Archived: Checklist: If your school needs to improve, what actions are needed?

Yes No	Encourage parents to take their children for regular visits to the doctor and for immunizations.
Yes No	Encourage parents to read to their children, starting in the earliest years, and then to take them to the library to pick out their own books and attend special programs for young children there.
Yes No	Offer voluntary parent education courses, such as Parents as Teachers, HIPPY, and Family Literacy Programs that help parents develop language and preliteracy skills in their young children.
Yes No	Help pediatricians use periodic check-ups to "prescribe reading" and to model effective parenting techniques.
Yes No	Provide early childhood educators and child care providers with the time and opportunity for the on-going and sustained professional development needed to improve the quality of early childhood programs.
Yes No	Work to ensure that all child care centers in your area become accredited.
Yes No	Volunteer your time as a reading partner or as a parenting mentor, share your management expertise or other talent with an early childhood program, Head Start, or child care center, or be an advocate for the interests of young children in your community.
Yes No	Ensure early assistance for children with disabilities and developmental delays so they may receive the special services to which they are entitled in order to help them be ready for school.
Yes No	Support programs that help teen parents finish school and learn parenting skills.
Yes No	Other action needed:

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