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Caught in the Act: Improving Head Start for School Readiness

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:.

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Caught in the Act: Improving Head Start for School Readiness

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  1. Caught in the Act: Improving Head Start for School Readiness What Is School Readiness and What Does It Mean for Head Start

  2. 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.

  3. The Process • Who is involved?

  4. The Purpose 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.

  5. The Planning Goals: What four strategic steps are needed? What do we want to accomplish?

  6. Four Strategic Steps: • Adopt and Aligned Goals • Create and Implement a Plan • Assess Child Progress • Examine Data

  7. Our Adopted and Aligned Goals: 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

  8. Create and Implement Plan School Readiness Action Plan Dothan City Schools/ Houston County Head Start/Preschool Mrs. Jerryneta Evans, Project Director Ms. Y. Denise Vincent, Education Manager Mrs. Barbara Ward, Lead Teacher Mrs. Faye Swain, Mentor Coach • The plan was created in 2011

  9. Assess Child’s Progress: • Preschool Progress Profile • 5140 (Individual performance profile) • 5410 (Individual assessment performance) • 5150 (Individual Profile Multiple Assessment • 5210 (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

  10. Examine Data

  11. Accomplishments: • Children develop age-appropriate physical skills • Children develop age-appropriate social and emotional skills • Children develop age-appropriate language and literacy skills • Children develop age-appropriate cognition and general knowledge skills • Children develop age-appropriate approaches to learning skills

  12. SUMMARY: Now that the process, purpose, plan, and strategic steps have been established, we should achieve the desired result!!!!

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