Employment Opportunity: Statewide OSPI/ESD WaKIDS Professional Development Coordinator

Meetings and Training

• Regional ESD WaKIDS Overview Meetings - May 2012
  Presentation (PDF)
• Dates for August WaKIDS teacher training will be available May 15.

Volunteer

• District Assessment Coordinators may register schools with kindergarten classes that are not state-funded/full-day for fall 2012 WaKIDS implementation by visiting Washington Assessment Management System (WAMS) by April 26, 2012.

Waivers

• Application and criteria for waiver from fall 2012 WaKIDS implementation -
  DUE: April 20, 2012
• Application for waiver from 180-day requirement, if needed to implement WaKIDS in fall 2012 - DUE: May 8, 2012

Webinars

• WaKIDS Implementation: Preparing for the 2012-13 School Year (March 2012)
  Presentation (WMV) | Presentation (PDF) | Handout (PDF) | Q & A (PDF)
• WaKIDS Family Connection (June 2011)
  Presentation (WMV)
• WaKIDS Overview (May 2011)
  Presentation (WMV) | Q & A (PDF)
• WaKIDS Pilot Overview (April 2010)
  Presentation (PDF)

Press Releases

• Kindergarten Inventory Passes House
• Dorn’s 2011 Legislative Agenda Proves Successful

OSPI Memoranda and Bulletins

• Preparation for and Implementation of the Washington Kindergarten Inventory of Developing Skills (WaKIDS) in Fall 2012 (Word)

Fast Facts

• 2012-13 school year: To the extent funds are available, WaKIDS will be used in every state-funded full-day kindergarten classroom in the state of Washington, unless a district applies for, and receives, a waiver.
• 2011-12 school year: WaKIDS was voluntarily implemented in some of Washington’s state-funded full-day kindergarten classrooms. These voluntary participants included 68 school districts / 165 schools and involved 479 teachers / 10,000+ kindergarteners. (View the complete list of state-funded full-day kindergarten programs.)
• 2010-11 school year: WaKIDS was piloted in 51 school districts / 63 schools, involving 3000 children in 120 classrooms.

Legislation

• House Bill 2586 (2012)
• WaKIDS Legislative Briefing Paper (2011) (PDF)
• RCW 28A.150.220 (2011)
• RCW 28A.150.315 (2011)

Reports

• Bias and Sensitivity Review of WaKIDS (2011)
  Report (PDF) | Appendices) (PDF)
• WaKIDS Pilot: Reports to the Legislature (2011)
  January (PDF) | June (PDF)
• WaKIDS Pilot Preliminary Report (2011) (PDF)
• WaKIDS Performance Goals (PDF)
• Kindergarten Assessment Process Planning Report (2008) (PDF)
• Early Learning in Washington Public Schools (2008) (PDF)

Handouts

• “Introducing Me! / ¡Yo me presento!” (PDF) (other versions of "Introducing Me!": Korean, Punjabi, Russian, Tagalog, more languages to come by fall 2012).
  NOTE: If you would like to print out this booklet using the duplex (front/back) feature on your printer, please make sure that you manually choose the "Landscape" orientation option, or the back side of each page will be printed upside down.
• What Is WaKIDS? (PDF)
• Department of Early Learning Kindergarten Checklist (PDF)
• Let’s Talk About It: Your Child’s Education (PDF)
• Early Learning to Kindergarten Transition Workbook (PDF)

Links

• Getting School Ready!
• “Love. Talk. Play.”