Early Childhood Professionals

Early Learning Guidelines describes what children typically do and strategies parents and teachers can use to support development in children from birth through three.
Program Standards outline policy and program indicators that support relationship-based care.
Grade level Expectations are defined by the Louisiana Department of Education for children PreK through 12th grade. A grade-level expectation (GLE) is a statement that defines what all student should know and be able to do at the end of a given grade level. GLEs add further definition to the content standards and benchmarks.

These links connect you with the following information
Department of Social Services:
Louisiana Early Learning Guidelines and Program Standards: Birth through Three (2005)
http://www.dss.state.la.us/Documents/OFS/LAEarlyLearningGuide.pdf

Louisiana Department of Education:
To download Grade Level Expectations http://www.doe.state.la.us/lde/saa/1819.html

Louisiana Content Standards for Programs Serving 4-Year-Old Children (2003)

http://www.doe.state.la.us/lde/uploads/5381.doc

Note: The original version of this document contained Program Standards. These have been removed and updated in a document called PreKindergarten Program Guidelines. They are intended to provide guidance to school systems on providing environments for PreK classrooms. The remaining Content Standards have not been revised.

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