Early Learning Services
Started in the 1960s as a part of the Lyndon B. Johnson's "war on poverty," this early childhood program has served more than 36 million kids nationally and offers comprehensive services for families.
What is Head Start?
This program, which supports the provision of out-of-school time learning programs, began in 1998 as a direct grant from the U.S. Department of Education.
What is the 21st Century Community Learning Centers grant program?
The official process to finalize academic standards after a group of Minnesotans recommend revised academic standards to the commissioner.
What is Rulemaking?
Acronym for CRPSLA.
What is the Council of Regional Public Library Systems Administrators?
The acronym for LETRS.
What is the Language Essentials for Teachers of Reading and Spelling?
These two federal programs require services and protections for children birth to age 5, ensuring children with disabilities receive the educational experiences they need to thrive.
What are Part B 619 and Part C?
This was the first year that 21st Century Community Learning Centers grants were awarded by MDE.
What is 2002?
The acronym for MCA.
What is the Minnesota Comprehensive Assessment?
This great democratic institution serves people of every income level, location, ethnicity, and physical ability from birth to death.
What is a library?
The acronym for CLSD.
What is the Comprehensive Literacy State Development Grant?
Early Learning programs receiving this Quality Rating and Improvement System star rating are eligible for early learning scholarship awards.
What is Parent Aware?
The Expanded Learning Opportunities team shares its initials with this English rock band formed in 1970.
What is the Electric Light Orchestra?
Within statewide academic standards there are this many content areas.
What is six?
Snowshoes, cookie cutters, telescopes, kayaks, baby booster seats, and garden seeds, among other more typical items.
What are some items available for checkout in Minnesota libraries?
A specific learning disability that is neurological in origin. It is characterized by difficulties with accurate or fluent recognition of words and by poor spelling and decoding abilities that typically result from a deficit in the phonological component of language. It is often unexpected in relation to other cognitive abilities and the provision of effective classroom instruction.
What is dyslexia?
Aligned to Minnesota's Academic Standards, these early learning standards cover domains in physical and movement development; language; literacy and communications; mathematics; science; social systems; approaches to learning; the arts; and social and emotional development.
What are the Early Childhood Indicators of Progress?
The Minnesota Student survey asks students about the time they spend doing activities outside of the regular school day. In 2022, more than 70% of students who took the survey said they often or very often spent time doing this.
What is doing something that gives them energy or joy!
In addition to the Arts, this content area has revised standards being implemented during the 2023-24 school year.
What is physical education?
Part of State Library Services that provides focused service to Minnesotans that are blind and /or print disabled.
What is the Minnesota Braille and Talking Book Library?
The date by which the Read Well By Third Grade report must be submitted annually.
What is July 1st?
The goal of this program that is offered statewide to children, birth to 8, and their families is to enhance the ability of all parents and other family members to provide the best possible environments for their child's learning and development.
What is early childhood family education or ECFE?
During the 2021-22 school year, 19,980 students in Minnesota did this at least once.
What is attended programming at a 21st Century Community Learning Center.
The process to demonstrate the state assessments’ technical adequacy and adherence to industry and national best practices.
What is Peer Review?
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What is the number of public library branches and bookmobiles in Minnesota?
These are the 5 subdivisions of MN State Statute 120B.12 – Read Well by Third Grade.
What are: Literacy goal; Identification and report, including Parent notification and involvement; Intervention; Staff Development, including Local Literacy Plan; and Commissioner recommendation.