Program Quality Improvement Goals Form

Program Quality Improvement Goals Form

School Year2015-2016

DATE: March 7, 2016 District / Program:Oakland Schools

Early Childhood Consultant:Krista Shambleau-Facilitating Consultant

Types of Program and Child Data Reviewed: Countywide GSRP Programs--COR Advantage Time 1, PQA Form A (Baseline) and PQA Form B

1. PROGRAM Strengths
Highest Scoring COR Advantage Items: K: Personal care and healthy behavior, J. Fine-motor skills, F. Building relationships with other children
Form A
There are strengths around curriculum planning and assessment (mean = 4.54).
63% of the Oakland Schools GSRP group of children were included in the baseline COR data. --Section IV-E (use of child observation measure) is the highest scoring area on Form A
206 classrooms included in PQA Form A data analysis out of 207
Out of 207 there are 5% or less scoring low in the four sections of PQA Form A
80% of classrooms are “high quality” in the area of Daily Routine and 84% of classrooms are “high quality” in Curriculum Planning and Assessment
Form B
84% classrooms are “high quality” in Parent Participation in Children’s Activities
2. PROGRAM Modifiable Items “Short-Term”
Possibly work with the 17 classrooms that show up as low quality in LE, DR, and CPA on Form A
Form B
Professional Organization Affiliations / 2. PROGRAM Modifiable Items “Long-Term”
Form B-Working with programs to get Parents on Policy Making committees (parent advisory)
COR and Form A-Continued focus on Social and Emotional skills for children and Conflict Resolution skills for teacher
COR-Getting more of the team teaching model including anecdotal notes to support IV-B and IV-D
Form A/B-Diversity related materials/Comfort in communicating with diverse families. Supporting programs around working with children who are Dual Language Learners (identification as well as integrating strategies)
Action Plan Ideas: Possibly work with the 10 classrooms that show up as low quality in ACI on Form A
Form B- Educator Backgrounds; Continuity of Care; Adequacy of funding
3. PROGRAM Improvement Goals / Data Source / Date Set / Date Achieved / Description of Progress / Challenges
Goal 1:
OS-GSRP will support programs with structuring parent advisory groups where parents have input in decision making. / PQA Form B
Goal 2:
OS-GSRP will strengthen teachers understanding and implementation of HighScope’s conflict resolution approach to help improve children’s social and emotional skills. / PQA Form A
COR Adv.
Goal 3:
OS-GSRP will promote school and family communication to better understand the cultural and linguistic needs of children and, in turn, sensitively individualize:
(a) the learning environment (i.e. diversity-related materials); and
(b) interactions/activities across the daily routine (i.e. support for non-English speakers). / PQA Form A
4. Action Steps
What actions will you take to accomplish these goals? / 5. Resources
What resources are needed? / 6. Evaluation
How will the goal be measured?
Goal 1:
Develop guidance, protocol, roles and responsibilities resource for programs to use
ECS training on the guidance for programs
Director training on guidance for programs / Goal 1:
Director Website
Sample agenda
GSRP Imp Manual (Family Engagement Inventory):
Head Start / Goal 1:
PQA Form B
Document Review
Survey Directors
Family survey results
Goal 2:
Develop and add a Day 3 to current 2-Day Conflict Resolution
Develop and add a Social and Emotional KDIs Series
Offer CSEFEL as a 2 full-day PL
Offer PL around Trauma and De-escalation / Goal 2:
Betsy Evans’ new edition
Classroom videos “Jessica” and others
Social and Emotional KDIs
PL Booklet for next year / Goal 2:
Training evaluations
PQA
COR
Hotline data
Goal 3:
Revamp Day 2 of COR workshop to look deeper into including family reports in the parent-teacher conference
Develop a sample child folder with all of the necessary components (including identifying DLLs) and highlight the parent communication pieces
Develop a packet of home-visiting resources for programs to use
Offer DLL PL in 2016-2017
Work with ECSs to help teachers properly identify DLLs
Develop an intake form to gather information about DLLs (based off of Head Start Resource)
Home-visiting PL - offer it as an online resource
Share the 2-page Learning Environment material list with ECSs / Goal 3:
Learning Environment material list
Multicultural programs (HighScope resource)
Home-visiting and DLL resources
Head Start resources-”What to do when children are code switching.”, Home-visiting
mi PLACE
Soyul & Teacher Yvette:

“Gathering and Using Language
Information that Families Share” Head Start Resource for data gathering / Goal 3:
PQA
Training evaluation
File reviews
Family survey results
COR

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