Assessing Early Education in Indiana
Early Childhood Meeting Place
Promoting School Readiness
Training & Outreach
- Training & Outreach
- Online Learning Series: Topics in Early Intervention
- Adapting Your Teaching to Individual Learners
- Beginning With the Objectives in Mind
- Designing Effective Transitions to Kindergarten
- Meaningful Language, Purposeful Literacy, Ready Children
- Reexamining Classroom Day to Promote School Readiness
- Rethinking How We Can Use Free Choice Time
- Targeting Skills That Make a Difference in Kindergarten
- Teaching Strategies that Support Children's Thinking
- When Actions Speak Louder
Unified Training System/First Steps
Universal Design in ECE
Past Projects
Products
Who We Are
Contact Us
Phone: (812) 855-6508
TTY: (812) 855-9396
Fax: (812) 855-9630
Director: Michael Conn-Powers, Ph.D.
e-mail: mipower@indiana.edu
Early Childhood Meeting Place
Project Summary:
Connecting Indiana’s early childhood community to education, resources, and news
In 1998, the Early Childhood Center (ECC) developed and posted an online training events calendar for families and professionals in the fields of early intervention and early childhood special education. In 2000 and again in 2005, the ECC expanded the web site into the Early Childhood Meeting Place (ECMP) web site (http://www.earlychildhoodmeetingplace.org) to provide a gateway website to information, services and resources for Indiana's early education professionals and families. ECMP is a free listing to agencies and organizations that provide training, services, and resources to Indiana's early childhood communities.
Currently, the Early Childhood Meeting Place includes searchable information in the following areas:
1. Events Calendar. A searchable listing of Indiana workshops and conferences related to early childhood topics and issues. Organizations providing such training may request a free account to post their trainings on the Events Calendar.
2. Professional Resources. This section is broken down into Continuing Education Resources and a listing of Professional Organizations.
3. Family Resources.This section was developed in partnership with and funding from the Indiana State Department of Health, Maternal and Children's Special Health Care Services, Sunny Start: Healthy Bodies, Healthy Minds Initiative. Family Resources provides a statewide clearinghouse of information for families of all young children, and is organized around these general topic areas:
•Community Resources
•Child Care and Early Education
•Health & Safety
•Parenting & Family Support
•Sunny Start Resource Fact Sheets
4. Familia Información y Recursos
• Crianza y familias
• Hojas de datos sobre recursos financieros
• Salud y Seguridad
Sponsored and supported by the Early Childhood Center, with additional funding for the Family Information and Resources section provided by DHHS/HRSA's Maternal and Child Health Bureau to the Indiana State Department of Health, Maternal and Children's Special Health Care Services, Sunny Start Project.