the shape of a pre-k day
the pre-k day carries longer work periods, more child-led investigation, and more family communication than a 3-k room. tiny signals holds the writing side: the two-line observation, the friday family note, the conference draft, the incident that needs to be honest and calm at the same time.
teaching strategies gold, in plain words
the write up helper takes a week of small observations and turns them into a paragraph that names growth in gold's language without sounding like a rubric. it does not enter ratings in myteachingstrategies. it helps a tired teacher write the sentences that go with them.
ecers-friendly observations
ecers-r looks at what the room offers and how the teacher interacts. the daily handoff and the observations page produce writing that a coach can read alongside an ecers walkthrough without extra translation.
family handoffs in the languages families speak
pre-k rooms in nyc carry many home languages. the handoff writes english and spanish side by side by default, and the write up helper can produce a family version in the language a family reads at home. the teacher keeps the last look.
the fall and spring conference, in fifteen minutes
the conference write up asks the questions a family will actually ask: what does the child do that lights them up, what is still growing, what the classroom is trying next. it produces a one-page draft the teacher edits, not a template the teacher has to fill in from scratch.
what stays with the teacher
class list, drafts, and observations live against the teacher's account. gold ratings, attendance for payroll, and doe reporting stay where they already live.
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 a teacher checks first
- gold write ups, language that matches the objectives and dimensions
- conference write up, fall and spring, about fifteen minutes each
- handoff, one minute end of day note in the languages families speak
- incident, honest, calm, ready for a pickup conversation
- lessons, weekly plans the teacher edits and saves
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.
- nyc 3-k for all, the three-year-old year before pre-k
- nys upk outside nyc, the statewide version
- nys birth-to-five, the age band below
- head start, shared elof language
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.