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Transition 2 Kindergarten Network

Ensuring all Rochester children are ready for success in kindergarten

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Project Impact(s): Education

This project is in Available Phase.

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Collaborators, Project Type, Impacts, Related Projects

 

Collaborators 

Lead Organization: Cradle to Career

Contact: TBD ; Email: TBD ; Phone: TBD

Known/Likely Collaborators: Civic League Day Nursery ; Aldrich Memorial Nursery School ; County of Olmsted, MN ; Families First (Fomerly: Child Care Resource and Referral) ; IMAA ; Listos Preschool and Childcare ; Rochester Public Library ; Rochester Public Schools ; Spark (Formerly Minnesota Children's Museum - Rochester)

Potential Collaborators:

Related Projects

Impacts 

Major Impact:  Networking

PlanScape Impacts :

Level 1: Education

Level 2: C2C: Kindergarten Readiness

DMC Impacts:

Community Health Impacts:

Type of Project

Planning  

 

 

Detailed Description

Transition 2 Kindergarten Network

Result: Every child enters kindergarten ready to succeed.

Strategies

The Transition 2 Kindergarten Network believes kindergarten readiness is a shared responsibility. We are focused on two strategies: utilizing the Minnesota Department of Education’s Successful Learner Equation and supporting social-emotional learning for young children before kindergarten entry.

In practice, this currently looks like:

  • Creating a centralized Early Childhood Resource Hub 

  • Communicating with and building a shared understanding of “Successful Learner” for the community 

  • Engaging caregivers and educators in refining social-emotional learning supports within early childhood programs through the community co-design process

  • Developing and implementing a shared community data dashboard to visualize early childhood indicator data 

  • Distributing, repurposing, and increasing access to Transition to Kinder Cards 

  • Addressing child care barriers and recommendations outlined in the Childcare Insights report 

 

Strategy

The Transition 2 Kindergarten Network believes kindergarten readiness is a shared responsibility. We are focused on two strategies: utilizing the Minnesota Department of Education’s Successful Learner Equation and supporting social-emotional learning for young children before kindergarten entry.

In practice, this currently looks like:

  • Creating a centralized Early Childhood Resource Hub 

  • Communicating with and building a shared understanding of “Successful Learner” for the community 

  • Engaging caregivers and educators in refining social-emotional learning supports within early childhood programs through the community co-design process

  • Developing and implementing a shared community data dashboard to visualize early childhood indicator data 

  • Distributing, repurposing, and increasing access to Transition to Kinder Cards 

  • Addressing child care barriers and recommendations outlined in the Childcare Insights report 

 

 

 

Metrics
Unknown

 

 

Last modified by allnode on 2024/09/11
Created by allnode on 2024/09/11

 

 

 

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