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The Preschool/Transitional Kindergarten Learning Foundations (PTKLF) – Guides and Videos | The California Preschool/Transitional Kindergarten Learning Foundations (PTKLF) outline key knowledge and skills that most children ages three to five and a half years old can achieve when provided with the kinds of interactions, instruction, and environments that research has shown to promote early learning and development. The foundations can provide preschool and transitional kindergarten (TK) educators, parents, and the public with a clear understanding of the wide range of knowledge and skills that children typically attain when given the benefits of a high-quality preschool program, whether it be in center-based, home-based, or TK settings. Training on the PTKLF is being provided to early learning educators through the CA Preschool Instructional Network. Contact Cynthia Fong-Wan to learn about upcoming trainings. Email:
Cfong-wan@sccoe.org |
Padlet with all PTKLF documents
8 thirty minute videos on each PTKLF domain |
California Preschool Instructional Network Padlet | CPIN is tasked by the California Department of Education to train on all documents CDE has created pertaining to best practices for ages 3-5. This Padlet contains all CDE documents that support educators and administrators. Contact Cynthia Fong-Wan to learn about upcoming trainings pertaining to the documents on this Padlet. Email:
Cfong-wan@sccoe.org |
Access the Padlet |
English Learner Roadmap |
Preschool/Transitional Kindergarten Toolkit for English Learner Roadmap supports the implementation of the California English Learner Roadmap policy as a framework to guide practice in preschools/TK across the state. This toolkit enacts the commitments of the California Master Plan for Early Learning and Care to provide equitable access and quality care for dual language learners and utilizes the Principles of the California English Learner Roadmap to guide practice. For training contact Hushi Natividad at
hnatividad@sccoe.org |
Roadmap Implementation
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Improving Education for Multilingual and English Learner Students, CDE
| Developed by the CDE, this document provides education leaders with the latest research on accelerated learning, promising practices, asset-based pedagogy, early learning, and designated ELD as it pertains to multilingual learners
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Improving Education for Multilingual and English Learner Students
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The Powerful Role of Play in Early Education | This guide provides educators with information about play-based instructional approaches through the use of developmentally appropriate, research-based, high-quality instructional strategies. |
The Powerful Role of Play |
What I’m learning when I play with ___ (posters) | One-page posters that provide a summary of what children learn across play-based learning centers. Posters are aligned with the CA Preschool Learning Foundations. |
English Posters
Spanish Posters |
Culturally Responsive Practices to Collaborate with Families (article) | This short article provides strategies to connect with families of young children in culturally responsive ways. |
Culturally Rresponsive Practices |
Transition to Elementary School Toolkit | This toolkit is intended to support the development of policies and strategies that bridge Early Care and Education (ECE) and Transitional Kindergarten (TK) through grade twelve (TK-12) systems and support alignment and coherence for children and families during the critical transition to elementary school.
The document provides a list of transition activities, transition activities self-assessment, family data-gathering templates, and more. |
Great Start Transition to Elementary School Toolkit |
Toileting Toolkit (CDE) and Resources | Offers information for Local Education Agencies and Community-Based Organizations to consider as they review and potentially revise their toileting policies and practices to accommodate the inclusion of younger learners with varied developmental needs, in their programs, including through intentional partnerships with their families. |
Developmentally Appropriate Toileting Practices Toolkit
Read Aloud List
Ventura COE Padlet
Webinar Slides, Toileting Independence |
TK Teacher Launchpad | Provides curated resources for TK teachers on the following topics: routines and rituals, behavior expectations, toileting, rest time, recess and outdoor play, partnership with families, parent education, curriculum, social-emotional learning, play-based learning, inclusion, whole-child formative assessment, ELA, supporting multilingual learners, Integrated STEM, Heath/Nutrition, Physical Education, |
View the Launchpad |
Messaging UPK options to Families | Families can visit enrollsantaclara.org to download multilingual 2-page flyers that provide information about early learning options in Santa Clara County. The flyer also provides information about how families can get free help from the Santa Clara County Resource & Referral Program to understand program options and get referrals. Families can conduct a search of all program options on the Santa Clara County Childcare Portal. |
www.enrollsantaclara.org - access to flyers www.childcarescc.org – self-service search for all program options in Santa Clara County |
Erikson Institute – Categorized math activities for early learners | Math activities organized through the Early Math Collaborative within the following topic areas: sets, number sense, counting, operations, patterns, measurement, data analysis, spatial relationships, shapes. |
Website |
DREME – Early Math Resources for Teacher Educators | Organized by module and resource type (activity, articles, handouts, and videos), DREME resources can be used by teacher leaders to create professional development materials. The site also provides playful learning activities that promote math and executive function skills for centers, small groups, guided small groups, and math in storybooks. |
Website |
LEAs and Childcare Provider Networks | If you are a school or district that would like to connect with local childcare providers in your school district, please contact Veronica Garza at vgarza@sccoe.org | Veronica Garza
UPK Coordinator
vgarza@sccoe.org
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Braiding, Blending, and Layering Tool
| The Braiding, Blending, and Layering tool was developed by the Santa Clara County Office of Education's Government Relations Department and supports LEAs with generating uniquely tailored braiding, blending, and layering options for UPK implementation.
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