Ready schools are schools that help prepare younger kids for kindergarten. The concept of ready schools is part of the larger school readiness movement.

Methods

Ready schools are based on aligning early childhood and elementary education to strengthen child outcomes, and institutional characteristics. Schools that are ready are committed to every child's success, contacts parents early about school registration, communicate with childcare staff, have a variety of hands-on learning, retain instructional materials, promote community, provide accurate information about cultural experiences, and assess the quality of their own classrooms. Ready schools failing to meet such factors are supposed to assess its their weaknesses and build on its strengths.

References

• National Educational Goals Panel (1998). Ready Schools. Washington, DC: Author.

• Report of the Ready for School Goal Team (2000). School Readiness in North Carolina Strategies for Defining, measuring, and Promoting Success FOR ALL CHILDREN. North Carolina Office of Education Reform. Available from https://web.archive.org/web/20060102070021/http://www.serve.org/_downloads/publications/NCSchool.pdf

• Simons, K.A., & Curtis, P. A. (March, 2007). Connecting with communities: Four successful schools. Young Children (62)2, 12–20.