Assessing and Advocating for Early Childhood Services

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Online Course
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Program Description

Event Details

 

August 7 - September 3, 2023 | Four-week course

Continuously assessing your early childhood programs and services through differentiated methods will help guide your programs toward effectively meeting the needs of children, families, and early care and education providers in your community. Gathering information and collecting data helps you determine program effectiveness and support your early childhood program advocacy efforts. In this class, you will learn about the different methods that your library can use to assess program effectiveness, including self-assessments, participant feedback surveys, and evaluations. You will get hands-on practice creating and implementing assessment tools and creating an advocacy plan for early childhood programs.

After taking this class, successful participants will be able to:

  • Complete a self-assessment of their own early childhood program to measure effectiveness of program lesson plans, strategies, and program implementation
  • Develop, implement, and collect data from a participant feedback survey to measure program effectiveness
  • Create and implement a quality improvement action plan to help increase program effectiveness based on assessment, evaluation, and survey data
  • Create an elevator speech/advocacy statement to share with library administration and local policy makers which is focused on the importance of early childhood and early literacy programs

Instructor, R. Lynn Baker is an early literacy consultant and credentialed early childhood trainer. She leads face-to-face and online trainings for early care and education professionals and librarians. Lynn is a former early childhood librarian and author of library program guidebooks, published by the American Library Association, including Counting Down to Kindergarten: A Complete Guide to Creating a School Readiness Program for Your Community and Creating Literacy-Based Programs for Children: Lesson Plans and Printable Resources for K-5. Lynn has over 25 years of experience in early childhood education. Lynn holds her B.S. in Interdisciplinary Early Childhood Education and a minor in Special Education. She received her Master’s in Library and Information Science, with an early childhood focus, from San Jose State University.  

CALL Training Partner for this Event: Library Juice Academy

Additional Information

Enrollment Statement

I understand that a space will be reserved for me in this learning opportunity at a cost to CALL, and if I am unable to attend this learning opportunity, I will cancel my enrollment as soon as possible and before the start date. 

Single Enrollment Disclaimer

I understand that I can register for only one course at a time (no concurrent courses). If I do not attend this course, I understand that I may forfeit the opportunity to enroll in additional CALL courses during this fiscal year.