Kindergarten Student Entrance Profile Raquel Rose MCOE Assistant

Kindergarten Student Entrance Profile Raquel Rose, MCOE Assistant Superintendent Melissa Guerrero, MCOE Special Projects September 20, 2017

Background • Developed & evaluated over eight years as part of a school, community, and university action research collaboration • 13 -item screening tool designed to assess a child’s school readiness through observational ratings • Ratings include 6 social-emotional and 7 school-ready knowledge items

Project Proposal • Recruit 5 -10 local kindergarten teachers to study and pilot the tool • Obtain constructive feedback on the usability of the tool • Provide opportunity for the County to gather meaningful data about the readiness of Kindergarten students as they enter the K 12 system • Analyze the KSEP feedback and plan action steps related to the universal implementation – if feasible

Project Activities & Budget ACTIVITIES BUDGET • Training • MCOE Staff • Tool Implementation • Teacher stipend/sub costs • Data Collection/Input • Materials & Supplies • Culminating interviews and discussions regarding the tool • Contracts – trainers, database, etc. • Provide executive summary of pilot project outcome Request for $44, 411 – up to $50, 000

Why do this…. . Challenges • Why change what we are already doing? • Time intensive • Is this giving us anything we don’t already have? Possibilities • Provides a single countywide metric • Guides direction of more resources and ability to track their impact • Provides partnership initiative with a collective impact for the most at-risk youth • Allows teachers to understand which students are at-risk and need increased diagnostic monitoring

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