ECHO Subgrants (7/03)

Deborah Bailey - deborah-bailey@acck.edu

Jeannene Schweitzer - jeannene-schweitzer@acck.edu

Kansas Head Start Advisory Board

Infant-Toddler Center Advisory Board

Head Start Policy Council

Recruit stakeholders across consortium institutions and community partners

Collaborate with community partners to write a unified B-3 licensure program.

Contribute to the inter-university curriculum

Mary DeLuccie - deluccie@ksu.edu

Bronwyn Fees - fees@ksu.edu

LuAnn Hoover - lhoover@ksu.edu

Head Start

Early Head Start

Local Education Agency

Redesign the EC curriculum to meet the new unified B-3 standards.

Participate in the development of an interinstitutional curriculum.

Work with an advisory group to enhance the integration of general education and sped content.

Duane Whitbeck - dwhitbeck@pittstate.edu

Marti York - myork@pittstate.edu

Vicki Wilbert - vwilbert@pittstate.edu

Early Childhood Department

Early childhood education

Early childhood SPED

Early career Professionals Mentorship Academy

Pittsburg Family Resource Center

Redesign the EC curriculum to meet the new unified B-3 standards.

Participate with ECHO at the guiding level.

Align curriculum across the three partnering departments.

Shawn Neises - sneises@sckans.edu

Victoria White - vwhite@sckans.edu

Cowley County Reach

Cheryl Tolson, Parents as First Teachers

Communities in Schools project in Cowley County

USDs: 465 and 470

Redesign the EC curriculum to meet the new unified B-3 standards.

Course level changes through unification of reg. ed. and sped content.

Curriculum redesign to prepare students to meet the new teaching standards.

State level changes through the ECHO consortium.

Barb Thompson - bthomps@ku.edu

Diane Nielsen - dnielsen@ku.edu

Eva Horn - evahorn@ku.edu

Representatives from T & L and SPED.

Interuniversity groups through the ECHO and SIG

2 related federal grant projects.

Finalize the course sequence for the new EC unified program.

Complete the alignment of standards by courses that are to be addressed by each course

Develop course syllabi guidelines for all program core courses, including new courses

Develop sets of activities/ projects for each of the required levels of fieldwork experiences

Active participation in the ECHO consortium

Judith McConnell - Zzmccon2@aol.com

Michael Rettig - 785-231-1010

Kathy Drum - 785-231-1010

The Professional Development School with USD 345, 450, 501.

The Comer School Development Project.

To correlate the standards and indicators of the B-3.

To revise early childhood courses to fulfill the new license standards.

To develop new courses with ECHO partners.

Linda Mitchell - linda.mitchell@wichita.edu

Jeri Carroll - jeri.carroll@wichita.edu

USD 259

WSU faculty from colleges of Ed and Fine Arts.

IHEs – Friends, Newman, Southwestern, ACCK

Collaboratively develop course syllabi for all courses in the program.

Seek input from an advisory board and community partners.

Develop an evaluative system that becomes a feedback loop to the program.

Collaborate with area colleges to better articulate programs.

Participate in the ECHO.