Brain Builders Video

Source: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OQTfmnYB7I0

Pathway to Children Ready for School & Succeeding in

the Third Grade

Exemplary Practices in Educational Leadership Conference

Brain Builders – First Five Years Fund

“Every child-adult interaction matters

for young children.”

How Can We Support the Path to 3rd Grade Reading?

Birth

3rd Grade

Brain Research

Social Emotio

nal

Language

Cognition

Research is Telling Us

Vital Connection

Nurturing and

Responsive

Relationships

Interactive Language

LANGUAGE IS THE FOUNDATION

OF LITERACY

Research is Telling Us

WARM, RESPONSIVE

INTERACTIVE

LANGUAGE IS THE FOUNDATION OF LITERACY

Hart and Risely (1995)

Hart & Risely conducted a longitudinal study of children and families from three groups:

• Professional families• Working-class families• Families on welfare

Cumulative Language Experiences

Cumulative Words Spoken to Child (in millions)

0

10

20

30

40

50

0 12 24 36 48Age of child (in months)

Professional

Working

Welfare

How do we help children and families address this inequity?

The Research is Telling Us?

EveryYear

Matters

In human development, the successful completion of each stage enables us to move on to the next.

The Research is Telling Us?

We need to improve the learning

opportunities at each stage, starting with

babies.

The Research is Telling Us?

We worry about what a child will be tomorrow, yet we forget that he is someone today.

--Stacia Tauscher

What Are the Pieces of Wisdom Telling Us?

We need to create better connections between each stage to support continuity of learning and development for each child.

0-3

3-5

5-8

The Research is Telling Us?

What Are the Pieces of Wisdom Telling Us?

There is increasing recognition that Third

Grade is a crucial turning point in

educational trajectories.

The Research is Telling Us?

Different Names --- Common Goals Telling Us?

Preschool – 3rd P-3

Birth – 3rdB-3

The Research is Telling Us?

Increase access to high quality, comprehensive services at each age level.

Birth To

Three

Three To

Five

K To

3rd Grade

The Research is Telling Us?

Increase collaboration and continuity of services across the age levels

Birth To

Three

Three To

Five

K To

3rd Grade

BIRTH TO 3RD

Challenging Steps for B3 Progress

• Improve quality of instruction across 0-8 programs through continuity of services, workforce development, and increased family and community involvement.

• Improve quality of instruction across 0-8 programs through continuity of services, workforce development, and increased family and community involvement.

• Work towards an aligned and seamless system of learning standards, outcomes, curriculum, assessment, and support for children from birth through third grade.

• Create effective data systems that provide timely information about student learning and inform teachers and caregivers along the 0-8 continuum.

• Improve quality of instruction across 0-8 programs through continuity of services, workforce development, and increased family and community involvement.

• Work towards an aligned and seamless system of learning standards, outcomes, curriculum, assessment, and support for children from birth through third grade.

• Increase access and opportunity for support and intervention for children with the greatest needs.

• Improve quality of instruction across 0-8 programs through continuity of services, workforce development, and increased family and community involvement.

• Work towards an aligned and seamless system of learning standards, outcomes, curriculum, assessment, and support for children from birth through third grade.

• Create effective data systems that provide timely information about student learning and inform teachers and caregivers along the 0-8 continuum.

• Increase access and opportunity for support and intervention for children with the greatest needs.

• Improve quality of instruction across 0-8 programs through continuity of services, workforce development, and increased family and community involvement.

• Work towards an aligned and seamless system of learning standards, outcomes, curriculum, assessment, and support for children from birth through third grade.

• Create effective data systems that provide timely information about student learning and inform teachers and caregivers along the 0-8 continuum.

Partner with Parents: The Best Advocates for Quality and Continuity

They see their children as they are

today…

And tomorrow…

And tomorrow…

What the best and wisest

parent wants for his own child, that must be

what the community

wants for all its children.

