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Frisco Early Childhood Center
Melissa Ellis, Principal
Frisco ISD’s Early Childhood School currently serves 957 three- and four-year-old students who meet state and federal guidelines for being at-risk, have an identified disability, or who fill our few tuition slots. We provide general education programs such as regular pre-k, bilingual pre-k, and Head Start pre-k, all of which include special education students benefitting from an inclusive setting. We also have self-contained programs such as our Preschool Program for Children with Disabilities (PPCD), Structured Language Classrooms (SLC), and Active Learning Classrooms (ALC). Each classroom has a teacher who is triple certified in the areas of general education, special education, and English as a second language along with at least one full-time teaching assistant.
With a campus full of precious students that need our very best, we work hard to provide an enriching and appropriate learning environment for them all. Our curriculum is grounded in the Texas Pre-K Guidelines focusing on oral language, emergent reading and writing skills, and early math concepts to build kinder readiness.
To support our pre-k emergent readers and writers, we implement research-based structures such as Interactive Reading, Shared Reading, Guided Reading, Shared and Interactive Writing, as well as independent reading and writing. Our teachers use many progress monitoring methods including the use of the developmental stages of writing to track each student’s progress to plan for next steps in their instruction.
Interactive Reading, Shared Reading, Guided Reading, Book Boxes
Shared Writing, Interactive Writing, Independent Writing
 PPCD Classroom
 To support our young mathematicians, teachers follow the workshop model and embed learning into purposeful play. Students participate in daily number sense games, problem solving opportunities, as well as partner work engaging with manipulatives while using their “math talk.”
Number Talks, Problem Solving, Station Tubs, Reflection
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