HomeMy WebLinkAbout20090868MEMORANDUM
DATE: April 9, 2009
TO: William F. Garcia, Chair, Board of County Commissioners
CFROM: Judy A. Griego, Director, Human Services D�¢�rtmetOL4
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COLORADO RE: Weld County Department of Human Services' Family
Educational Network's Outcomes Report for the Regional
School Year 2008-2009
Enclosed for Board Approval is the Outcomes Report for the Family Educational Network's
Regional Head Start Program for the 2008-2009 program year. This report reflects the
Baseline Assessment data gathered in the fall of 2008 for the children enrolled in the
FENWC Regional Head Start Program. This was presented at the Board's March 23, 2009,
Work Session.
If you have any questions, give me a call at extension 6510.
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Family Educational Network of Weld County
Regional Head Start
Parent Policy Council Program Report
Outcomes Report
Regional School Year 2008 - 2009
Baseline Assessment
Family Educational Network of Weld County
Regional Parent Policy Council
Outcomes Report
Regional Program Year 2008 - 2009
Baseline Assessment
This is the Outcomes report for the FENWC Regional Head Start for the 2008 - 2009 program year. This
report reflects the Baseline Assessment data gathered in Fall 2008 for the children enrolled in the FENWC
Regional Head Start program.
Each child enrolled in the Head Start program is assessed using the Creative Curriculum Individual Child
Profile. Teachers observe children as they participate in everyday activities and then assess their progress
on objectives three times a year as "Forerunner," "Step I," "Step II," or "Step III." "Forerunner" level
offers teachers a way to identify children who are not yet at the initial level of typical preschool
development but show beginning evidence of developing the skill. Step I approximates a beginning level
of typical preschool development. Steps II and Step III represent higher levels in acquiring the particular
skill.
This assessment and the outcome information gathered from it are used to help direct and guide the
lesson planning and instruction process.
Head Start programs are legislatively mandated to collect and analyze data regarding 13 specific
elements and indicators in language, literacy and numeric skills. The program summary graphs included
in this Outcomes Report reflects the following data gathered from the FENWC program:
Language: Understands an increasingly complex and varied vocabulary
Develops increasing abilities to understand and use language
Uses an increasingly complex and varied spoken vocabulary
Literacy: Phonological Awareness
Associates sounds with written words
Book knowledge and appreciation
Print awareness and concepts
Recognizes a word as a unit of print
Identifies at least 10 letter of the alphabet
Knows that letters of the alphabet are a special category
Math: Number and Operations '
Areas evaluated in this column include:
Classifies objects
Compares/measures
Arranges objects in a series
Recognizes patterns and can repeat them
Shows awareness of time concepts and sequence
Uses one-to-one correspondence
Uses numbers and counting
The program summary graphs also include a column of data gathered regarding the children's
development in the areas of Science, Creative Art, Approaches to Learning, Social Emotional, and Physical
Health. The program summary graphs show the percentage of those children included in the report who
were at the level of "Forerunner," "Step I," "Step II," or "Step III" for the baseline assessment.
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