What is Passport to Kindergarten?

•A way to reach children and families• Incentive for parents to share AWESOME moments with their children

•A way to teach parents•Meaningful PD 

Strategies:

1.) Family Engagement

2.) Teacher Development

3.) Community Cooperation

Objective:

Improve oral language skills of preschoolers = school success

Early Childhood Education Classrooms:

Family Engagement

Books for home

collections

AWEsome moments

Ask questions to start a back and forth conversation

Wait up to 5 seconds for a response.  Children need more time than adults to think of a response.

Expand on what your child says by repeating it and adding a little bit more.

Book in a Bag

Teacher Development

• Learn research based techniques• Reach ALL children• Opportunity for professional learning community

Educators learn more about how to support language development during experiences and when reading aloud

Dayton Art Institute

Dayton Metro Library

Boonshoft

Museum of 

Discovery

Five Rivers

MetroParks

Rich community-based experiences

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Local library storytime

Dayton Art Institute

Boonshoft Museum of Discovery

Five Rivers MetroParks

Teacher Agreement:

• Commitment to face to face training• Dialogic reading with fidelity/ track data• CLASS assessment

Last Year…..

• Students and their families read more than 28,000 books averaging 85 books per family.

This year so far….

•385 preschoolers and family members attended the Kick‐Off

•323 preschoolers and family members attended the Dayton Art Institute

•594 preschoolers and family members attended the Boonshoft

Incentives funded by grant:

Created by:

• Kathleen Moore, Dayton Metro Libraries• Dawn Potter, Kettering City Schools• Sarah Szumnarski, Dayton Public Schools