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THE LEARNING ALLIANCE <br />Moonshot Moment Early Childhood Teacher Passport to Literacy <br />(2015-2016) <br />Grant: $21,596.00 <br />Funds used as of 9/30/2016: $21,596.00 <br />Components completed as 6/30/16: All three workshops have been held. All four centers <br />have received embedded coaching for one week each. 20 teachers at four childcare centers <br />received embedded coaching for 5 days each. A parent literacy night was held at each site and <br />an average of 15 families were represented at each center. <br />The average attendance at each workshop was 55 early childhood teachers. Twenty-three <br />different childcare centers were represented at one or more workshops. <br />In May each center was revisited by a Story Tapestries instructor to evaluate teacher progress. <br />Focus Area Addressed: Early Childhood Education through teacher quality at childcare <br />centers. <br />Taxonomy Number: HD -1800.8000 School Readiness Programs <br />Program Description: The program is designed to improve early childhood teacher quality and <br />thereby, improve the outcomes for children of poverty who attend PreK & childcare centers In <br />a series of 3 workshops, high quality, teacher training will be provided to up to120 teachers by <br />Story Tapestries. In addition, up to 20 teachers at 4 high poverty centers will receive embedded <br />training focusing on using evidence -based strategies to engage students, increase vocabulary <br />and reach academic targets. <br />Collaboration: School District of Indian River County, Early Learning Coalition, Big Brothers <br />Big Sisters, Childcare Resources and Moonshot Moment 0-5 subcommittee. <br />GOALS/OUTCOMES REPORT (10/1/15 — 6/30/16) <br />Goal #1: Training participants will demonstrate a 10% increase in knowledge from pretest to <br />post test. <br />Outcome: Participants, in each workshop, showed an increase in knowledge from pre to <br />post tests. The increases ranged between 5 and 63% depending on the question. <br />Goal #2: 75% of the students, who have been enrolled in the classrooms of the trained teachers <br />for a minimum of 6 months, will meet or exceed expectations on the oral language/vocabulary <br />domain of the Florida VPK Assessment by June 2016. <br />Outcome: All 4 centers with embedded coaching provided assessment data. 94% of <br />the students, from all four centers, met or exceeded expectations on this domain of the <br />assessment. Each schools individual percentage exceeded 90% of the population <br />tested, as well. <br />P192 <br />