P-3 Governor’s Institute Invitation to Apply

The Pennsylvania Department of Education Office of Child Development and Early Learning is pleased to announce the 2017 Prenatal to Grade 3 (P-3) Governor’s Institute: P-3 Collaboration - Working Together for Student Success. The purpose of Pennsylvania’s P-3 Governor’s Institute is to help school districts, early learning providers, and community organizations throughout the commonwealth make the vital connections and collaborations necessary for student success from prenatal through grade 3. The 2017 P-3 Governor’s Institutes are being offered regionally:

•        June 27-29 at the Marriott in Cranberry;
•        July 11-13 at the Sky Top Lodge in the Poconos;
•        July 31- August 2 at the Hershey Lodge in Hershey.

Participation in the 2017 institute is limited to 28 teams per region. Participating teams will be selected through an application process. School districts, birth-5 early learning programs, and community organizations may submit an application.  Applications may be submitted for more than one team from the same organization, if each applying team represents a different elementary school and birth-5 feeder school/program. Teams should be built around a specific elementary school(s), its feeder early learning programs, and the local community. Selected teams will participate in this three-day event.  Professional development will be offered to support team specific implementation of P-3 efforts.

Most expenses, except meals, will be covered for participating teams using Race to the Top Early Learning Challenge Grant funds. Act 48, and Act 45/PIL professional development credits and Pennsylvania Quality Assurance System (PQAS) hours will be offered.

To be considered for participation in this event, participating teams must agree to the following:

•          Participate in pre-conference webinar or call;
•          Attend and actively engage in the entire three-day event;
  
•          Bring a core team of no less than four educators (maximum participating team of eight members):  a birth-5 administrator, a birth-5 teacher, a K-3 administrator, and a K-3 teacher.  Preference will be given to applicants who include up to four of the following: family leader or family representative, Early Intervention representative, out of school time professional, community member, librarian, curriculum specialist, higher education partner, IU representative, Home Visiting, and Family Support;
  
•          Engage in continuous improvement via sharing and implementation of strategies/programs that will enhance student achievement; and
  
•          Maintain an active role in the Governor’s Institute cohort subsequent to the event (e.g., professional learning community, webinars, monthly follow up).

Applications are now available.  Deadline to submit an application is February 28, 2017.  Selected applicants will be notified via email by April 3, 2017.
The application can be accessed at: Governor's Institute P-3 2017 Application. If you have any questions, please contact Jolie Phillips at [email protected].

Enrollment Calculation Tools

For grant eligibility, you can count children that have an IEP/IFSP towards your "at risk" percentage, along with CCIS and Early Head Start funded children. Add those children to the Early Intervention column. 

Will Your Child Be Starting Kindergarten in 2017?  

It's hard to believe many schools will soon host Kindergarten Registration for the 2017-2018 school year!

Each year, PA's Promise for Children posts Kindergarten Registration information on our website and promotes it to thousands of incoming kindergarten families, teachers, and early learning and school district partners. This is the only comprehensive listing of Kindergarten registration information in Pennsylvania. But we can't do this without your help!

If you have Kindergarten registration information, please send it to us so we can get information posted for schools in your county. This includes Kindergarten registration fairs, events, etc. If you have already submitted kindergarten registration information, THANK YOU!

Please send whatever information you may have for the schools in your county and share this with partners who may have access to this information. You can send to me flyers, links to websites, etc.-we will take it all! There isn't a deadline to submit, but the sooner it can be posted, the more families can find the information they need.

Thank you so much for your help in getting children and their families ready to start school ready to learn!
 
Mary P. Hall
Communication and Outreach Specialist
Pennsylvania Early Learning Keys to Quality/PA's Promise for Children
PA's Promise for Children
200 North Third Street, 3rd Floor
Harrisburg, PA 17101
717.213.2077 phone  

Training Lists & Updated Events 

• Mid-State Training List - January & February 2016
• ERS Training List - Spring 2017 
  

Core Series Training

• ERS Foundations in Lititz on 2/20/17 from 10-12
• ECERS-3 in Lititz on 2/20/17 from 1-4 

Other Training Organizations & Online Training 

• Online Director Credential Courses at Northampton
  
• Northampton online Workshops 
  
• Early Childhood Investigations Webinar schedule 

Webinar Highlight

• Increased Revenue for Child Care Programs 1/24/17 

ZERO TO THREE Updates State Policy Self-Assessment Toolkit
ZERO TO THREE recently updated Infants and Toddlers in the Policy Picture: A Self-Assessment Toolkit for States. This toolkit was first released in 2015 and is intended to help policy leaders and advocates assess the current status of services for infants, toddlers, and their families in their states and set priorities for improvement. Policy leaders may use a companion family survey tool to directly query families with young children about their experiences accessing health, early learning, and family support services.