Resources for PreK - Grade 3 Reentry

This document was created by staff from the Washington Office of Superintendent of Public Instruction and the nine Educational Service Districts as a resource to educators across the earliest years of school, PreK–3rd grade. It is intended to support a smooth transition this fall for students who are just beginning their formal education or who may have experienced disruptions to their early education due to COVID-19

Material Type: Teaching/Learning Strategy

Authors: Barbara Soots, Washington OSPI OER Project, Washington OSPI Mathematics Department, Karma Hugo, Gretchen Stahr Breunig, Jennifer Cronquist

PreK - Grade 3 Reentry: Developmental Progressions

Development is sequential, with skills building on prior knowledge and learning. Young students pass through many key milestones on their way toward end-of-year standards. These progressions in literacy and numeracy show how learning unfolds across multiple grade levels allows teachers to identify what knowledge and abilities students possess at the start of the year and what comes next, so they can meet each student where they are and address any gaps that may exist.

Material Type: Teaching/Learning Strategy

Authors: Barbara Soots, Washington OSPI OER Project, Karma Hugo, Jennifer Cronquist, Washington OSPI Mathematics Department, Gretchen Stahr Breunig

PreK - Grade 3 Reentry: Assessment

Resouces and guidance to help educators assess children in observational settings in order to find out where each child is on a developmental continuum.

Material Type: Teaching/Learning Strategy

Authors: Barbara Soots, Washington OSPI OER Project, Jennifer Cronquist, Washington OSPI Mathematics Department, Karma Hugo, Gretchen Stahr Breunig

PreK-Grade 3 Reentry: Connecting to Families

This resource provides tools and guidance to help educators and families get to know one another and collaborate on learning activities that promote growth across learning settings. 

Material Type: Teaching/Learning Strategy

Authors: Barbara Soots, Washington OSPI OER Project, Jennifer Cronquist, Washington OSPI Mathematics Department, Karma Hugo, Gretchen Stahr Breunig

PreK-Grade 3 Reentry: Classroom Resources

Resources to help educators as students transition back into in-person learning in the fall.

Material Type: Activity/Lab, Lesson, Lesson Plan, Unit of Study

Authors: Barbara Soots, Washington OSPI OER Project, Washington OSPI Mathematics Department, Jennifer Cronquist, Karma Hugo, Gretchen Stahr Breunig

Learning Pathways in Literacy

The Early Literacy Pathway was created to support educators, caregivers and families in understanding and supporting Washington children’s development in literacy and beyond. This document will support and enhance the conversation of how best to support every child’s future.

Material Type: Teaching/Learning Strategy

Author: Washington Office of Superintendent of Public Instruction

Learning Pathways in Numeracy

This document features progression pathways for the development of numeracy concepts. It can be used as a quick reference to isolate children’s learning along a particular pathway and determine the next steps in learning that would move children forward along a particular pathway

Material Type: Teaching/Learning Strategy

Authors: Washington Association of Educational Service Districts, Washington Office of Superintendent of Public Instruction

Early Learning Inclusion Resources

Explore this resource guide with links and handouts detailing inclusionary resources in an Early Learning setting.  

Material Type: Teaching/Learning Strategy

Authors: Julie Dean, Gretchen Stahr Breunig, Barbara Soots, Allison Beason

Self Assessment Tools

In this folder, Washington State DCYF and OSPI share tools created by other state education educations to support cross-sector teams in identifying barriers and prioritizing goals for effective early learning transitions. Attributions vary among these sections, and while we seek permission, please attribute copyright to the author.

Material Type: Assessment

Authors: Barbara Soots, Gretchen Stahr Breunig

WaKIDS Family Tools and Choice Boards

Washington Office of Superintendent of Public Instruction created WaKIDS resources to support kindergarten families and teachers with remote learning including the Goal Planning and Reflection Sheet, Choice Boards, and Discussion Prompts, Look Fors, and Observational Activities.  Kindergarten children are not yet able to manage their learning independently, so it will be important to establish goals together with the key adults who will help them engage in remote learning. The Goal Planning and Reflection Sheet is intended be co-created with the child, their parent/guardian and teacher during meeting times.  The other resources assist families and teachers to identify learning activities that offer opportunities for observation and assessment of skills, knowledge, and behavior.

