To assist with alignment work, the following tools and customizable templates are relevant for other schools and programs seeking to embark on or enhance alignment between early childhood education and K–12 in their own contexts.
Professional Learning Communities
- Birth-to-College Professional Learning Community (PLC) Logic Model: the model behind the Professional Learning Community structure and purpose
- Checking Temperature Protocol: checking how participants in a group are feeling about the current dynamics and/or work
- Consultancy Protocol: ways to make a consultancy effective in addressing a dilemma
- PLC Goal Template: form for strategizing goals in a PLC and finding concrete ways to meet them
- PLC Leader Expectations: expectations of those leading a PLC Sample 1 and Sample 2
- PLC Meeting Structure: the format of a PLC meeting
- Sample Meeting Norms: norms for an efficient, productive meeting
- The 5 Qualities of A Successful Team: five actions to take to have the most successful team possible
- Sample PLC Surveys
- PLC Survey Questions: questions given each year to PLC members to gauge the impact and outcomes of the PLC work
- PLC Survey 2012-2013: community survey to evaluate the experience of PLC participants
- PLC Survey Example: possible questions for a PLC survey
Recruitment, Admission and Transition to Kindergarten
- Articulation Checklist: a checklist to assess a child’s articulation abilities against Pre-K standards
- Birth-to-College Recruitment Brochure: brochure used for recruitment of families and children to participate in the Birth-to-College Collaborative
- Educare Screening Form: Eligibility Screening Form for Families Interested in the Ounce of Prevention Fund Educare School for Children Aged 6 Weeks to 5 Years
- Transition Discussion Template: a starting point for discussing a child’s readiness for transition to Kindergarten
- Transition Documentation Consent: form for parents granting consent for release of information regarding a child’s transition to Kindergarten
- UChicago Charter Application 2014-2015: application for children interested in enrolling at UChicago Charter School