John Dewey

Today, there are14,6753rd graders in Fresno County8,072(55%) of them are not proficient in reading1 in 6(16%) will not graduate from high school1,292are potential high school dropouts

3rd grade reading levelsThird grade reading levels are indicative of students’ performance across subjects and are a strong predictive indicator of whether or not a student will graduate from high school.

Why third grade reading levels?

Source(s): The Children’s Movement, Fresno, 2012; Kids Count Data Center, 2012

Across the U.S. 85% of all juveniles

who interface with the juvenile court system are functionally illiterate

60% of all prison inmates are functionally illiterate

Recidivism rates drop from 70% to 16% if inmates receive literacy help

Illiteracy contributes to incarceration

Source(s): Begin to Read; DoSomething.org – 11 Facts about Literacy in America

Exposure to reading 1 in 5 children were read to less than 3 times a week 3 in 5 children are not enrolled in preschool

Absenteeism 6% of children missed school due to illness or injury 20% of third grade students missed at least 10 days of school 8% of students were suspended in Fresno County in 2012 44% of Fresno County households moved within the last 5 years

Violence in the home/neighborhood safety: Domestic violence calls (11.0 per 1,000), nearly double the state rate

(6.1) Violent crime (509 per 100,000 people), 7% higher than for the state 20% of California families earning incomes of $25K or less reported their

child’s safety in the neighborhood was somewhat unsafe/very unsafe

What influences 3rd grade literacy?

Source(s): Kids Count Data Center 2011 - 2012; kidsdata.org; American Community Survey, 2008 - 2010

Impact of improving 3rd grade literacy

2010 2011 20120%

5%

10%

15%

20%

25%CaliforniaFresno

High school dropouts15% of Fresno County

students who had entered the 9th grade four years

earlier did not receive a high school diploma in 2012.

Fresno County 4-Year Adjusted Cohort Dropout Rate, 2010 - 2012

Source(s): Kids Count Data Center, 2010–2012; Alliance for Excellent Education, 2007

Individuals who lack a high school diploma are more likely to face unemployment, earn lower wages, require public assistance, and engage in criminal activity.

Impact of improving 3rd grade literacy

Source(s): California Dropout Research Project, 2008, 2009; A Portrait of California, 2011.

Benefits not only for Fresno County… but for the state of California…Fiscal gains:(Per high school graduate) An additional $290,000 in earnings per graduate $100,000 more in federal, state and local taxes $53,000 in economic benefits at the local level, $390,000

statewide

Social benefits: 3,774 more children reading proficiently by 8th grade 317,216 fewer adults would be obese 202 fewer murders, 51,081 fewer prisoners Life expectancy would increase on average by six months 975,055 more people would vote in general elections

3rd Gr. Literacy

HS graduates

Improved outcomes

Game Plan for Fresno CountyBirth-Through-3rd Grade Challenge

Sponsoring Partners David and Lucille Packard Foundation Early Edge California First 5 Fresno County Fresno County Office of Education Fresno Regional Foundation

B3 Professional Learning Community

F3KC2 Firebaugh Las Deltas Unified School District Fowler Unified School District Fresno Unified School District Kings Canyon Unified School District Central Unified School District

Policy Cabinet

Goal: Address systems-level policies to support the Challenge Districts’/Schools’ Plans

Five Challenge Grant Superintendents County Department Heads Community Heads

The Design PhaseSeptember 2013-April 2014

1. Pathway to Children Ready for School and Succeeding by the 3rd Grade

2. School as the Hub of Community: Using Data for Community Engagement

3. Leadership, Teaching and Learning4. Eliminating the Achievement Gap for English

Language Learners5. Access, Transitions and Pathways6. Reinvesting/Blending Existing Funding Streams

to Support Achievement

Capstone-April 2014

Districts and Schools share their draft implementation plans

The Policy Cabinet present ideas and recommendations on policy changes and system supports

Impact of improving 3rd grade literacy

Reading by the third grade means opportunity for life