writing that respects the family
the conference write up and the family handoff describe the situation, never a label on the child. no judgmental words for a four year old who is having a hard week. the teacher fills in the form of address the family actually uses, the site does not guess.
the hard week page is a quiet read for the teacher when nothing is working, not a checklist that asks the teacher to rate the child.
the federal assessment stack, in plain words
asq-3 and asq:se-2 prompts are loaded by age window from 2 to 60 months. deca strengths language is available for the social-emotional side of a conference summary.
none of these replace the program's data system. they are the writing the data system asks for and does not give back.
what this is not
tiny signals is not a head start data system. it does not replace childplus, copa, or the program's reporting tool. it does not generate the parf or the prism evidence.
it does not include any cultural curriculum content. the teacher and the community own that. the site holds the writing that surrounds it.
what teachers actually open
these are the pages a classroom teacher reaches for on a normal week. nothing here is behind a paywall, a sales call, or a demo request.
- asq, age windowed prompts
- assessment, asq:se-2 and deca prompts
- write up, conference write up, in the teacher's voice
- handoff, one minute end of day note
- hard week, a quiet read for the week that is not working
programs that share this stack
the same writing helpers fit these classrooms too. if the page you are on is not quite the room, one of these might be.
- head start, same funder, non-tribal classrooms
- migrant and seasonal head start, same funder, mobile families
- early head start ccp, infant and toddler side
- family child care, for tribal fcc homes
forward this to a teacher
the fastest way to know if tiny signals fits a classroom is to put it in the hands of the teacher in that classroom. the button below opens a blank email with a short note already written, so it takes one click to send.
prefer to look around first? the home page shows what a teacher sees when they sign in.