St. Clair County Head Start

St. Clair County Head Start 21685 U. S. Hwy. 231 N.  Old Coal City School P. O. Box 641 Pell City, Alabama 35125 Phone: (205) 338-9694 Fax: (205) 338-3215

St. Clair County Head Start 2012/2013 Annual Report Revenue and Expenses 2012 YTD

Revenue Total USDA HHS Other Federal Funds- HHS $1,360,290 - $1,360,290 - Federal Funds- ARRA - - - - USDA- Income 148,774 148,774 - - Grantee’s In- Kind 79,303 - 79,303 - Miscellaneous 3,526 - - 3,526

Total Revenue 1,591,893 148,774 1,439,593 3,526

Expenses Program Services Personnel 792,970 32,141 760,829 - Fringe Benefits 178,003 6,304 171,699 - Supplies 42,305 5,366 36,939 - Contractual 36,147 3,347 32,800 - Travel 4,672 - 4,672 - Other 114,285 8,387 95,866 10,032 Food 85,595 85,595 - - Training 30,187 - 30,187 - In- Kind Expenses 79,303 - 79,303 - Depreciation 31,315 - - 31,315 Support Services- Management and General Personnel 156,790 - 156,790 - Fringe Benefits 29,471 - 29,471 - Supplies 5,307 - 5,307 - Contractual 17,550 - 17,550 - Travel 440 - 440 - Other 17,683 - 17,683 - Training 57 - 57 - Total Expenses 1,622,080 141,140 1,439,593 41,347 Program Activities and Outcomes:

Enrollment

Funded Enrollment: 217

Number of children served in the 2012-2013 program year: 254

Number of families served in the 2012-2013 program year: 236

Percentage of eligible children served: 100%

Number of children with disabilities served: 26

Attendance

Average Daily Attendance: 86%

Monthly Enrollment: 100%

Results of 2011 Federal Triennial Review

There were three findings. A Corrective Action Plan has been created and implemented to address the finding areas. A follow-up visit and confirmation letter from OHS has cleared all three findings.

Results of Medical and Dental Exams

Children that received medical screenings: 227

Children that received dental screenings: 230

Parent Involvement Activities:

 Parent Committee - all parents are representatives

 Head Start Policy Council- 51% of council members are parents

 Male Involvement – Pumpkin Carving Contest and Doughnuts for Dad

 Grandparent Day

 Family Literacy Initiatives- Imagination Library and Kiwanis RIF

 Parent Education Seminars on Nutrition, Stress Management, and Healthy Relationships

 65 Graduates of Parent University

 Parent Family and Community Engagement Framework fully implemented

Transition Activities to K-12

 Conferences and school tours with LEA representatives

 Summer enrichment packets with preparatory activities for kindergarten  Transfer of health information

 School Readiness Advisory Committee with k-12 members

Number of program volunteers

School Readiness Goal Implementation and Student Outcomes

The program has developed School Readiness Goals stating expectations for children’s development across the five essential domains. These goals are aligned with The Head Start Child Development and Early Learning Framework and the Alabama Early Learning Guidelines. Strategies for accomplishing the goals and achievement have been identified by utilizing Creative Curriculum and data aggregated using the Teaching Strategies Gold Assessment tool. The curriculum and assessment tool allows us to measure and plan for children’s progress on both an individual and program-wide level. Systems are in place for the aggregation and analysis of assessment information to assist teachers and parents in planning for each child’s instruction and program management in determining staff development needs and other program improvement planning.

Training and implementation of the Parent Family and Community Engagement Framework has begun and is on-going.

1) Physical Development & Health

 Children will maintain good health and physical well being including: Oral, Visual, Auditory, Preventive Health, Physical Growth, and Healthy Practices.

 Children will develop and demonstrate an age appropriate understanding of proper health, safety and nutrition practices including: Personal Care Tasks, Health and Safety Routines, Safety Knowledge, Good Nutrition, Physical Exercise, and Routine Health Care.

 Children will develop and demonstrate an age appropriate understanding and use of large motor control including: Movement, Navigation, and Balance.

 Children will develop and demonstrate an age appropriate understanding and use of fine motor skills including: Hand Strength and Dexterity, Eye-hand Coordination, Manipulation of Objects, and Manipulation of Writing Instruments.

2) Social & Emotional Development

 Children will develop and demonstrate an age appropriate understanding of healthy relationships and interaction with adults and peers including: Communication, Cooperation, Socially Appropriate Behaviors, Conflict Resolution, Empathy, Sympathy, and Consequences of Own Actions.

 Children will develop and demonstrate an age appropriate self-concept and self-efficacy including: Individuality, Independence, Confidence, and Decision-Making Skills.

 Children will develop and demonstrate age appropriate self-regulation skills including: Emotional Control, Task Management, Impulse Control, and Compliance.  Children will develop and demonstrate age appropriate emotional and behavioral health including: Emotional Expression, Aggression Control, and Adaptation.

