Developing the Roadmap
The number of listening and feedback sessions held to develop the Roadmap
What is 65?
An increasing number of Florida households are considered ALICE. ALICE is an acronym for these five words.
What is Asset-Limited, Income-Constrained, Employed?
The National Association for the Education of Young Children (NAEYC) defines this term as “methods that promote each child’s optimal development and learning through a strengths-based, play-based approach to joyful, engaged learning"
What is developmentally appropriate practice?
The rate of early educators in Florida that live below the Federal Poverty Level
What is one in six?
This number is the percentage of Florida families with young children who are considered low-income and unable to afford high-quality learning without support
What is more than 42%?
These three initial phases were involved in developing the Roadmap
What are (1) the Listening Tour; (2) Drafting the Roadmap; (3) Community Feedback?
The issue with existing VPK funding in Florida
What is "it is only funded to operate three hours per day"?
The goal of Impactful Learning Experiences has three primary recommendations, including this:
What is (any of the following):
-Move toward a fully-funded quality early learning system
-Increase understanding of the importance of early learning and the value of developmentally appropriate practice
-Improve training, professional development, and the availability of expert support for early learning teachers?
This is described in the Roadmap as a key driver of child success in early learning environments
What is the quality of teachers?
This entity is responsible for the state's major publicly funded early learning programs
What is the Florida Division of Early Learning?
This was the name given to the sessions of the initial statewide Listening Tour with parents and educators that informed The Future Project.
What is “Let’s Talk”?
A Thriving Parents Roadmap recommendation involves expanding parent engagement strategies to include family-centered places like these
What are grocery stores or libraries?
One of the Roadmap recommendations related to moving towards a fully-funding quality early learning system
What is (any of the following):
-Increase per-child funding levels
-Find sustainable funding streams to provide reliable resources
-Increase teacher compensation?
One of the Roadmap recommendations to increase public awareness, appreciation, and respect for the important and challenging work done by early learning professionals
What is (any of the following):
-Launch a statewide educational campaign
-Expand state and local community recognition opportunities, including Early Learning Teacher of the Year award
-Provide specialized staff, additional training, and other resources to support teachers in addressing challenges in their classrooms?
This is the return on investment that Nobel Prize winning economist James Heckmann has estimated investments in high-quality early learning could generate
What is more than 13%?
At least three guiding principles that form the foundation for any effective early learning system
What are (any of the following):
-Relationships are the foundation
-Adequate funding is required
-High expectations are coupled with sufficient support
-It takes all of us
-Families' basic needs must be met
-Mental health is fundamental
These individuals should have access to opportunities to co-create the policies that impact them
Who are parents and providers?
Trained personnel with expertise in this area should be placed in the classroom to support teachers in meeting the needs of children with disabilities
What is behavioral health?
The Goal for A Respected Workforce includes teachers and directors being supported with one of these types of support
What is (any of the following):
-Ample training
-Competitive compensation
-Benefits that support making a living as career early learning professionals?
This Roadmap recommendation will identify gaps, duplication of services, and opportunities for coordination amongst early childhood options
What is "Create and biannually review an easy-to understand system map of early learning options and interactions with family services?"
The total number of recommendations included in Florida’s Early Learning Roadmap
What is 41?
A Palm Beach parent was talking about this when they are quoted saying, “some things you are going through you don’t have to tell your mom or your man.”
What is the need for a support group?
Two of the Roadmap recommendation's to increase understanding of the importance of early learning and the value of developmentally appropriate practice
What are (any two of the following):
-Engage state and local policymakers as champions to educate their peers
-Launch a public awareness campaign to educate community stakeholders
-Promote programming that addresses the unique developmental needs of infants and toddlers
-Strengthen coaching and support for teachers to enhance Florida’s accountability system
-Ensure adequate play time for children?
This resource is used in all publicly funded early learning classrooms to measure the quality of teacher-child interactions in Florida
What is the Classroom Assessment Scoring System (CLASS) tool?
A Roadmap recommendation is to regularly review data to identify and address disparities in outcomes for two of these examples of populations
What are (any two of the following):
Dual language learners
Immigrant families
Rural populations
Children with disabilities or special health care needs
Families living in poverty
Particular racial and ethnic groups?