Every student benefits from comprehensive educational offerings through access to sustained, high-quality education that prepares them effectively for future academic success.
Strategic Roadmap
High-quality learning opportunities are provided for all children, ensuring that every student has access to the most advanced educational experiences available.
Established policies and practices guarantee that all students receive consistent and high-quality educational opportunities throughout their early years program and elementary school.
Your Role...
Understand Capacity and Demographics: Develop data-informed methods to understand the characteristics of children, the availability of high-quality programs/schools, and student mobility. Annually map the "feeder patterns" of children into public schools.
Increase Access: Expand the number of openings available for children to attend full-day Pre-K and increase children's access to after-school, extended learning opportunities, and community supports.
Promote Co-Location: Encourage and actively support community-based Early Childhood Education (ECE) programs to place classrooms at elementary schools, and work to expand co-location where feasible to strengthen collaboration.
Formalize Transitions: Establish common transition documents and procedures to be used consistently across all schools, classrooms, settings, and age/grade levels to ensure smooth student movement.
Secure Funding and Partnerships: Actively seek, build, and support cooperative agreements with community-based ECE programs. Secure the school district as a financial recipient for state-funded Pre-K or Head Start, and advocate for expanded public investment in B-3 support programs.
Optimize Instructional Settings: Establish and maintain methods to maximize classroom teaching time and provide tailored support for every child.
Strengthen Feeder Partnerships: Expand and reinforce cooperative alliances with Early Childhood Education (ECE) programs that feed students into the school.
Strategic Staffing and Placement: Create policies and methods that intentionally assign students to the teachers best suited to support their success, potentially through consistent assignment or mixed-age classrooms.
Inform and Encourage Continuity: Clearly communicate to families why consistent enrollment in the same program or school over successive years is beneficial for their children's progress.
Understand Learning Resources: Demonstrate knowledge of resources available to extend children's learning time, in both school-based and community-based Early Childhood Education (ECE) programs.
Formalize Transitions: Use common transition documents and procedures. Review incoming student files/portfolios before the school year and provide similar student information to next-year teachers.
Engage in Vertical Teams: Actively participate in vertical teams (across age/grade levels) to establish shared goals, consistent terminology, uniform teaching practices, and a common understanding of children's needs and strengths.
Access Information: Ensure they have accessible information about Early Childhood Education (ECE) and after-school programs, extended learning opportunities, and community supports.
View High-Quality Continuum: Maintain a perception that their child is receiving a high-quality, continuous learning experience throughout the entire B-3 continuum.
Advocate for Pathways: Know how and why to advocate for their child to have a clear, high-quality educational path from B-3.
Provides a strategic framework for schools and community partners to align early childhood systems through team-based planning and family engagement.
A data tool managed by the Nevada Department of Education’s Office of Early Learning & Development (OELD) to track the performance and quality of early childhood programs across the state.
An interactive data visualization tool hosted by the Nevada Early Childhood Advisory Council (ECAC) to track the status and needs of the state's early childhood systems.
Areas of Overlap
Contact Information
Nevada Department of Education - Office of Early Learning and Development
Anna Severens – aseverens@doe.nv.gov