Jun 1, 2021 | ECA Take on Education, News, Promising Practices
Recently, ECA launched its Data and Evidence-Informed Practices series with a virtual professional learning event entitled Connecting the Dots: Using Data as the Foundation for School Improvement. The primary objectives were to: Introduce a process for understanding...
May 10, 2021 | Great Resources, Promising Practices, Top Briefs
Evidence-Informed Practice is an approach that argues that policy and practice should be justified in term of sound evidence about their likely effects. Currently, the term evidence-informed practice is used with two different meanings. One meaning is associated with...
May 5, 2021 | Coaching Advice, Coaching Conversations, Promising Practices, Top Briefs
Program Performance Evaluations (PPE) are foundational to the development and implementation of Birth to Five Strategic (PDGB-5) planning efforts. The intention is to use PPE to support implementation of PDG B-5 strategic plans and data-based decision-making while...
May 30, 2017 | Coaching Conversations, May 2017, Promising Practices
Community Teamwork, Inc. in Greater Lowell helps nearly 50,000 individuals from 63 cities and towns in northeastern Massachusetts gain greater economic independence. One arm of the organization focuses on children and families through its early learning programs. As...
Mar 27, 2017 | Coaching Conversations, March 2017, Promising Practices
Guiding Change in Systems, Sectors and Settings By Kimm Quinlan (Region 1) and Carla Seymour (Region 5), each from Massachusetts’ Educator Provider Support (EPS) programs. In March, we attended the Coaching 4 Change training hosted by Early Childhood...
