Sentences with phrase «early grades continuum»

In our program and policy work, NBCDI supports federal, state and local efforts to provide increasing numbers of low - income children with access to quality early education and care; efforts to create a strong and supported early childhood workforce; and efforts to promote developmentally and culturally - appropriate standards, curriculum, instruction and assessment that are aligned within and across the early childhood to early grades continuum.

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As a pre-K — 12 school principal, I saw firsthand the importance of the continuum of learning from the earliest grades to high school graduation.

Tozer met with the Connecticut Governor's Pre-K to 3rd Grade Policy Symposium in April to communicate that strong school leadership needs to understand the value proposition of early childhood education and needs to foster strong instruction that maintains a continuum of development in pre-K through third grade.

Experts also discussed using ESSA to build a birth - through - third grade continuum, to include early learning in school improvement strategies and support family engagement.

It is important that the high quality the field seeks in preschool is carried through to third grade, the upper end of the early childhood continuum.

It is important that the high quality the field asks for in preschool is carried through to third grade, the upper end of the early childhood continuum.

This revised edition of the District of Columbia Early Learning Standards shows the continuum of learning and development expected of all young children, from birth through grade three.

The purpose of the bill is to help principals create a seamless continuum of learning experiences from pre-K through grade 3 by providing a delivery system to train principals how to provide appropriate early learning environments.

Further, P - 3 requires ensuring that there is increased alignment across the continuum of learning settings so that, for example, teachers collaborate and share data across grade levels; standards and assessments are aligned across age levels; assessments are aligned with instruction; families partner with schools; schools partner with early learning / preschool programs; and children have smooth transitions as they move throughout the system.

The data also highlight the lack of common measures of quality across early childhood programs and early elementary experiences and the need for better alignment across the preschool - to - third - grade continuum.