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This guidance document provides an overview of California's Prekindergarten through third Grade Vision. Brief descriptions, expertise areas and links to additional information are provided.
This guidance document provides an over of key local early learning and care partners that can assist local educational agencies (LEAs) in universal prekindergarten (UPK) planning efforts on a systems level. Brief descriptions, expertise areas and links to additional information are provided.
The following guidance document contains information for relevant child care programs, program standards, an indication of the staffing ratios and adult-child ratios for the programs. A link to each program is provided for additional information as needed.
The following guidance document contains information regarding research on why early education matters. Links for additional information are provided in the document.
The following guidance document contains information on Universal Prekindergarten and Family Choice. This document outlines what UPK is and the programs served.
This February 2023 Prekindergarten Fact Sheet includes information about some known barriers to equitable access to a high-quality learning experience for all children in California, including unmet need, licensed capacity, and incoherence of program standards and reimbursement rates across providers of Universal Prekindergarten (UPK) service delivery. The Fact Sheet further describes California’s current plans for how UPK will be expanded, including the timeline for expansion of Transitional Kindergarten and funding changes to California State Preschool Programs.
Externally Developed Resources
Externally Developed Resources
This resource provides an overview and example of how districts can apply a cycle of continuous improvement when selecting attendance interventions or project components.
Provides a variety of tools, processes, protocols and perspectives for conducting root cause analysis that support a systematic investigation of contributing and foundational causes of challenges.
Includes more than two dozen effective, readily scalable approaches covering topics ranging from family engagement to the value of attendance incentives and students’ social and emotional wellbeing, a high priority for educators post-pandemic.
This site allows the user to find programs that improve attendance and reduce chronic truancy while also meeting the national ESSA evidence standards. Users can filter by grade level, type of community (rural/urban/suburban), groups (free/reduced priced meals, English Language Learners, etc), features, and measured outcomes.
2021 report on policies and practices impacting the relationship between TK-12 and early learning, including recommendations for change. This is an external resource that is not created, updated, or endorsed by the California Department of Education.
2019 report on disconnect between K-12 and early learning. This report explores the reasons for the current disconnect, the rationale for bridging K-12 and the early grades, and proposed solutions. This is an external resources that is not created, updated, or endorsed by the California Department of Education.
Data tools designed specifically for to help educators track chronic absence, including self-calculating Excel spreadsheets and handbooks with guidance. This is an external resource that is not created, updated, or endorsed by the California Department of Education.
A guide for integrating attention to attendance into key practices designed to smooth the transition to kindergarten. It includes ideas, resources and examples to help schools, preschools, and community agencies partner with families at the site level to make attendance a priority during transition. This is an external resource that is not created, updated, or endorsed by the California Department of Education.
A family engagement framework (and toolkit?) for communicating with families and students about why showing up to school matters, with a whole-child perspective. This is an external resource that is not created, updated, or endorsed by the California Department of Education.
This document provides an overview of the alignment between the Implementation Development Map (IDM)—a central tool in the Partnership for Pre-K Improvement (PPI) toolkit designed to describe, assess, and identify priority improvement areas for state pre-K infrastructure and program/policy implementation—and the National Association for the Education of Young Children (NAEYC) Program Standards and Professional Standards and Competencies. This is an outside resource that is not created, updated, or endorsed by the California Department of Education.
The PPI toolkit guides statewide pre-K improvement, from identifying crucial partners and creating a shared vision for high-quality pre-K to designing and implementing specific, effective, and measurable quality improvement efforts. This is an outside resource that is not created, updated, or endorsed by the California Department of Education.
A crosswalk of state Pre-K system implementation tools created as part of the Partnership for Pre-K Improvement (PPK). This is an outside resource that is not created, updated, or endorsed by the California Department of Education.
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