High Quality Early Learning Program: An Overview

1. High Quality Early Learning Program: An Overview Office of Early Learning Lynn Baker, NBCT WVDE, Office of Early Learning lhbaker@access.k12.wv.us

2. Session Goals • Connect the WVBOE Policy 2510: Assuring the Quality of Education: Regulations for Education Programs to the WVBOE Policy 2315 Guidance and Counseling. • Articulate developmentally appropriate practices in relationship to Student Success and Career Readiness. • Explore collaborative strategies for the professional school counselor and the early learning educator.

3. OEL Programmatic Levels Early Learning Readiness (Grades Pre-K-Kindergarten) Early Learning Primary (Grades 1-2) Early Learning Intermediate (Grades 3-5)

4. Foundations for High-Quality Early Learning Programming (Grades Pre-K-5/Policy 2510) Chart 1 • Developmentally Appropriate Standards Focused Curriculum • Developmentally Appropriate Practices for Physical Health and Wellness • Developmentally Appropriate Practices for Global Competence • Developmentally Appropriate Practices for Formative Assessment Processes • Developmentally Appropriate Practices for Technology Integration • Developmentally Appropriate Foundations for Student Success and Career Readiness

5. Foundations for High-Quality Early Learning Programming (Grades Pre-K-5/Policy 2510) Chart 2 • Classroom Learning Environments, Routines, and Instructional Practices • Early Learning Readiness • Early Learning Primary • Early Learning Intermediate

6. Student Success Standards • Standards 1:Academic and Learning Development • Standards 2: Career Development and Life Planning • Standard 3: Personal and Social Development • Standard 4: Global Citizenship

7. Early Learning Webpage

8. Listserv • Kindergarten Listserv • Office of Early Learning Listserv Contact Wendy McCoy wmccoy@access.k12.wv.us

9. Development comes from within. Nature does not hurry but advances slowly. Fred Rogers