Kindergarten Student Entrance Profile KSEP

1. Kindergarten Student Entrance Profile KSEP Presenters: Kendra Rogers, First 5 Fresno County Deanna Mathies, Fresno Unified School District Facilitator: Dr. Michele Cantwell-Copher, Fresno County Office of Education

2. What is the KSEP? • Developmentally appropriate assessment of academic and social emotional readiness • Research-based observational assessment that is able to predict later grade level achievement as measured by the California Standards Tests (CST) • It supports the school readiness indicators advocated by the National Association for the Education of Young Children (NAEYC), the National Governor’s Task Force on School Readiness, and the recent Grade Level Reading Campaign

3. KSEP Website

4. How Does the KSEP Work? • The KSEP is administered by teachers during the first 6 weeks of school to determine a student’s social-emotional and school-ready knowledge. • Based on the observations, the student are placed into one of the following categories of kindergarten readiness.

5. KSEP Item Examples Cognitive Social-Emotional • Recognizes own written name • Understands that numbers represent quantity • Demonstrates expressive verbal ability • Seeks adult help when appropriate • Is enthusiastic and curious about school • Engages in cooperative play activities with peers The KSEP contains a total of 13 items: 7 cognitive, 6 social-emotional. Each item has a rubric of 1 (not yet), 2 (emerging), 3 (almost mastered), and 4 (mastered)

6. KSEP: An Important Tool • The data provided by the KSEP offers the insight necessary to: • Address the immediate needs of incoming kindergarten students • Provides a predictive data point never before universally gathered in Fresno County • Can support more efficient use of resources, both prevention and intervention

7. KSEP: Implementation in Fresno County • In Fall 2012, 4 school districts completed the KSEP: • Central • Sanger • Clovis • Fresno • Between these districts, 121 schools participated and 10,628 students were assessed. • Each district entered data into their own data system, then transferred the data to the Fresno County Office of Education (FCOE), Mosaic, and UCSB for processing and analysis.

8. KSEP: Results Analysis produced the following break-down of kindergarten readiness across the 4 participating districts: *1.47% of the 10,628 assessments were invalid

9. KSEP: Results 60% of these students score proficient or advanced on 2nd grade Language Arts CST “Ready to Go” “Quarterly Monitor” 75% of 3rd graders who are poor readers, will be poor readers in high school “Monthly Monitor” 7% of these students score proficient or advanced on the 2nd grade Language Arts CST “Immediate Follow-Up”

10. KSEP: Key Finding The published data overwhelmingly demonstrates that preschool attendance is a critical component of kindergarten readiness. That is now additionally supported by Fresno County KSEP data. • Fresno County KSEP results shows: • 50% of students who attended preschool were considered “Ready To Go” • 21% of students who did not attend preschool were considered “Ready To Go”

11. KSEP: Implications What can we do now that we could not do before? • We can document the preparation levels of students when they enter kindergarten and follow their progress unlike ever before • We can target additional supports to communities and groups who are disproportionally entering school without readiness • We can inform community funders of the needs of young children with a universal platform of assessment • We can offer supports to kindergarteners in research informed approach • We can create a professional learning community so districts can share what they are doing to provide supports to the children shown on the KSEP to be underprepared and see which interventions work

12. A Case Study in Fresno Unified

13. Questions • Answers • Dialogue

14. Moving Forward… • STRIVE • Critical Transitions • Scale • Systems Implications