
Highly accessible, evidence-based family engagement
Accessible for families. Easy to implement. Deliver evidence-based family engagement directly into your parents’ hands – and get robust outcomes data to demonstrate your impact.
Discover our one-of-a-kind Core, Trauma-Informed, and data-driven Personalized Learning family engagement programs for birth through 8th grade.

“I think Ready4K fills a need that no other program I’ve been able to find to date can fill.”
Dr. Wai‘ale‘ale Sarsona
Vice President of the Hi‘ialo Group for Kamehameha Schools
Rooted in Research. Proven in Practice.
Developed by educational researchers, Ready4K is a highly accessible, evidence-based family engagement solution that is carefully designed to drive impact at every step along the way.
It starts with our focus on access. More than 95% of families use text message, which makes it the perfect way to deliver evidence-based curricula to birth through 8th grade families each week in 10+ languages.
With Core, Trauma-Informed, and developmental data-driven Personalized Learning family engagement solutions, Ready4K is the only provider with general support, support for families working to overcome the trauma of adverse childhood experiences (ACEs), and support for children with potential developmental delays.
Next is ease of implementation. The Ready4K Dashboard turns everything from enrollment to reporting into a one-click process. From research-based surveys to on-demand surveying tools and end-of-year impact reports, the dashboard will lighten your reporting load.
Through Family workshops, the Ready4K family communication system, and additional educator supports we make it easy to increase your impact.
And with the strongest evidence base in the field, it’s clear to see why organizations across the country choose Ready4K.


Start Your Equity Grant Application
Ready4K is deeply committed to serving economically disadvantaged families. We’re proud to offer qualifying organizations an Equity Grant — to ensure that our highly-accessible, evidence-based family engagement solutions are available in every community. Awards are granted on a first-come, first-served basis, so we encourage you to apply today.
Who We Serve
Ready4K partners include Schools & Districts, States Agencies, Head Starts, and Communities from diverse rural, urban, and suburban settings across the United States, including those working to overcome the trauma of adverse childhood experiences (ACEs).
Our solutions, which include Ready4K Core, Ready4K Trauma-Informed, and Ready4K Personalized Learning, support families from birth through 8th grade in more than 10 languages. For partners serving families with unique needs, additional cultural and linguistic options are also available.

Schools & Districts
Standards-aligned programs that activate families as PK-8th grade learning partners, meeting multiple ESSA and ESSER requirements.
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State Agencies
Flexible, standards-aligned family engagement that easily scales to reach your birth-to-8th grade learning goals.
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Head Starts
Head Start-aligned programs that elevate your family engagement strategy, including the one-of-a-kind Ready4K Trauma-Informed.
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Communities
Make it easy to give families and children the extra support they deserve — and amplify the impact of your family support programs.
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What Parents Are Saying About Ready4K
The Only Tier 1 “Strong Evidence-Based” Digital Family Engagement Solution

2 to 3 Months Additional Growth
First studied at Stanford in randomized control trials, the Ready4K approach has been shown to increase student growth by 2 to 3 months over a school year.
Explore the research that makes Ready4K the only digital family engagement program to meet the most rigorous ESSA and Head Start standards.
98% of Families Report Child Growth
Over 150,000 parent survey responses show that Ready4K messages increased the confidence of 94% of parents; strengthened 97% of parent-child relationships; and 98% families say Ready4K helped their child grow.
Check out our Impact page to see more survey results.
The Ready4K Approach
Turn complexity into simplicity
We start by writing a complete, standards-aligned parenting curriculum. Then we use research-based strategies to crystallize it into bite-sized steps that inspire action. And messages are written at a third grade level to ensure accessibility.
Sequence carefully
We build new skills on top of known skills to leverage parents strengths and unique relationships with their child. Each week we orient families around a WHAT, a WHY, and a HOW. WHAT skill is their child developing. WHY it is important. HOW they can help build the skill at home.
Leverage parenting strengths
Each message is carefully written to give families an “I can do it!” feeling. We want every parent to feel inspired and totally capable of supporting their child’s learning with each message they receive.
Make access easy
Then we deliver each message using the most equitable and accessible technology: text message. No internet required. And Ready4K is available in 10+ languages with specialized versions for tribal families and other unique populations.
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What Partners Are Saying About Ready4K
We’ve sent over 125 million Ready4K messages to 900,000+ families with fun facts, easy tips, reinforcement, encouragement, and pedagogically-scaffolded extension activities to help parents support their children’s development by building on everyday learning opportunities.