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PreK-3 Alignment What it is and How to Make it a Reality CAEYC Leadership Day March 14, 2013
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PreK-3 Alignment
What it is and How to Make it a Reality
CAEYC Leadership Day March 14, 2013
Jessica Mihaly, Initiative Officer for PreK-3 Silicon Valley Community Foundation
Sandy Mikulik, Director of Curriculum and Instruction Jefferson Elementary School District
Lisa Zimiga, State Preschool Director Jefferson Elementary School District
Kim Bambao, STEM Early Learning Coordinator San Mateo County Office of Education
Today’s Presenters
Guiding Questions
• Do you have any questions about these slides?
• How does this
information resonate with you?
• How might the data
inform your work?
Why P-3?
30 Million Word Gap & Disparities in Early Vocabulary Development
16 mos. 24 mos. 36 mos.
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College Educated Parents
Working Class Parents
Low Income Parents
Child’s Age (Months)
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Source: Hart & Risley (1995)
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Preventive Intervention is More Efficient and Produces Higher Returns than Later Remediation
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Preschool programs
Schooling
Job training
0-3 4-5 6-18 19+
Programs targeted towards the earliest years
Heckman, James 2007
Percentage Scoring Proficient or Advanced in 3rd
Grade, by Readiness Pattern
Disparities by income grow over time English Language Arts Math
What is PreK-3?
K. Kauerz & National PreK-3rd Partnership
HORIZONTAL
Home with family may have some group exp.
Private licensed
centers and homes
Community or district based Head Start or
State PreK
Out of home care with friend or neighbor
Kindergarten
1st Grade
2nd Grade
3rd Grade
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Conceptualizing PreK-3rd
Transitional Kindergarten
Bridges to Success San Mateo County Background
• Funded primarily by First 5 San Mateo County
• Co- lead and housed at Silicon Valley Community Foundation and San Mateo County Office of Education
• Response to local and national research that investments in the early years are not sufficient on their own to ensure success by 3rd grade
• Ready Children, Ready Families, Ready Communities, Ready Schools
Bridges to Success San Mateo County Goals
• All children enter school
ready to learn • Experience a smooth
transition to K and • Receive high quality,
aligned early elementary education to prepare them for success by 3rd grade
Bridges to Success Communities
• Coastside • Daly City • La Honda Pescadero • Pacifica • Ravenswood • Redwood City • South San Francisco
Who are we?
• Jefferson Elementary School District, Daly City, CA Located just south of San Francisco Preschool- 8th Grade
o1 preschool, 11 elementary, and 3 middle schools Approximately 6,200 students
o60% Low Income o50% English Learners (20 languages spoken) oLargest Ethnicities: 38% Filipino, 32%
Hispanic/Latino, 14% Asian
Ready Schools Team • Team composition:
PreK-3rd teachers, admins, community members
• Meet monthly • Ready Schools Plans
developed by Team and presented to School Board annually
• School Board adopted plan in September 2012
Ready Schools Plan – Overview
• District Leadership Team includes Preschool Director
• Site level articulation and alignment • Joint professional development including
Common Core • Classroom observations • Meet and Greets with local preschools and
elementary schools Heightens awareness of curriculum,
expectations
Ready Schools Plan- Data and Assessment
• PreK-K transition forms • Entering K
assessments • PreK-K teacher
transition meetings • “Preschool attended”
recorded in SIS
Ready Schools Plan – Family Engagement
• PreK-3rd family literacy, science, math events
• K Orientations • Raising a Reader • Improved K
registration processes • Educating families how
to engage with schools
Ready Schools Highlights – Teacher Effectiveness
• Joint professional development
• Classroom observations
• Meet and Greets • Heightened
awareness of cross grade curriculum, assessment
Questions?
PK-3 PLC: Making Sense of Math Early Learning Initiative
2011 – 2013
San Mateo County Office of Education
Kim Bambao, STEM Early Learning Coordinator
ELI Program Goal
Goal: Support and improve PK-3rd grade student achievement in mathematics
1. Establish sustainable PK-3rd grade professional
learning communities at participating school sites
2. Increase teacher mathematics content knowledge
3. Refine mathematics instructional practice
4. Develop and administer PK-3rd grade formative assessments
ELI Program
• 43 hours of professional development
6 full-day sessions 1 half-day session 4 one-hour sessions
• 8 school districts
20 school teams of PK-3 teachers
Pre-Kindergarten
Adopted 2008
Adopted 2010
Grades K-12
Adopted 2010
Preschool Learning Foundations and Common Core, Mathematics
Preschool and K-12 Alignment: Mathematics
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Preschool Foundations: Strands
Common Core State Standards: Domains
CCSSM Conceptual Categories
~48 mo ~60 mo K 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 High School
Number Sense
Counting and Cardinality
Operations and Algebraic Thinking
Expressions and Equations
Algebra
Functions
Number and Operations in Base Ten
Ratio & Proportional Relationships
Number & Quantity
Number and Operations-
Fractions
The Number system
Algebra & Functions
Measurement & Data
Statistics & Probability
Measurement
Geometry Geometry
PreK-12 Standards for Mathematical Practice (Common Core)
1. Make sense of problems and persevere in solving them. 2. Reason abstractly and quantitatively. 3. Construct viable arguments and construct the reasoning of others. 4. Model with mathematics. 5. Use appropriate tools strategically. 6. Attend to precision. 7. Look for and make use of structure. 8. Look for and express regularity in repeated reasoning.
Standards for Mathematical Practices, Common Core
PK- 3 Formative Assessments San Mateo County Office of Education and the Silicon Valley Mathematics Initiative
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Grades PK, TK, K Grades PK, TK
Bears at the River Grade K
Grade 1 Grade 2 Grade 3
Activity: PK-3 Alignment
Topic: Comparing sets and numbers How does this activity, examining how a
mathematics topic develops over time, helpful
to educators of young learners?
Some questions to ask yourself and share with a partner
• What experiences have you had with P-3 in your community?
Successes? Challenges?
• What new ideas and action steps are you taking home with you from today’s workshop?
Presenter Contact Information
Jessica Mihaly, Silicon Valley Community Foundation [email protected] (650) 450-5478 Sandy Mikulik, Jefferson Elementary School District [email protected] (650) 746-2410 Lisa Zimiga, Jefferson Elementary School District [email protected] Kim Bambao, San Mateo County Office of Education [email protected] (650) 802-5402
Thank You!
