Service providers whose approach includes collaboration with the families of children they serve. The service provider responds to the family’s concerns and priorities.

Written surveys that parents or other caregivers of young children are asked to complete to give needed information to child-care providers.

Information on a student provided by someone in the student’s family.

The documentation of a family and its interaction with people, locations, and events using a loosely-structured interview.

The use of story to document and reflect on student learning from events of the school day.

A numerical or qualitative scale used to record whether students exhibit specific skills or behaviors.

A written record for documenting a particular student or group of students’ activities at a given time.

A written record kept by the teacher of skills or behaviors he or she wants the students to exhibit in the classroom.

Checklists that allow a teacher to quickly note how frequently a specific behavior is exhibited in class.

Forms a teacher uses to quickly record the skills or behaviors of students in a classroom.