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Improving Systems, Practices, and Outcomes

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January 13, 2025

Updates from the ECTA Center

Registration Open for 2025 International Inclusion Institute

The 2025 International Early Childhood Inclusion Institute will be held Tuesday, May 13 through Thursday, May 15, 2025 at the Friday Conference Center, Chapel Hill, NC. Celebrating 25 years this year, the Inclusion Institute is a premier educational experience focused on evidence-informed inclusive practices. The theme is Honoring Our 25 Year History: Reflecting, Celebrating, and Advancing. The keynote speaker is Jordyn Zimmerman, an educator and disability advocate. She uses her personal experience as an autistic individual, who gained access to augmentative communication at 18, to challenge the status quo and promote inclusive learning. The Institute has drawn people from across the nation and around the world to Chapel Hill to:

  • Develop collaborative relationships and cross-agency systems that support early childhood inclusion
  • Discover evidence-based practices, resources, and tools for promoting opportunities for inclusion
  • Meet, learn from, and problem-solve with peers

A selection of sessions for virtual attendees will also be offered via Zoom.

Read more: https://inclusioninstitute.fpg.unc.edu

Self-Assessment for Equity- and Inclusion-Focused Leadership: Attitudes and Actions

This tool is for people providing leadership support for early childhood systems to explore how teams are or are not currently addressing key components of the Equity- and Inclusion-Focused Leadership: Attitudes and Actions. This new self-assessment help teams develop, strengthen, and implement actions to understand, identify, and remove barriers to equitable and positive outcomes for children with disabilities and their families and communities. Completing the assessment takes about 15 minutes.

Read more: https://ectacenter.org/topics/leadership/attitudes-and-actions.asp#self-assessment

Announcements

New OSEP Fast Facts

OSEP has released two new Fast Facts:

They spotlight the IDEA 618 data on personnel and educational environments of children with disabilities in early childhood settings. They contain visualizations that help make IDEA 618 data easy to interpret and share.

Read more: https://sites.ed.gov/idea/osep-fast-facts/

Upcoming National Early Childhood Conferences

As conference season gears up in early childhood, we offer this listing of upcoming national early childhood conferences to help you plan:

Read more: https://ectacenter.org/events/conferences.asp

Research

Improving Firearm Safety in Pediatric Primary Care

In Improving Firearm Safety in Pediatric Primary Care, a new research study shows the large positive impact that low-burden and relatively inexpensive support strategies can have on implementing a secure firearm storage program during pediatric primary care. Firearm injuries and deaths among young people are a major public health concern. Although secure storage is a proven safety measure, less than 30% of homes with children report storing firearms locked and unloaded. This study, funded by researchers at the National Institute of Mental Health, addressed this gap by testing the effectiveness of two scalable approaches to promoting safe firearm storage when used during routine well-child visits.

Source: https://www.nimh.nih.gov/news/science-news/2024/improving-firearm-safety-in-pediatric-primary-care