3) Approaches to Learning

 Children will develop and demonstrate age appropriate initiative and curiosity including: Individual Interests, Creativeness, Independence, Inquiry, and Flexibility.

 Children will develop and demonstrate age appropriate persistence and attentiveness including: Sustained Interest, Goal Development, and Determination.

 Children will develop and demonstrate an age appropriate ability to cooperate including: Sharing, Taking Turns, and Group Play Participation.

4) Logic & Reasoning

 Children will develop and demonstrate age appropriate reasoning and problem solving skills including: Cause and Effect, Classification, Comparison, and Integration of Knowledge.

 Children will develop and demonstrate an age appropriate understanding of symbolic representation including: Artistic Representation, Role-Play, and Fantasy vs. Reality.

5) Language Development

 Children will develop and demonstrate an age appropriate understanding of language including: Comprehension, Rules of Conversation, Vocabulary Expansion, Forms of Language, and Grammatical Structures.

 Children will develop and demonstrate a use of age appropriate expressive language skills including: Communication, Self-Expression, Vocabulary, Forms of Language, Grammatical Structures, Storytelling, and Social Conversation. 6) Literacy Knowledge & Skills

 Children will develop and demonstrate age appropriate book appreciation and knowledge including: Interest in Reading Experiences, Comprehension, Book and Reading Characteristics, and Storytelling.

 Children will develop and demonstrate age appropriate phonological awareness skills including: Sentence Dissection, Word Dissection, Phonemes, Alliteration, and Rhyme.

 Children will develop and demonstrate age appropriate alphabet knowledge including: Letter Names, Letter Sounds, and Beginning Sounds.

 Children will develop and demonstrate an age appropriate understanding of print concepts and conventions including: Recognition, Meaning, Progression of Print, Word Formation, and Decoding.

 Children will develop and demonstrate age appropriate early writing skills and knowledge including: Implements, Conventions, Functions, Symbolic Representation, Tracing/Copying, and Creative Spelling.

7) Mathematics Knowledge & Skills

 Children will develop and demonstrate an age appropriate understanding of number concepts and quantities including: Number Order, Written Numerals, Estimation, Matching Sets to Numbers, One-to-one Counting, and Quantifying.

 Children will develop and demonstrate an age appropriate understanding of number relationships and operations including: Quantity Comparisons, Comparison Words, and Combining and Separating Sets.

 Children will develop and demonstrate an age appropriate understanding of geometry and spatial sense including: Shapes and Shape Attributes, Matching, Sorting, Attribute Differentiation, Shape Composition and Decomposition, Directionality, and Positional Concepts.

 Children will develop and demonstrate an age appropriate understanding of patterns including: Classification of Objects, Recognition, Duplication, and Creation.  Children will develop and demonstrate an age appropriate understanding of measurement and comparison skills including: Attribute Recognition and Comparison, Seriation, Standard/Nonstandard Methods and Tools, and Vocabulary.

8) Science Knowledge & Skills

 Children will develop and demonstrate an age appropriate use of scientific skills and methods including: Observation, Investigation, Tool and Technology Usage, Data Collection, Data Recording, Prediction, and Explanation.

 Children will develop and demonstrate age appropriate conceptual knowledge of the natural and physical world including: Living Things, Natural Processes, Space, Physical Properties, Time and Motion and Relationships.

9) Creative Arts Expression

 Children will develop and demonstrate an age appropriate understanding of musical concepts and expression including: Listening, Singing, Performing, Appreciation, and Instrument Exploration.

 Children will develop and demonstrate age appropriate creative movement and dance skills including: Self-Expression, and Rhythmic Movement.

 Children will develop and demonstrate age appropriate art skills including: Exploration of Materials, Exploration of Techniques, Self-Expression, Creativity/Originality and Self- Reflections.

 Children will develop and demonstrate age appropriate drama skills including: Cooperative Play, Imaginative Play, Storytelling, Role Assumption, and Use of Props.

10) Social Studies Knowledge & Skills

 Children will develop and demonstrate an age appropriate understanding of self, family and community including: Family Structure, Diversity, Community Helpers, Currency, and Rules & Laws.

 Children will develop and demonstrate an age appropriate understanding of people and the environment including: Geography, Environmental Protection Efforts, and Nature.  Children will develop and demonstrate an age appropriate understanding of history and events including: Past, Present & Future, Personal History, and Event Outcomes.

11) English Language Development

 Children who speak a home language other than English will demonstrate progress in their receptive English language skills including: Listening and Comprehension, and Following Directions.

 Children who speak a home language other than English will demonstrate progress in their use of expressive English language skills including: Repeating, Making Requests, Vocabulary Expansion, and Sentence Construction.

 Children who speak a home language other than English will engage in English language activities including: Book Use and Appreciation, Object/Action Identification, Repetition, Discussion, and Storytelling.

