Transcript Florida`s Efforts to Link Part C and 619 Outcomes Measurement

Florida’s Efforts to Link
Part C and 619 Outcomes
Measurement
April 25, 2006
Florida DOE/Florida DOH-CMS
A little bit about us • Early Steps
– Reported over 12,000 infants/toddlers in the
04-05 count
– Broad state definition for eligibility – but does
not include at risk
– 16 local Early Steps areas
– Culturally and linguistically diverse population –
large urban areas as well as rural areas
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A little bit about us Part B Preschool • Reported over 35,000, three through fiveyear-olds in 2004
• Of those children, 22,000+ are in
preschool
• 67 school districts
• Large, culturally and linguistically diverse
state
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Some History
• Early Steps received GSEG grant in 2004
• Last April, attended ECO Outcome
meeting together
• Had an “epiphany” – did not seem to make
sense to take building a measure system on
as two independent entities
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Early Steps – Activities
to Date
• Convened stakeholders’ group to advise
process
• Developed Guiding Principles
• Developed recommendations for system
design
• Considered “meaning” of the 3 OSEP
outcomes through examination of
instrumentation
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Early Steps – Activities
to Date
• Assessed current practices related
to use of instrumentation for
evaluation/assessment
• Recommended instrument for phase
in – based on existing requirements
for evaluation process
• Communicated with stakeholders
throughout process
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Part B Preschool –
Activities to Date
• Convened stakeholders’ group to advise
process
• Developed guiding principles (used Early
Steps principles as foundation)
• Assessed current practice related to
instrumentation used for evaluation
• Concurred with instrument
recommendation made by Early Steps for
the purpose of first phase pilot
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Jointly we’ve • Shared and modified the guiding principles
between the separate stakeholders’ groups
and now have a common document
• Will jointly convene the groups for any
future meeting
• Decided on key elements and since Fall 05
have had joint planning/management team
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Other Considerations
• Lessons we’ve learned from K-12
accountability systems
– Accountability systems must use reliable and
valid data
– Accountability systems must measure child
progress in a consistent manner
– Accountability systems must apply rules and
decisions consistently across programs/schools
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Elements of Our Plan
• Phasing in with select “Early Adopters”
who represent population of children
served in the state.
• “Early Adopters” are “paired” – a school
district and corresponding Early Steps
• For this year’s status data, we are “mining”
existing data of a subset of adopters who
are experienced with the instrument
recommended
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Elements of Our Plan
• Using existing evaluation processes
as primary vehicle for collecting data
• Only collecting entry/exit data
• Negotiation over “shared data point”
critical (Early Steps exit/Part B
preschool entrance)
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Elements of Our Plan
• Have left decision on how this
“shared data point” will happen to the
local level
• Attempting to depict four common
scenarios (“flow charts”) to further
define “what children” and “when”
data is collected”
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Elements of Our Plan
• Will report data to same data
collection system
• Each Department is “taking on”
different aspects of what will be
needed to get our “Early Adopters”
off the ground
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What’s ahead
• Assistance with capacity building,
data analysis, consideration of
research questions that emerge
• Building “process documents” that
articulate procedures developed and
“tested out”
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What’s ahead
• Determining how data collected will
convert to OSEP reporting
categories
• Responding to myriad of
policy/implementation issues
• Future reporting to multiple
audiences
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Positive Consequences –
(we hope -)
• Strengthened collaboration between
school districts and Early Steps
programs
• Improved, and more timely, transition
planning
• Expanded joint evaluation teams –
(already emerging in a few places)
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More information ?
• Sally Golden-McCord
– [email protected]
• Cathy Bishop
– [email protected]
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