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COMET Presents: Birth to Three Alliance Annual Meeting

Original Posting 16.08.17


The past few months have been busy for COMET with lots of new faces, new places and new projects. One of the highlights was our presentation to the Adirondack Foundation's Birth to Three (BT3) Alliance at their annual meeting back in May. We gave an overv...

28.01.20 02:38 PM - Comment(s)
The Value of an Independent Evaluator

Original Posting 24.01.18


Here at COMET we’re lucky to have a not-for-profit partner who understands all the ins and outs of program evaluation, Children’s Institute (CI). They evaluate their own programs regularly, to make sure they’re effective and keeping up with best practices. They als...

28.01.20 02:36 PM - Comment(s)
The Evolution of COMET

Original Posting 15.02.18


COMET began in 2008 as a way for Children’s Institute to support their work in schools ...

performing assessments, shifting away from paper completion and duplication of effort and moving toward electronic completion and utilizing a database to track what’s been completed and...

28.01.20 02:35 PM - Comment(s)
Extra Set of Eyes

Original Posting 09.03.18


This past Saturday I had the opportunity to be part of the Glasses for Kids Program offered by the Flaum Eye Institute and work with them on a trial phase use of the COMET database. I went into the morning not knowing what to expect; my only und...

28.01.20 02:34 PM - Comment(s)
COMET Tips & Tricks - Data Elements

Original Posting 15.03.18


We thought it might help to provide an overview on data available in COMET because who doesn't love to talk about data?! [wink, wink] But seriously, COMET is fundamentally "child centric", meaning that the system is designed to record data that serve or r...

28.01.20 02:33 PM - Comment(s)