Ready4K Core
Includes report-ready family outcomes data and powerful scaffolds to the Ready4K Core family engagement curriculum.
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Research shows the Ready4K approach can lead to 2-3 months of additional growth over the course of a school year.
Ready4K Core delivers a complete whole child curriculum to families via text messages, the most universally-available technology.
Each message supports healthy child development with actionable insights, research-based activities, and learning extensions that are:
- Fast and fun to do, for kids and their grownups
- Accessible to everyone — no extra materials required
- Strengths based, building on existing family routines
- Tailored to each child’s age, from birth to Grade 8.
Which is why parents and caregivers say that Ready4K gives them that “I can do this!” feeling.
Support Families in their Home Language
Ready4K Core provides culturally-responsive support in English, Spanish, Chinese, Arabic, Vietnamese, Hmong, Russian, Polish, and Burmese.
Interested in supporting families in another language? Reach out to discuss your community’s needs.
The Core Family Engagement Curriculum
Developed by educational researchers, the Ready4K Core family engagement curriculum is designed to provide parents and caregivers with age-differentiated insights, activities, and learning extensions.
The Core curriculum is aligned to the learning standards of all 50 states, ESSER, Title I, III, IV, and V, and the Head Start Early Learning Outcomes Framework, PFCE Framework, and Quality Improvement initiatives.
Ages 0-3
- Social Emotional Learning
- Approaches to Learning
- Language & Literacy
- STEAM & Play
- Physical Development
PK3 & PK4
- Social Emotional Learning & Health
- Language & Literacy
- Math & Science
- Technology and Engineering & the Arts
- Play
- Approaches to Parenting
- Home & School Connections
Kindergarten-5th Grade
- Social Emotional Learning
- English Language Arts
- Math & Science
- Approaches to Parenting
- Home & School Connections
6th Grade - 8th Grade
- Academic Supports
- Social Emotional Learning
- Home & School Partnerships
- Approaches to Parenting
Request an 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.
Head Starts automatically qualify for the highest grant funding level.
Preview Sample Messages
Check out Ready4K messages for yourself. Each message is strengths-based, easy to understand, and gives families that “I can do it!” feeling. All while strengthening parenting muscles and sparking a standards-aligned learning moment.
No wonder over 94% of parents report increase confidence as a result of doing Ready4K activities!
Sample Units are available below in multiple languages.
What Partners Are Saying About Ready4K
“We need to invest in things that parents don’t have to show up for, things that show up for parents in their homes.”
"We've all miscalculated how desperately families really wanted something like this."
"Parents really appreciate that it is simple, doesn't require anything additional, and stays on their phone."
"The biggest surprise was how easy the process was."
"Ready4K is a great way to remind families that as a Catholic church, we're rooting for them."
“The Ready4K program is a resource for families that is practical and will actually help them advance their child’s development not only academically but also socially and emotionally.”
“What I love about it is that I can send out messages like ‘we’ve got a meeting at this time and place.’ And they all get it — Boom.”
“It’s not something that you have to manage. I don’t have to worry about putting together the data. And I don’t have to formulate a report - I love that part.”
"I think Ready4K fills a need that no other program I've been able to find to date can fill."
"Connect with families in such an easy format... with ideas that are easily usable... It almost seemed like a no-brainer -- like why wouldn't you?"
Low lift and high impact by design, Ready4K is easy to implement in minutes. All while providing the most robust family outcomes data in the field.
Every Ready4K program comes with implementation and data reporting supports, including:
- One-click enrollment
- Advanced data & analytics tools
- Quarterly family engagement surveys, delivered by text
- End-of-Year impact reports
- Teacher supports, including newsletters
Check out all of these features and more on the Ready4K Dashboard.
What Parents Are Saying about Ready4K Core
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