Transitional Kindergarten Monthly Call

1. Transitional Kindergarten Monthly Call August 21, 2012 3-4 p.m. Presenters: Vickie Ramos, Janice Battaglia, and Elia Garcia

2. Agenda • 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: asandoval@preschoolcalifornia.org • Close- Ernesto Saldaña, State Field Director, Preschool California • Next Call and Webinar: September 18Th , 2012 @ 3pm For Questions Please Email : asandoval@preschoolcalifornia.org

3. An Overview • Vickie Ramos, Deputy Field Director • Preschool California

4. 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 : asandoval@preschoolcalifornia.org

5. 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 : asandoval@preschoolcalifornia.org

6. 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 For Questions Please Email : asandoval@preschoolcalifornia.org

7. 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 For Questions Please Email : asandoval@preschoolcalifornia.org

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9. TKCalifornia For Questions Please Email : asandoval@preschoolcalifornia.org

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18. Thank You! Vickie Ramos Deputy Field Director Preschool California

19. The Importance of Teaching Social Emotional Skills in Transitional Kindergarten Janice Battaglia, Manager Inclusion Collaborative and CPIN Special Education Region 5 Lead Early Learning Services Department Adapted from CA Teaching Pyramid, CPIN Social Emotional Foundations and Center for Social Emotional Foundations for Early Learning

20. Did you know? Prekindergarten students are expelled at a rate more than three times that of their older peers in the K-12 grades. (Gillian 2005) For Questions Please Email : asandoval@preschoolcalifornia.org

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22. 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. For Questions Please Email : asandoval@preschoolcalifornia.org

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24. 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 andcontinuousthroughout 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 Neighborhoods For Questions Please Email : asandoval@preschoolcalifornia.org

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26. 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 For Questions Please Email : asandoval@preschoolcalifornia.org

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29. A Few Ways Adults Can Help Teach Children to Self-Regulate Tell children what they can dorather than what they can’t do. Help children use wordsto 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 : asandoval@preschoolcalifornia.org

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31. TeachingPyramid Positive Behavior Support (2-5%) Intensive Individualized Interventions Children with persistent challenges Targeted Social Skills Curricula (18-15%) Targeted Social Emotional Supports Children at-risk High Quality Supportive Environments High quality Early Education (80%) All children Nurturing and Responsive Relationships Effective Work Force For Questions Please Email : asandoval@preschoolcalifornia.org

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33. 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 TEACHINGthe skills! For Questions Please Email : asandoval@preschoolcalifornia.org

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35. For More Information on CLASS: www.teachstone.org/about-the-class/ For Questions Please Email : asandoval@preschoolcalifornia.org

36. Alignment DRDP-SR California Content Standards: History-Social Science, Health Education and embedded in Common Core Standards Volume 1 For Questions Please Email : asandoval@preschoolcalifornia.org

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38. 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

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