CPM Toolkit

Learn about the various reports available on CLI Engage and find how-to guides along with support resources for pre-K programs. Many of the following reports can be generated at the class, individual student, class, schools, and community/district levels.

• Completion Report
• Growth Report
• Summary Reports
• Class Goal-Setting Reports
• Student Report for Teachers and Families
• Small Group Reports
• Longitudinal Data Reports (Community/District Level)

Learn more about Accessing CLI Engage Reports.

The Circle Activity Collection: Pre-K to Grade 2 Collection (log in required) includes the following in each lesson:

• A description of the activity, the learning domains the activity supports, and an appropriate grade level
• Materials needed for the activity
• Activity instructions and soft scripting for implementation
• Helpful hints, including tips to create variations, related books to read aloud, and ways to scaffold children’s learning
• Applicable alignments to the prekindergarten guidelines

Resources for data driven instruction can also be found on our beginning, middle, and end of year specific pages. These pages were curated to meet the needs of educators across the span of the school year:

• BOY Assessment Resources
• MOY Assessment Resources
• EOY Assessment Resources

The Circle STEM Lab Collection is a virtual laboratory that hosts video segments from PBS Learning Media and hands-on STEM activities to be completed independently by your child. These interactive activities integrate video segments with hands-on activities and can be used independently by students or as a teacher directed activity.

Benchmarks are the minimum performance levels students are expected to reach by certain points of the year to indicate skill understanding. The CPM Benchmark table displays the cut scores for benchmarks and is helpful in analyzing your data.

• CPM Benchmarks (English Measures)
• CPM Benchmarks (Spanish Measures)
• District Level CPM Benchmarks

Each CPM measure is directly aligned to Texas Prekindergarten Guidelines. View the Texas Prekindergarten Guidelines (published 2022) in English and Spanish, as well as related resources, on the Texas Education Agency’s website.

Learn about how CPM aligns to the revised benchmarks by visiting our Circle Progress Monitoring-Texas PKG Alignments:

• Circle Progress Monitoring-Texas PKG Alignment
• Alineación del CPM con las pautas actualizadas de prekínder de Texas

CPM is also aligned to the Head Start Early Learning Outcomes Framework: Circle Progress Monitoring-Head Start Alignment

ECDS is part of the Texas Student Data System (TSDS). Visit our ECDS Uploads for Pre-K Data webpage to learn more about the ECDS pre-K required measures and how to upload your data!

Teachers using CPM can share student reports with families by printing them or providing a PIN for online access. Teachers can also send families activities that are designed to support skill development at home.

Student Report Resources:

• Overview Video: Watch the Student Report for Parents
• How-to Guides:
  • Generating Student Reports for Parents
  • Printing Parent PIN Pages

Implementation Guide (available in English and Spanish) includes the following topics:

• Understanding the Student Report for Parents
• Generating and Sharing Reports
• Conversations with Families about Data
• Supporting Resources

Helping Families Understand Their Child’s Assessment Results:

• Understanding Your Child’s Assessment Results
• Family-Friendly Descriptions of Assessment Measures

Teachers can collect valuable information on their student’s development by sharing these forms with families and asking them to give feedback about their child. Each form is aligned to the CPM measures to support the integration of family information into instructional planning. Family Observation Forms are available in English and Spanish.

CLI Engage provides a Circle Activity Collection specifically designed to support children’s skill development at home with their parents and families. The Circle Activity Collection: Family can be accessed on mobile devices and does not require a login. This collection provides a variety of hands-on activities that families can do at home. This collection is organized around seven learning domains: Language & Communication, Reading & Writing, Math, Science, Social & Emotional, Physical Development, and Art & Sensory.

CLI’s Family Engagement Toolkit resources make the most of procedures you likely already have in place, such as progress monitoring, homework, parent-teacher conferences, and open houses. CLI advocates a new focus for these efforts: supporting families in better understanding children’s development and engaging in fun, developmentally appropriate activities that not only build skills but strengthen the bonds between family members.

The Texas State Board of Education voted to approve the adoption of the Circle Pre-K Curriculum which includes 35 weeks of instruction using the Scope and Sequences and 10 Theme Guides. The components utilize the lessons in the Circle Activity Collection to support the cognitive, social, and emotional development of prekindergarten children.

Circle Pre-K Curriculum

The Circle Classroom Environment Checklist (CEC) is a tool that early childhood professionals can use to evaluate and improve their classroom environments. The CEC can be a great tool to use at the beginning of year to set goals for classroom enhancements, track the environment progress over time, and provide specific information for technical assistance.

• Classroom Environment Checklist (CEC)
• Classroom Environment Checklist How-To-Guide (CEC)