• Family involvement is encouraged through regular communication, activities at home, and workshops that support families in fostering their child's development
• Volunteer opportunities within their child’s classroom
• Communicate with parents about the program’s activities through newsletters and bulletin boards
• Two family/teacher conferences are held each school year
• All parents are invited to attend parent advisory meetings to discuss program concerns, help with fundraising, and plan special events
• PBS Partnership allows CUSD to host family workshops to engage the entire family in learning.

The Compton Unified School District (CUSD) has adopted the Creative Curriculum is a comprehensive, research-based educational framework designed for early childhood education. It focuses on providing an engaging, active, hands-on learning, and developmentally appropriate learning environment that promotes exploration, creativity, and discovery. It focuses on building skills in critical areas such as:

Benefits include:

• Focus on key developmental areas (social-emotional development, language and literacy, mathematics, science creative arts, physical development
• Supports child-centered learning
• Encourages critical thinking, collaboration, and problem solving skills
• Thematic units connect different areas of learning and helps children make connections across various concepts.

• All of the Preschools at Compton Unified School District utilize My Reading Academy and MathShelf for digital learning through individual district provided iPads

• My Reading Academy by Age of Learning is an innovative educational technology design to help children build a strong foundation for academic success and a lifelong love of learning.  The application focuses on building foundational skills such as phonics, fluency, comprehension, and vocabulary development

• Math Shelf is an evidence-based preK & Kindergarten tablet math program proven to increase students' achievement two years in just six months. 

The Desired Results Developmental Profile (DRDP) is a tool developed by the California Department of Education, Child Development Division, to assess and ensure the development progress of children in the domains of physical, cognitive, and social-emotional development.  The DRDP will be completed within the first sixty calendar days of the child's enrollment and every six months after that. 

Assessment information will be updated throughout the year utilizing teacher observations, samples of the child's work, and other records. Ongoing assessments/information will be added to the child's portfolio folder. Parents' input is a necessary component of this assessment. Parent-teacher conferences will be held during the fall and spring or at the end of each student's DRDP cycle. 

At CUSD our dual language learners (DLLS) are young children who are learning two or more languages at the same time, or learning a second language while continuing to develop their first language. The use of this term promotes the value and importance of home language development. The timing, exposure, quantity and quality of input, opportunity to use both languages, and community attitudes towards languages other than English significantly affect the rate and pattern of development in each language. Children’s personalities, motivations, abilities, and interests also impact the speed at which they each develop English.