Kindergarten+Readiness

Erie Together Team One Ready for Kindergarten:3/24/2011 Note from meeting

National Association for the Education of Young Children (NAEYC) definition of readiness... "School readiness involves more than just children. School readiness, in the broad sense, is about children, families, early environments, schools, and communities. Children are not innately "ready" for school, Their skills and development are strongly influenced by their interactions with other people and environments before coming to school." (Maxwell&Clifford 2004,42)

__GROUP DISCUSSION TALKING POINTS:__
 * Create separate pages for ready school, families and communities - items from NAEYC definition
 * Define skills - use Shelby and PA Early Learning Standards as guide but use of parent/community friendly language
 * Shelby Handout first paragraph" School readiness describes the capabilities of children...."
 * Use Shelby- ready children, ready families, ready schools, ready communities,and early environments.
 * Define categories: Emotional Development, Social Development, Physical Development and care, Lang/Vocabulary, Math