Outcomes & Metrics Early Learning Hubs

1. Outcomes & MetricsEarly Learning Hubs PRESENTED BY Pam Curtis Megan Irwin Technical assistance webinar 2014

2. Agenda Hub overview Presentation Questions & Answers Upcoming Webinars Contact information Heidi McGowan Webinar Facilitator

3. The goals • Children ready for success in kindergarten when they arrive. • Children raised in stable and attached families. • Services that are integrated and aligned into one early learning system focused on results. Early Learning Council Goals

4. What is an Early learning hub? • A self-organized community-based coordinating body created to provide a “system approach” to early childhood education that works to improve efficiency and outcomes for our youngest children. Early Learning Hubs

5. Early learning hub Will • Build on existing community resources and assets • Ask tough questions about what could be done differently to get better results, especially for at risk children • Communities have the option to define their own strategies and service areas to achieve the outcomes • Under the community based leadership of Early Learning Hubs bring public schools, early learning providers, health care, social services and the private sector together around shared outcomes, for the first time in Oregon’s history. Early Learning Hubs

6. Outcomes & Metrics Early Learning Hubs Presentation byPam CurtisMegan Irwin

7. EarlyLearningHubOutcomes Why outcomes matter?

8. 45,000 children born each year • 315,000 ages 0-6 • 40% at risk (n=~120,000) • $380+ million per year focused on prevention • $1.7 billion per biennia on young children/families • Serving 25-33% of at-risk children Outcomes: Why bother?

9. On the 2013 Kindergarten Assessment • 33% of entering kindergartners could name 5 or fewer letters and 14% couldn’t name any letters. • 37% couldn’t identify a single letter sound. • About half of our kindergartners could answer at least half of the questions correctly. • 25% of entering kindergartners did not regularly demonstrate skills like completing tasks and following directions. Our results

10. Kindergarten readiness • Increasing the number of quality education and care settings (QRIS) • Increasing performance on the domains measured by the Kindergarten Assessment. • Stable and attached families • Increasing the number of children who receive developmental screening prior to age three. • Increasing the number of children with access to primary care. • Reducing child abuse and neglect. • System coordination • Reducing administrative overhead. • Improving the ways programs coordinate into a system. Outcomeswe’remeasuring

11. EarlyLearningHubOutcomes Unpacking our outcomes

12. The state has the data you need to set accountability baselines. • Staff assembling baseline data upon receipt of letter of interest. A quick word on data sources

13. The Quality Rating Improvement System (QRIS) is our measurement for the quality of licensed child care and educational settings. • The QRISmeasures quality at five tiers: • Licensing – basic health and safety • Commitment to Quality – commitment to move beyond basic health and safety. • Three, Four and Five Stars – escalating sets of standards focused on improving quality. Kindergarten Readiness – Quality Care and Education Settings

14. Quality Rating Improvement System Kindergarten Readiness – Quality Care and Education Settings

15. Kindergarten Assessment: The Look Forward and Look Back State Level Early Learning Hubs Data help measure progress over time Data help measure progress over time Community Level Data help target resources to Early Learning Hubs and schools Schools: Data inform classroom instruction Pre-K and Early Learning: Data inform program and curriculum design Data help target local supports, strategies and interventions

16. Early Literacy(direct assessment) • English letter names • English letter sounds • Spanish syllable sounds* • *only for Spanish Speaking English Language Learners • Early Math (direct assessment) • Numbers and Operations • Approaches to Learning (observational assessment) • Child Behavior Rating Scale Kindergarten Assessment

17. Kindergarten Readiness – Kindergarten Assessment

18. Early identification of risk is important to prevention. • Developmental growth is not just physical. • Less than 50% of children who need extra support get it before school. • Healthcare and childcare are critical developmental opportunities. • Opportunity for creativity abounds! Family Stability – Developmental Screening

19. Family Stability – Developmental Screening

20. Healthy children are Ready; Ready children are Healthy. • Primary care home is an approach – much like Hubs. • Primary care home is the anchor for health care and linkage to other needed services. • Primary care homes and family resource managers are on-point for coordination. Family Stability – Access to primary care

21. Family Stability – Access to primary care

22. Children are best raised in families. • Healthy, stable and attached families raise the healthiest children. • Oregon has the 13th highest foster care rate in the nation. • Renewed statewide effort and resources. • The role of an Early Learning Hub in making progress in this area should really focus on child neglect and abuse prevention. Family Stability – Reducing child abuse and neglect

23. Family Stability – Reducing child abuse and neglect

24. Historical approach of individual programmatic efforts and funding streams. Resulting in: • Poor outcomes • Increasing need for resources to sustain myriad approaches • Called to integrate services, funds and use data to drive approaches • Proxy measures: • Increasing the number of children served • Reducing the age of onset of first service for high risk children • Reducing cost per child, including administrative overhead System Coordination

25. March 6thEquity and Family Engagement 10:00-11:00 am • March 19th Building a Strong K-3 Connection 10:00-11:00 am • March 27th Oregon’s QRIS 10:00-11:00 am • March 31st Building a Strong Health Care Connection 12:00-1:00 pm Webinars

26. Pam Curtis, Chair of the Early Learning Council 
Deputy Director, Center for Evidence-based Policy, Oregon Health & Sciences University Megan Irwin, Early Learning System Design Manager megan.irwin@state.or.us 503-507-9462 www.OregonEarlyLearning.com Contact Information