the shape of a pa pre-k counts day
half-day, school-day, or full-work-day models depending on the site. tiny signals holds the writing end.
work sampling or gold, in plain words
the write up helper names growth in a work sampling functional area or a gold objective, in language a family can read.
bilingual family handoffs
spanish is the second language in most pa pre-k rooms; some rooms serve nepali, arabic, and mandarin families. the daily handoff writes english and the family's home language side by side.
the fall and spring conference
a one page draft in about fifteen minutes.
what stays with the teacher
class list, drafts, and observations live against the teacher's account. work sampling or gold ratings, pelican reporting, and district data collection stay in the systems the program already uses.
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
- work sampling write ups, language that matches the functional areas
- gold write ups, for gold sites
- handoff, one minute at pickup, in the language families read
- conference write up, a one page draft in about fifteen minutes
- incident, calm, structured, honest
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, for hssap sites and pkc partnerships with head start
- nj preschool expansion, a comparable public pre-k on the east coast
- all program pages, the full hub of program-specific pages
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.