DEPARTMENT: Pre-K 4 SA
DEPARTMENT HEAD: Sarah Baray, Ph.D.
COUNCIL DISTRICTS IMPACTED: Citywide
SUBJECT:
Annual Contract for Professional Learning & Development Platform for Pre-K 4 SA
SUMMARY:
This item authorizes acceptance of a contract with Kickup, Inc. to provide a professional learning and development platform for one year, with two, one-year options to renew for a total contract value not to exceed $123,387.00.
BACKGROUND INFORMATION:
Pre-K 4 SA is a comprehensive early learning initiative designed to develop a more productive workforce, healthier and more engaged families, less poverty, and civic-minded young adults to take San Antonio into the future. A key tenet of Pre-K 4 SA's work is proving professional learning to strengthen San Antonio's early learning workforce. As a publicly funded program, Pre-K 4 SA has a responsibility to measure the costs and benefits of services provided and communicate the return on investment to the San Antonio community. Systematically collecting data for a cost-benefit analysis of professional learning services requires a data management system designed to capture and report a complex set of measures associated with knowledge work. Such measures include number of participants, time engaged, content covered, effect on student outcomes, teacher attributes, and behavior changes. A comprehensive platform to house and generate reports on the data for these purposes is critical.
Each year, Pre-K 4 SA's Professional Learning (PL) division provides over 10,000 hours of best-in-class professional education to increase the knowledge and skill of early childhood teachers and leaders throughout San Antonio. This team is also a recognized, Texas Education Agency (TEA) Authorized Provider of Texas House Bill 3 (HB3) Reading Academies, passed by the 86th Texas Legislature in June of 2019. The PL department is also nationally recognized as a Gold Standard provider of the Child Development Associates credentialing. The t...
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