What Makes a Quality Preschool?

06/02/22 • 13 min

Imua Literacy: Moving Hawaiʻi forward with local solutions.

Today we chat with Dr. Kathleen O’Dell, the Academic Officer for the Kailua-Kalaheo Complex Area. She has been with the HIDOE for 5 years now and is passionate about her work in promoting equity, diversity, and inclusion in schools, quality early childhood education, and family engagement. For today, though, we’ll be discussing what makes a quality early childhood education and how to spark curiosity and engagement in our keiki.

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Kat mentioned the Early Childhood Action Strategy, a network of stakeholders “working together to develop a comprehensive system that supports early childhood development” as an organization getting things right. Check them out!
You can also find the website of the Executive Office of Early Learning here .
The Hawaiʻi State Literacy Plan is designed in partnership with Executive Office on Early Learning, the Hawai‘i State Department of Education, the University of Hawai‘i System and numerous community organizations. You can find it here.

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Intro/Outro: “Together We Can” hedkandi
"Life of Riley" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com). Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 License. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
"Carefree" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com). Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 License. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/.

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Kat mentioned the Early Childhood Action Strategy, a network of stakeholders “working together to develop a comprehensive system that supports early childhood development” as an organization getting things right. Check them out!
You can also find the website of the Executive Office of Early Learning here .
The Hawaiʻi State Literacy Plan is designed in partnership with Executive Office on Early Learning, the Hawai‘i State Department of Education, the University of Hawai‘i System and numerous community organizations. You can find it here.

Episode 3 Music

Intro/Outro: “Together We Can” hedkandi
"Life of Riley" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com). Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 License. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
"Carefree" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com). Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 License. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/.

Previous Episode

Read To Me! The Why and How of Reading Out Loud

Research consistently shows that literacy development in early childhood plays a critical role in later language and academic success. In today's episode, we’ll speak to Nicki Brown and Kara Kusunoki from Read To Me International, a local literacy organization, to better understand how we can make reading with our keiki fun no matter what. They’ll also give us perspectives and tips anyone can apply in school, at home, and in the community.

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Check out Read To Me International’s Resources page, full of goodies to kickstart your read aloud journey. We’re big fans of their 16 Read Aloud tips!
The Hawaiʻi State Literacy Plan is designed in partnership with the Executive Office on Early Learning, the Hawai‘i State Department of Education, the University of Hawai‘i System and numerous community organizations. You can find it here.
Read to Me Conference 2022 - June 2, 2022

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Intro: “Together We Can” hedkandi
"Daily Beetle" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com). Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 License. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
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Next Episode

Sounding It Out: The Importance of Phonological Awareness

In this episode, we will explore the role that phonological awareness plays in early literacy and language development with literacy aficionado, David Yung, from Maunawili Elementary. We will learn about the parts that make up phonological awareness associated with later literacy achievement. Come be students with us again as David shares fun and easy tips and strategies that families and teachers alike can use to build these reading skills.

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Here’s a graphic of Tolman’s hourglass figure David mentioned (and a video of Tolman herself explaining it) and Scarborough’s reading rope.
David also mentioned David Kilpatrick's book, Equipped for Reading Success: A Comprehensive, Step-By-Step Program for Developing Phonemic Awareness and Fluent Word Recognition.
Reading Rockets provides a nice overview of phonological awareness and more tips and strategies for teachers and families to use with their students or children.
For further reading, check out the International Literacy Association’s position statement and research brief on phonological awareness.
The Hawaiʻi State Literacy Plan is designed in partnership with the Executive Office on Early Learning, the Hawai‘i State Department of Education, the University of Hawai‘i System and numerous community organizations. You can find it here.

Episode 4 Music

Intro/Outro: “Together We Can” by hedkandi
"Montauk Point" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com). Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 License. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
"Carpe Diem" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com). Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 License. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
"Carefree" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com). Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 License. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/