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Preschool Development Grant Birth through Five (PDG B-5)

Delaware's PDG B-5 focuses on coordinated services, data integration, parent knowledge-building tools, and professional learning to support early childhood development. It offers opportunities to renew the state's early childhood strategic plan, support parental choice activities, and share best practices. The activities include needs assessment, strategic plan development, maximizing parent knowledge and choice, and sharing best practices, with a focus on engaging stakeholders and aligning with existing initiatives.

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Preschool Development Grant Birth through Five (PDG B-5)

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  1. Preschool Development GrantBirth through Five (PDG B-5) May 8, 2019

  2. Delaware's Focus Delaware’s application is framed by four priorities that map to the five required activities, and reinforce one another: • Coordinated services across the B-5 mixed delivery system • B-5 data integration • Tools to foster parent knowledge-building and choice • Professional learning across sectors using shared whole child development language

  3. PDG B-5 Opportunities • Provides an opportunity to renew the state’s current five-year early childhood strategic plan that ended in 2018 (Sustaining Early Success, Delaware’s Strategic Plan for a Comprehensive Early Childhood System, 2013). • Support for parental choice activities and best practices sharing activities already underway

  4. Activity 1: Needs Assessment and Activity 2: Strategic Plan • Activity 1A and 1B planned to last approximately 5 months • Activity 2 planned to last approximately 6 months • More than plan in original grant due to reduction in funding and refocus on Activity 1 and 2 • Provide vendors with background research on existing needs assessments already prepared • Provide vendors with family members and professionals that should be interviewed • In person interviews – one on one, meetings • Surveys and focus groups

  5. Activities 3: Parent Choice and • Activity 4: Sharing Best Practices • Activity 3 – Maximizing Parent Knowledge and Choice • Activity 4 – Sharing Best Practices • The scale of these activities reduced to reflect the changes in grant funding • Finalize planning teams and hold initial sessions to set priorities reflecting the funding and coordinating with ongoing initiatives

  6. Engagement Preschool Development Grant Birth through Five website on DOE page: https://www.doe.k12.de.us/Page/3964 • Updates on how to participate in: • Needs assessment “opportunity map” generation • Solutions brainstorming for design of strategic plan • Existing parental choice activities underway • Existing sharing best practice activities underway

  7. Thank you!Questions? Please reach out to Caitlin GleasonEducation Associate @ Dept. of Education, Office of Early Learning caitlin.gleason@doe.k12.de.us

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