Administrators

As a district or building administrator, you are key to promoting early learning in your community and helping parents, community providers and K-3 educators understand the importance of early learning as a strategy for student success.

Engaging Your Community

Ready Children: The Case for School District Investment in Early Learning (PPT)

Developing Effective Early Learning Programs requires new ways of thinking about early learning as a strategy for student success. The goal of every child reading at grade level by the end of third grade is suggested as a framework for aligning efforts.

• 6 Shifts in Thinking + 4 Critical Constants for K-12 Educators (pdf)
• Third Grade Reading Goal: Why It's Important (pdf)
• Aligning Efforts to Achieve Third Grade Reading Goal (pdf)
• Keys to Success: Lessons From Early Learning Programs in Washington (pdf)

Aligning Resources

Use Title I funds for Early Learning professional development for staff and community partners-Birth through Age 8! (PPT)

The Economic Benefits of High-Quality Early Childhood Programs: What Makes the Difference? (PDF)

Washington's Emerging P-3 Network

A number of school districts across the state are aligning curriculum and teaching practices pre-school through kindergarten, kindergarten through 3rd grade and pre-school through 3rd grade.

• K-3 Demonstration sites - Project completed. Three schools developed model programs. View K-3 Demonstration Project Final Report 2009 (PDF).
• Early Learning in Washington Public Schools Report (PDF)