Teaching Strategies
in Alabama

The Alabama Department of Early Childhood Education has a nightly integration with MyTeachingStrategies®, which links to the department’s student information system. This will automatically populate your account, your class and children. After you receive notification from your First-Class Pre-K coach that classes and children have loaded for the school year, you may access your account. This typically happens in early August.

IMPORTANT to note once you have successfully accessed your MyTeachingStrategies® account:

Your classes and children will be uploaded into MyTeachingStrategies® for you

• Please DO NOT add or delete any classes or children in the system

Region Directors send new teachers a link to the Personnel Profile Form (PPF). A username will be created 24-48 hours after submitting the PPF. After the 24-48 hour timeframe, enter the username format in the MyTeachingStrategies® log-in field. Select Forgot Password.  A temporary password will be sent to the email address you provided on the PPF.

To access the site correctly, the required standard username format must be used.

Username format:  firstname.lastnameMBdbORG

• (Example Username:  jane.doe0403pk )
• MB is month of birth; db is day of birth; ORG for Pre-K is pk

If the PPF has been filled out prior to the school year, teachers do not need to attempt to access their account until they have received information from their First Class Pre-K coach.

You have access to MyTeachingStrategies®, the GOLD® Assessment, The Creative Curriculum® Cloud for Pre-school, ReadyRosie, and the PD Teacher Membership

IRR completion is expected within 30 days after the 12-hour MyTeachingStrategies®/GOLD® platform professional development session has concluded.  If teachers do not have access to their own accounts at the time of training, then the expectation is within 30 days from gaining account access.

Alabama First-Class Pre-K teachers should complete the Preschool Exam, available in English and Spanish, located in the Quorum eLearning Platform (access through the Develop tab in MyTeachingStrategies®).

Contact your First-Class Pre-K coach if you have not yet received The First Six Weeks: Building Your Preschool Classroom Community materials.

• The First Six Weeks: Building Your Preschool Classroom Community kit will include the GOLD® Objectives for Development & Learning

Alabama First-Class Pre-K suggests that most objectives need at least two pieces of quality documentation for an accurate assessment rating at checkpoint. Your First-Class Pre-K coach can give further guidance and support as some objectives may need more (or less) documentation, to help support the instructional process for student outcomes.

After the session completes, ADECE will give credit in PowerSchool based on attendance.

Attendees will receive their certificates within 3 weeks from the session date.

Public school teachers should contact their LEA for PowerSchool access.

Non-public schoolteachers should contact their Region Director.

Please work with the child’s Case Manager or individual(s) responsible for supporting the child through the IEP, and be sure to review the guidance for First-Class Pre-K teachers (as well as other resources) in the AL OSEP Support & Resources Padlet.

Fall Checkpoint: October 27, 2023

Winter Checkpoint: February 23, 2024

Spring Checkpoint: May 17, 2024

Summer Checkpoint: July 12, 2024

ReadyRosie Support & Resources for AL First-Class Pre-K Administrators

ReadyRosie Support & Resources for AL First-Class Pre-K Teachers