APPENDIX XII: SURVEY QUESTIONS

Appendix XII: Survey Questions

A Brief Note About this Survey

As you may or may not be aware, the Fort Worth Independent School District has begun a 3-year, district wide plan to implement universal (not need-based) free public Pre-Kindergarten for 4-5 year olds. The roll-out began this school year (2014-2015) with Pre-K classrooms in a selection of FWISD elementary schools, and it will add additional Pre-K classrooms in 2015-17and 2016-17.

With generous funding from the Fort Worth philanthropic community, The Center for Nonprofit Management and Camp Fire First Texas are conducting research to understand how Fort Worth child care programs may be effected by the availability of free pre-Kindergarten classes in FWISD schools. The findings of this survey will be included in a final report to help those working in and alongside child care providers to ensure quality child care remains accessible and available to Fort Worth's youngest residents. All survey participants will receive a copy of the research findings when the study is completed in January 2015.

As a Fort Worth child care provider, your input is critical to the success of this research project. We know that your time is valuable, and in appreciation of your time, all child care centers completing the survey will be entered into a drawing to receive a free onsite professional development training provided by Camp Fire First Texas. All child care homes completing the survey will be entered into a drawing to receive one of five free vouchers to attend a Camp Fire First Texas professional development workshop. This survey will take 10-15 minutes to complete.

Your responses to this survey are confidential. The Center for Nonprofit Management will only report survey results in aggregate to ensure individual respondents cannot be identified. If you would like further information about this study, please contact Charlotte Keany at keany@cnmconnect.org.

Thank you in advance for sharing your valuable insights with us.

5. As of September 1, 2014, how many students are enrolled in your full and/or halfday child care program in each of the following age groups?

Infant (0-17 Month) Enrollment:

Toddler (18-36 Month) Enrollment:

3 Year Olds Enrollment:

4 Year Olds/Pre-Kindergarten Enrollment:

Infant (0-17 months) Classrooms:

Toddler (18-36 Months) Classrooms:

3 Year Olds Classrooms:

4 Year Old/Pre-Kindergarten Classrooms:

Infant (0-17 Month):

Toddler (18-36 Month):

3 Year Olds:

4 Year Olds/Pre-Kindergarten:

Infants (0-17 months):

Toddlers (18-36 months):

3 Year Olds:

4 Year Olds/Pre-K:

Kindergarten After-School:

6 & Over After-School:

1)

2)

3)

6. As of September 1, 2014, how many full and/or halfday classrooms do you have for each of the following age groups?

7. As of September 1, 2014, how many children do you have per 1 caregiver in each of the following age groups? (This is your child/caregiver ratio.)

8. As of September 1, 2014, what is your standard FULLDAY weekly tuition/price per child in each of the following age groups? This information, as with all of your responses, will

remain confidential.

9. What are the top three (3) things you do to keep your child care program financially strong?

Please contact Christy Jones at 817-831-2111, ext. 121 or Christy@CampFireFW.org for infographic design files.

Two Faces of Universal Pre – K Impact

Two center directors are open to interviews to discuss universal pre-k from a personal/professional perspective. If you would like to set up an interview with either of these individuals, please use the contact information provided.

Cathy Halliday, District Manager of Knowledge University; Manager KinderCare Learning Centers & Growth School of Plano CHalliday@klcorp.com 817-239-8304

Cathy Halliday has a unique perspective to offer as a center that has yet to be impacted by the public pre-k shift. One of the KinderCare Centers she oversees is in the proposed area that will be served next year by universal pre-k program. She has been contacted by principals about after school services for this age group and bus programs indicating many of the issues outlined in the study regarding wrap around services for the pre-k population, continuity of care and quality learning experiences.

She is a supporter of looking at public/private partnerships as well as ensuring quality early learning environments are achieved.

Halliday can speak to her organization’s thoughts on the impact removing pre-k has on the 0-3 population, overall quality impacts, the importance of looking at early education as a 0-5 continuum and the benefits for a community both financially as well as access to quality by using a public/private partnership to influence pre-k learning goals.

Retha Wilson, Owner Like My Own Childcare, INC. 817-924-3678

Retha Wilson opened her early learning center in the Morningside community of Fort Worth in 1990. Coincidentally, years prior at 14 years old, she had worked in the same building as a child care helper as her summer job. She later graduated from Paschal High School and was attending nursing school when she realized something was missing. She transitioned into early childhood and has been making a difference ever since.

