Countdown to Kindergarten (406) Self-Assessment for FY17

Aligned with the First Steps Program Accountability Standards

Local Partnership: Date Completed: Completed By:

Criteria

/ Yes / No / N/A / Data Source
Section 1: Targeting
  1. Targeting Clients At-Risk of Early School Failure: Are at least 60% of CTK clients identified as possessing two (2) or more of the readiness risk factors at the time of enrollment? For the full list of identified risk factors, see the First Steps Program Accountability Standards for Countdown to Kindergarten.**Note that several additional risk factors are associated with eligibility for this service and do not extend to other FS-funded strategies.
/ Reports—General—Countdown to Kindergarten Report or Risk Factor Report
  • Are 100% of client families identified as possessing at least one readiness risk factor at the time of enrollment?
/ Reports—General—Countdown to Kindergarten Report or Risk Factor Report
Section 2: Service Delivery
  1. a) Adherence to the Countdown to Kindergarten Curriculum: Do CTK teachers adhere to the CTK curriculum’s general format?

  • DO CTK teachers ensure the delivery of each published lesson in the CTK curriculum?

  • Does each CTK family receive at least 5 visits?
/ Reports – General – Countdown to Kindergarten Report
b) Placement within the Classroom of the Home Visitor: Does the partnership take steps to ensure the placement of CTK client children in the classrooms of their home visitors? / Reports—General—Countdown to Kindergarten Report
  • Does the CTK curriculum include a meeting with the child’s teacher at the school where the child will be attending kindergarten?

c) Curriculum Training: Have all teachers attended training on the updated Countdown Curriculum (initially utilized during Summer 2009) prior to the beginning of the program?
Section 3: Data Submission and Fiscal Administration
  1. a) Outcomes and Data Requirements: Has partnership met all data requirements of SCFS within 30 days of receiving data from the teachers?
/ Reports – Case Data – Visits Submission Status Report
  • Does partnership ensure that all CTK client and program information is entered into the First Steps Data Collection System (FSDC) by the October 31 quarterly data deadline?
/ Reports—General—Countdown to Kindergarten Report
  • Does partnership ensure that all CTK parents complete both a pre-survey before or during their first CTK visit AND a post-survey during or after their final CTK visit?
/ Online survey link to be provided by SC First Steps
  • Does partnership ensure that all 5K teachers with CTK children assigned to their classroom complete the CTK teacher survey within the designated time period, whether or not they were the child’s CTK home visitor?
/ Online survey link to be provided by SC First Steps, to be completed shortly after the 45th day of the school year.
b) Partnership Match Requirement: Does partnership agree to meet the SCFS match requirements for CTK?
c) Fiscal Administration and Teacher Payment: Does partnership ensure that each CTK teacher adheres (in all regards) to his/her CTK Memorandum of Agreement?
General:
  • Does program complete program and vendor registration for all funded strategies, enter projected to serve numbers for each strategy, and begin data entry by September 1 of the program year?
/ Admin Functions – Projected to Serve and View Registered Logins
  • Is data consent obtained for adult and child clients (excluding unborn children), and are Social Security Numbers for adult and child clients requested?
/ Data Submission – Case Data
  • Is the program serving at least 75% of its Projected to Serve for the current year?
/ Reports – Case Data – Cases Visit Summary and Projected to Serve Report

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