The STL Pre-K Cooperative is increasing Kindergarten readiness city wide.
Founded in the 2020-2021 school year, the Cooperative has welcomed new partners, added new classrooms, and grown the number of students served in its classrooms every year.
With student achievement as our North Star, the Cooperative's partners have adopted a common set of assessment tools to measure student growth and inform instruction as well as program design.
The Pre-K Observation Form (PKOF) and the Kindergarten Observation Form (KOF) are the Cooperative’s summative student assessment tools, administered twice per year
The Desired Results Developmental Profile (DRDP) is the Cooperative’s formative student assessment tool. It is administered three times throughout the year, providing a snapshot of student learning at the start, mid-point, and end of the school year
The Classroom Assessment Scoring System (CLASS) is used to measure student-teacher interactions at the start and end of the school year
Together, these data points offer a comprehensive picture of program effectiveness. The Cooperative’s shared norms both set a common high bar for student achievement and address the need for increased coherence within the early education sector and across the pre-K and K-12 continuum.
