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 rroberts2@richmond.k12.va.us