Visit ECAP’s projects:
- Illinois Early Learning (IEL): source of evidence-based, reliable information on early care and education for parents, caregivers, and teachers of young children in Illinois.
- Early Childhood Research & Practice (ECRP): was the first scholarly, peer-reviewed, bilingual (English-Spanish) online journal in the field of early childhood education.
- Illinois Early Childhood Asset Map (IECAM): a source for data on early care and education services and demographics in the state of Illinois. Data are available by state, county, township, legislative district, and several agency regions.
- Illinois Parents: operated with the Academic Development Institute in Lincoln, Illinois, provides resources and information for parents in the state of Illinois.
Midwest Association for the Education of Young Children
April 11, 2003
Table of Contents
Foreword: Literacy and Project Work
Judy Harris Helm
Section 1: Literacy and Project Work
- The Dispositions to Write and Read (HTML | PDF)
Lilian G. Katz - Strategies to Incorporate Literacy in Project Work in the Pre-Kindergarten
Classroom (HTML | PDF)
Sallee Beneke - Strategies to Incorporate Literacy into Kindergarten Project Work
(HTML | PDF)
Mary Ann Gottlieb - Strategies to Incorporate Literacy in Project Work in Primary Grades
(HTML | PDF)
Dot Schuler - Strategies to Support Literacy Development in Second-Language Learners
through Project Work
(HTML | PDF)
Rebecca A. Wilson - Look! See How They Are Learning
(HTML | PDF)
Judy Harris Helm
Section 2: Project Implementation
- The Project Approach in Action (HTML | PDF)
Sylvia C. Chard - Why Does the Snow Get Dirty? My First Experience with the Project Approach (HTML | PDF)
Thomas Myler - Deepening Project Investigations (HTML | PDF)
Nancy B. Hertzog & Marjorie M. Klein - Meeting Individual Educational Plans Using the Project Approach (HTML | PDF)
Stacie DeVries
- The Veterinarian Project (HTML | PDF)
Teacher: Susan Andrews - Exploring Butterflies (HTML | PDF)
Teacher: Scott Brouette - The Egg Project (HTML | PDF)
Teacher: Debbie De Anda - The Stringed Instrument Project (HTML | PDF)
Teachers: Stacie DeVries & Karen Blend - Dinosaur Models (HTML | PDF)
Teachers: Nancy Donahue & Joan Kerman - The Bird Project (HTML | PDF)
Teacher: Candy Ganzel - Our Snake Project (HTML | PDF)
Teachers: Ruth Harkema & Deb Lanenga - The Clothing Project: Where Do We Get Our Clothes From? (HTML | PDF)
Teachers: Marsha Gwen Harmon & Julie Schutte - Who Measures What in Our Neighborhood? (HTML | PDF)
Teachers: Nancy Hertzog & Marjorie Klein - Fashions, Beauty, and Barber Shop (HTML | PDF)
Teachers: Sherice Hetrick-Ortman & Shirley Bruce - The Truck Project (HTML | PDF)
Teacher: Jean Lang - What Happens at McDonald's? (HTML | PDF)
Teachers: Pam Morbitzer, Lisa Lee, & Barb Gallick - The Worm Project (HTML | PDF)
Teacher: Nancy Plate - Second-Graders Study Their Community (HTML | PDF)
Teacher: Dot Schuler - The Construction Project (HTML | PDF)
Teachers: Pam Scranton, Lora Taylor, & Terra Shelton - The Clubhouse (HTML | PDF)
Teachers: Nicole Smith & Elizabeth Raymond - Memorials and Sculptures (HTML | PDF)
Teachers: Jean O'Mara-Thieman, Heather Goocher, & Kendrya' Johnson - The Salt Truck Project (HTML | PDF)
Teachers: Rebecca A. Wilson, Sylvia Frausto, & Jan Buysse - The Greenhouse Project (HTML | PDF)
Teachers: Marilyn Worsley, Kathie Zecca, & Mary Ann Vollmer
List of Contributors
Lilian Katz
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Champaign, IL
Judy Harris Helm
Best Practices, Inc.
Brimfield, IL
Project Presenters
- Susan Andrews
Donald C. Parker Early Education Center
Machesney Park, IL - Sallee Beneke
Illinois Valley Community College Early Childhood Education Center
Oglesby, IL - Scott Brouette
Illinois State University Child Care Center
Normal, IL - Debbie De Anda
Ysleta Pre-K Center
El Paso, TX - Stacie DeVries & Karen Blend
St. Ambrose University Children’s Campus
Davenport, IA - Nancy Donahue and Joan Kerman
Preschool of the Arts
Madison, WI - Candy Ganzel
Towne Meadow Elementary
Carmel, IN - Mary Ann Gottlieb
Peoria, IL - Ruth Harkema & Deb Lanenga
Timothy Christian Preschool
Elmhurst, IL - Marsha Gwen Harmon & Julie Schutte
Freeburg Early Childhood Program
Regents’ Center for Early Developmental Education
Waterloo , IA - Sherice Hetrick-Ortman & Shirley Bruce
Freeburg Early Childhood Program
Regents’ Center for Early Developmental Education
Waterloo, IA - Nancy Hertzog & Marjorie Klein
University Primary School
Champaign, IL 61820 - Pam Morbitzer, Lisa Lee, & Barb Gallick
Illinois State University Child Care Center
Normal, IL - Thomas Myler
University of Hartford Magnet School
West Hartford, CT - Nancy Plate
Learning Center Teacher
Donald C. Parker Early Education Center
Machesney Park, IL - Dot Schuler
Grafton Elementary School
Grafton, IL - Nicole Smith & Elizabeth Raymond
Preschool of the Arts
Madison, WI - Jean O'Mara-Thieman, Heather Goocher, & Kendrya' Johnson
Valeska Hinton Early Childhood Education Center
Peoria, IL - Rebecca A. Wilson, Sylvia Frausto, & Jen Buysse
West Liberty Community Schools
West Liberty, IA - Marilyn Worsley
Illinois Valley Community College Early Childhood Education Center
Oglesby, IL
Early Childhood and Parenting (ECAP) Collaborative at the University of Illinois
The Early Childhood and Parenting (ECAP) Collaborative at the University of Illinois is home to more than a dozen projects focused on the education, care, and parenting of young children.
Located at the Children’s Research Center in a setting conducive to interdisciplinary research, teaching, and public service, these projects share their expertise and experience, a library, and common meeting spaces. Several projects share key personnel. The structure provided by ECAP enables us to articulate, clarify, and enhance the cooperative relationships that exist among these projects, and to strengthen their national visibility.
Established in 2003, ECAP has a broad vision for its future. The projects under its umbrella are committed to ensuring that the Collaborative:
- Builds a national reputation for high-quality research, teaching, and service to young children and families
- Influences state and national policy through relevant research
- Provides a context for interdisciplinary training of students, direct service providers, technical assistance providers, and others whose work relates to young children and their families
- Actively fosters the links between research and practice
With this vision in mind, projects associated with ECAP are actively seeking funding to establish an endowment for operating the Collaborative. Outside funding will enable ECAP to produce a bi-annual publication that highlights the research and other activities conducted at the Collaborative, attract students, share support personnel, compete for additional grants and contracts, strengthen the Collaborative's influence on policy and practice in Illinois and nationally, and in other ways build the national visibility and strengthen the influence of the Early Childhood and Parenting Collaborative and the University of Illinois.
