San Bernardino County Transitional Kindergarten

Task Force

May 10, 2011

***Please sit with your work group.***

Day 3 Agenda

• Updates and new resources• Share newly discovered questions/concerns• Work groups reports of progress• Group thoughts and feedback• Time to work in groups

SB 30

• Kindergarten: age of admission and readiness.• An act to amend Sections 48000 and 48005.45 of

the Education Code, relating to kindergarten.• 2011-04-07 - Re-referred to Com. on ED. • 2011-04-27 - Set for hearing May 11.

Update

• The State Board of Education has asked the Early Learning Advisory Council (ELAC) for instructional program implementation recommendations for transitional kindergarten. ELAC would work with experts to develop content standards that will bridge the Preschool Learning Foundations with the Kindergarten Common Core Standards. ELAC will take action on this request at its next meeting on May 19, 2011.

Pre School California

• Media Center has 100 resources on Transitional Kindergarten including examples of letters to parents and PPTs as well reports, updates and videos.

• Monthly T-K conference calls are archived

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Fresno County Office of Education

• Information about the legislative intent of the School Readiness Act of 2010 (SB 1381), the development of model programs and the latest research, practices and lessons learned from existing programs was provided and many of these resources are available on this website.

• Includes PPTs and videos from each session of the Central Valley conference in March.

Transition Kindergarten:

A New Step on the

P-3 Continuum

PROMISE Design Center: Preschool Resource Guide

• http://preschool.promise-initiative.org/• The purpose of the PROMISE Preschool

Resource Guide is to provide research-based evidence and best practices for preschools enrolling three- through five-year-old dual language children.

Included in the guide:• Teacher and Adminstrator Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs) an

d Vignettes Learning Environment – Vignette

• Curriculum and Instruction – Vignette

• Family Engagement – Vignette

• Assessment – Vignette

• Parent FAQs In English• En Español• Additional Research and Resources