Education and Child Development
This meal- time style promotes child-teacher interactions, socialization, and development.
What is Family Style Dining?
PIR stands for
What is Program Information Report?
The following are situations when what should be occurring: after toileting, before eating, after handling pets.
What is hand washing?
Each child must have this plan on or before they are 30 months old, when leaving or transferring to another program (i.e. from EHS to HS, from HS to Kindergarten)
What is a Transitional Plan?
The two items parents need to turn in to us to complete their child's application.
What are birth record and income or categorical eligibility documents?
The curriculum we use to support effective and intentional teaching practice.
What is High Scope?
They are charged with fiscal, programmatic and service oversight.
Who are the Sponsoring Board?
Lists of children that are posted in a folder and updated by Family Service as needed in each classroom.
What are Allergies and Asthma lists?
Family Advocates offer parents this that describes family goals, and responsibilities. It includes timetables and strategies for achieving these goals as well as progress in achieving them.
What is a Family Partnership Agreement Plan?
Staff that work directly with the families in accessing resources, assessing the family's needs and strengths, and setting family goals.
Who are Family Advocates?
Ensuring that our students will be Kindergarten ready and are following the Head Start Performance Standards.
What are School Readiness goals?
This represents the parents of the program and shares the governance responsibilities with the Sponsoring Board.
Who are the Policy Council?
Checklist used by teachers to ensure classroom and playground are ready for the day.
What is Daily Health and Safety checklist?
In addition to involving parents in program policy-making and operations, we must provide parent involvement and education activities that are responsive to the ongoing and expressed needs of the parents, both as individuals and as members of a group. Other community agencies should be encouraged to assist in the planning and implementation of such programs.
What are Family and Community Partnerships?
Completed applications go on this list we are required to keep year round.
What is the waiting list?
The data system we use to document and track a child's development and school readiness.
What is COR?
Annual Strategic Planning, Community Assessment, PIR, Long Range Program Goals and Financial Objectives are used to
What is Monitor Program Performance?
Partnering program that provides transportation services for Pouch children due to their IEP services.
What is Early Childhood Special Education?
Volunteering to gardening, read to the class, parent meetings, and in-school activities are all examples of this
What is In-kind?
What does Family Service do every day after 9 am for every child that is unexpectedly absent?
What is call the parent and document it?
The research-based developmental standardized screening we use during the child's first 45 days of attending the program.
What are the ESI and the Brigance?
Identify long and short- term goals and objectives. Updated annually, full assessment completed every 5 years. Confirms needs based on demographic, environmental, or economic changes.
What is Community Assessment?
The frequency of which toothbrushing should occur in the classroom.
What is at least once a day?
What provides families with children ages birth to age five with comprehensive health, education, nutritional, social, and developmental service to promote school readiness?
What is Head Start?
The guidelines used to determine eligibility for Head Start and Early Head Start.
What are the Federal Poverty Guidelines?