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School Readiness Background: Preschool to Post-Secondary Alignment
School Readiness Domains of Learning and Development
School readiness includes both developmental and academic domains. These domains include physical well-being and motor development, social and emotional development, language and comprehension, cognition, and general knowledge (C.R.S. 22-7-1004 (1)). The Colorado State Board of Education (SBE) has further defined general knowledge as math and literacy.
School Readiness Assessment in Kindergarten
School readiness assessment tools are to be research-based, reliable instruments of measuring school readiness which provide data to determine instruction and interventions to improve each individual child’s school readiness (C.R.S. 22-7-1004 (2)(a)).
Likewise, data from school readiness assessments informs individual learning plans in kindergarten. The individual learning plan is to address the kindergarten standards and individual student needs to make continued progress toward school readiness and end-of-kindergarten expectations (C.R.S. 22-7-1014 (1)(a)).
The intent in using the data from school readiness assessments is to identify and address needed additional, targeted instruction or support for each kindergartner and may not be used to deny a student admission or progression to kindergarten or first grade (C.R.S. 22-7-1004 (2)(a)).
Colorado Revised Statutes outline the following responsibilities.
Responsibilities of the State Board of Education
- Adopt a description of school readiness,
- Adopt one or more assessments,
- Adopt a system for reporting population-level results, and
- On or before July 1, 2017 and every six years thereafter:
- review the school readiness description and adopt any appropriate revisions, and
- review the school readiness assessments and adopt any appropriate revisions.
Responsibilities of the Local Education Providers
- Administer the kindergarten school readiness assessment tool(s) within the first 60 calendar days of the school year to each student in publicly funded kindergarten,
- Ensure data is reported in the statewide Kindergarten School Readiness Data Collection, and
- Ensure all students who do not meet minimum requirements on each required domain of school readiness assessments and the interim reading assessment receive an individual learning plan with individual student goals informed by assessment data.
- Provide written notice to families containing the student assessment results for school readiness and the reading interim assessments, the purpose of the assessments, how the local education provider (LEP) and state use the information from the assessments, and language, if applicable, stating the LEP is not providing an individualized learning plan based on those assessment results and the parent’s right to request a plan.
Quick Check:
Schools and districts serving publicly funded students in kindergarten
- Use state board approved assessment tools.
- Assess six domains of learning and development in school readiness.
- Administer the KSR assessments from 1st day of school through the first 60 calendar days.
- Provide written notice to each family concerning assessment results and individual learning plans.
- Create individual learning plans for each student who does not meet minimum requirements and whose parents request a plan.
- Report data during the KSR data collection window.
Deepen Understanding:
- Colorado Revised Statutes C.R.S. 22-7-10