Regional Training Coalitions and Early Childhood Professional Development Partnerships
                   to find out more about the coordinator in your area visit website
                                 http://www.nde.state.ne.us/ECH/ESU/RTPcoord.htm                                    

                       partnerships are designed to:
                            Meet training needs identified in their areas
                            Coordinate existing and new training opportunities
                            Collaborate to provide training that is open to staff and parents from all types of early childhood settings
                            Promote professional development and program improvement
                            Increase the use of technology to facilitate collaboration and professional development
                            Support the Nebraska Framework for Early Childhood Professional Development

RESOURCES ON THE WEB

Answers 4 Families  www.answers4families.org

Child Care Roster  www.hhs.state.ne.us/crl/ChildcareRoster.pdf

Heads Up! Reading http://www.huronline.org/english/students/index.htm

Better Kid Care Satellite Broadcast    Alliance, Channel 17, 5:15-7:00
                                          Taped Versions Available Upon Request
                       

Kids Connection   www.hhs.ne.gov/med/kidsconx.htm

 WEEK OF THE YOUNG CHILD
            www.naeyc.org

        April 13 - 19. 2008!

  Results Matter

Results Matter in Nebraska is a child and family outcomes system designed to improve programs and supports for all young children birth to age five served by school districts, the Early Development Network and their partners. The family, child and program outcomes apply to all school-based early childhood programs.

For additional information, please visit the Results Matter website at www.esu3.org/ectc
or the following state agency contacts:

Part C: Early Development Network
Barbara Schliesser                                                               
402-471-4324 or barb.schliesser@nde.ne.giv  

Joan Luebbers
402-471-2463 or joan.luebbers@nde.ne.gov

Michaela Swigle                                                                   
402-471-9329 or michaela.swigle@hhss.ne.gov    

Linda Shandera
402-471-9462 or linda.shandera@hhss.ne.gov

Part B: Preschool 3-5
Jan Thelen
402-471-4319 or jan.thelen@nde.ne.gov

Nebraska Department of Education Rule 11
Marcia Corr                                                                        
402-471-0951 or marcia.corr@nde.ne.gov 

Melody Hobson
402-471-0263 or melody.hobson@nde.ne.gov

Eleanor Kirkland
402-471-3501 or eleanor.kirkland@nde.ne.gov

Early Development Network (Scottsbluff, Sidney, and Chadron)
Denise A. Wright, Scottsbluff
Planning Region #13
308-635-3427 or dawright@esu13.org

Michaela Nelson, Sidney
Planning Region  #14
308-254-4677 or mnelson@esu13.org

Kari Nelson, Chadron
Planning Region  #12
308-432-2747 or edndir@wchr.net

Love & Logic is a philosophy founded by Jim Fay and Foster W. Cline, M.D.,
and is based on the experience of a combined total of over 75 years working with and raising kids.
It provides simple and practical techniques to help teachers and parents. Love & Logic offers many
 useful techniques that teachers and parents can begin experimenting with immediately.
               Locking - in sadness or empathy before delivering consequences
               Setting limits with enforceable statements
               Sharing control through lots of small choices
               Building relationships with the One Sentence Intervention
               Neutralizing arguing with the Brain dead technique
               The Anticipatory Consequence
For more information please contact Candis at cljones@esu13.org
 

The Early Learning Guidelines address seven domains
         of development and learning Birth to 3 ------------------  Children 3 - 5 years of age

                                     Social and Emotional Development
                                     Approaches to Learning
                                     Health and Physical Development
                                     Language and Literacy
                                     Mathematics
                                     Science
                                     Creative Arts
For more information contact Candis L Jones at cljones@esu13.org