An Early Learning Program
For 4-Year Old Children
BB4C Partner Sites
CESA 11 Head Start
Monkey Business Early
Educational Community
St. Charles Borromeo
Rhymes-N-Rainbows
Circle of Friends Early Learning
Center
Sleepers to Sneakers Child Care
and Early Learning Center
Kids USA Learning Center
YMCA Early Learning
Community
Enrollment
BB4C / Kindergarten Enrollments
400
350
BB4C
300
KDG
250
2006-07 2007-08 2008-09 2009-10 2010-11
BB4C
318
300
316
361
KDG
372
338
353
347
364
School Year
This chart compares BB4C enrollments with the kindergarten
enrollment of the following year. (based on third friday count)
All Partner Sites:
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Have DPI Licensed Teachers
Have Space and Equipment Specifically
Designed for 4 year olds
Meet Requirements for Child Care Licensing
Maintain 9 to 1 Student -Teacher Ratio
District Specified Curriculum
Curriculum
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Creative Curriculum
Second Step
Tribes
Handwriting Without Tears
CSEFEL
The Creative Curriculum® for Preschool
The Creative Curriculum is based on the five
components of teaching children effectively:
•how children develop and learn
• the learning environment
• what children learn; caring and teaching and
• partnering with families
The Creative Curriculum® for Preschool
•incorporates 38 objectives for development
and learning that are predictors of school
success
•aligned with Wisconsin Model Early Learning
Standards
• objectives are assessed three times a year,
using an observational assessment tool –
“GOLD”
Objectives for Development and
Learning
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Social Emotional
Physical
Language
Cognitive
Literacy
Mathematics
Science and Technology
Social Studies
The Arts
SECOND STEP
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Second Step is a program from the Committee
for Children that teaches skills for learning and
listening, identifying feelings, managing strong
emotions, solving problems, and getting along
with others which set the stage for future
academic success.
Activities, Brain Builder games, puppets, and
partner work keep children engaged and help
them practice their skills.
Tribes
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Tribes is a process that assures the healthy
development of every child so that each one has the
knowledge, skills and resiliency to be successful in a
rapidly changing world.
Staff and bus drivers have completed Tribes training.
In the Tribes process four specific agreements are
honored:
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attentive listening
appreciation/no put downs
mutual respect, and
the right to pass
Handwriting Without Tears
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Is a pre-handwriting instructional program that
engages techniques and activities that help
improve a child’s early self-confidence, pencil
grip, and body awareness skills
Aligns with the program used by kindergarten
classrooms
Assessment
(Teaching Strategies GOLDTM )
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GOLDTM is an observational assessment system that
helps teachers be intentional in their teaching by
accurately pinpointing where children are in their
development and learning.
GOLD is directly aligned with the objectives of the
Creative curriculum.
The assessments are posted three times a year and
shared in parent conferences. The data is also entered
into Infinite Campus to assist kindergarten teachers in
planning instruction for new students in the
Fall.Creative Curriculum Objectives for Development
and Learning
CSEFEL
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The Center on the Social and Emotional Foundations
for Early Learning (CSEFEL) is focused on promoting
the social emotional development and school
readiness of young children birth to age 5.
Two of the BB4C sites (Head Start and Kids USA) have
been selected as pilot sites for Wisconsin.
The CSEFEL program consists of evidence-based
practices for promoting young children’s emotional
competence and preventing and addressing
challenging behavior.