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PreK-3rd 3rd

The PreK-3rd approach shows that the simplest aim

• f education may also be the most crucial:

ensuring that learning builds from one year to the next. The goal of PreK-3rd is to strengthen teaching and learning by connecting the dots-both from one early childhood year to the next and from PreK- 3rd to later schooling.

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Leading early learning efforts

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Building partnerships

 Department of Early Learning  Thrive by Five  OSPI

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Developing innovative programs

 Bremerton School District  Nooksack Valley School District  NW ESD 189 – The Harvard Project  Edmonds School District

 Building Relationships and Partnerships  Using Professional Development to:

 Increase teacher knowledge about best practices  Enhance school readiness  Create a seamless transition from pre-k to elementary school

 Connections with preschools

• September 2009 – 5 preschools
• June 2010 – 32 preschools

 Jump Start – Learning Lab

• August 2009 – 12 preschool teachers
• August 2010 – anticipate 50

 Early Learning Conferences

• Kick –Off Luncheon – 52 participants
• Fall Conference –

86 participants

• Winter Conference – 108 participants
• Spring Conference – 116 participants

 Cross Site Visits

• Preschool teachers – 35 participants

 Presented to staff and parent groups  Connected the Head Start program to

Kindergarten at Cedar Valley

 Collaborated with Natural Leaders at College

Place Elementary and Head Start to reach out to non-English speaking families

 Awarded an OSPI P-3 Partnership Grant to

provide literacy materials to 32 preschools

Preschool/Childcare

• Kiddie Koop
• Kids Corner
• Kids R Special
• Kindercare Lynnwood
• Kindercare Brier
• Kindercare Edmonds
• King’s Temple Preschool
• LaPetite Academy
• Lil’ People’s World
• Little Kingdom Preschool
• Little Learners Academy
• Main Street Kids
• Meadowdale Preschool
• Montessori Schools
• Multiple Intelligence Learning

Center

• St. Timothy Lutheran Preschool
• The Kids’ Center
• Trike Shop
• Trinity Lutheran Preschool
• Kid City
• Apple Preschool
• Monica’s Place
• Kids’ Klub Preschool
• Esperance childcare

Community Partners

• Alderwood Early Childhood

Center

• Another Best Child Care
• Bright Star Kids Academy
• City of MLT Parks & Rec Center

Preschool

• Children’s Center
• Pacific Preschool
• Edmonds CC Center for Families
• Edmonds CC Co-op Preschools

Edmonds co-op Center for Families Co-op Mountlake Terrace Co-op West Edmonds Co-op Mill Creek Co-op

• Gloria Dei Preschool
• Grow With Us Learning Centers
• Head Start

Whispering Pines AECC EDCC Center for Families Cedar Valley

• The Gratia Ainslie Foundation
• Childcare Research & Referral of

Snohomish County

• Office of the Superintendent of

Public Instruction

• Organization Research Services
• Edmonds Community College
• Head Start
• NW ESD 189
• Snohomish County Children’s

Commission

• Edmonds Bookshop
• Little Red Schoolhouse
• Snohomish County Early

Learning Coalition

Gates Grant Schools

• Beverly Elementary
• Cedar Valley Community School
• College Place Elementary
• Lynnwood Elementary
• Mountlake Terrace Elementary
• Spruce Elementary

 Continue to build connections between

preschools and elementary schools

 Create a seamless transition from pre-k to

elementary school

 Enhance school readiness  Increase teacher knowledge about best

practices

 Aligning literacy instruction from preschool

to kindergarten and beyond.

 Moving from pre-k to pre – 1st  Weaving Early Learning practices into existing

district and community structures

 Large Group Overview (August)

• Preschool/childcare providers
• K and 1st grade teachers

 Observation Cycle ( Sept., Dec., March)

• Representatives from preschool organizations
• K and 1st grade teachers from six Gates Schools

 Preschool teacher meetings (monthly)  Foundations in Early Literacy website:

http://foundationsinliteracy.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=27&I temid=32

“Thanks for the great morning!!!! Thanks so much for giving preschools information that will enable our kids to succeed in kindergarten!!!!”

Mimi Brusten, First Lutheran Preschool

“I am so glad I came. Every single minute was filled with so much

• wealth. Well worth my time. Thank you.” Penny Thedens, Co-op Preschool

“A really big thank you for a great conference. Our teachers were very excited when they came into work this morning and they all talked about the new ideas that each one wants to implement first in their classrooms this week. We will be very excited to attend the spring conference.” Kris Dudak, Trinity Lutheran Preschool

“Very well organized, great information…the materials are so

thoughtful, generous and useful.”

Kindergarten teacher