Early childhood education is increasingly being recognized around the world as the most crucial step in a child’s development. As an early educator, you have quite the responsibility—but having the right tools can help you feel empowered.
Early educators are already juggling so much—from lesson planning to collecting assessment observation—that tracking point of care activities throughout the day to share with families can be overwhelming. Building consistent communication with families is key to child development (not to mention an expectation of many early childhood programs), but it’s all too easy to get bogged down in paperwork.
So, how can Kaymbu help support early educators while also ensuring that families receive compelling information every day?
Digitizing Your Daily Sheets
Digitizing processes is one of the best ways to save time, meaning early educators can spend less time writing daily reports and focus on what they’re passionate about: the education and development of children. Picking the right easy-to-use tools can also empower educators to share student information in a compelling way, which in turn means better outcomes for families.
One example of this is a digital daily sheets tool, which allows early childhood programs to track every aspect of children’s days; from their check-in, mood, incidents, meals, all the way to check-out. The Daily Sheets feature within Kaymbu does all this and more, providing a visually appealing way for families to track their children’s progress. The easy learning curve and customization options help every early childhood program quickly fill out daily sheets and share with families with one click.
A Holistic and Individual Approach
Of course, families aren’t simply looking to know how the day went generally, they want to know everything that is going on with their child. Families with young children are also seeking a more holistic approach to communication, to help bridge the gap between home and school. Sure, they want to know what their child has been fed, how long they napped for and whether their medication was administered, but on top of that, families are now seeking to know even more about how their child spends their day: How is potty training going? What types of activities were they engaged in at Circle Time? How was their mood throughout the day?
Keeping track of point of care activities in a holistic way can feel particularly overwhelming to early educators. Daily Sheets is fully integrated with the student roster within Kaymbu, allowing families to get access to the most up-to-date information while cutting down on the amount of time educators spend entering data. This helps provide a robust and visually beautiful daily sheet, which creates a full picture of a student's day at school, enabling parents to feel more connected to the educational setting itself.
It goes without saying that every family is different, and when it comes to sending daily sheets, it’s important for educators to make sure they are meeting each family’s needs and expectations, connecting with them how they want. For example, every family member doesn’t necessarily need to see every diaper change! Using a tool like Kaymbu can help you maintain relationships with your families, by allowing you to easily customize who receives the daily sheet, from within the student roster.
Kaymbu for Families allows families to quickly and easily view point-of-care items for their children—and, more importantly, view that information in their chosen language. Everything within the Kaymbu and Kaymbu for Families platforms can be instantly translated into over 100 languages, so you can ensure you connect with families in the way that is most comfortable for them.
Simplicity!
Sending and receiving a Daily Sheet should be simple, both for the educator and family. Those working in education are looking for systems that take the least amount of time to learn and use, so that educators can focus on what’s really important: student outcomes in their classrooms.
Kaymbu’s mission doesn’t stop at Daily Sheets; we offer an entire suite of applications to ease the heavy and varied workload of early childhood educators! Kaymbu is a robust addition to any early childhood programs. Please feel free to contact us with any additional questions.