2012-2013 Student Outcomes and Strategies Participation Year Comparison for 4-Year-Olds Assessed Children: 137 Total Count; 65 First Year 4-Year-Olds; 72 Second Year 4-Year-Olds

Social and Emotional Development – Percent Mastered for Each Developmental Objective Physical Development – Percent Mastered for Each Developmental Objective Walks 90 99

Runs 91 99

Gallops and Skips 60 72

Sits and Stands 92 99

Walks on Beam 83 83

Jumps and Hops 83 First Year Participants 94 Second Year Participants Throws 83 88

Catches 78 89

Kicks 83 88

Uses Fingers and Hands 77 92

Uses Writing and Drawing Tools 73 88

0 20 40 60 80 100 120 Language Development – Percent Mastered for Each Developmental Objective

66 Comprehends Language 83

58 Follows Directions 82

Uses an Expanding Expressive 57 Vocabulary 74

61 Speaks Clearly 76 First Year Participants

64 Second Year Participants Uses Conventional Grammar 81

63 Tells About Another Time or Place 81

71 Engages in Conversations 89

60 Uses Social rules of Language 79

0 20 40 60 80 100

Cognitive Development – Percent Mastered for Each Developmental Objective Attends and Engages 54 75

Persists 51 75

Solves Problems 43 61

Shows Curiosity and Motivation 60 76

Shows Flexibility and Inventiveness in 45 Thinking 64 First Year Participants

Recognizes and Recalls 51 Second Year Participants 69

Makes Connections 45 67

Uses Classification Skills 38 64

Thinks Symbolically 57 69

Engages in Sociodramatic Play 63 83

0 10 20 30 40 50 60 70 80 90

Literacy Development – Percent Mastered for Each Developmental Objective 44 Notices and Discriminates Rhyme 60

Notices and Discriminates 31 Alliteration 44

Notices and Discriminates Smaller 43 and Smaller Units of Sound 42

49 Identifies and Names Letters 61

33 Uses Letter-Sound Knowledge 47

49 Uses and Appreciates Books 71 First Year Participants

Uses Print Concepts 33 Second Year Participants 44

Interacts During Read-Alouds and 51 Book Conversations 67

34 Uses Emergent Reading Skills 46

43 Retells Stories 64

59 Writes Name 79

37 Writes to Convey Meaning 42

0 20 40 60 80 100

Mathematics Development – Percent Mastered for Each Developmental Objective 54 Counts 74

33 Quatifies 51

39 Connects Numerals With Their Quantities 51

57 Understands spatial Reltionships First Year Participants 74 Second Year Participants

58 Understands Shapes 79

27 Compares and Measures 50

45 Demonstrates Knowledge of Patterns 63

0 10 20 30 40 50 60 70 80 90

The Teaching Strategies GOLD Objectives for Development and Learning are used to assess children’s progress toward meeting established School Readiness Goals. In accordance with the School Readiness Implementation Plan, progress is measured three times annually. This final analysis of data assists the program in identifying areas of weakness for which additional training, additional resources and/or program revisions may be needed. The disaggregation of data helps us to identify disparities that exist between subgroups.

Data Findings and Strategies:

Finding 1: The program data revealed lower than ideal numbers of the total enrollment of children who are at the widely expected level of development for their age for many learning objectives within the areas of Literacy, Mathematics and Cognitive Development. For the twelve learning objective within the area of Literacy Development an average of 57% have not reached the level of development expected for their perspective age. For the seven learning objectives within the area of Mathematics Development an average of 51% did not complete the year at the expected level of development. Similarly, 45% of children are not functioning at the age appropriate level of development in the area of Cognitive Development.

Strategy 1A: The program is in the process of modifying the process of lesson planning to promote a more intentional approach to interactions between teachers and children, particularly in the areas of literacy and mathematics. Small group activities are of a special interest, as well as individual interactions that occur between teacher and child during child initiated learning times.

Strategy 1B: Teachers will use individual classroom data to identify areas in need of additional or improved instruction and establish strategies for improving promoting a higher level of development among the children they serve.

Strategy 1C: The program continues to partner with our local education agency, having formed a strong relationship around our School Readiness Advisory Committee. Through the partnership we have provided and planned for future content specify training sessions. A pre-service training emphasizing mathematics teaching is scheduled.

Strategy 1D: In accordance with the School Readiness Implementation Plan, the program will continue to promote quality teaching and learning through professional development of teaching staff using the CLASS assessments. Through analysis of assessment data we have been able to identify areas targeted for additional training. While scores have improved in the most heavily targeted area of Instructional Support, we continue to identify and deliver materials and training to support teacher’s efforts toward quality teaching.

Strategy 1E: The program will continue to make use of the 15 Minute Training Suites made available by the NCQTL. Strategy 1F: The Education Staff will conduct CLASS Walk-throughs in the upcoming program year. Single cycles will be conducted impromptu that focus on specify parts of the program, circle time, small group, interactive read-aloud, etc. Immediate feedback will be given to the teachers. Additional mentoring will be provided to assist the teachers in improving the quality of teaching and learning within their classroom based on the findings.