Five Domains The whole project with its five domains was….the coming together of all of the kinds of initiatives that I think need to be taken for early childhood education to really work and for tribal communities to thrive with early childhood really playing a very foundational role…. These five domains looked at everything: at children, at families, at communities, at birth to grade three, at empowering families and parents, and tribal language and culture as a foundation of everything we do. — Shelley Macy, Project Director, Northwest Indian College
The Five Domains provide targeted areas of work for the College Fund, TCUs, and Native communities in transforming early childhood education. The Five Domains are strategic objectives that serve as pillars for the work: anchors that keep the work focused on five critical areas in early childhood education, and guideposts for future efforts within communities.
The TCU ECE Initiative Five Domains
Intergenerational Family Engagement
The TCU Early Childhood Education Initiative Five Domains are: 1) Strengthening early childhood teacher quality and instruction 2) Strategic and intergenerational family and community engagement
Pre-K to K-3 Transition
3) Documenting children’s developmental skills (cognitive and non-cognitive)
Five Domains of Indigenous Early Learning
Teacher Quality
4) Integration of Native language and culture 5) Successful pathways from Pre-K to K-3 education and beyond
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Native Language & Culture
Child Development
