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High-quality, well aligned system
Outcomes
Engage/support
Graduation
Workforce
Vibrancy
Comprehensive Model
Create and Promote a seamless educational
linkage.
Why the Need?
Lack of teaming
Lack of understanding
Lack of definitive expectations
Consequences Irreplaceable
academic and social impairment to students upon
reaching the third grade.
Consequences Academic and social
impairment
In 2005 Richmond Public Schools
Early Childhood Grade Level Alliance (GLA)
High Quality Alignment System
PreK-3 Vertical Alignment
Aligned Curriculum and assessments
Pre-K – 3rd Grade teacher collaboration
Home/School relationships
Child Care/Home Care collaboration
School Readiness Registration/Enrollment
Identifying Special Needs
Cultural Diversity
Head Start
Title 1
VPI
PDD
Early Head Start
HOME
Birth
Age 1
Age 2
Age 3
Age 4
Age 5
PreK-K Horizontal Alignment Partners
Child Care Providers
Health
Care
Services
Smart Beginnings
City Library
GLA
ECDI ExCELL
Community in Schools
Corporate partners
Hispanic Chamber Social Services
Public Schools
Behavior Management Services
City Agencies
Home/Community
Parks and Recreation
Partnerships for Families
Ready School
Developmentally appropriate practices
School Capacity - appropriate facilities and available resources
Culture contexts in which each child and family lives
Ready Home
Readiness for preschool/kindergarten
Home Learning Center Relationship with school
Attendance, Health, Social Emotional
Home is the Key
Child’s Literacy
Child’s
Environment
Child’s
Boundaries and
rules
Child’s Teacher
Communicating with the Home Is the Key
Home Learning Center
Partnership
between the
parent and
classroom
established
Shared activity
ideas for future
recipes and
volunteering
Home a place for continual
learning
Home Aligns with Classroom/School
Home materials used for creating and extending activities
Four Step Cycle
Four Step Cycle
Instructional team creates monthly Home Recipes.
Four Step Cycle
Instructional team creates monthly Home Recipes.
Recipes are presented on television or through one-on-one role play.
Four Step Cycle
Instructional team creates monthly Home Recipes.
Recipes are presented on television or through one-on-one role play.
Recipes completed with the child in the home.
Desirable Teaching Behaviors
Four Step Cycle
Instructional team creates monthly Home Recipes.
Recipes are presented on television or through one-on-one role play.
Recipes completed with the child in the home.
Completed recipes returned to the classroom.
Levels of Benefit
More individual attention to the needs of children and their families
Increased appreciation
and understanding for the concerns of
parents
Improved staff skills as teachers
learn from parents
Anxieties
Fears
Well bring
Parent skills
Acquire information
Techniques
Community resources
Appropriate referrals
Benefit the child
Parents and Preschoolers
Good Alignment Media
Increase
appreciation
Use of community
resources
Soothe anxieties
Improve staff skills
Individual attention
Improve parent skills
High Quality Alignment System
Align Curriculum Foundation Blocks for Early Learning
Early Reading First
Joint Sponsorship of Family Education
Quality Rating and Improvement System
High Quality Alignment System
Transition Initiatives
Child Care Provider training
Expand relationships
What’s Your Take Away?
Ron Robertson
Kacy Mosby
Virginia Preschool Initiative Program
Richmond City Public Schools [email protected]
