4K Community Approaches Resources

4K Community Approaches: Resources

Looking for a start to your collaborative process? Or more information on assessment tools or curriculum in the early education area? How about sample agreements and contracts used by successful collaborative partners? Wisconsin Early Childhood Collaborating Partners provides resources for community approaches.

All of the documents are in Adobe Acrobat format, and we have kept the file download size as small as we can – and where possible, we have included the Table of Contents or a summary of the documents, so that you can make sure that you are downloading what you need.

Web Resources

Early Childhood and Economic Development in Wisconsin - Research about why investing in high quality early education is good business and establishes a strong foundation for success in school and in life.
DPI 4K Homepage
DPI 4K Start Up Grants
HighScope Perry Preschool Study: Lifetime Effects - This study — perhaps the most well-known of all HighScope research efforts — examines the lives of 123 African Americans born in poverty and at high risk of failing in school.
Benefits to Children and Families; Schools; Childcare and Head Starts
Bill Daggett Web site: Keynoters, Presenters on School Improvement (March, 2010 Preserving Early Childhood Conference, Communities Building Bridges)
Getting Your Child Ready for Kindergarten - DPI listing of resources to help parents build a strong foundation for school.

Documents

Including Children with Disabilities in State Pre-K Programs (pdf) (February 2010) Provides an overview of the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA) and recommends policies to help ensure that preschool-aged children with disabilities receive an appropriate public education in the least restrictive environment.
DPI Information Bulletin (pdf) - Feb. 2008
Districts Reporting 4K 2008-2009 (pdf)
Forces for Four-Year-Olds Advisory Committee (pdf)
Forces for 4-Year-Olds Advisory Committee Report on 4 Year-Old Kindergarten and Community Approaches (ppt) - Oct. 28, 2009
Ready Kids, Ready Schools, Ready Communities (pdf) - A report on the School Readiness Indicator Initiative, 2003
Wisconsin School Readiness Indicators Initiative (pdf) - the status of school readiness indicators in WI, prepared by the WI Council on Children and Families, 2003
The State of Preschool 2009 (pdf) - National Institute for Early Education Research
The National Governors Association Grant Report: Building Public & Political Will for Early Childhood Care and Education (pdf)
Select Reports and/or Research Related to Prekindergarten Including 4-Year-Old Kindergarten (pdf)
Case study on the Expansion of Four-Year-Old Kindergarten and The Wisconsin Forces for Four–Year-Olds Community Initiative (pdf) - 2005
Wisconsin Forces for Four-Year-Olds power point promoting the importance of four-year-old kindergarten and community approaches (ppt)
A Forum to Promote Community Approaches for Young Children in WI (pptx) (March, 2010 Preserving Early Childhood Conference, Communities Building Bridges)
Tom Mosgaller, Director of Change Management UW Madison (pptx) (March, 2010 Preserving Early Childhood Conference, Communities Building Bridges)

Video

"Community Approaches to Serving Wisconsin Four-Year-Olds"
Benefits and Costs for Quality Early Childhood Education
Song "Bridges" by Bill Staines (March, 2010 Preserving Early Childhood Conference, Communities Building Bridges)