1. Long Term Outcomes: a Community Collaboration
Measuring school success,
preschool to elementary to …..
Branch ISD Head Start/GSRP
Process begun in 2004, meetings with principals

2. Branch ISD Early Education Services-Coldwater, Quincy, Bronson
5 sites
245 Head Start, 56 GSRP
13 classrooms
Transportation, two meals, 3.5 hours/4 days a week
Developmental, speech, dental, physical, vision, hearing, hemoglobin, social emotional screenings annually
All under BISD umbrella, special education, financial, managerial support

3. BISD Special Education
1.5 Special education teachers and 1.0 special education paraprofessionals embedded in prek classrooms
Itinerant speech, OT, PT as needed
Currently serving 30+ students with IEPs

4. In the beginning: Why connect preschool and elementary learning?
>50% of district kindergarten students are graduates of BISD preschool programs
GSRP requirement to track progress of graduates
Regular principals meetings

5. What?
Vision: all children enter school ready to learn and develop skills to allow them to master grade level expectations
Continuity of curricular objectives, shared expectations
Outcomes of former students??
Collect (and define) common data-
During preschool
At school entry
As children progress through school
How did our children fare after they left? Risk factors persist??

6. Creative Curriculum Preschool assessment, based on curriculum CC.Net
Assessment based on observation
Fall, winter, Spring
Anecdotals on every child entered weekly, 2 per child per week
Online access every classroom, laptops for teachers
Discuss reports

7. Creative Curriculum Outcomes, Winter 2011, 4 year olds
Step II
Step III
Total II + III
Language Development
50%
32%
82%
Receptive Vocabulary
49%
33%
Expressive Vocabulary
56%
90%
Phonological Awareness
42%
24%
68%
Social Emotional Development
89%
Identifies 10 letters of the alphabet
39%
14%
53%
Mathematics
57%
20%
77%
Numbers & operations
19%
76%

8. We’ve had help--
CISD Technical assistance for Data Director and for development of reports
School districts support consistent data entry
A system to transfer records efficiently from preK to elementary

10. What to measure? Common assessments? MEAP Screeners—K roundup DIBELS
Letter recognition
MEAP
Reading
Math

11. Elementary data collection-MEAP:
All students
GSRP
Head Start
No early education
English language learners
IEP students

12. Results? MEAP scores through 7th grade (2002 preK)
Proficient – Non-Proficient
Reading
Math

19. Results… Reading outcomes decline as children get older
Very small sample, few ELL children
Transient population
About half of children with IEPs no longer received Special Education

20. So now what?? Focus on Literacy, phonemic awareness
Renewed focus on mathematics
District-wide professional development
Teacher to teacher communication
Kindergarten transition activities
Awareness and referrals
Continuing data analysis
Upper and lower case letters? Pencil grasp