Wilson has already experienced the impacts from a local public school implementing a pre-k program. She has seen her pre-k class become non-existent and her 3-year-old classroom is almost half of what it was last year (from 11 to six children) as a more recent decision of the local school to begin a 3-year-old public program.

Wilson’s goal is to better the lives of the children, families and community in which she lives and provides care. Through monthly parent engagement nights and family play groups she provides a forum for families with children in her care to learn more about early childhood development, how to make meaningful connections with their children and how to foster learning at home so the children are ready to learn when they do enter school as well as how to navigate some of those challenging situations everyone faces as parents.

She currently has three children who are the second-generation of children she has taught and cared for in her center. She frequently receives notes and calls from former families and grown children who attribute their success and graduation to her influence in their early years.

Wilson can speak to the challenges she faces in deciding what to do in the wake of shifting age groups and the impact of transitioning older age groups out of the private center and into a school-based setting both from a business owner and early educator perspective. She is also a voice for the benefits seen when families are involved in the learning process and achieving quality results.

Camp Fire First Texas Universal Pre-K Study Presentation Panel Biographies

Lyn Lucas, M.S. Camp Fire Vice President of Work Family Division

Lyn Lucas joined Camp Fire First Texas in July 2010 as Vice President of Group Services. In May of 2012 she became the Vice President of the Work Family Division.

With more than 20 years of experience working with children and youth, Lyn comes to Camp Fire from Bryan’s House in Dallas, Texas, where she served five years as Program Director and three years as Child Development Coordinator. She has also served seven years as a Child Care Center Director and subsequently Regional Director for the Children’s Courtyard. As a Master Registered Trainer in early care and education, she has taught numerous classes and workshops throughout North Texas. Her experience includes managing school-age programs, as well as NAEYC-accredited early childhood education programs in both non-profit and for profit programs.

Lyn holds a Master of Education in curriculum studies, with a focus in early childhood, from Texas Christian University, in addition to a Bachelor of Arts in communications from the University of Texas at Arlington. She serves on the board of the Texas Youth and Child Care Worker Association and is a member of the National Association for the Education of Young Children.

Lyn is a native Texan who lives in Euless with her husband and two children.

Rachel Leventon, MPA, CVA

Leventon@cnmconnect.org | 214-580-1706 | @NonprofitMPACVA

Rachel Leventon believes that through thoughtful planning and datadriven decision making, nonprofit organizations can and will do more mission better. Rachel employs specific skills in public speaking, program evaluation, statistical analysis, survey research, volunteer management and business processes to enhance the sustainability and performance of nonprofit organizations. Along with 9 years of professional experience in business process improvement, database implementation, volunteer management, collaboration, and program planning and evaluation in the North Texas Nonprofit Community, Rachel has a BA in Sociology from the University of Georgia and a Masters of Public Affairs (MPA) with a Certificate in Nonprofit Management from the University of Texas at Dallas. Rachel is also Certified in Volunteer Administration (CVA). As a Consultant at CNM Connect in Dallas, Texas, Rachel provides assistance to nonprofits through organizational assessments, process improvement and design, program development and evaluation design, benchmarking research, survey design and analysis, and facilitation of inter-agency collaboration. In addition to facilitating CNM’s Outcomes-Based Program Evaluation Institutes and Certificate Program, Rachel frequently shares her knowledge as a conference speaker on the topic of Program Evaluation and Outcomes Measurement. Rachel is a member of the American Evaluators Association and the National Association of Professional Women.

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Dr. Patricia L. Rangel

Throughout her career Dr. Patricia L. Rangel, has been a strong advocate for the education of young children. She has served as the Early Childhood Director in Fort Worth ISD since 2003. Dr. Rangel is currently the Executive Director of the Department of Early Academic Success and Acceleration and supervises several departments including Early Childhood, Dyslexia, Response to Intervention, Reading Recovery, Reading is Fundamental, and Parents as Teachers.

Dr. Rangel has her Ph.D. in Early Childhood Education/Educational Administration and has over thirty years of elementary and secondary educational and school leadership experience. She has worked closely with school readiness curriculum and programming through her involvement both locally and at the state level for many years in early childhood development and best practices. She has been an active participant in the community of Fort Worth and has expanded services to young children through a variety of collaborations.