CEED’s Christopher Watson, Scott McConnell, Tracy Bradfield, Alisha Wackerle-Hollman, and Naomi Rahn, along with fellow collaborators and co-authors, presented October 28-30 at the Annual International Division of Early Childhood (DEC) Conference held this year in Minneapolis. See the CEED Staff Presentations web page for presentation handouts. Presentations included:

• Early childhood in Promise Neighborhoods: Northside Achievement Zone’s Early Childhood Action Team. (McConnell, S. R., Seiwert, M., Wackerle-Hollman, A., & Bradfield, T. A.)
• Measuring a response to intervention model in early childhood: Examining assessments for identification, decision making and progress monitoring. (Wackerle-Hollman, A., Bradfield, T., McConnell, S., & Spencer, T.)
• Practice effects in a preschool picture naming task. (Rahn, N. L., & McConnell, S. R.)
• Statewide scale-up of the pyramid for social emotional development: Successes and lessons. (Johnson, L., Watson, C., Bedor, M., & Krick Oborn, K.)
• Thirty years later: Early childhood special education from MECCA to now. (McConnell, S. R., Strain, P. S., Goldstein, H., Kohler, F., Odom, S. L., & Sainato, D. M.)