Documents

This brief summarizes the research on the influences of preschool on future student performance and experiences.

Pre-K Now Collaboration Report

This tool provides the meeting facilitator with one way to develop a group vision

Quality Professional Development in Early Childhood Education

Writing a successful grant means you must align your story to the scoring expectations! This ISBF tool helps you focus on each grant question and the related scoring criteria. It also provides useful tips, possible examples and space for writing a draft of your text.

This ISBF grant planning tool gets you organized as you set important meetings, collect data and collaborate with community partners. It also provides you with critical conversation topics and a meeting agenda template designed to help your collaborative teams plan an effective preschool program. These important discussion topics also directly link to the grant application scoring criteria, which gives you time to collect meeting artifacts that provide the evidence you'll need to write an award-winning grant application!

This excel application is designed to support districts interested in participating in Iowa's Statewide Voluntary Preschool Program. Our tool will help school leaders develop a preschool program budget utilizing state dollars in conjunction with other funding streams.

A comprehensive summary of research and information to develop and implement quality preschool.

This document provides an overview of the reasons for taking a collaborative approach to developing a preschool program.

An act of the Iowa State General Assembly creating a statewide voluntary preschool program for four-year-old children and making appropriations.