AGENDA - San Antonio Housing Authority

TRANSFORMATION PLANEASTSIDE CHOICE NEIGHBORHOOD TRANSFORMATION PLANchildren, engage and support families, andstrengthen the local workforce (NationalLeague of Cities, 2010).Priority Services and Programs• Increase the inventory of high qualitychild care slots through SAISD reallocationof Head Start and Pre-K slots, newlysubsidized slots in public and privatechildcare centers, and a new center tobe opened at the revitalized WheatleyCourts.• Establish an Early Learning Network(ELN) to include 5 centers, 2 day homesand Family Friends Neighbor (FFN)providers, and build the members’capacity to adopt practices that fosterage-appropriate functioning and kindergartenreadiness; use a variety of easilyaccessed information dissemination techniques,including online and televisedBooker T. Washington Elementary School will playan important role in the early-learning educationstrategies.training; and, expand the successful Playand Learn Program to other sites.• Expand Childcare Center Mentors andthe resources of the Model ClassroomProject to the EPN Early Learning Network.The Model Classroom continuumincludes: 1) mentoring, training andtechnical support for childcare staff; 2)developmental screening for children0–5; 3) administering the Adult andAdolescent Parenting Inventory Assessment;4) classroom observations; 5)quality improvement plans for teachersand classrooms; 6) support for childand family recruitment and outreach; 7)service information and linkages for providersand families in correspondence tounmet needs; and, 8) management andresource coordination.• Establish and support an EPN communityof practice among the ELN to fosterthe wider use of evidence-based practicesand content alignment with schoolcurricula.Children are Proficient in Core AcademicSubjectsSAISD has pioneered an Over-age MiddleSchool program to prevent dropouts,re-engage students and support on-timegraduation for middle school students age15 and above.Priority Services and Programs:• Administer an Early Development Instrument(EDI) for all EPN kindergarten studentsto quantify emerging literacy skillsand direct remedial resources.• Monitor and improve literacy at all gradelevels by: administering a beginning ofyear reading assessment (IRI) of 100%of students; providing in-school tutoringsupport for those scoring below gradelevel; and implementing evidence-basedinstructional methods, including Fast For-Word, Leveled Literacy Intervention, interactivewriting, and Success for All, duringcritical skill building grades (K–2nd).• Modify the SAISD data system to continuouslymonitor risk indicators and providean early warning. Establish StudentSupport Teams at all EPN schools to assiststudents identified by the SAISD earlywarning system as having risk indicators,i.e., attendance, behavior, academicperformance, and family instability• Track teacher effectiveness, using trenddata from state accountability resultsand analysis of student performanceproduced by the Education ResourceGroup (ERG) data system, and providesupport from SAISD-assigned InstructionalCoaches to new teachers and/or teachersin need of assistance36