If you are interested in receiving up-to-date information and resources pertaining to quality early education in Wisconsin consider joining one or more of the following listserv groups. Information follows on each listserv and directions for joining.

POSTED OCTOBER 3
The DPI has installed a new email list server and it is now operational. From this time forward, please post any message to WECCP using its new email.

NOTE: You do *not* have to re-subscribe to WECCP. All emails already subscribed were successfully moved to the new server. Be certain to update your email address book with the new address, the old e-mailwill longer work.

Wisconsin Early Childhood Collaborating Partners (WECCP)
The Wisconsin Early Childhood Collaborating Partners listserv is designed to facilitate interactive, electronic communication between the agencies, associations, and individuals providing services to Wisconsin's young children (birth to age 8) and their families. The focus of this listserv is on state, community, and interagency efforts to improve service delivery approaches for young children and their families. The listserv will provide a mechanism to share experiences, examples, ad resources related to early childhood collaboration, program blending, and system improvement.
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Wisconsin Forces for Four-Year-Olds (forces44)
The forces 44 listserv is designed to facilitate interactive, electronic communication between agencies, associations, ad individuals interested in community collaboration related to services to 4-year-old children and their families. The special focus of this listserv is on state, community, and interagency efforts to blend 4-year-old kindergarten, child care, and Head Start resources and funding to create collaborative programs for 4-year-old children. The listserv will provide a mechanism to share experiences, examples, and resources to support communities in starting these collaborative efforts and to continue to develop the approaches that exist.
Directions - UPDATED OCTOBER 3

Wisconsin Early Childhood Special Education (wi-ecse)
WI-ECSE is designed to facilitate interactive, electronic communication among the Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction (DPI) and the state's early childhood special education program support teachers and leadership. WI-ECSE is an open, unmoderated list. It is targeted for early childhood special education leadership including program support teachers, Regional Service Network directors (RSN), higher education personnel, and others.

The DPI Early Childhood Consultants will use this list to provide early childhood special education leadership with:

• notices of ECSE Program Support Teachers meetings and/or other meetings relevant to early childhood special education leadership,
  
• information related to IDEA preschool grant activities
  
• information related to the State Performance Plan Indicators, and
  
• updates relative to state and federal activities for serving young children with disabilities.
  

The focus of the WI-ECSE is early childhood special education; birth to 6, with an emphasis on children ages 3-5 years. It is intended to supplement the Wisconsin Early Childhood Collaborating Partners listserv (WECCP) which is a broad-based listserv related to early childhood care and education.
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Wisconsin-Center for the Social Emotional Foundations of Early Learning (wi-csefel)
The WI-CSEFEL listserv is designed to facilitate interactive, electronic communication among Wisconsin trainers who utilize information from the Center for the Social Emotional Foundations of Early Learning. The Center on the Social and Emotional Foundations for Early Learning (CSEFEL) is focused on promoting the social emotional development and school readiness of young children birth to age 5. CSEFEL is a national resource center funded by the Office of Head Start and Child Care Bureau for disseminating research and evidence-based practices to early childhood programs across the country http://www.vanderbilt.edu/csefel/

Members of wi-csefel may use this list to provide:

• notices of available training, meetings, conference calls and newly released materials
  
• information related training and facilitation ideas
  
• updates and information

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