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Laura Hill; Maya Lawton; Chansonette Buck – Public Policy Institute of California, 2025
In 2021, California launched the Universal Prekindergarten (UPK) program (AB 130), requiring public schools with kindergarten to provide free, high-quality, inclusive pre-kindergarten to all four-year-olds regardless of birth date. Starting in 2022, it increased the original age-eligibility for Transitional Kindergarten (TK)--students turning five…
Descriptors: Kindergarten, Access to Education, Public Schools, Enrollment Trends
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Leigh Kale D'Amico; Xumei Fan; Sommer Garrett; Xiaofang Zhang; Janice Kilburn; Alexis Jones; Chelsea Richard – Educational Research and Evaluation, 2024
Effective transitions to kindergarten engage families and ease children into new environments. Countdown to Kindergarten (CTK), a program in a southeastern U.S. state that serves more than 1,000 children each year and is grounded in Bronfenbrenner's ecological systems theory, partners kindergarten teachers and families to facilitate effective…
Descriptors: Summer Programs, Kindergarten, Young Children, Family School Relationship
Laura Hill; Maya Lawton; Beyond Deng, Contributor – Public Policy Institute of California, 2025
California's 2020 Master Plan for Early Learning and Care gives the state's families choice among programs and providers--private or public, subsidized or unsubsidized (if eligible), offered in schools, child care centers, and family child care homes. This landscape changed significantly with the introduction and subsequent expansion of Universal…
Descriptors: Kindergarten, Access to Education, Public Schools, Enrollment Trends
UNESCO Bangkok, 2021
This guidebook aspires to build a community where learning for sustainable development takes place everywhere for everyone as an ongoing practice. It introduces you to "Reflect-Share-Act," a process to discover and define sustainable development in your own contexts together with others in your community. The guide compiles resources…
Descriptors: Sustainable Development, Foreign Countries, Community Programs, Community Involvement
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Colby Hall; Katlynn Dahl-Leonard; Garrett J. Roberts; Philip Capin; Delanie Peacott; Lauren Thayer; Kristin Conradi Smith – Grantee Submission, 2025
Although phonics knowledge and decoding skill are important for academic and life success, there is little research that examines the effects of home-based, family-implemented instruction on the development of these early literacy skills. The purpose of this multiple baseline across participants single case experimental design study was to…
Descriptors: Kindergarten, Parents, Parents as Teachers, Parent Background
Whalen, Christina, Ed. – Brookes Publishing Company, 2009
Generalization is the key to effective autism intervention--when children can apply new skills across settings, they'll make broad, long-term improvements in behavior and social communication. The first how-to guide to generalization is finally here! Practical and reader-friendly, this is the book that helps professionals take today's most popular…
Descriptors: Intervention, Autism, Parent Education, Generalization