EASTCONN PROGRAM DESCRIPTIONS

PROGRAM DESCRIPTIONS

Adult and Community Programs includes 3 divisions: Adult Education; Workplace Education; and Employment and Training. We offer a range of free adult education classes to residents, ages 17+, from our 21 Adult Education Consortium-member towns. Classes include high school completion, English-as-a-Second-Language (ESL), American Citizenship, life and basic skills, and college transition support. Community Education offers certificate training and workplace education. Employment and Training manages 2 regional American Job Centers, provides free employment assistance and training for job-seekers, oversees the Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act, and administers job-training programs for the region’s youth.

Early Childhood Initiatives (ECI) focuses on children from birth to grade 3, offering a wide array of consultation, professional development (PD), technical assistance, coaching and direct services to the region’s early-care and education programs, school districts and communities. Our agency leads the early childhood RESC Alliance in developing professional learning initiatives statewide. PD includes support for strategic planning, special education, program development, accreditation and professional learning on standards, curriculum, assessment and instruction. Parent education is also provided to the communities we serve. ECI administers and provides direct services to children and their families as the grantee for the state-funded Birth to Three program and the federally-funded Head Start and Early Head Start programs in Windham and Tolland counties.

K-12 Student Services offers a comprehensive continuum of services for students with a wide range of challenging learning needs and/or academic interests. From magnet and alternative high school options to services for students with socialemotional, behavioral issues or those on the autism spectrum, the focus is on serving each individual student. We strive to achieve success by building our capacity, running programs that are financially sound and producing outstanding educational results that satisfy parents, students, teachers, administrators and our regional partner school districts.

Leading & Learning Our vision is to integrate learning opportunities for educators so that professional learning is embedded in district culture and is no longer limited to events that occur periodically each year. We create opportunities for administrators and teachers to participate in regional professional learning communities, and have expanded our capacity to provide coaching to districts that are engaged in personalized, competency-based learning. We support the implementation of systems and structures to provide deep and impactful learning.

Organizational Support services are delivered by agency departments that support not only day-to-day EASTCONN operations, but also supply assistance wherever needed to member school districts and other external partners, including governmental, non-profit and select organizations. Organizational Support includes: • Conference Services • Cooperative Purchasing • Facilities • Finance • Food & Hospitality Services • Human Resources • Marketing & Communications • Research, Development & Innovation • Security & Investigations

Technology Solutions provides member districts with a comprehensive array of services that support and enhance the effective implementation of technology in teaching and learning. Technology Solutions also provides infrastructure and network support and develops customized, cloud-based software solutions for efficient data collection and analysis.

Transportation Services provides school districts and agencies with a safe, cost-effective means of transporting their students and clients. Transportation is available for students with special needs, other public school students and adult clients traveling to job training sites. Transportation focuses on individualized and specialized transport solutions.