of Early Education and Care on May 10^th, 2017 in Worcester, Massachusetts. Attendees were Preschool Development Grant – Expansion grantees and other early learning programs.