Call for Proposals
Deadline: January 13, 2025
General Submission Guidelines
- Proposals will be evaluated using a DEC Rubric; please view the Rubric here before submitting to understand our selection criteria.
- Presentations are designed for all levels of experience - from fundamental to intermediate to advanced topics.
- Proposals should clearly indicate the age group the information will focus on i.e. birth to three, preschool, school-age OR all.
- Proposals should be checked for spelling and grammar.
- Proposals must be non-sales or marketing orientated.
- There are no fees required to submit a proposal.
- ECDAW membership is not a requirement for submitting.
In General, IECC Does Not Pay Per Diem, Honoraria, or Reimburse Expenses:
This is a list of topics IECC may be seeking.
- Racial Equity
- Anti-bias practices
- Trauma-informed care
- Supporting Challenging Behaviors
- Working with Parents and Families
- Coaching
- Family Resource Coordinators
- Social-Emotional learning
- The Pyramid Model
- Intersectionality
- Positionality
- Child Find
- Autism
- Transitions B-C
- Speech
- Mental Health
- Burnout and Coping Strategies
- Feeding
- Spaces and Environments
- How to build a 0-5 system
- Relationships/Partners (communities, families, schools)
- Panel workshops
- Working with foster families
- Transition
- Working with fathers
- Father engagement
- Implicit Bias
- Connections to tribal communities
- Supporting children with complex needs
Other Considerations:
- As you plan the details of your presentation, please consider our purpose (below.)
- Other themes to consider are birth through age eight development, mental health and relationship issues, cultural diversity, father involvement, accountability, school readiness, transitions, and relevant research supporting your information.
- Please note presenters are welcome and encouraged to submit multiple proposals. This gives the IECC planning committee the opportunity to select from a variety of submission topics from each presenter. IECC will email before scheduling a presenter for multiple presentations. Please note this is a general list and IECC would like to encourage presenters to submit topics from the list below and expand it further.
- Consider how your presentation strategy and content promotes participants’ growth in their work with all children, including those with disabilities, their families and within the early learning community.
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Our Purpose:
- Provide high-quality education opportunities for professionals and parents; Challenge thinking about diversity and disability;
- Increase family and provider effectiveness through new skills, strategies and ideas for providing high quality services;
- Enhance understanding of the unique strengths and needs of each family; Foster partnerships across families, disciplines, agencies and sponsors to provide coordinated services in local communities;
- Promote networking and coalition building around early childhood issues; Enhance the lives of children and families through the use of information and technology;
- Promote evidenced based practices in early childhood; and
- Promote the mutual understanding of the contributions families and providers bring to the lives of young children.
If you have any questions, please contact iecccfp@uoregon.edu.
