The name of the screening completed within the first 60 days of enrollment and annually thereafter.
What is an ASQ
The assessment that Sweet Kiddles uses for Baby and Littles
What is Teaching Strategies Gold
This this the program utilized by Middles and Traditional Preschool. It includes studies that are broken down into investigations. It is flexible and child-driven.
What is the Creative Curriculum
This domain involves behaviors that reflect children's emotional growth and their growing ability to successfully regulate their emotions and navigate their social worlds through interactions with teachers and peers.
What is Social and Emotional Development
The processes in which children enroll in the center, transfer from another center, move into another room within in our center, or leave our center
What are Transistions
The standards that describe key concepts and skills that young children develop during the birth–to– five-year period. Their purpose is to support the development and well–being of young children and to foster their learning.
What are The Early Learning and Development Standards (ELDS)
This is the number of times formal assessments are completed at Sweet Kiddles per year
What is Twice Per Year
The curriculum program that Middles and TPS utilizes that involves multi-sensory activities to develop crucial pre-writing skills.
What is Handwriting Without Tears (HWT)
This Domain includes the development of memory, symbolic thought, reasoning and problem solving. It also includes concepts and skills in math, social studies and science.
What is Cognition and General Knowledge
The name that Sweet Kiddles uses to communicate daily with families in order to send them notifications, inform them on their child's daily activities and engage in informal collaboration
What is Brightwheel
The name of the form that families complete upon enrollment to formally communicate their child's family structure, routines, like and dislikes.
What is the Family Information Sheet
The process in which we...
1. Observe and Collect Facts
2. Analyze and Respond
3. Evaluate
4. Summarize, Plan and Communicate
What is the Assessment Cycle
This is the name of the curriculum program that is teachers utilize for our school age children during the school year.
What is Cincy Afterschool
This domain reflects children's learning of language, reading, writing, and how to communicate effectively with their peers and adults.
What is Language and Literacy Development
A comprehensive collection of information that displays evidence of a child's learning and development over time. It may include observational notes, work samples, photographs and sketches
What is a Portfolio
The name of tools used to show how our curriculum programs meet the ELDS
What are Alignment Tools
The step in the assessment cycle that involves collecting observational notes, photographs and work samples to document children's learning
What is Observe and Collect Facts
The Creative Curriculum collection of songs, games and movement experiences that Middles and TPS uses to support children through transitions and "in-between" times during the day.
What are Mighty Minutes (MM)
This domain addresses motor skills and health practices that are essential for children's overall development.
What is Physical Well-Being and Motor Development
The 3 tools teachers use to self-assess their classroom environments and interactions
What are the ITERS, ECERS and SACERS
This is the name of the form that is completed to set individual goals for children using input from an ASQ as well as parent input.
What is the Developmental and Educational Goal Form
The step in the assessment cycle in which we determine a "level" a child has reached in terms of objectives.
What is Evaluate
The social-emotional classroom management system based on current brain research and developmentally appropriate practices that we integrate into our classrooms to help children regulate their emotions.
What is Conscious Discipline (CD)
This domain encompasses the behaviors, dispositions and attitudes that children bring to learning experiences. It includes attention, engagement, persistence as well as curiosity and creativity.
What is Approaches Toward Learning
The form that is used to show how we meet the following criteria: How materials support the learning environment, how intentional organization or the learning environment supports learning, how curriculum is integrated into the learning environment, and how we respond to children
What is the Ohio Classroom Observation Tool (OCOT)