Redesign Remarks: Child Find Team Shares Initial Work Team Content

The Child Find Professional Development Redesign Work Team has been working hard to identify critical content that will be part of the professional development redesign. This group has also vetted its initial draft of work (video and critical components) with the PLC Committee as the Adult Learning and Data & Assessment Work Teams did earlier (see the May 2nd and May 9th Connection for more information on these teams’ continuum).

The Child Find Work Team lead received feedback on the team’s initial continuum of work related to the following questions:

• How does the identified continuum of learning connect to the work you do for the Agency?
• What items in the identified continuum of learning are essential to the work you do for the Agency?
• What appears to be missing from the continuum of learning?
  

The following Child Find information was shared with the PLC group earlier this spring:

Focus of the Child Find Work Team
The Child Find Work Team will determine key concepts and develop professional learning content to ensure all Heartland AEA, LEA and community stakeholders will understand and be able to communicate the legal requirements for AEA to engage in Child Find activities and the processes by which this is accomplished.

Staff who display the identified key components will be able to:

• engage with LEA staff, team members, students and parents and to ensure appropriate and informative evaluations occur for students in a timely manner.
• identify individual student needs to improve outcomes and close educational gaps for eligible individuals.
• access and identify appropriate services for diverse learners.
  

This video outlines the initial work of the Child Find Work Team, including the initial key components of learning they have focused on. The video will also reference the original proposed Key Components. The team will incorporate the feedback received from the PLC group into its continued work on Key Components and professional learning that supports them.

We hope you will take a moment to listen to the overview and review the first draft of key components of the Child Find Work Team. Hopefully you will get a sense of how the critical content this team has identified connects to you in the work you do for children, families and educators.