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Preschool Development Grant Birth through Five (PDG B-5). May 8, 2019. Delaware's Focus. Delaware’s application is framed by four priorities that map to the five required activities, and reinforce one another: C oordinated services across the B-5 mixed delivery system
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Preschool Development GrantBirth through Five (PDG B-5) May 8, 2019
Delaware's Focus Delaware’s application is framed by four priorities that map to the five required activities, and reinforce one another: • Coordinated services across the B-5 mixed delivery system • B-5 data integration • Tools to foster parent knowledge-building and choice • Professional learning across sectors using shared whole child development language
PDG B-5 Opportunities • Provides an opportunity to renew the state’s current five-year early childhood strategic plan that ended in 2018 (Sustaining Early Success, Delaware’s Strategic Plan for a Comprehensive Early Childhood System, 2013). • Support for parental choice activities and best practices sharing activities already underway
Activity 1: Needs Assessment and Activity 2: Strategic Plan • Activity 1A and 1B planned to last approximately 5 months • Activity 2 planned to last approximately 6 months • More than plan in original grant due to reduction in funding and refocus on Activity 1 and 2 • Provide vendors with background research on existing needs assessments already prepared • Provide vendors with family members and professionals that should be interviewed • In person interviews – one on one, meetings • Surveys and focus groups
Activities 3: Parent Choice and • Activity 4: Sharing Best Practices • Activity 3 – Maximizing Parent Knowledge and Choice • Activity 4 – Sharing Best Practices • The scale of these activities reduced to reflect the changes in grant funding • Finalize planning teams and hold initial sessions to set priorities reflecting the funding and coordinating with ongoing initiatives
Engagement Preschool Development Grant Birth through Five website on DOE page: https://www.doe.k12.de.us/Page/3964 • Updates on how to participate in: • Needs assessment “opportunity map” generation • Solutions brainstorming for design of strategic plan • Existing parental choice activities underway • Existing sharing best practice activities underway
Thank you!Questions? Please reach out to Caitlin GleasonEducation Associate @ Dept. of Education, Office of Early Learning caitlin.gleason@doe.k12.de.us