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In this Issue:

• Updates to P4P
• Plan4Preschool at the UCLA Symposium
• April County Showcase: Los Angeles
• Plan4Preschool News and Notes

Updates to P4P

April has brought more curriculum updates to P4P including updates in the High/ Scope, Open Court and Creative Curriculum models.
Our Highlighted Articles on curriculum models are:

• The Creative Curriculum: Developmental Continuum for Ages 3-5, presents the Creative curriculum objectives in four developmental areas: social/emotional development, physical development, cognitive development, and language development.
• Research on Effects and classroom processes , by Gavin Haque, discusses the characteristics of a High/ Scope program and program effectiveness with target populations. Cost and training for the program are also reviewed.
• Results with Breakthrough to Literacy, focuses on the Open Court curriculum model. Breakthrough to Literacy, reports the results of two schools, whose students had significant developmental or environmental challenges, and their progress in literacy using the Open Court model.

These are only a few of the articles that have been added to curriculum content on P4P. You can view more here. Look forward to seeing more next month on the Scholastic Early Childhood Program.

Plan4Preschool at the UCLA Symposium

UCLA held their annual Symposium marking the Week of the Young Child from April 14th through the 17th. The event, sponsored by the Early Child Development & Education Network, is dedicated to strengthening connections between research, policy, and practice in the interdisciplinary fields of child development and early childhood education. Plan4Preschool kicked off the event as the first presenter, part of a panel of speakers focused on improving early care and education for young children and families.

The demonstration highlighted P4P as a resource for not only policymakers but students within the early childhood education community, whether it be for an associate, bachelor, master or doctorate degree, in both the resources found on the site and the importance of interconnected-participation and sharing ideas through the web.

Think P4P could be a useful part of your course syllabus? Feel free to forward our newsletter on.

Plan4Preschool Presentations- Interested in having P4P demo at your school or organization? Contact Christina Meono for more information.

April County Showcase: Los Angeles County

Los Angeles County has a host of on-the-ground preschool activity. Los Angeles Universal Preschool (LAUP), an independent public benefit corporation funded by First 5 Los Angeles, leads the effort to make effective preschool available to every 4 year old in Los Angeles County, regardless of their family’s income, by 2014.

LAUP is already funding preschool for more than 6,500 4-year-olds and is working with communities to create new spaces for over 4,000 more. LAUP is providing new resources to existing preschools to help enhance the quality of their programs. LAUP also provides quality coaching and mentoring by experienced childhood educators.Additionally, LAUP has partnerships with a variety of state and countywide organizations to improve health and literacy for young children and their families. Learn more about preschool efforts in Los Angeles at LAUP’s website.

The Los Angeles Showcase page at Plan4Preschool.org hosts a large variety of articles including the 2005 California Child Care Portfolio for Los Angeles County as well as the Los Angeles Master Plan for Universal Preschool.

Have we missed something? Plan4Preschool.org hosts County Showcase pages for all 58 California counties. Please visit your county’s homepage, and if you don’t see a document or local event that you think should be there, contact us or upload it yourself! We encourage our users to take active participation in showcasing your county efforts towards improving early childhood education.

NEXT MONTH’S FEATURED COUNTY SHOWCASE: SAN FRANCISCO

Plan4Preschool News and Notes

Highlights

• Improvements have been made to the Plan4Preschool homepage, highlighting the interactive features to both registered and non-registered users.
• Coming Soon! The ECE Higher Education Page and the Packard Flagship/ Power of Preschool (PoP) projects will be up on the portal in the next few weeks!