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2008 Harris Forum
Thursday, May 22, 2008
Coffman Student Union
Theater,
University of Minnesota Minneapolis East Bank
1:00pm to 1:30pm:
Registration
1:30pm to 3:30pm: Lecture and Q&A
More Information
This is a free
event.
CEUs will be available at the conclusion of the event. |
Attachment, Culture,
Trauma:
Intervention with Ethnically Diverse Families
Featured speaker:
Dr. Chandra Ghosh Ippen
University of California, San Francisco
This presentation examines
how attachment, culture, and trauma serve as contextual forces that
shape development and perspective and offers a diversity awareness
model that can be used to understand diversity related conflicts
that arise in clinical work and within systems.
Pre-registration is now closed
due to very high enrollment. You may register on the day of the
event but we cannot guarantee space for all. Please note we are also
recording the event for online access later this summer. We
appreciate the interest in this program and hope to make it as
widely available as possible. |
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In Person Summer Courses
and Trainings Offered
Earn graduate
credit or CEUs
Classes begin
in June and July
Seats limited,
register soon
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The
Institute of Child Development and CEED
are offering three in-person courses and trainings at the University
starting in June:
NCAST
June 9-12 and June
30-July 2
(Nursing Child
Assessment Satellite Training)
Instructors Kathi Blomquist, PHN, MS, and Karen Lindberg, PHN, MPH
DC: 0-3R
July 10-11 and July
17-18, 2008
Instructors
Jane Ellison, MS, LAMFT, and Pat Pulice, MA, LP
Assessing and
Managing Cases of Child Sexual Abuse with Preschool Children
July 24 and 25, 2008
Instructor Sandra Hewitt, Ph.D. |
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Consider Enrolling in an
Online Course in 2008
2008
Course Schedule
(pdf file)
Earn
Continuing Education
credit towards professional development
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CEED offers online courses in a variety of
topics related to early childhood education. Find out more
about our classes and how to register:
Summer Sessions
June 2 to August 4
Parent-Infant Pathways: An
Educator's Guide to Providing Information and Support to New Parents
June 2 to August 4
Addressing Needs of Young
Children Who Engage in Challenging Behavior
June 9 to
August 11
Introduction to Infant Mental
Health
June 16 to August
11
Bridging Education and Mental
Health
Fall Sessions
All of the courses above are
also offered in fall 2008, including:
Seeing is Believing®
Relationship-based Teaching
With Young Children
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June 23-24, 2008
St. John's University
Collegeville, MN
Earn 1 academic credit from the University
of St. Thomas or 12 clock hours of Continuing Education Credit.
Online
registration now invited
Poster
presentations invited
Deadline to
submit presentation proposals: April 30, 2008
Deadline to register:
Friday, June 13 |

This year's
Summer Institute focuses on
Evidence-Based Practice and Recommended Practices and will offer
keynote and breakout sessions to meet the needs of a range of early
childhood professionals.
Topics include:
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Session 1: Consultation in Early
Childhood
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Session 2: Appropriate Services
for Young English Language Learners: Language, Culture, and
Practice
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Session 3: Speech and Language
Goals and Objectives: Embedding Communication Target Skills in
the ECSE Teaching Process
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Session 4: Positive Behavior
Support
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Session 5: Medically Fragile Children--The
Premature Infant
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Division for Early Childhood (DEC)
2008 International Conference
Renew Your Energy
October 27-30, 2008 Hilton Minneapolis Hotel Minneapolis, MN
For more information, visit the
DEC Conference web page
Print a flyer |
DEC's conference is designed to cover a
wide range of vital issues facing those who work with young children
with special needs and their families. Every year, DEC brings
together experts, students, practitioners, and family members to
learn about important research, policy, and practice happening in
the field of early childhood special education.
Scott McConnell,
University Professor and CEED's Director of Community Engagement, will deliver
the keynote presentation
Renewing Our Energy: Finding and Maintaining Commitment and
Enthusiasm in Professional Practice. |
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Although we don't yet have a
wealth of rigorous, controlled studies that allow us to make a
definitive statement about cause and effect, we do have a variety of
studies that collectively point to an association between outdoor
play and an array of good outcomes for kids.
- Martha Farrell Erickson |

Read an article featuring the
Children & Nature Network
(Building a Movement to Reconnect Children & Nature) that includes
Q&A from Martha
Farrell Erickson, Ph.D.
More
Marti Erickson in the news!
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Center at the
Center!
Assessment and Training
Center
Amy Susman Stillman,
Principal Investigator
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The
Assessment and Training Center
(ATC) has been conceptualized as a way to transmit CEED’s unique observation and
assessment skill and knowledge to the greater early childhood
community, for program evaluation and improvement purposes.
Read more about ATC |
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Web Site Resource
for Parents
Parents Know
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Visit the
Parents Know web
site created by the Minnesota Department of Education for parent
information, resources and activities to help children grow,
develop, and learn from birth through high school.
http://www.parentsknow.state.mn.us |
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New Environmental
Toolkit for ECFE Programs
from Hennepin County
and Community POWER
Questions?
Contact Erin
Bowley,
Project Manager of
Community POWER
Phone: 612-729-4155
Email: erin@erinb.org |
Hennepin County and Community POWER are
pleased to announce availability of a
new free online
environmental toolkit for ECFE programs. The toolkit will help
you educate and actively engage families in creating a healthier
environment in the home by reducing waste, properly disposing of
hazardous items, reducing chemical use, and rethinking reuse and
recycling.
ECFE programs in Hennepin County may
also request $3000 to implement activities from the toolkit in the
coming year. A short application is due May 8, 2008. Funded projects
can take place June 15, 2008 to June 30, 2009.
Funding
guidelines |
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2007 Minnesota
School Readiness
Studies Now
Available
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The Minnesota Department of Education,
Early Learning Services, has Minnesota School Readiness
Studies available on their
web site, including:
- Developmental Assessment at
Kindergarten Entrance
- Fact sheet on Minnesota's
school readiness study
- Minnesota School Readiness
Study - Fall 2007
- Using School Readiness Study
Information
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Job
Opportunities in
Early Childhood
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Check out our web page with
job opportunities in early childhood. |
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CEED Sampler
View April
2008 issue
(pdf file)
View past issues
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The CEED Sampler is the monthly CEED
e-newsletter that includes brief updates on CEED people, projects, and
events.The CEED Sampler
will be emailed to the CEED email list and made available on the
website each month.
Join
the CEED email list |
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CEED also serves as the Early Childhood
Program Area for the Institute on
Community Integration (ICI), a federally designated
University Center for Excellence in
Developmental Disabilities (UCEDD), part of a national network of
programs across the country known as the American Association of
University Affiliated Programs (AAUAP). |
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Effective September 1, 2005, CEED and the
Harris Center officially united their efforts. The new organization
retains the CEED name while it benefits from both CEED and Harris
Center expertise. |
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Our new
address:
Center for Early
Education and Development
University of Minnesota
Education Sciences Building, Suite 40
56 East River Road
Minneapolis, MN 55455
Phone: 612-625-3058
Fax: 612-625-2093

For more
information about CEED, please contact us at
ceed@umn.edu.
CEED is
supported by the
College of Education and Human Development at the University
of Minnesota and
by grants from project agencies such as the
Minnesota Department of Education and
the
U.S. Department of Education.
Direct comments regarding this
web site to Karen Anderson, WebTender, at
ander352@umn.edu or 612-625-6617.
The University of Minnesota is an equal opportunity educator and
employer |