Leadership

• Create a CSPD leadership infrastructure.

• Ensure cross-sector representation

• Establish a management process for teams

• Establish a sustainability plan

• Create a CSPD marketing & outreach plan

• Align integrated CSPD with state policies and other early childhood initiatives

• Increase understanding of current EC workforce policies and initiatives

• Align personnel standards across early childhood sectors.

Recruitment & Retention

• Develop comprehensive recruitment strategies using multiple data sources.

• Identify current recruitment strategies

• Assess the effectiveness of current recruitment strategies

• Conduct a systematic review of other recruitment strategies

• Develop a list of effective recruitment strategies

• Develop comprehensive retention strategies using multiple data sources.

• Identify current retention strategies

Professional Standards

• Align state professional standards to the Initial Practice-Based Professional Preparation Standards for Early Interventionists/Early Childhood Special Educators (EI/ECSE)

• Establish definitions for certification, licensure and endorsement in Hawaii

• Identify commonalities and gaps between current state and EIECSE standards across disciplines

• Develop strategies to address identified gaps

Inservice

• Ensure statewide systems for in-service PD and TA are aligned and coordinated across disciplines

• Crosswalk of current training and TA initiatives that align across systems

• Develop rubrics to align PD content to the DEC Recommended Practices and six features of effective PD

• Develop family needs assessment

• Identify gaps in training

• Address training gaps

PreService

• Ensure preservice preparation programs across disciplines align to national professional standards

• Identify and Hawaii preservice preparation programs

• Identify core competencies for each program • Map coursework across programs

• Crosswalk preservice programs and curricula to EI/ECSE Personnel Standards & cross disciplinary competencies

Evaluation

• Develop mechanisms to collect and analyze data across all 6 subcomponents

• Develop a CSPD logic model for team leads to follow

• Develop evaluation questions, identify data sources, methods, person responsible, timelines and milestones for the evaluation plan

• Develop a checklist for milestone indicators

• Ensure evaluation plan is monitored and revised as necessary

• Use evaluation findings to inform state stakeholders, workgroup, practice inputs

• Develop a dissemination plan for products and materials developed by the subcomponent workgroups