Alignment & Kindergarten Readiness
The ECIPs are aligned directly with these primary Minnesota educational standards.
What are the Minnesota Academic Standards (Kindergarten Standards)?
The ECIPs continuum is designed to be inclusive of all children, including dual language learners and children with these individual needs.
What are disabilities or developmental delays?
Subcomponent AL1 tracks a child's response to novelty and is titled this.
What is Curiosity?
Under LLC1.1, an infant aged 0–6 months demonstrates receptive language by doing this when a nearby caregiver speaks.
What is turning toward and focusing on the caregiver?
The preschool version of the ECIPs was originally developed in Minnesota in this year.
What is 2000?
In Kindergarten English Language Arts alignment, children are expected to follow basic features of print, including moving in these directions across a page.
What is left-to-right and top-to-bottom?
Rather than focusing on deficits, the ECIPs promote this positive operational mindset when viewing children and families.
What is a strengths-based mindset?
Subcomponent LLC2 covers expressing feelings, wants, and ideas with others under this title.
What is Social Conversation?
Under AL1.4, toddlers aged 2–3 years frequently begin asking this one-word question.
What is "Why?"
The infant and toddler version of the ECIPs was first created in this year.
What is 2007?
Kindergarten Mathematics alignment standards expect students to count forward with and without objects up to at least this number.
What is 31?
Early learning experiences and vocabulary development should be centered around a child's home language because it acts as this type of learning asset.
What is an asset (or foundational tool for learning across all domains)?
Subcomponent M10 focuses on 2D and 3D geometric concepts under this title.
What is Knowledge and Visualization of Shapes?
Under M1.10, a child aged 4–5 years can say or sign numbers forward up to at least this target number (with some mistakes).
What is 20?
In this year, the separate preschool and infant/toddler standards were expanded into a single unified continuum.
What is 2017?
The alignment between ECIPs Arts standards and Kindergarten Arts Education covers Visual Arts, Music, Theater, Dance, and this modern artistic discipline.
What are Media Arts?
Adaptations, accommodations, and individualized scaffolding are recommended in the ECIPs to support children who develop at different what?
What are different rates or paces?
Subcomponent A3 focuses on engagement and choice in art experiences under this title.
What is Artistic Choice-making?
Under LLC9.10, a 4–5 year old child demonstrates emergent writing progression by writing this specific personal word.
What is their own name?
The most recent revision of the ECIPs standards document occurred in this year.
What is 2024 (published/effective for 2028 standards)?
Rather than expecting fixed milestones on a specific date, the ECIPs view child development along this flexible pathway.
What is a developmental continuum (or learning progression trajectory)?
To ensure instructional approaches are culturally inclusive, early childhood professionals must actively collaborate with this key group.
Who are families and caregivers?
Subcomponent AL8 measures how a child stores and retrieves information for purposeful use under this term.
What is Working Memory?
Under AL3.10, 4–5 year old preschoolers demonstrate focused attention by participating in teacher-led large group activities for this length of time.
What are sustained periods?
To eliminate jargon and make the standards as accessible as possible during the 2024 revision, the document underwent a review for this type of clear communication.
What is plain language?