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Educator Resources

The following links offer additional learning tools for educators  

Common Core

·         NYS Pre-Kindergarten Foundation for the Common Core

·         Common Core Aligned Task Bundles

·         Additional Resources

·         Share Your Ideas

Professional Development

·         Upcoming Trainings

·         Educator Calendar

·         Training Resources

 Screening and Assessment

·         ESI-R Screening

·         Assessment

·         Work Sampling System

 UPK Policies and Resources

·         Community Based Organization (CBO) Universal Pre-Kindergarten (UPK) Welcome Package

·         Early Childhood Environmental Rating Scale-Revised (ECERS-R)

·         Quality Review

·         QUALITYstarsNY

·         Toileting Guidelines

·         Additional Resources


Common Core

NYS Pre-Kindergarten Foundation for the Common Core

In July 2010, New York State adopted the Common Core Standards for K-12.  In October 2011, the state adopted the NYS Prekindergarten Foundation for the Common Core. 

The primary purpose of pre-kindergarten standards is to ensure that all children, including children with disabilities, students with Limited English Proficiency (LEP), and English Language Learners (ELLs) have rich and varied early learning experiences that prepare them for success in school and lay the foundation for college and career readiness.

New York City is rolling out the Common Core standards over the next several years.  The standards will be fully implemented by the 2014-15 school year. 

Common Core Aligned Task Bundles

This year, we are working with teachers and school leaders to build their knowledge and pedagogy around the CCLS, with the ultimate goal of fully implementing the standards by the 2014-15 school year. 

To help accomplish this goal, NYC educators and national experts developed Common Core-Aligned Task Bundles.  These bundles were developed to align to literacy and math concepts that encompass strategically selected standards at each grade level. 

Teachers may implement the bundles as they are written or adapt them to meet the needs of their students. 

Learn about the CCLS Aligned Bundles

·         Watch this video explaining the bundles and their components.

·         Use this exercise and handout to examine the bundles.

·         Read additional guidance about implementing the bundles

See Sample CCLS Aligned Bundles


Additional Resources

Learn more about the Common Core Learning Standards (CCLS) and their implications for teaching and learning through the following videos and exercises.


Helpful Guides

·         Common Core Booklist for Pre-K

·         Common Misunderstandings

·       Together Time At-Home Activities for Families


Principals Behind the CCLS

·         Explanation from the NYC DOE

·         Explanation from the NYS Education Department


Key Instructional Shifts

·         Overarching instructional shifts

·         Shifts in Literacy

·         Shifts in Mathematics


Strategies for Implementation

·         Analyzing student work related to the Common Core

·         Supporting a diversity of learners


Share Your Ideas

We want to learn from you.  If you have created a Common Core aligned resource, bundle, or instructional strategy, please send it to us.  We will develop a bank of resources to share on our website in the coming months.   

Professional Development

Upcoming Trainings

Information on upcoming PDs will be posted as soon as they are available here .

Educator Calendar

The Office of Early Childhood Education Educator Calendar is available here.

Training Resources

The January UPK teacher professional development was focused on strategies for developing children’s literacy knowledge and skills aligned to the Common Core.  Resources used during the professional development include:

·         Information books in early childhood

·         Weaving a web with children at the center: A new approach to emergent curriculum planning for young preschoolers

·         Bridging the vocabulary gap: What the research tells us about vocabulary instruction in early childhood

·         What early childhood educators need to know: Developing effective programs for linguistically and culturally diverse children  

Screening and Assessment

ESI-R Screening

Please contact Michael Greenberg at mgreenberg5@schools.nyc.gov for access to the secure website which includes a timline and other valuable ESI-R information including directions on how to input ESI-R data.

Authentic Assessment

Authentic assessment systems are a formative collection of qualitative student data (i.e. student work, teacher notes) that measure student performance and progress across multiple academic disciplines along a continuum.  They help teacher monitor students' developmental progress over time while informing curriculum and instruction.
          
Authentic assessments are based on teacher observation notes and student work samples gathered in the context of everyday classroom activities and experiences.  This information is collected over time and across multiple domains of development, providing a comprehensive view of the child's learning and progress.  Published authentic assessment tools provide teachers with frameworks to:

·         Strategically collect observational data and student work samples

·         Analyze that information along a developmental continuum

In this way, published authentic assessments capture information about students' individual knowledge, skills, performances, and approaches to learning.  Teachers can use this information to monitor students' development over time and inform curriculum and instruction.

Commonly used published authentic assessment systems include Work Sampling System, Teaching Strategies GOLD, and High Scope Child Observation Record.

Work Sampling System

The Office of Early Childhood Education is pleased to provide training and materials for the Work Sampling System in pre-k through third grade.

For information on Work Sampling for pre-kindergarten to third grade, click here .  

UPK Policies and Resources

Community Based Organization (CBO) Universal Pre-Kindergarten (UPK) Welcome Package

For CBOs new to the Universal Pre-kindergarten Program, please click here for your Welcome Package.

Early Childhood Environmental Rating Scale-Revised (ECERS-R)

For more information on the UPK Program Evaluations, please click here (Evaluation Results & FAQs).

Quality Review

The Quality Review (QR) was developed to assist New York City Department of Education schools in raising student achievement.  The process is designed to look behind a school's performance statistics to ensure that the school is engaged in effective methods of accelerating student learning.  As a result, the QR focuses on the coherence of a school's systems, measuring how well it is organized to meet the needs of its students and adults, as well as monitor and improve its instructional and assessment practices.

For more information, visit the QR website.

QUALITYstarsNY

New York State is currently developing QUALITYstarsNY to support the efforts of early care and learning programs to improve the quality of their services and to give parents the information they need to make a more informed choice.  For information, please click support the efforts of early care and learning programs to improve the quality of their services and to give parents the information they need to make a more informed choice.  For information, please visit QUALITYstarsNY.

Toileting Guidelines

For a copy of our current Toileting Guidelines, please click here .

Additional Resources

·         Jumpstart

·         Cool Culture