Parties/Rationale
Definitions
Purpose/Goals
Role of ESC Head Start
Role of ISDs and families
100
Education Service Center Region 19 Head Start and El Paso and Hudspeth County Independent School Districts
Who are the parties entering in to the Transition Collaborative Agreement?
100
Children who will graduate from ESC Region a9 Head Start Birth to Four Early Education Program, and will enter kindergarten in El Paso and Hudspeth County school districts and their families.
Who is the Target Population?
100
To ensure continuity of services and a smooth transition for children and their families from the ESC Region 19 Head Start to the receiving public school districts.
What is the Purpose of the Transition Collaborative Agreement?
100
Respond to individual district needs with respect to transition and conduct quarterly planning meetings with the TAC.
What are a couple of roles of ESC Region 19 Head Start?
100
Appoint a representative from its respective ISD to serve on the ESC 19 Region Head Start and review all transition activities; provide feedback to the sending party and take into consideration recommendations provided.
What are roles one and two of the ISDs?
200
The parties are committed to coordinating transition services for the target population of ESC Region 19 Head Start graduates entering kindergarten and Hudspeth County School Districts and their families.
What is the Rationale of the Transition Collaborative Agreement?
200
May include parents or guardians, siblings, grandparents, caregivers, and other persons residing in the home, or other individuals designated as family members by the parents or guardians.
Who is considered a family member?
200
To support families in understanding the purpose of transition activities, identifying key players in their child's transition, and providing skills and information to facilitate their child's transition to the new environment.
What is a shared goal and objective of the Transition Collaborative Agreement?
200
Solicit from receiving party, appointed representatives from respective school districts to serve on the ESC Region 19 Head Start Program- Public School Transition Advisory Committee.
What is role number 1 under Responsibilities of Each Party?
200
Coordinate the implementation of additional transition activities with the sending party and Identify individual district needs with respect to transition.
What are roles three and four of the ISDs?
300
The foundation for this agreement is in subsequent directives by federal and state agencies to develop local cooperative agreements for children and families transitioning from early childhood education to elementary education programs.
What is Rationale continued?
300
Includes the full range of services/activities from the initiation of transition planning to the time the childe enters the public school.
What is Transition?
300
To help support children in transition by preparing them for the new environment prior to the formal movement from the sending program to the receiving program.
What is another goal and objective of the Transition Collaborative Agreement?
300
Initiate communication and planning with the receiving party for implementation of major transition activities.
What is role 3 of the Responsibilities of Each Party?
300
Plan with sending party, the implementation of additional transition activities such as: parent orientations, joint trainings, dissemination of summer school and pre-registration information, the transfer of student records, and other activities deemed necessary and assure successful implementation of transition activities through communication and coordination with elementary school principals and other public school representatives.
What are roles five and seven of the ISDs?
400
Signatures of the ISD Superintendents and members of the Transition Advisory Committee.
Whose signatures are on the Transition Collaborative Agreement?
400
This is ESC Region 19 Head Start Birth to Four Early Education Program who will outline goals and objectives of the agreement, and will identify transition activities, to include timelines and individuals responsible for the implementation of such identified activities.
What is the Sending Program?
400
To support Head Start, prekindergarten and kindergarten teachers, as well as administrators, in fulfilling their roles and responsibilities in the transition process.
What are more shared goals and objectives?
400
Plan, with receiving party, the implementation of additional activities, orientations, joint trainings, dissemination of summer school and pre-registration information, the transfer of student records, and other activities deemed necessary.
What is another role of ESC Region 19 Head Start?
400
Represent the respective school district at the quarterly Transition Advisory Committee Meetings and promote a district-wide understanding of the goals and objectives of this collaborative.
What are roles six and eight of the ISDs?
500
ESC Region 19 Executive Director and the ESC 19 Head Start Birth to Four Early Education Director.
Who are the other members' signatures required on the Transition Collaborative Agreement?
500
Is comprised of El Paso and Hudspeth ISD representatives, ESC Region a9 Head Start Birth to Four Early Education Program representatives and ESC Region 19 Head Start Parent Representatives.
Who is the Transition Advisory Committee?
500
To provide follow-up services to children and families in transition.
What is another shared goal and objective?
500
Promote an understanding of the goals and objectives of this collaborative within ESC Region 19 Head Star and each public school district.
What is role 7 of the Responsibilities of Each Party?
500
Contributing members of their child's transition team is recognized and shall be upheld by both parties; be informed of all transition activities, and be recognized as the primary decision makers regarding their child's transition and although active participation will be highly encourage, both parties recognize the right of the family to choose their level of involvement in their child's transition.
What is the role of the family?
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