ECHO Subgrants

UNIVERSITY

PROJECT CONTACTS

PARTNERS

PROJECT GOALS

ACCK

Deborah Bailey
deborah-bailey@acck.edu

Jeannene Schweitzer
jeannenes@acck.edu

a. Kansas Head Start Advisory Board

b. Infant-Toddler Center Advisory Board

c. Head Start Policy Council

1. Recruit stakeholders across consortium institutions and community partners
2. Collaborate with community partners to write a unified B-3 licensure program.
3. Contribute to the inter-university curriculum

KSU

Mary DeLuccie
deluccie@ksu.edu

Bronwyn Fees
fees@ksu.edu

Ann Murray
admurray@ksu.edu

LuAnn Hoover
hoover@ksu.edu

a. Head Start

b. Early Head Start

c. Local Education Agency

1. Redesign the EC curriculum to meet the new unified B-3 standards.
2. Participate in the development of an interinstitutional curriculum.
3. Work with an advisory group to enhance the integration of general education and sped content

PSU

Duane Whitbeck
dwhitbeck@pittstate.edu

Marti York
myork@pittstate.edu

Vicki Wilbert
vwilbert@pittstate.edu

a. Early Childhood Department

b. Early childhood education

c. Early childhood SPED

d. Early career Professionals Mentorship Academy

e. Pittsburg Family Resource Center

1. Redesign the EC curriculum to meet the new unified B-3 standards.
2. Participate with ECHO at the guiding level.
3. Align curriculum across the three partnering departments

Southwestern

Shawn Neises
sneises@sckans.edu

Victoria White
vwhite@sckans.edu

a. Cowley County Reach

b. Cheryl Tolson, Parents as First Teachers

c. Communities in Schools project in Cowley County

d. USDs: 465 and 470

1. Redesign the EC curriculum to meet the new unified B-3 standards.
2. Course level changes through unification of reg. ed. and sped content.
3. Curriculum redesign to prepare students to meet the new teaching standards.
4. State level changes through the ECHO consortium

KU

Barb Thompson
bthomps@ku.edu

Diane Nielsen
dnielsen@ku.edu

Eva Horn
evahorn@ukans.edu

a. Representatives from T & L and SPED.

b. Interuniversity groups through the ECHO and SIG

c. 2 related federal grant projects.

1. Finalize the course sequence for the new EC unified program.
2. Complete the alignment of standards by courses that are to be addressed by each course
3. Develop course syllabi guidelines for all program core courses, including new courses
4. Develo psets of activities/ projects for each of the required levels of fieldwork experiences
5. Active participation in the ECHO consortium

Washburn

Judith McConnell
Zzmccon2@aol.com

Michael Rettig (785) 231-1010

Kathy Drum (785) 231-1010

a. The Professional Development School with USD 345, 450, 501.

b. The Comer School Development Project.

1. To correlate the standards and indicators of the B-3.
2. To revise early childhood courses to fulfill the new license standards.
3. To develop new courses with ECHO partners

WSU

Linda Mitchell
linda.mitchell@wichita.edu

Jeri Carroll
jeri.carroll@wichita.edu

a. USD 259

b. WSU faculty from colleges of Ed and Fine Arts.

c. Institutes of Higher Educations – Friends, Newman, Southwestern, ACCK

1. Collaboratively develop course syllabi for all courses in the program.
2. Seek input from an advisory board and community partners.
3. Develop an evaluative system that becomes a feedback loop to the program.
4. Collaborate with area colleges to better articulate programs.
5. Participate in the ECHO