Material Type: Assessment, Teaching/Learning Strategy

Author: Gretchen Stahr Breunig

Family Engagement Guidance and Toolkit

The Family Engagement Guidance and Toolkit was developed to support districts, schools, and classrooms with planning for implementation of positive family engagement and participation practices. Each section begins with guided questions that were compiled from considerations and concerns raised by workgroup members.

Material Type: Teaching/Learning Strategy

Author: Washington Office of Superintendent of Public Instruction

Best Practices for Using Technology with Multilingual Families Toolkit

This toolkit is designed to help Local Educational Agencies (LEAs) create and maintain effective strategies with multilingual families. We explore and model best practices for the use of technology in teaching, as well as for assessing and communicating with diverse adults. The following guide is applicable for face-to-face, blended, and online instruction, and can also serve as a toolkit.

Material Type: Teaching/Learning Strategy

Author: Washington Office of Superintendent of Public Instruction

Best Practices for Using Technology with Multilingual Families Toolkit (Spanish)

Este conjunto de herramientas está diseñado para ayudar a las Agencias Educativas Locales (LEA, por sus siglas en inglés) a crear y mantener estrategias efectivas con las familias multilingües. Exploramos y modelamos las mejores prácticas para el uso de la tecnología en la enseñanza, así como para evaluar y comunicarnos con adultos diversos. La siguiente guía es aplicable para la instrucción presencial, combinada y en línea, y también puede servir como un conjunto de herramientas para tal efecto.

Material Type: Teaching/Learning Strategy

Author: Washington Office of Superintendent of Public Instruction

Including Voice in Education: Addressing Equity Through Student and Family Voice in Classroom Learning

This infographic visual provides strategies to create culturally responsive classrooms, learning and understanding student voice and family voice, strategies for supporting student voice for teachers and a deep dive into student and family voice strategies.

Material Type: Teaching/Learning Strategy

Authors: Institute of Educational Sciences, Regional Education Laboratory Pacific, U.S. Department of Education

Engaging Families and Creating Trusting Partnerships to Improve Child and Family Outcomes

This four part web broadcast series is aimed at supporting early intervention (EI) and early childhood special education (ECSE) systems leaders with building capacity in personnel and families to develop trusting partnerships. The series features discussions of the role that data play in strengthening family-professional partnerships. Suggestions and resources for designing personnel and family development activities to support partnerships are also shared. U.S. Department of Education funded Technical Assistance Center - resources are free for online viewing.

Material Type: Teaching/Learning Strategy

Author: Early Childhood Technical Assistance Center

Early Learning: Family Resource Suggestions

Resource suggestions for family leadership, voice, and engagement, including ideas to explore with your family learning with remote learning.

Material Type: Activity/Lab

Authors: Barbara Soots, Gretchen Stahr Breunig, Penelope Mena

WaKIDS Family Activities for Home

We would like to remind you of the Resources Library located within the Family area of the online platform, GOLD®. If you have added your student's family members and their emails to the online platform (if not see instructions below), you will be able to directly email families those activities that are based on the areas of development for your students. These activities are intended to be shared and are therefore, family friendly. Take some time to explore the Family area in GOLD® and consider using these lessons as a way to support your remote learning plan.

Material Type: Teaching/Learning Strategy

Author: Amber havens

WaKIDS Roles and Responsibilities Document

This document outlines the roles for the following participants in WaKIDS: District Assessment Coordinators, Teachers, Principals/Admi, District WaKIDS Support Staff, and Curriculum Directors. Additionally, you can see how the OSPI, ESD WaKIDS Coordinators, and Teaching Strategies can offer technical assistance. 

Material Type: Diagram/Illustration

Author: Whitney White

Mathematically Productive Instructional Routines (MPIR)

Mathematically Productive Instructional Routines (MPIR) are short (10ish minutes), daily exercises aimed at building number sense. These six different MPIR are part of the Mathematically Productive Instructional Routines collection from the Washington Office of Public Instruction and the Washington Association of Educational Service Districts.

Material Type: Teaching/Learning Strategy

Authors: Barbara Soots, Washington OSPI OER Project, Washington OSPI Mathematics Department

PZ's Thinking Routines Toolbox

This toolbox highlights many different Thinking Routines - patterns by which teachers and students operate and go about the job of learning and working together in a classroom environment. Thinking routines can be thought of as any procedure, process, or pattern of action that is used repeatedly to facilitate the accomplishment of specific goals or tasks. Classrooms have routines that serve to manage student behavior and interactions, to organize the work of learning, and to establish rules for communication and discourse.

Authors: Graduate School of Education, Harvard University, Project Zero