for family child care

for family child care providers

a family child care home is a small group, a mixed age range, and one teacher who is also the cook, the bookkeeper, and the person who answers the door. tiny signals is the writing helper that takes back the evening.

for the provider running the home, not for a center director.

mixed age, one teacher

asq-3 and asq:se-2 prompts load by age window, so a provider with an 18 month old and a 4 year old on the same morning is not flipping between cycles. the handoff page is one screen per child and takes about a minute at pickup.

the today screen is the first thing the provider checks in the morning: who is due for a screener, whose family asked a question yesterday, what the week's plan looks like.

the evening, back

the conference write up starts with the provider's week of notes. tiny signals asks the follow up questions and helps turn those notes into a one page summary in about fifteen minutes. the newsletter draft pulls from the week's lesson plan so the provider is not staring at a blank page on a sunday night.

the incident page is structured and calm. a provider who has to call a family about a bite does not write that note from scratch.

what it leaves to your other tools

tiny signals is a writing helper with a class list and a daily attendance mark. billing, food program claims, and the licensing paper trail stay in procare, brightwheel, or the provider's spreadsheet.

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.

  • today, the one screen to check first
  • asq, age windowed prompts
  • handoff, one minute end of day note
  • write up, conference write up, in the teacher's voice
  • newsletter, weekly note to families, pulled from the week's plan

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.

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.