Welcome to the Illinois Even Start and FLAIR website. This site provides information about the FLAIR data entry system as well as other valuable information and links for Illinois Even Start programs.

FLAIR Community/Listserv
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FLAIR8 Data Entry System
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FY08 Guide to Reading Updated Summary Reports

FLAIR8 Technical Manual

Guide to Calculating FLAIR FY07 Performance Indicators

FY07 Even Start Evaluation Report Format

Illinois Consolidated Even Start Performance Report FY'06

Illinois Consolidated Even Start Performance Report FY'05

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PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT

From FY’08 Administrators Conference Calls:

Kathy Barclay PowerPoint Presentations from FY'06 Adminstrators Meeting, August 2005:
(requires a PowerPoint viewer)

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EVEN START REGIONAL GROUPS

Regional Meeting Dates

Even Start Regional Groups At-A-Glance

FY'08 Illinois Even Start Programs Numbered Map (Excluding Chicago)

FY'08 Chicago Community Areas Even Start Programs Numbered Map

Key to FY’08 Illinois County and Chicago Community Area Maps

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INFORMATION SHARING

If you have information to share and want it posted on the FLAIR Webboard, please send it to Lynn Osheff, losheff@thecenterweb.org .

NEW RELEASE:  Buenos Principios:  Latino Children in the Earliest Years of Life , National Council of La Raza 

This report focuses on the need to better prepare young Hispanic children for learning and school, and to better fund programs like Even Start to accomplish those tasks.

 

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AWARENESS & OUTREACH

National Even Start Association Awareness Information
www.evenstart.org/leg_adv/

National Center for Family Literacy Awareness Information
www.famlit.org/PolicyandAdvocacy/index.cfm

National Council of State Directors of Adult Education
www.ncsdae.org

Commission on Adult Basic Education (COABE) Federal Legislative Information
http://www.coabe.org/index.cfm?fuseaction=legislative

Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development
http://www.ascd.org

Illinois Even Start Fact Sheet FY'06

Illinois Even Start Fact Sheet FY'07

Illinois Even Start Fact Sheet 2 FY'07

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ORGANIZATIONS & AGENCIES:
 

ISBE, Early Childhood Division, EVEN START
Even Start Family Literacy

ISBE Early Childhood Professional Development Center

Illinois STAR NET Regional Offices

Illinois Community College Board Adult Education Service Center Network:

National Even Start Association http://www.evenstart.org/

National Center for Family Literacy http://www.famlit.org/

Goodling Institute http://www.ed.psu.edu/goodlinginstitute/

LINCS Family Literacy Special Collection (National Institute for Literacy Service) http://literacy.kent.edu/Midwest/FamilyLit