Tracking Kent County’s Progress Toward Kindergarten Readiness
At First Steps Kent, we believe every child deserves the opportunity to enter kindergarten healthy, confident, and ready to succeed.
To help our community track and strengthen progress toward that goal, we’ve proposed three contributing indicators, each with measurable outcomes.
By prioritizing these measures across programs and partners, Kent County can ensure that all children have the foundation they need to thrive.
Contributing Indicators
Each contributing indicator reflects a critical factor in a child’s readiness for school and lifelong success. Together, they provide measurable insight into the health and well-being of families with young children.
Born Healthy
Healthy mothers are essential to healthy babies
Developmentally On-Track
Physical and environmental health shapes early development.
Early Learning
Early learning experiences set the stage for lifelong growth
Ready by Five Early Childhood Millage
We are collecting data all over the place for the millage
$10 million Dollars Distributed
Learn more about the Millage Data and Evaluation
This is what we are finding with the external evaluation
and here is some more stuff through our data collection
RAPID EC
First Steps Kent partners with Stanford University to bring the RAPID-EC Survey to Kent County. The goal is to:
- Gather essential and ongoing information and caregiver voices
- Provide timely and relevant data to inform local policies and programs
- Complement existing data collection
- Build local capacity for rapid-cycle methods to enhance the impact of our partners’ work on behalf of children, families, and child care workforce.
