This process introduces new teaching staff to their roles, expectations, and procedures.
What is onboarding?
This plan documents strategies teachers will use to meet each child's learning needs.
What is an Individualized Learning Plan (ILP)?
This is Acelero's primary curriculum model.
What is Ready to Shine?
This approach uses respect, realistic expectations, and supportive strategies to guide behavior.
What is positive guidance?
This classroom safety practice requires staff to consistently observe and account for children.
What is active supervision?
This kind of support helps children build social-emotional skills and manage challenging behavior.
What is positive behavioral support?
These safety drills are conducted monthly in each center.
What are fire drills?
This document records the facts when a child is injured at the center.
What is an Accident/Injury Report?
This written document addresses a child's individual health or nutrition needs.
What is an Individual Care Plan (ICP)?
This oral-health practice takes place daily for enrolled Head Start children.
What is toothbrushing?
This Acelero coaching model uses goals, observations, feedback, and reflection to improve teaching.
What is Practice to Impact (P2I) coaching?
These two sources help teachers understand a child's strengths, needs, and family goals.
What are observations and family input?
This revised curriculum emphasizes playful learning, language-rich experiences, and individualization.
What is Ready to Shine 2.0?
This positive direction can replace 'Don't run.'
What is 'Please walk'?
This daily document helps staff account for children during transitions.
What is the Daily Tracker?
These adults provide important information about children's emotional needs and experiences outside the classroom.
Who are families or parents and guardians?
These drills are scheduled quarterly.
What are lockdown drills?
This person should be notified when a child has an accident or injury at the center.
Who is the Center Director?
This staff member collaborates with parents to develop and monitor a child's health care plan.
Who is the Health Coordinator?
This amount of fluoride toothpaste is specified for children ages 3–5.
What is a pea-sized amount?
These rubrics define observable expectations for quality teaching and guide coaching and reflection.
What are the Teacher Success Rubrics (TSRs)?
Developmental and social-emotional screenings are completed within this many days of program entry.
What is 45 days?
Teachers prepare these instructional documents every week.
What are weekly lesson plans?
Teachers use this strategy by giving children acceptable options instead of only telling them what not to do.
What is creating a 'yes' environment or offering positive choices?
This acronym names the required child-transition procedure.
What is SUPER?
This teaching approach models social skills and helps children develop self-control.
What is positive guidance?
These documents show emergency exits and evacuation routes.
What are posted evacuation diagrams and procedures?
These are the first priorities when a child is injured.
What are caring for the injured child, protecting other children, and providing appropriate first aid or emergency assistance?
These are two examples of health conditions that may require an Individual Care Plan.
What are asthma and allergies?
This cleaning step must happen before applying a disinfectant.
What is cleaning the surface with soap and water to remove dirt and debris?
These collaborative meetings include assessment workgroups and curriculum planning discussions.
What are Professional Learning Communities (PLCs)?
These education documents provide goals used to develop individualized action plans for children with disabilities.
What are IEPs and IFSPs?
This classroom practice allows children to explore, create, and solve problems with open-ended materials.
What is active learning through learning centers?
This behavior-support strategy recognizes what a child did well using specific language.
What is specific positive feedback or acknowledgment?
These are the five steps of SUPER.
What are Stop, Unite, Perform Sweep, Exact Count, and Roll Call Count?
A teacher notices repeated behavioral concerns that ordinary guidance is not resolving. What should the teacher seek?
What is additional support and guidance from the appropriate supervisor or Early Learning Inclusion Specialist?
Name four details documented for each fire drill.
What are the date and time, weather conditions, number of participating children and staff, and total evacuation time?
A suspected child abuse or neglect concern requires an individual report to this external agency.
What is the local child protection agency, such as CPS or DFS?
These are examples of information an ICP must contain.
What are the health concern, warning signs and responses, needed accommodations, medications if applicable, and staff training needs?
According to the uploaded cleaning policy, how often must sleeping areas be disinfected?
What is daily?
Name the six domains of the Foundational Teaching Practices used to support new educators.
What are Responsive Relationships, Intentional Teaching, Engaging Environments, Language-Rich Interactions, Inclusion & Individualization, and Family Partnership?
For a dual language learner, teachers gather this information before choosing appropriate language supports.
What are the languages spoken at home, the child's language experiences and inputs, and their language development?
These three teaching practices help educators extend learning during play and routines.
What are intentional teaching, scaffolding, and individualization?
A child struggles to share a toy. Explain how staff should respond under the positive guidance policy.
What is modeling and encouraging sharing, using developmentally appropriate expectations, and helping children solve the problem without insisting on sharing before they are ready?
A class arrives at the playground after a transition. What supervision procedure must be repeated?
What is the entire SUPER procedure, including counting and accounting for each child at the new location?
Explain how staff can demonstrate that a child feels safe, respected, and emotionally supported.
What is using respectful relationships, predictable expectations, positive guidance, and individualized support, with a real classroom example?
During a fire drill, what is the staff's primary responsibility and what should happen afterward?
What is evacuating and accounting for all children under close supervision, then recording the required drill information?
This type of incident requires additional external notification and a Significant Incident Report.
What is a significant incident, as defined by the policy and applicable reporting requirements?
A child has a documented food allergy. What must the program do to support the child safely?
What is following the child's Individual Care Plan, communicating dietary accommodations, and coordinating appropriate food substitutions and staff support?
An unfamiliar adult arrives to pick up a child. What must staff verify before release?
What are the adult's identity, including photo ID when unknown, and authorization on the Emergency Contact Information form, while following any applicable court orders?