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An Introduction to the Visit Tracker/Visit Planner Web-Based Contact Management System for Parents as Teachers (PAT) Organizations

This session was originally held on February 18, 2010

The Pennsylvania Parent Information and Resource Center and the Pennsylvania Parents as Teachers State Leader Office, offered a one-hour, online session on the web-based family contact management system, Visit Tracker/Visit Planner. This training was designed for staff and management professionals of organizations using Parents as Teachers (PAT).

The following goals were established for the session:

Introduce PAT professionals to the Visit Tracker/Visit Planner web based contact management tool.
Outline ways in which Visit Tracker can assist programs on a daily basis to track family and child enrollments, contacts, screenings, and exit data; as well as to plan visits.
Provide information about daily and year-end report functions Visit Tracker.
Answer commonly asked questions about Visit Tracker

This session demonstrated of how educators and supervisors of PAT programs use the Visit Tracker Web on a daily basis to track family and child enrollments, contacts, screenings, and exit data; as well as to plan visits. The reporting tools for daily reports as well as year-end reports will be demonstrated also.

Presenter: Laura Ruether, Owner, DataKeeper Technologies

Laura is the developer of the Visit Tracker/Visit Planner software and has been supporting PAT programs for over 12 years.

Laura developed this software originally for her mother who is a PAT supervisor/educator in Missouri. Every school district in Missouri is mandated to have PAT and over 90% now use Visit Tracker also. Currently over 5000 educators use the Visit Tracker Web software in all 50 states and abroad.

Laura started her career as a public school teacher, became a school administrator, and later began writing software for the educational market. She has a master’s degree in Informational Technologies and consults on many educational tracking software projects.

This session has been archived below in a number of convenient formats.

Session Slides (PDF format)
Recorded Session/Online Playback (internet connection required)
Recorded Session/Offline Playback (You can download the session recording and view the recording without an internet connection. To download the file, right click on the Recorded Session/Offline Playback link and then select Save Link/Target As. Save the .jar file to a location on your local drive. You can then open the file to view the recording.)
Audio file (MP3 format)

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Solid Foundation® Team Online Session

This session was originally held on February 19, 2010

The Pennsylvania Parent Information and Resource Center (PA PIRC) recently offered a one-hour, live, online session about Solid Foundation® . This training was designed for Solid Foundation team members (school staff and parents).

The following goals were established for the session:

Update team members about activity targets and expectations for this year;
Outline ways in which the Resource Manual can assist team members as they implement the school Community Action Plan;
Provide information about the web based school team site for plans and progress; and
Answer questions about the Solid Foundation® process.

This session has been archived below in a number of convenient formats.

Session Slides (PDF format)
Recorded Session/Online Playback (internet connection required)
Recorded Session/Offline Playback (You can download the session recording and view the recording without an internet connection. To download the file, right click on the Recorded Session/Offline Playback link and then select Save Link/Target As. Save the .jar file to a location on your local drive. You can then open the file to view the recording.)
Audio file (MP3 format)

Parents as Teachers - Born to Learn Institute® - Scheduled Trainings - 2010

March 22-26
8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m., Monday through Friday

Born to Learn® Institute, Prenatal to 3 Years
Monroeville, PA

May 20-21
8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m., Monday and Tuesday

Born to Learn® Training, 3 Years to Kindergarten
Location to be announced.

June 21-25
8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m., Monday through Friday

Born to Learn® Institute, Prenatal to 3 Years
Location to be announced.

For information about these trainings contact Becky Blue at717-763-1661, x162, or bblue@csc.csiu.org

Born to Learn® Institute, Prenatal to 3 Years

This is a comprehensive five-day Institute with an online follow-up sixth day. It is designed to prepare early childhood and human service professionals to implement the four components of a Born to Learn program (personal visits, screening, group meetings, and resource network) using the Born to Learn Curriculum Prenatal to 3 Years.

The Institute covers:

neuroscience research on early development and learning (prenatal through age 3)
sequences of early childhood development
effective instructional personal visits
facilitation of parent-child interaction
ideas for parent group meetings
ways to provide connection to community resources
service to diverse families
red flags in areas of development, hearing, vision and health
recruitment and program organization
the Born to Learn Curriculum: Prenatal to 3 Years, award-winning video series, parent handouts, prepared visit plans (for monthly, bi-weekly and weekly visits), and resources for parent educators

Parents as Teachers National Center requires all programs to complete a Born to Learn Program Implementation Plan, Prenatal to 3 Years prior to registering for a training. This plan will need to be completed and approved before registration forms can be sent to you. This process takes at least two months. For information about the program implementation plan contact Becky Leiter at717-763-1661, x205, or bleiter@csc.csiu.org

Born to Learn® Training, 3 Years to Kindergarten Entry

The goal of this training is to prepare PAT-certified parent educators to successfully extend the Parents as Teachers program to families with children ages 3 years to the age of kindergarten entry. This two-day training is available only to current parent educators already certified in the Born to Learn Curriculum: Prenatal to 3 Years. The training covers intellectual, language, social-emotional, and motor development of children 3 to 5 years old, and covers techniques for facilitating parent-child interaction during personal visits. The curriculum contains 11 units of personal visit plans and parenting information.

Training topics include:

latest neuroscience information relating to 3- to 5-year-olds
all elements of literacy, including reading, writing, listening and speaking
the value of play and the adult's role
aspects of motor development, including gross and fine motor skills, nutrition, health and safety development
aspects of social-emotional development such as social relationships and attachment
aspects of intellectual development such as how children gather and process information
parent group meetings that include topics related to development and parenting issues of children 3-5 years old