A Brief History of the ECHO Consortium
December 2001 - State Improvement Grant hosted meeting of Faculty from Institutions of Higher Education Spring/Summer 2002 - Institutions of Higher Education Early Childhood Task Force developed to focus on teacher licensure redesign July 2002 - KSBE approves unified birth - 3rd grade license Fall 2002 - State Improvement Grant Supplement Proposal Submitted and Funded (2/1/03-1/31/04) Fall 2002 - ECHO Group Formalized January 2003 - ECHO Phase I Awards to Institutions of Higher Education -
February, 2004 - ECHO Phase II of grant - RFP to develop distance
education classes
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Summer/Fall 2004 - Development of on-line courses
- Fall 2004/Spring 2005 - the courses developed through ECHO support first
offered on-line
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The ECHO Consortium
Is a collaborative effort of Early Childhood Faculty to address the new unified early childhood licensure in Kansas. -
Promotes levels of involvement and participation of individual college/university early childhood preservice education programs for delivery of professional development courses across Kansas colleges/universities.
Is meeting the goals of Kansas State Department of Education – Early Childhood Supplement to the State Improvement Grant. Is an effort to address the high demand of educators for young children. Supports the delivery of preservice programs by individual colleges/universities. -
Provides a forum for collaboratively developing courses to support statewide
accessibility.
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