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PODCAST
Role of Research to Practice Partnerships in Using Early Childhood Data
This episode presents the benefits and strategies for engaging with university partners to support the use of early childhood data. Anita McGinty (Research Associate Professor with the School of Education and Human Development at the University of Virginia) and Erin Carroll (Director of Early Childhood with the Virginia Department of Education) share their strategies for strong research to practice partnership in Virginia’s early childhood data effort.
Click here to listen now at the ECDW Community Podcast & Blog website.
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PODCAST
Building the Right Team: ECIDS Teams, Infrastructure, and Composition
On this episode, Phil Sirinides interviews Missy Coffey about her recent report with co-author Jenna Nguyen, titled "Lessons Learned About ECIDS Teams, Infrastructure, and Composition." With over a decade of experience in the field, Coffey discusses the successes and challenges states face when putting together successful EC project teams. Additionally, she explains the importance of being specific on the roles, capacity and amount of effort of teams, as states transition from planning to implementation of their early childhood data systems. And in order states to better accomplish their initiatives and goals in early childhood education, Missy and Phil talk about the need to align organizational, human, and technical capacities across the ECIDS teams.
Click here to listen now at the ECDW Community Podcast & Blog website.
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About ECDataWorks Community
Curated by CPRE's ECDataWorks project team and its state partners, the ECDataWorks Community will feature partner-created blogs and podcasts covering a wide range of early childhood integrated data systems (ECIDS) topics - common challenges faced by ECIDS managers and staff, navigating organizational change, promoting stakeholder engagement, organizational design, shared leadership among state agencies, and much more.
The blog and podcast series, produced with support from the Heising-Simons Foundation, is designed to help states and stakeholders (from all career stages) understand and respond to some of the most persistent challenges facing the field, to adopt strong, resilient approaches to drive the ECIDS field forward.
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MINI DOCUMENTARY
Childhood Data in Response to Emerging Needs
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2020 was a year of unprecedented change that revealed a lot about the limitations of early childhood data systems. At the same time states responded and sought to tackle these new challenges head on. In this mini-documentary, ECDataWorks sits down with project leaders and advisors across the US to discuss their challenges, lesson learned and how they plan to continue to build capacity, commitment, and resiliency throughout the pandemic.
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About ECDataWorks Community
Curated by CPRE's ECDataWorks project team and its state partners, the ECDataWorks Community will feature partner-created blogs and podcasts covering a wide range of early childhood integrated data systems (ECIDS) topics - common challenges faced by ECIDS managers and staff, navigating organizational change, promoting stakeholder engagement, organizational design, shared leadership among state agencies, and much more.
The blog and podcast series, produced with support from the Heising-Simons Foundation, is designed to help states and stakeholders (from all career stages) understand and respond to some of the most persistent challenges facing the field, to adopt strong, resilient approaches to drive the ECIDS field forward.
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