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Transitional Kindergarten Monthly Call

August 21, 2012 3-4 p.m.Presenters: Vickie Ramos, Janice Battaglia, and Elia Garcia

Agenda

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• Welcome

• Transitional Kindergarten Presentation: “An Overview of TKCalifornia”, Vickie Ramos, Deputy Field Director, Preschool California, Janice Battaglia, Manager, Inclusion Collaborative and CPIN Special Ed Lead, and Elia Garcia, Transitional Kindergarten Program Specialist, Santa Clara County Office of Education

• Q&A- Please email all questions to Araceli Sandoval-Gonzalez: [email protected]

• Close- Ernesto Saldaña, State Field Director, Preschool California

• Next Call and Webinar: September 18Th , 2012 @ 3pm

mailto:[email protected]

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Vickie Ramos, Deputy Field DirectorPreschool California

An Overview

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Agenda

Development Process • Guided by an advisory committee & other experts • Key website objectives• Audience & focus areas

Review of Website • TK experience• Teaching Tools• TK Roadmap• Resource Library

For Questions Please Email : [email protected]

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Development Process

TK Advisory Committees & Other Experts • 20 experts from across the state (school districts,

county offices of education, researchers and state-level decision makers).

• Expertise in: • language and literacy development; • early math;• social emotional development and executive function;

and • culturally responsive education and dual language

acquisition.For Questions Please Email :

[email protected]

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Key Website Objectives

• Focus on resources on key audience and build from there

• Offer key, updated and high quality information

• Develop material based on Agreements and Guiding Principles for Content Development

• Launch the website in time for fall implementation


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Audience

Teachers• Offer vetted and prioritized background information to

support instruction• Tools and resources by subject area to use in the

classroom (i.e., lesson plans and videos) Administrators• Guided steps to getting a program up and running• High quality program design • Outreach and engagement


8For Questions Please Email : [email protected]

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TKCalifornia


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Thank You!

Vickie RamosDeputy Field DirectorPreschool California

The Importance of Teaching Social Emotional Skills in Transitional Kindergarten

Janice Battaglia, ManagerInclusion Collaborative and CPIN Special Education Region 5 LeadEarly Learning Services Department

Adapted from CA Teaching Pyramid, CPIN Social Emotional Foundations and Center for Social Emotional Foundations for Early Learning

Did you know?

Prekindergarten students areexpelled at a rate more than threetimes that of their older peers in

the K-12 grades. (Gillian 2005)


Preschool Learning Foundations Central Assumption

“School readiness consists of social-emotional competencies as well as cognitive and motivational ones.”

Source: California Preschool Learning Foundations, Volume I, CDE Press, 2008, pg 1.


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The Importance of the Early Years

• This developing brain architecture is rooted in the context of experience and is the foundation for cognitive, social and emotional development.

• Brain development is dependent on experience.

• Brain development is rapid in the early years and continuous throughout adulthood.

http://developingchild.harvard.edu/index.php/resources/multimedia/videos/inbrief_series/inbrief_science_of_ecd/ –Jack P. Shonkoff, M.D., professor at the Harvard Graduate School of Education, the Harvard School of Public Health, and Harvard

Medical School

Neurons to NeighborhoodsFor Questions Please Email : [email protected]

http://developingchild.harvard.edu/index.php/resources/multimedia/videos/inbrief_series/inbrief_science_of_ecd/

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Strategies for Preventing Challenging Behaviors

• Building Positive Relationships• Effective Classroom Environments• Predictable Daily Schedule• Expectations, Rituals, and Routines “Preventing Challenging Behavior in Young Children: Effective Practices” by P. Alter & M. Conroy, Center for

Evidence-Based Practice: Young Children with Challenging Behavior


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A Few Ways Adults Can Help Teach Children to Self-Regulate

• Tell children what they can do rather than what they can’t do.

• Help children use words to regulate their actions and thinking.

• Model self-control and consideration for others.• Balance active and quiet periods, individual and group

activities.• Break up complex behaviors into smaller parts (task

analysis).For Questions Please Email :

[email protected]

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Teaching Pyramid

High Quality Supportive Environments

Nurturing and Responsive Relationships

Targeted Social Emotional Supports

Intensive Individualiz

ed Interventio

nsChildren at-risk

Children with persistent challenges

High quality Early Education (80%)

Targeted Social Skills Curricula (18-15%)

Positive Behavior Support (2-5%)

Effective Work Force

All children


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What Do Children Do When They Don’t Develop These Skills?

• When children do not have healthy social and emotional skills, they often exhibit challenging behaviors

• We must focus on TEACHING the skills!



For More Information on CLASS: www.teachstone.org/about-the-class/

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Alignment

Volume 1

California Content Standards: History-

Social Science, Health Education and

embedded inCommon Core

Standards

DRDP-SR


Resources on Websites and Trainings

• California Collaborative on the Social & Emotional Foundations for Early Learning– http://www.cainclusion.org/teachingpyramid/index.html– http://www.cainclusion.org/

• California Preschool Instructional Network- www.cpin.org • Center on the Social & Emotional Foundations for Early Learning

www.vanderbilt.edu/csefel/• Technical Assistance Center on Social Emotional Intervention for Young Children

(TACSEI) www.challengingbehavior.org• Inclusion Collaborative www.inclusioncollaborative.org• TK California-Teaching Strategies

http://www.tkcalifornia.org/teaching-tools/social-emotional/teaching-strategies/#socialemotionalstrategies

http://www.cainclusion.org/teachingpyramid/index.html

http://www.cainclusion.org/

http://www.cpin.org/

http://www.vanderbilt.edu/csefel/

http://www.challengingbehavior.org/

http://www.inclusioncollaborative.org/

http://www.tkcalifornia.org/teaching-tools/social-emotional/teaching-strategies/

http://www.tkcalifornia.org/teaching-tools/social-emotional/teaching-strategies/

Questions?

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