Alignment of standards, curricula, and assessments is key to establishing instructional coherence across the B-3 continuum, focusing equally on both academic and social-emotional skills.
Strategic Roadmap
High-quality, relevant standards serve as the foundation for articulating specific learning goals for all students.
Educators select and use comprehensive, purposeful curricula that offer a challenging and well-rounded learning experience throughout the grades.
Educators effectively use varied assessment tools—including diagnostic, formative, and summative measures—to continuously track and interpret student progress toward mastery.
Your Role...
Establish B-3 Learning Frameworks: Develop clear learning progressions that continuously support children's growth from year to year, guided by developmentally appropriate standards.
Align Curriculum: Require and support the use of common, year-long curricula and assessments consistently across the entire B-3 spectrum.
Engage Educators in Selection: Involve teachers in choosing common curricula and in building a cohesive, school-wide curricular framework.
Implement Common Data System: Establish a shared data system that effectively measures academic progress and key aspects of child development (social, emotional, physical).
Ensure Data Accessibility: Provide timely, actionable data to schools and ECE programs so that metrics can be used immediately to guide instruction and site-level decisions.
Implement Learning Frameworks: Develop and utilize clear learning progressions that continuously support children's growth, guided by developmentally appropriate standards.
Utilize Standards for Engagement: Regularly use standards and learning progressions as a basis for teacher professional learning and during family conferences.
Facilitate Curriculum Training: Provide professional learning for school and community-based teachers focused on curricula, assessments, and effective integration with daily classroom practices.
Drive Improvement with Data: Use assessment data to monitor and improve individual student progress, overall school learning, and teaching practices.
Build Data Feedback Loops: Establish formal assessment feedback loops in which student data is actively and regularly shared between Early Childhood Education (ECE) programs and the school.
Focus on Core Development: Show successful methods for supporting children's growth in reading/language, math, and social-emotional skills, while adjusting instruction to suit individual learning needs.
Lead Professional Growth: Exhibit leadership in selecting, evaluating, and participating in structured, child development-based training, encouraging deep focus over many topics.
Engage in Peer Reflection: Collaborate with colleagues to evaluate and refine teaching methods, actively using team protocols for efficient teamwork.
Value Cross-Grade Knowledge: View colleagues across grade levels as constructive partners and demonstrate knowledge of teaching methods across the full P-3 range.
Align Communication: Use consistent terminology when discussing student learning to ensure clarity and shared understanding.
Understand Standards: Know that academic expectations exist across the B-3 continuum and understand how those expectations are used in schools and Early Childhood Education (ECE) programs. This knowledge helps them understand how standards support their child's learning and educational success.
Engage in Assessment: Participate in evaluation efforts by both providing and receiving honest, accurate, and regular information about their child's progress across multiple areas of learning.
Nevada TACSEI provides a statewide framework and professional development system based on the Pyramid Model to promote the social-emotional competence of infants, toddlers, and preschoolers through evidence-based practices for educators and families.
An online resource hub dedicated to Nevada Kindergarten Entry Assessment (KEA). It serves as a central repository for teachers and administrators to access tools, guidance, and training materials required for assessing children's development as they enter kindergarten.
Strategic document developed by the Nevada Department of Education to ensure that preschool-aged children with disabilities receive high-quality education in the Least Restrictive Environment (LRE) alongside their peers without disabilities.
The policy provides a unified definition of Developmentally Appropriate Practice (DAP) in kindergarten to ensure consistency across the state.
Areas of Overlap
Contact Information
Nevada Department of Education - Office of Early Learning and Development
Anna Severens – aseverens@doe.nv.gov