"Every year a new wave of kindergarten students hit the beaches of our schools. Every year 40 percent of these students are already one to three years behind, just like the last wave and just like the next wave." (pg. 203)
This quote really is true and creates so much of the challanges associated with education! We are all trying to make growth with all students, along with catch those students up who are behind.
Chapter 21 talks about the READY program. What are your ideas about starting some kind of "Ready for Kindergarten" program at NU?
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I think that we have discussed this issue in the past and have tried to think of ways to encourage parents to be more proactive with the education of their toddler and etc. I don't know if our community would go for a program like READY! but I think there are things we can keep working on to improve communication and possible programs for this group. We haven't found the right angle yet, but I'm sure we can keep working toward our goal. A Kindergarten Round-Up program was discussed a few years back,and it was designed to help incoming Kindergarteners. I think that would be great, but I feel we need to go younger than that. I think the new Parents for Partners group may be a way to approach a program for parents with younger children. Getting them involved with school earlier could help them see what is expected of students before their child comes to school. I don't know if that is something that our group could address or not. This is a good topic for when we get together as a whole group.
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