Kindergarten School Readiness Assessment Timeline

School and districts serving publicly funded students in kindergarten:

Use state board approved assessment tools.
Assess six domains of learning and development in school readiness.
Administer the KSR Assessments from the 1st day of school through the first 60 calendar days.
Create Individual Learning Plans (School Readiness or K Plans) for each student.
Report data during the KSR data collection window, typically early October through early December. The data collection collects aggregate data on all publicly funded kindergarten students, including students who are homeschooled, and attend school online and in charter schools.

Timeline

Review the Kindergarten School Readiness Colorado State Board of Education Approved List of Assessments.
Renew kindergarten licenses, if using a vendor assessment tool
- Ensure the license purchased is for kindergarten
Plan for training on the assessment tool for new teachers and track participation in interrater reliability training.

Set assessment window dates and include them on your district assessment calendar.
- KSR fall assessment window: 1st day of school through the first 60 calendar days.
Connect with your KSR data respondent to set a process for data reporting.
Identify the KSR administrator for the assessment tool online systems, if applicable.
- GOLD® administrators must set the assessment dates for the 1st term in GOLD® to end 60 calendar days from the district start date.
Locate or create login information for all administrators and teachers who will require access.
Set up kindergarten classes in the assessment tool online system.
- Enter race and ethnicity, free and reduced lunch status, and gender for each student. This is pulled as part of the KSR data collection.
- For GOLD® users, ensure kindergarten classrooms are created in the kindergarten license
Track participation in or provide training, templates, and processes to support the development of individual learning plans, e.g., school readiness plans or kindergarten plans.
- This might be in collaboration with others supporting tiered instruction in kindergarten.

Support teachers in assessing and prompt as the close of the assessment window approaches.

Remind all kindergarten teachers to finalize scores.
Review data for completion.
GOLD® administrators, ensure data is in the K license and 1st term. This data must be manually transferred if entered elsewhere.

Communicate locally determined mid-year assessment window dates, including which domains are to be assessed.
- These may align with other mid-year assessment windows, e.g., READ, preschool.
Monitor implementation and progress toward goals on individual learning plans.

Communicate locally determined end-of-year assessment window dates, including which domains are to be assessed.
Provide time for teachers to prepare individual learning plans to transition to first grade as part of each child’s portfolio.