the california fit
drdp-2025 is the rating instrument for cspp and most district funded preschool. tiny signals carries the measure language in plain words, the kind a teacher can actually use in a parent conference instead of reading from the manual.
asq-3 and asq:se-2 are the screeners most california programs run at 9, 18, 24, 36, 48, and 60 months. the prompts are loaded by age window so a teacher is not flipping through pages.
transitional kindergarten, too
california's universal tk expansion through 2025-26 means thousands of new tk classrooms staffed by teachers who came from k or from preschool. the site speaks to both. the daily handoff, the conference write up, and the incident log are the same shape whether the child is three or five.
what this is not
tiny signals is not a student information system. it is not a replacement for the district's assessment portal or sis. it is the writing helper that sits next to those tools and handles the parts that take a teacher's evening.
no district contract is required for a teacher to use it. there is no per seat license to negotiate before a teacher can try it for a week.
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.
- drdp cheat sheet, measure language in plain words
- asq, age windowed prompts, family friendly summary
- iep notes, for the children with a plan
- write up, conference and progress notes
- incident, structured, calm, ready for a conversation
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.
- transitional kindergarten, the tk teacher page inside the district
- california state preschool, for the district's cspp classrooms
- county offices of education, the county coordinator
- program directors and administrators, the data handling page for a district lead
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.