Category 1
With parental consent the following are completed and results are shared with families.
Vision, dental and hearing screenings
This shows evidence that programs are responsive to serving culturally and linguistically diverse populations.
What is home language policy, labeling materials in home language?
This is used to identify whether families entering the program have any needs or challenges in the areas of parental resilience, social connections, and/or concrete support.
What is the Protective Factors Survey?
On this level 5 standard, ___% of teaching staff should have a CDA and/or a professional development plan.
What is 50%?
This helps programs estimate income and costs, and make sound financial decisions.
What is a one-year operating budget?
These are provided annually to parents and include topics such as nutrition and obesity, mental/behavioral health issues, and communicable disease prevention.
What are health and safety workshops/resources?
This is required daily for infants, toddlers, and twos, and weekly for preschoolers.
What is documentation of communication with parents?
At the 3-level, this must be offered to all enrolled families; at the 4-level, it must be offered to all enrolled families 2x per year.
What are home visits?
Evidence of this may include a self-assessment, family surveys and Individual Professional Development Plans.
What is an Annual Performance Review?
This could help a director know if he/she needs to add employee benefits or increase teachers’ salaries.
What is a system for tracking teacher turnover?
This tool typically is conducted to identify each child’s strengths and difficulties.
What is a research based developmentally screening tools?
A copy must be provided signatures should be collected no training needed at this level.
What are NJ Birth to three standards and Preschool standards?
The purpose of creating this group is to engage enrolled families, support their participation in the education of their children, and ask them to provide input and advice on the program’s policies, procedures and practices.
What is a parent/family group?
Supervisor(s) of teaching staff must have, at a minimum, a CDA or equivalent ____ credits in Early Childhood in the age group that the program serves to meet this level 3 standard.
What are 9 credits?
This outlines a program’s goals as well as possible strategies to achieve these goals.
What is a business/strategic plan?
True or False: At the 5 level, all staff must have a current 1st aid/ CPR certification.
False.
All staff that are identified in the adult/child ratio, need to have a current 1st aid/CPR certification.
Programs use these to create lesson plans that individualize children's learning.
What are PBA Screening results?
At the 3-level, participation in this type of group should be encouraged; at the 4-level there should be evidence of participation.
What are local community organizations?
Level 4 criteria for this standard requires signed receipt of info on developmentally appropriate practices, diversity, age-appropriate standards, and appropriate adult-child interactions with this type of staff.
What are non-instructional staff?
If a program had an excellent one of these, they’d likely have a waiting list.
What is a marketing/recruitment plan?
This self-assessment tool allows programs to identify how well they are implementing national health and nutrition standards.
What is the Healthy Kids Healthy Future aka Let’s Move Checklist?
This serves as a measurement of quality to help the program demonstrate that children in their program are meeting expectations at different times of the year.
What is PBA aggregated data?
This can be used to assess engagement of and interactions with parents and families
What is the Strengthening Families Protective Factors Framework?
A program fully implementing these research-based assessments provides teachers with strategies promoting social-emotional competence and effectively addressing challenging behaviors.
What are the TPOT and/or TPITOS assessments?
This group of people from the community helps guide program improvement.
What is an advisory council?