But the 2010 Kindergarten Readiness Act is slowly advancing the age required for kindergarten entry so that by 2014, children must have turned five by Sept. “For the first time, we are really putting together a statewide early intervention model that if done correctly can have huge dividends.” School ageĬalifornia has long allowed children to enter kindergarten before they turned five. “I truly believe historians are going to write that this was a watershed moment in education in California,” Steinhauser said. Offering transitional kindergarten became a statewide requirement this school year and, based on his experience with his district’s program, Long Beach Superintendent Chris Steinhauser thinks it’s a game-changing idea. And since it has been around for several years, the program will produce the first significant data set, expected this spring, on how children from diverse economic backgrounds who attend transitional kindergarten perform in later grades, based on their grades and standardized test scores. The Long Beach program, originally the brainchild of kindergarten teachers Kris Damon and Michelle Woolwine, is not the first transitional kindergarten program in the state, but it is one of the largest. LONG BEACH – When California school districts were required by state law to start a new early kindergarten class for some 4-year-olds for the first time this year, Long Beach Unified had an easier task than most: to simply expand the existing “preppy kindergarten” program it started five years ago. Joshua Lide (left) and London Green (right) work on their journal entries in their transitional kindergarten classroom at Carver Elementary School in Long Beach on February 7, 2013.
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