Early Education

Early childhood development experts are in the business of readying prekindergarten aged children to learn when they reach kindergarten. Measuring student and program performance are critical activities to determine early education successes.

OZ Systems provides educators the data management tools to better inform the Early Childhood Development projects about progress, resource allocations, and overall performance outcomes. Individual student performance is evaluated by integrating information, including assessment scores, from various sources.

Student achievement can be tracked longitudinally. This enables publicly funded early childhood programs to account for their successes, inform policy making, define roles and responsibilities, and create fiscal accountability where funding is tied to progress.

Individual student performance can also be tied directly to local pre-k program performance so parents can evaluate and compare early education programs. The programs can use objective criteria to tout successes in educating pre-k children.

To meet FERPA requirements, the OZ Systems’ system enables the use of “masked” data to protect the identity of students while achieving research objectives.

 

PreKindergarten Education Software: eSP™
A BIG OPPORTUNITY TO ACCESS STIMULUS DOLLARS!

eSP™ by OZ Systems paves the way to act quickly and meet federal requirements for a statewide prekindergarten
data system by offering:

• unique student identifier
• student-level enrollment, demographics, and program enrollment
• student-level exit, transfer and dropout information
• capacity to communicate with higher educational systems
• data audit: assessing quality, validity and reliability
• individual test data
• information on student not tested
• teacher identifier with ability to match teacher to student

eSP™ lays the foundation for policy makers and school administrators to customize and enhance the preK system to:

• improve accountability and transparency in funding decisions
• measure the quality of their preK programs as you define “quality”
• improve staffing, curriculum
• direct resources in an informed manner

eSP™ lays the foundation for teachers to:

• improve programming decisions
• manage their preschool classrooms

Who can utilize eSP™?

• Licensed (for-profit, non-profit and faith-based) child care teachers and administrators
• Public Independent School District prekindergarten and kindergarten programs
• Private and charter school prekindergarten programs
• Head Start
• Regional Educational Service Centers
• State Education Agencies

Contact Steve Montgomery at 888.727.3366 ext 710 or email at smontgomery@oz-systems.com
so you can send a letter to Secretary of Education Arne Duncan that says...

Secretary Arne Duncan,
My state has a statewide preK data system — thanks to OZ Systems!

 

Part C

OZ Systems builds applications which provide integrated records for individual children, including children with special health care needs who receive services under a state’s Individuals with Disability Education Act, Part C Program.

• Assure connection to early intervention services
• Confidentiality/privacy mechanisms meet or exceed FERPA and state privacy regulations
• Electronic matching with records maintained in other systems
• Document timelines
• Document service delivery
• Measure student outcomes