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Caught in the Act: Improving Head Start for School Readiness
What Is School Readiness and What Does It Mean for Head Start
School Readiness Defined:
A strong, clear, and comprehensive focus on healthy child development. This includes physical, cognitive, social and emotional development, all of which are essential to children getting ready for school.
It takes these three individuals to make school readiness work?
The Process Who is involved?
Child
Teacher
Parent
The purpose of the School Readiness Plan is to provide a better understanding of services to preschool children ages three and four in Houston County which meet the Federal Head Start Performance Standards and the Dothan City Schools Board of Education Administration Policies. The plan was developed as a strategy to help staff, parents, and community partners understand the system approach to service delivery.
The Purpose
The Planning
What four strategic steps are needed?
What do we want to accomplish?
Goals:
Four Strategic Steps :
Adopt and Aligned Goals
Create and Implement a Plan
Assess Child Progress
Examine Data
The 11 domains are condensed into 5 essential domains. The school readiness goal that the DCS/HS Head Start developed aligns with the Head Start Early Learning Framework, along with AELG, Pre-K standards, and Dothan City Schools Strategic Curriculum Framework
Our Adopted and Aligned Goals:
Create and Implement Plan
Dothan City Schools/ Houston County Head Start/PreschoolMrs. Jerryneta Evans, Project Director Ms. Y. Denise Vincent, Education Manager
Mrs. Barbara Ward, Lead Teacher Mrs. Faye Swain, Mentor Coach
School Readiness Action Plan
The plan was created in 2011
Assess Child’s Progress: Preschool Progress Profile5140 (Individual performance profile)5410 (Individual assessment performance)5150 (Individual Profile Multiple Assessment5210 (Group Profile)5220 ( Group Gains)5430 (Assessment Charts)
Individualization Plan Anecdotal Teacher/Parent Conferences LAP-D Achenbach End of the Year Checklist Progress Report Monitoring Speech Screener
PURPOSE QUESTIONSDATACOLLECTION METHODS
NEEDEDRESOURCES
LEADPERSON(s) TIMEFRAME
Purpose 1Why collect intended data?
*Professional Development*Review Curriculum
*Professional Consultants*Administrators
Evans, Vincent and Ward On-going
Purpose 2What kind of information can answer our questions?
CLASS observations, Informal evaluations, Reviewing PPP Data
*CLASS Training for Evaluators*CLASS training for Staff*Reviewers
Vincent, Ward, and SwainEvans
Completed
TBA
Purpose 3What data do we need?
*Preschool Progress Profile, *LELA, *Speech Screener, and *LAP-D
ChildPlus.NetEvans, Vincent, Bateman, & Lloyd
On-going
Purpose 4How will the information be stored?
*Child Plus.Net*Education Notebook
Internet Access
Notebooks
EvansManagement Team
Teachers
On-going
Purpose 5How the data will be used?
Self Assessment Process
ProfessionalDevelopmentSelf Assessment Goals
ManagementTeam On-going
Examine Data
Accomplishments:
Children develop age-appropriate social and emotional skills
Children develop age-appropriate physical skills
Children develop age-appropriate language and literacy skills
Children develop age-appropriate approaches to learning skills
Children develop age-appropriate cognition and general knowledge skills
Now that the process, purpose, plan, and strategic steps have been established, we should achieve the desired result!!!!
SUMMARY:
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