Staff Weekly Update
Week of 10/21
Daily Sign In Sheet Process
Please assist in making sure all our families sign their child into school. Teachers greet families daily and do visual health checks (making sure children do not have bruises, scratches or anything usual) then obtain the signatures from the families. ANYONE who drops off our students need to sign using their FULL SIGNATURE. Our program will send this reminder out to parents in next week's emailed announcements. No initials or scribbles are acceptable. See attached regulation.
NOTE: When a child is dropped off with no signature, CONTACT THE OFFICE IMMEDIATELY (Tracy or Frankie) so we can contact the parent and ask for someone to return to properly sign the child in. As explained at our parent orientation and in our family handbook, an authorized adult must sign and give our preschool the LIABILITY to serve the student for the time they are with us especially for emergency purposes. **Family handbooks can be viewed at crownpreschool.com or strand.coronadousd.net.
Children can be signed in at preschool then signed out at Extended Care and vice versa. This movement will be tracked on our head to face forms used by the classroom teacher.
Please ask for any clarification if needed!
Professional Development Opportunities
The San Diego Quality Preschool Initiative (QPI) offers professional development opportunities for preschool, infant, toddler, and transitional kindergarten teachers including administrators, and family child care providers. QPI offers workshops centered around assessment and screening, curriculum and instruction, family engagement, and leadership.
These workshops are open to the public for a fee, and are offered at no cost to identified QPI participants.
To view workshop descriptions and register, click on the event dates below. Contact Kelly Slocum at 858-571-7203 or kelly.slocum@sdcoe.net for more information.
As always, the QPI website is available at qpi.sdcoe.net. It is designed to be the go-to, high-quality early care and education information resource for parents and providers.
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For infant, toddler, preschool, and transitional kindergarten teachers, including family child care providers: Learn about different tools that screen and assess child development as well as learning environments to inform and improve practice.
- Ages and Stages Questionnaires, Third Edition (ASQ-3): Overview*(Feb.11)
- Ages and Stages Questionnaires: Social-Emotional, Second Edition (ASQ: SE-2) Overview:* (Feb.19, March 19)
- CLASS: Concept Development (Dec. 3, May 14)
- CLASS: Instructional Learning Formats (Nov. 6, May 6)
- CLASS: Introduction to Quality Teacher-Infant Interactions** (March 26)
- CLASS: Introduction to Quality Teacher-Toddler Interactions** (April 1, April 9)
- CLASS: Quality of Feedback (Nov. 13, March 24)
- CLASS: Regard for Student Perspectives (Nov. 20)
Desired Results Developmental Profile [DRDP (2015)] (Feb. 6)
DRDP (2015): Meaningful Observation and Portfolio Training (Oct. 25, Nov. 15, April 3)
DRDP (2015): Planning with Data (Oct. 29)
- ERS: Learning Environments for Infants and Toddlers** (Feb. 5, Feb 13)
- ERS: Learning Environments for Preschool and Transitional Kindergarten (Dec. 4, Feb. 18)
- ERS: Optimizing Children's Learning Through Free Play (Nov. 7, April 15)
*Please note: Only SDCOE Quality Preschool Initiative partnering agencies may register for Ages and Stages Questionnaires training (First 5 QPI, CSPP Quality Block Grant or QCC Block Grant). A special code is required for registration.
**For infant/toddler educators and care providers.
For infant, toddler, preschool, and transitional kindergarten teachers, including family child care providers: Learn strategies that improve instruction across content areas, promote healthy cognitive and social-emotional development, while creating a developmentally appropriate and culturally responsive learning space.
- Art Alive, Birth to Five (Nov. 5)
- Brain Development (April 8, April 22)
- CPIN: English Language Development - Listening and Speaking (Oct. 22, March 11)
- CPIN: Family Partnerships and Culture (Nov. 20, Jan. 16, April 9)
- CPIN: History and Social Science - Becoming a Preschool Community Member (Feb. 17)
- CPIN: History and Social Science - Sense of Time/Sense of Place (Oct. 30, Dec. 12)
- CPIN: Language and Literacy: Dialogic Reading (Jan. 21, May 6)
- CPIN: Math - Math Reasoning (Dec. 10, Dec. 18, April 28)
- CPIN: PEL Guide (Nov. 25, Jan. 21)
- CPIN: Physical Education: Perceptual Motor Skills & Movement Concepts (Nov. 7, Dec. 11)
- CPIN: Science - Scientific Inquiry (Feb. 12, April 1)
- CPIN: Social Emotional Development: Self (Jan. 9, Feb. 14, March 17)
- Intentional Planning and Teaching (Dec. 11, April 7)
- Making Stories Come Alive (March 31)
- Thinking Beyond Me... Why Children Need Social and Emotional Skills (April 16)
For infant, toddler, preschool, and transitional kindergarten teachers, including family child care providers: Learn how to increase family strengths and promote healthy family interactions through the five protective factors, and how to build relationships with families through culturally-competent practices.
Strengthening Families Overview (Nov. 21, April 29, May 7 in Spanish)
For site supervisors, directors, and administrators: Learn how to strengthen leadership skills, provide effective feedback, and use assessment and screening data for professional development.
Administrator: Instructional Leadership Through a Reflective Process (Feb. 4)
For infant, toddler, preschool, and transitional kindergarten teachers, including family child care providers: Build the capacity of staff to provide parent education workshops.
- Teaching Pyramid Infant Toddler, Module 1a**: (Feb. 10)
- Teaching Pyramid Infant Toddler, Module 1b**: (March 19)
- Teaching Pyramid, Module 1: Promoting Children's Success: Building Relationships and Creating Supportive Environments (Dec. 9)
- Teaching Pyramid, Module 2: Social-Emotional Teaching Strategies (Dec. 17)
- Teaching Pyramid, Module 3a: Individualized Intensive Interventions: Determining the Meaning of Challenging Behavior (April 13)
- Teaching Pyramid, Module 3b: Individualized Intensive Interventions: Determining the Meaning of Challenging Behavior (May 6)
*Please note that Teaching Pyramid workshops are only open for professionals working at a program that is implementing Teaching Pyramid agency-wide, has a Leadership Team supporting fidelity of implementation, and is participating in SDCOE Quality Preschool Initiative (QPI). Registration
for individuals not meeting the above criteria will not be confirmed. A special code is needed to unlock registration.**For infant/toddler educators and care providers
For infant, toddler, and preschool teachers, including family child care providers: Build the capacity of staff to provide parent education workshops.
- Trainer of Trainers (ToT): Teaching Pyramid for Families*: (Nov. 8)
- Trainer of Trainers (ToT): Positive Solutions for Families**: (Nov. 15)
- Trainer of Trainers (ToT): Positive Discipline**: (Feb. 6 & 7)
* Please note that this is only for First 5 QPI participating agencies implementing Teaching Pyramid Framework agency-wide.
** Please note that this is only for agencies participating in First 5 QPI.
Silver Strand Preschool Assistant Wanted!
Emergency Contacts
Please ask the office to print the temporary email to keep with the emergency card.
Thank you!