Inquisitive schools for Oregon's next generation
Teaching Preschools
Our Teaching Preschools are demonstration sites that make our practices visible. Our Teaching Preschools host professional learning events and site visits as standing examples of the changes we are working to create within Oregon’s schools.
Parkrose School District: Prescott Teaching Preschool, Shaver Teaching Preschool, and Sacramento Teaching Preschool
With our relationship starting in 2015, Parkrose School District hosts three of our Teaching Preschools. Partially funded by Preschool Promise and Preschool for All, TPP facilitates growth and change from teaching practice to administering teaching and learning.
Gladstone School District: Gladstone Teaching Preschool
Starting in 2014, our Gladstone Teaching Preschool is an inclusive classroom run as a collaboration between Clackamas Education Service District, Gladstone School District, and Teaching Preschool Partners. We facilitate growth and change in classroom practice, and work to align our approaches with inclusion in mind.
Public school district partners
We’re working alongside educators and administrators to integrate playful learning approaches that center student voice and agency into classrooms across Oregon. All of our school district partners are engaged in multi-year projects that we support while cultivating the values of Playful Inquiry
Beaverton School District
2017 – Present; Total Enrollment 39,515
Our work with Beaverton School District includes support to PreK, K and 1st grade classrooms with PD sessions, re-designing classroom environments located in Title I schools, collaborating with principals and coaches, conducting teacher observations, and working alongside Children’s Institute’s Early School Success initiative.
Beaverton School DistrictGreater Albany Public School District
2020 – Present; Total Enrollment 8,325
TPP facilitates preschool teaching team and offers a cohort experience. We advise on the operations of three elementary schools and on their Preschool Promise administration.
Greater Albany Public SchoolsNorth Clackamas School District
2020 – Present; Total Enrollment 16,458
TPP facilitates a wide range of professional learning activities from kindergarten cohorts, social and emotional learning, and materials workshops. We redesign environments, coach teachers in using them, and design material kits for dissemination. We help to facilitate advisory groups and advise on the administration of preschool and early learning alignment.
North Clackamas School DistrictPortland Public Schools
2020 – Present; Total Enrollment 49,000
Working alongside Portland Public Head Start that serves 760 three and four-year-old children, we facilitate a cohort, conduct teacher observations, and lead site visits to our Teaching Preschools.
Portland Public SchoolsRegional Partnerships
Building on the infrastructure of Oregon’s early education system, we work with regional agencies, state agencies, and community organizations to bring programs and services across multiple school districts in a given region.
Columbia, Clatsop, Tillamook, and Washington Counties
Starting in 2022, TPP worked alongside the Northwest Regional ESD, Regional Educator Network, CCR&R, and Early Learning Hub to offer professional development, host site visits, and collaborate with teachers and administrators.
Southern Oregon Cohort
Beginning in 2024, TPP is excited to offer the Southern Oregon Cohort to support small rural districts in their efforts to offer early learning in their communities.
Center for African Immigrants and Refugees Organization (CAIRO)
Beginning in 2024, TPP is proud to be working alongside CAIRO as their preschool program offerings expand across Multnomah and Washington counties. Utilizing Asset-Based Playful inquiry, we look into what it means to offer playful inquiry experiences that are culturally sustaining and culturally specific.
Projects
What happens when we connect great ideas?
In addition to working in school districts, TPP also offers deep dives into cultivating powerful early learning communities through…
- Cohort Experiences
- Classroom Environment Consulting
- Professional Development Workshops designed in collaboration with participating sites
- Hosting and preserving the Opal School Archive
- And more…