Caught in the Act: Improving Head Start for School Readiness What Is School Readiness and What Does It Mean for Head Start

School Readiness Defined: A strong, clear, and comprehensive focus on healthy child development. This includes physical, cognitive, social and emotional development, all of which are essential to children getting ready for school.

It takes these three individuals to make school readiness work? The Process  Who is involved? Child Teacher Parent

The purpose of the School Readiness Plan is to provide a better understanding of services to preschool children ages three and four in Houston County which meet the Federal Head Start Performance Standards and the Dothan City Schools Board of Education Administration Policies. The plan was developed as a strategy to help staff, parents, and community partners understand the system approach to service delivery. The Purpose

The Planning  What four strategic steps are needed?  What do we want to accomplish? Goals:

Four Strategic Steps :  Adopt and Aligned Goals  Create and Implement a Plan  Assess Child Progress  Examine Data

The 11 domains are condensed into 5 essential domains. The school readiness goal that the DCS/HS Head Start developed aligns with the Head Start Early Learning Framework, along with AELG, Pre-K standards, and Dothan City Schools Strategic Curriculum Framework Our Adopted and Aligned Goals:

Create and Implement Plan Dothan City Schools/ Houston County Head Start/Preschool Mrs. Jerryneta Evans, Project Director Ms. Y. Denise Vincent, Education Manager Mrs. Barbara Ward, Lead Teacher Mrs. Faye Swain, Mentor Coach School Readiness Action Plan  The plan was created in 2011

Assess Child’s Progress:  Preschool Progress Profile 5140 (Individual performance profile) 5410 (Individual assessment performance) 5150 (Individual Profile Multiple Assessment 5210 (Group Profile) 5220 ( Group Gains) 5430 (Assessment Charts)  Individualization Plan  Anecdotal  Teacher/Parent Conferences  LAP-D  Achenbach  End of the Year Checklist  Progress Report  Monitoring  Speech Screener

PURPOSEQUESTIONS DATA COLLECTION METHODS NEEDED RESOURCES LEAD PERSON(s) TIMEFRAME Purpose 1 Why collect intended data? *Professional Development *Review Curriculum *Professional Consultants *Administrators Evans, Vincent and Ward On-going Purpose 2 What kind of information can answer our questions? CLASS observations, Informal evaluations, Reviewing PPP Data *CLASS Training for Evaluators *CLASS training for Staff *Reviewers Vincent, Ward, and Swain Evans Completed TBA Purpose 3 What data do we need? *Preschool Progress Profile, *LELA, *Speech Screener, and *LAP-D ChildPlus.Net Evans, Vincent, Bateman, & Lloyd On-going Purpose 4 How will the information be stored? *Child Plus.Net *Education Notebook Internet Access Notebooks Evans Management Team Teachers On-going Purpose 5 How the data will be used? Self Assessment Process Professional Development Self Assessment Goals Management Team On-going Examine Data

Accomplishments:  Children develop age-appropriate social and emotional skills  Children develop age-appropriate physical skills  Children develop age-appropriate language and literacy skills  Children develop age-appropriate approaches to learning skills  Children develop age-appropriate cognition and general knowledge skills

Now that the process, purpose, plan, and strategic steps have been established, we should achieve the desired result!!!! SUMMARY: