Plan to Correct

Staff and managers will continue to demonstrate prudent and responsible behavior by ensuring allergy listings are current at all times, based on real-time updates from parents/guardians & continuing to ensure all staff are aware of all known allergies in facility, as currently done via the Sprout About app.

Regulation Description

340:110-3-284(c)(2)(C) - demonstrate prudent and responsible behavior reasonably ensuring children's health and safety;

Plan to Correct

1. Teacher was placed on administrative leave & termination upon discovery of violation of requirement 340:110-3-284. 2. All staff retrained on Behavior and Guidance policies by no later than 11/20/24.

Regulation Description

340:110-3-284(c)(2)(E) - work with children without physical, psychological, or emotional punishment, mistreatment, or abuse.

Plan to Correct

1. Teacher was placed on administrative leave & termination upon discovery of violation of requirements. 2. All staff retrained on Behavior and Guidance policies by no later than 11/20/24 as well as D.A.P.

Regulation Description

340:110-3-284(c)(2)(D) - demonstrate realistic expectations for behavior based on children's age, abilities, and needs; and

Plan to Correct

-Director, Assistant Director, & Team Lead had naptime meetings on 7/26/24 with all diaper changing classrooms to review primary care groups and responsibility for diapering these groups. -Additionally, staff will be retrained on checking all the children every hour & changing every 2 hours, no matter if thy are dry or wet, and of course as needed. -Staff meeting was held on Saturday 8/10/24 to retrain staff on diapering policy and procedure. -Director, AD, and Team Lead will randomly observe diaper changes 1 to 2 times per day to ensure they are done properly and coach as needed. -Director, AD, and Tem Lead will check the Sprout about app to see when a teacher indicated a child was changed & then go to the room to spot check the child's diaper to ensure that it is dry & the indicated action was truly taken by staff.

Regulation Description

340:110-3-297(a)(1)(B) - changed promptly when wet or soiled.

Plan to Correct

-Facility will continue to ensure that requirements regarding staff-child ratios are met throughout the day. - Staff meeting was held on Saturday 8/10/24 to train staff on ratios with District Manager & Director, Assistant Director. - Memo was distributed to staff on Friday 7/26/24 explaining that when mixed age group ratios re being utilized & Management in Charge will show the classroom staff, on the ratio chart in the room, why we are combining the way we are & how that is maintaining ratios when moving children into their rooms. - We hope this will avoid confusion and misunderstanding moving forward. - We will continue, as we currently do, to ensure that during the busy morning hours of drop off, that if classrooms go out of ratio due to a child being dropped off, the staff will radio the manager & they will go and move the children as quickly as possible.

Regulation Description

340:110-3-286(a) - Ratios. Ratios are the number of teaching personnel required to be physically present with a child or group of children, per Oklahoma Administrative Code (OAC) 340 Appendix GG - Ratios and Group Sizes. Only teaching personnel count in ratios, unless requirements specifically state otherwise. The program is required to maintain ratios at all times.

Plan to Correct

Teachers are retrained on proper supervision. Assistant and Director will monitor classroom supervision regularly.

Regulation Description

340:110-3-287(a) - Supervision. Supervision is the function of observing, overseeing, and guiding a child or group of children, including an awareness of, and responsibility for, the ongoing activity of each child, and being near enough to intervene when needed. The program is required to maintain supervision at all times.