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When kids start Kindergarten, they’re put through several evaluations to measure their preparedness for school. The goal is to even the playing field by identifying how schools can best support kids to meet their individual needs. Looking at factors like a child’s readiness to read, including hearing and language skills, matters a great deal; when addressed early, these interventions can help prevent kids from getting far behind their peers. But a new study in the Journal of Applied Psychology has uncovered troubling inequalities amongst Kindergarteners outside of the classroom that could have major consequences.That “extracurricular gap” — the difference between...

Kindergarteners Daleyza Plancarte Castro, left, Aitana De La Cruz and Alexis Bernal wait to change classrooms to spend the second half of the day in Spanish language immersion kindergarten at Daniels Canyon Elementary School in Heber City on March 29, 2022.Kristin Murphy, Deseret News Nearly one-fifth of Utah public school students are chronically absent, a rate that has almost doubled in the past decade.“There is currently a 19% chronic absenteeism rate, which is reflective of 122,626 students in 2021,” Deputy State Superintendent of Student Achievement Patty Norman told state lawmakers recently.Utah schools “are feeling powerless regarding student attendance,” she said.Brett Peterson,...

Vendor: EEBOO Type: Arts & Crafts Price: 17.99 Create a Story Cards from Eeboo feature 36 cards to help create stories and develop language skills. Recurring characters, locations and props encourage linking the cards in endless combinations for fresh, new stories every time it's played. Instructions for different storytelling games included. Take in the car, traveling, restaurants and more. A creative and fun addition to a kindergarten through 5th grade classroom. 3+ years. Quantum Koalas: Quantum Koala Create a Story Cards involve three animals, a dinosaur and a robot – what could possibly happen next? This unlikely quintet is leaping back into prehistoric times...

Sadly true.  We do get talented folks, but they have to fight for it by persuading the rest.  whatever the system happens to be.  That happens to be why a naturally dynamic system like our representative democracy works well enough.  Talent can grab the ring.Trouble is that all the rest is handled by mostly the B team.curiously, the RULE of TWELVE can settle all this rather well enough for general governance and hiearchal systems can be used as needed and even indicated.All good. The World Is Run By People No Smarter Than You 2022-11-11 https://www.swyx.io/no-smarter/? Discussions on Hacker News and...

 CHRISTMAS LITERACY CENTERSLooking for some FUN, holiday themed literacy centers that are ready to print and go? This pack of Christmas literacy centers includes tons of phonics and phonemic awareness activities that will help your young students gain practice with lots of standards based learning!In Fireside Phonics, students will practice identifying beginning and ending letter sounds by putting the missing letters in the words, based on the picture clues. They can use magnetic letters, letter tiles, or you can print pages and have them write or stamp their answers!  In Cookie CVC, students will practice identifying beginning, middle, and ending sounds by filling in the missing...