Transitional Kindergarten is Coming to California.
We’re Here to Help.
Transitional kindergarten in California is setting children up for success by ensuring they are properly prepared for kindergarten. But, this shift means that educators must now be supported with the training and tools they need to engage younger children.
As the creators of CLASS®, the leading improvement system in early childhood education, and with over a decade of research and experience in early childhood, Teachstone is here to help.
Promote Stronger, More Equitable Teacher-Child Relationships
Learn how to bring the evidence-based strategy, Banking Time, to life in your TK classrooms with this 3-hour, on-demand online course.
Give teachers/educators the tools and knowledge to plan brief, yet intentional, 1-1 interactions with children to help promote positive social-emotional development and learning.
Banking Time: Investing in Relationships gives the resources and knowledge for teachers to:
- Plan and schedule short, intentional opportunities to connect individually with a child
- Connect in fun, engaging, and meaningful ways with the child
- Nurture and repair relationships with children in their care
Help Teachers Fuel Children’s Literacy Skills
Give teachers/educators the a comprehensive selection of materials, guidance, and resources to support intentional planning of activities that promote children’s development of literacy skills.
The Literacy Support Kit includes robust guidance for planning read-alouds, supporting phonological awareness, building alphabet knowledge and print awareness, and provides specific strategies to support all children and dual-language learners.
The selected materials and strategies included in the Literacy Support Kit are designed to
- Support foundational literacy skills
- Promote quality teacher-student relationships
- Encourage ongoing reflection and growth of teachers’ practice
An optional transfer-to-practice webinar is a workshop style learning opportunity designed to orient teachers to the materials, build confidence in implementation, and support utilization of best practices. And, when combined with the Literacy at Home Kit, families are empowered and supported to extend children’s learning and development in fun and engaging experiences at home.
Create a Bridge Between School and Home
Give families the opportunity to learn how to make the most of their daily interactions at home with Meaningful Interactions at Home, an engaging one-hour, virtual workshop designed for TK families.
Meaningful Interactions at Home is an engaging family workshop designed to:
- Provide programs with a virtual offering that supports family engagement goals for infant through pre-K families
- Create consistency of effective interactions that promote children’s development and learning
- Promote whole-child development through the proven power of interactions
- Support the CCDBG Family Engagement Requirements and Head Start’s Family Engagement Standards
