Jefferson County Public Schools Kindergarten Readiness Camps Kentucky Joint House/Senate Education Committee November 9, 2015

JCPS Early Childhood At-A Glance ( ) JCPS Pre-K – 12 th grade - 101,000 students JCPS Early Childhood – 3,985 students Early Head Start (0-36 months) – 152 students Head Start (3-4 yrs. old) – 1,741 students Pre-K – (3-4 yrs. old) – 1990 students Tuition Based Pre-K – 102 students Head Start Students – 100% poverty level Pre-K Students – 160% poverty level

JCPS Early Childhood Funding Funding SourceTotal Funding% of Total Budget General Fund Dollars$1,481,7393.7% Head Start Funding$14,545, % Pre-K Funding$9,235, % Title I Funding10,300, % Tuition Based Funds$544,7501.4% Other$3,636,2969.2% Total$39,743,173100%

JCPS Early Childhood Funding

Kindergarten Readiness - Defining the Problem

Children from low-income homes hear as many as 30 million fewer words than their more affluent peers. 61% of children from low-income backgrounds have no children’s books at home By age two, poor children are already behind their peers in listening, counting and other pre-literacy skills Campaign for Grade Level Reading

Kindergarten Readiness - Defining the Problem As early as age three, a child’s vocabulary can predict third- grade reading achievement By age five, a typical middle-class child recognizes 22 letters of the alphabet, as compare to 9 letters for a child from a low- income family The achievement gap starts well before formal schooling. We must find strategies to close the achievement gaps between disadvantages children and their more affluent peers. Campaign for Grade Level Reading

Defining the Problem ~ 52% of All JCPS Kindergarten Students are coming to school Kindergarten Ready per the and BRIGANCE Kindergarten Readiness Screener BRIGANCE Data shows that students from Non-JCPS Childcare Centers, from the home, and from other locations are declining in Kindergarten Readiness from to * Based on Fall 2014 BRIGANCE Data

What we know about Summer Learning Loss Research shows that students lose ground academically during the summer months The problem is even more serious for low-income students who may lose more than two months of academic achievement during the summer break Summer learning loss for low income, Pre-K students and incoming Kindergarteners exacerbates the achievement gap with their middle-class peers

Without extended learning opportunities in the summer months, children from low-income families are doomed to fall behind their peers.

How do we differentiate for children with different needs?

Kindergarten Readiness Camps - One Solution During the Summer of 2015, JCPS partnered with the CE&S Foundation to support 3 Kindergarten Readiness Camps 3 Locations – DuValle, McFerran and Unseld Early Childhood Centers 20 classrooms total 20 teachers (Early Childhood and Kindergarten) 330 incoming Kindergarten Students were enrolled in the Camps

Staffing Model 7 classroom teachers/instructors per site 8 Instructional Assistants per site 8 Bus monitors per site 1 Site Administrator per site 1 clerical office staff per site 1 Resource Teacher per site 1 Project Administrator (Overall Project)

Curriculum and Training for Staff Intentional curriculum focused on kindergarten readiness skills Curriculum mapping Materials, manipulatives and resources provided to all classrooms Mandatory 2 day training for all teachers Maximized Instructional time throughout the day

Daily Schedule

Kindergarten Camp Budget Budget CategoriesCost Salaries/Fringe Benefits$204,601 Transportation$15,048 Supplies/Materials$6,880 Total Cost$226,530

Kindergarten Camp Budget

Student Attendance and Demographics

Student Demographics

Monitoring Student Progress All students participated in EMBARK Pre-Assessment during the first week of the camp All Students participated in EMBARK Post-Assessment during the last week of the camp All students participated in the BRIGANCE Kindergartener Readiness Screener as incoming Kindergarten students

Results – K Readiness Camps 225 students were screened on the pre- and post- assessment (EMBARK) Students scored 51% Ready on the pre-assessment (EMBARK) Students scored 73% Ready on the post- assessment (EMBARK)

Results – K Readiness Camps Preliminary BRIGANCE data shows participating students with 76% - 100% attendance rate scored 74% Ready or Ready with Enrichments on the Fall 2015 BRIGANCE Overall Preliminary K Readiness regardless of attendance rate is 70.9% Ready on Fall 2015 BRIGANCE JCPS Kindergarten Students scored 51.9% Ready on the Fall 2014 BRIGANCE All Kentucky Kindergarten Students scored 50% Ready on the Fall 2014 BRIGANCE

Kindergarten Readiness vs. Attendance BRIGANCE K Readiness Data

JCPS Kindergarten Readiness Website