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March 15, 2013 Cindy Zumwalt, Division Administrator Rhonda Clark, Principal Consultant

Early Childhood Education for the Future: The Creative Use of Public-Private Partnerships to Provide Cost-Effective, High Quality School Readiness Programs. March 15, 2013 Cindy Zumwalt, Division Administrator Rhonda Clark, Principal Consultant Division of Early Childhood

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March 15, 2013 Cindy Zumwalt, Division Administrator Rhonda Clark, Principal Consultant

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  1. Early Childhood Education for the Future:The Creative Use of Public-Private Partnerships to Provide Cost-Effective, High Quality School Readiness Programs March 15, 2013 Cindy Zumwalt, Division Administrator Rhonda Clark, Principal Consultant Division of Early Childhood Illinois State Board of Education

  2. Presentation Overview • Importance of Early Childhood Education • Challenges • Opportunities • Ensuring High-Quality Preschool Programs

  3. Why Early Childhood Education? • Two-thirds of the achievement gap is already there when children walk in the door to kindergarten • Early childhood interventions offer the highest return on investment of any strategy to address the achievement gap

  4. Early Childhood Education is an efficient and effective investment for economic and workforce development. The earlier the investment, the greater the return on investment. Professor James J Heckman, Nobel Laureate in Economics at the University of Chicago

  5. Impact of Reductions in the Early Childhood Block Grant Funding *estimated

  6. Common Core State Standards • Provide teachers and parents with a common understanding of what students are expected to learn • Knowledge and skills students should have within their K–12 education careers • Potential impact on early childhood education programs

  7. Illinois Early Learning Standards • Mapping out the route to kindergarten readiness for children • Birth to Three Early Learning Guidelines - New • Three to Five Early Learning and Development Standards - Revised • Developing resources and trainings for the entire field to better understand what children should know and be able to do at different ages/stages

  8. Race to the Top-Early Learning Challenge Illinois • Illinois was awarded $34.2 million in Phase 2 of the RTT-ELC on 12-31-12 • Illinois is one of only 14 states with ELC grant • Grant funding is for 4 years, through 2016 • Help Illinois to connect the children most at risk of school failure with the high-quality early learning programs they need

  9. 3 Strategic Reform Priorities • Deepening the integration of state supports to create a unified framework for all early learning and development programs. • Preschool for All/Prevention Initiative • Child Care • Head Start/Early Head Start • Connecting our most at-risk children with the supports and services they need • Increasing program quality: from adequate to good and from good to great

  10. To learn more about KIDS: illinoiskids.org

  11. Ensuring High-Quality Preschool Programs • Ongoing Authentic Assessment • Intentional Teaching • Family Education • Community Collaboration • Reflective Practice • Comprehensive Developmental Screening • Early Childhood Certified Teachers • Standards-Aligned Research-Based Curriculum

  12. Illinois Early Learning and Development Standards • Aligned with Common Core Standards and Head Start frame work • Ready to implement fall FY14

  13. Program Monitoring • Three year rotation • Program Improvement Plan • Professional Development Offerings • Coaching Model

  14. Contact Information Illinois State Board of Education Division of Early Childhood earlychi@isbe.net http://www.isbe.net/earlychi/ 217-524-4835

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