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Early Learning Guidelines
The Early Learning Guidelines (ELG) are a set of goals and statements about expectations for children's understanding and behavior. They reflect the wholeness of young children's growth and development and the complexity of our knowledge.
The Early Learning Guidelines are carefully aligned with Early Head Start and Head Start Child Outcomes and developed with alignment to Idaho's K-12 standards. They are divided into broad age ranges from birth to school age.
The ELG were created by a team of Idaho's early childhood professionals for all those who raise, care for, and teach young children.
Sponsors of the project include the Early Childhood Coordinating Council, Infant Toddler Program, Idaho Head Start Collaboration, and the State Department of Education.
Coming soon.
Coming soon.
No Child Left Behind - Title I
Parent Involvement Analysis Tool
Academic Development Institute (ADI) has created a tool that Illinois has been using with all their Title I schools to do a Parent Involvement Analysis, and the Institute is letting Idaho pilot the tool to help assess and address parent involvement policies and practices. The initial pilot will allow all districts which under went program monitoring in the 2008-2009 cycle to use this tool to resolve parent involvement findings, create a plan to improve their parent involvement process and ensure they are prepared for parent involvement pieces of their self-assessment and future program monitoring.
The tool is aligned with NCLB parent involvement requirements and will help with review and creation of new parent involvement policies. The entire process takes approximately 4-5 hours and guides the team through needs assessment analysis to identifying objectives and forming a parent involvement plan (which fits into the school improvement plan). The analysis and planning takes place at the school level, but the tool allows for district and state review after the process has been completed by the building team without additional reporting.
For more information please contact Joan MacMillan at
jemacmillan@sde.idaho.gov
Link to Parent
Involvement Analysis Tool
From the Federal guidance on parent involvement:
"The term "parental involvement" means the participation of parents
in regular, two-way, meaningful communication involving student academic learning
and other school activities, including ensuring –
- That parents play an integral role in assisting their child’s learning;
- That parents are encouraged to be actively involved in their child’s education at school;
- That parents are full partners in their child’s education and are included, as appropriate, in decision-making and on advisory committees to assist in the education of their child; and
- The carrying out of other activities, such as those described in section 1118 of the ESEA. [Section 9101(32), ESEA.]"
Program monitored NCLB Parent Notifications
All Title I schools or districts
LEA’s in School Improvement
Notice to Parents
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| School Choice – option to transfer to another school not in improvement status |
Supplemental Educational Services (SES) [Year 2
of School Improvement or if Choice is not available]
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Chart from federal guidance of Parental Notice Requirements
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Other Resources
New Title I Toolkit for Parental
Involvement
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Non-Regulatory Guidance
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Resources for Parental Involvement
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