This checklist by the Harvard Center on the Developing Child would have been a really great tool as we were developing our preschool evaluation plan with CMoR/YWCA--still will be a good tool to evaluate the quality of our plan at this point.
This guide provides ideas and suggestions taken from research on family and community
involvement in schools and can help school staff and others design a long-term approach
to garnering the positive involvement of all concerned. These ideas represent the tip of
the iceberg of what is possible. There are as many solutions for creating a comprehensive
plan to involve parents, families, and the community in the education of children, as there
are schools. Each school has its own demographic mix, community context, and history.
Following are ideas that can be modified and expanded upon to suit the needs of the
school.
A model to follow in thinking about our program evaluation and research for the museum-based preschool program. This article outlines a series of planned studies, emergent results to date, and highlights collaborative nature of the work. Need to look for follow up publications that provide specific results, conclusions, recommendations.
Without intervention, these stages can become a revolving door
using the Sequential Intercept Model for planning brings together a very broad group of stakeholders, and helps them work together rather than in isolation to problem-solve.
NAMI (National Alliance on Mental Illness) provides an explanation of the Sequential Intercept Model, a theoretical framework that describes points of interaction between people with mental illness and the criminal justice system