South Carolina First Steps to School Readiness Board of Trustees-Newberry

“A copy of form 990 is made available to the executive director for review prior to filing. The financial information on form 990 is based primarily upon the organization's audited financial statements, which are provided to the board.”

“The board members of the local partnership are representative of various organizations that in certain instances benefit from actions taken by the board. It is the policy of the local partnership that board members not be involved with decisions regarding organizations they represent.”

“The organization's governing documents, conflict of interest policy, and financial statements are made available for public inspection upon request.”

“Per south carolina code of laws section 59-152-10: there is established the south carolina first steps to school readiness, a comprehensive, results- oreiented initiative for improving early childhood development by providing, through local partnerships, public and private funds, and support for high-quality early childhood development and education services for children by providing support for their families' efforts toward enabling their children to reach school ready to succeed.”

“Child care: childcare training-a program that supports child care providers and equips them to advance along the center for child care career development (ccccd) career framework, advance within the abc quality system, improve an approved measure of program quality and/or to provide training on a topic- specific focus based on regional ta coordination meetings. Childcare quality enhancement-a program for individuals who provide consultation/coaching and mentoring. Coaching and consultation and mentoring include a wide range of behaviors including specific and direct feedback, action planning, modeling, reviewing, role-playing and goal setting. South carolina first steps leverages state, local and private resources to increase the quality of, and number of children participating in, high-quality pre-kindergarten programs in both the public and private sectors.”

“School transition developed by south carolina first steps and identified as a promising state practice by the national governor's association of 2005, school transition is a home visitation program pairing the families of high-risk rising kindergartners with their future teachers during the summer beofre school entry. Teachers complete six visits with each family centered upon classroom and content expectations.”