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Scope and Delivery of Services
Scope
Through collaborative efforts with parents, communities, businesses, and schools The Committee for Academic Excellence endeavors to develop premiere educational and community facilities that will:
- Provide early childhood and elementary students (infancy through grade 5) with a high-quality, strong foundation of learning that will negate the need for preventative/remedial programs at the middle and high school level.
- Provide secondary school students (grade 6 through 12) with the tools, skills and resources necessary to reach their full academic potential.
- Provide disadvantaged adult members of the community with equitable access to technology, adult literacy and remedial programs and integrated career planning that include skills training and developmental services that increase job marketability.
- Provide family enrichment programs and seminars that will positively influence student outcomes at home, school and in the community.
- Provide early childhood teachers and providers with the education, training, skills and opportunities necessary to provide high-quality early childhood education.
- Provide tailored professional and development and training services that consider best practices, scientific research, legal compliance with local, state and federal laws, appropriate child development, accreditation standards and required teacher certifications and trainings
Delivery of Services
Our delivery of services takes on many forms and are made possible through strategic partnerships with community, business, local, federal and state stakeholders committed to improving the development of young children. Our partners subscribe to our ONE3 philosophy of service provision understanding that a unified effort in addressing systemic opportunities has a greater chance of success than a singular approach. CAE services may be provided directly, such as directly funded grants and contracts or indirectly through professional services, consulting or technical assistance. The listing below highlights some of the movements and interventions the CAE has partnered in; however, it is not all inclusive. We continue to investigate, review and consider strategies that serve to improve the lives of young children throughout our nation.
Emergent Literacy (Early Reading First) - The program supports the development of early childhood centers of excellence that focus on all areas of development, especially on the early language, cognitive, and pre-reading skills that prepare children for continued school success and that serve primarily children from low-income families. The CAE was awarded two ERF grants by the U.S. Department of Education and will serve more than 800 Hillsborough County faith-based, disadvantaged and ELL preschool students over a three year project cycle from September 2007 through August 2011.
Charter Schools - Charter schools are non-profit 501(c)(3) organizations that have a contract or charter to provide the same educational services to students as district public schools. They are nonsectarian public schools that operate with freedom from many of the regulations that apply to traditional public schools. Charter schools can be formed by creating a new school or by converting an existing public school to a charter school. An individual, teachers, parents, a group of individuals, a municipality, or a legal entity may create a charter school. The CAE has assisted in the successful charter application of two charter schools in Hillsborough County - Kid's Community College Charter School, Incorporated and Kid's Community College Middle Charter School. The CAE believes in the mission of replicating high-quality charter schools and believes that schools are more successful when they are a part of a collaborative network. The CAE is not an ESP, but does serve to facilitate the replication of charter schools as a part of its mission and has assisted in seeking and providing startup funding and grants for charter schools, assisted in the process of legally forming non-profit founding boards, helping to assess community support and helping to create collaborative networks for charter school operators.
Private Preschools - Research has consistently shown that children who attend a high-quality preschool are more successful in kindergarten and beyond, both academically and socially. But the majority of preschool programs in the United States are not judged as good, with many rated far below that. Many of our most vulnerable children attend the lowest quality programs, and children who are at risk for school failure are more strongly influenced by the quality of preschool. Many children from middle-class families also attend preschools that are not of good quality. Momentum is building across the country to develop more preschool programs. Therefore, it's crucial to have a clear vision of what high-quality preschool programs look like.
The CAE is committed to improving private preschool environments by partnering with providers to develop valid measures of early educational quality that incorporate the recent research on early literacy, mathematical, scientific, and social-emotional learning by providing continuous training and quality improvement efforts to all preschool teachers and programs. Through its ONE3 philosophy, the CAE will work together at federal, state, and local levels of government to establish a coordinated system of high-quality education and care for all preschool-aged children.
See KCC Franchises model of preschool excellence. |
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