Everyday Learning Moments
Supporting families is complex. Ready4K makes it simple. Now we’re crystallizing and sharing insights with you, our colleagues, too.
Webinar: Sparking Family Literacy Moments
By the Ready4K Team Families are essential partners in building early literacy muscles. But catalyzing those moments requires a great plan that: Makes it easy for...
Want to Solve Chronic Absenteeism?: Harness the Power of Family Engagement
This article is part of our series: Voices of Engagement. In this series, we interview the people we are listening to and learning from as we continually evolve and improve our...
Too little or too much? Actionable Advice in an Early-Childhood Text Messaging Experiment
(Cortes, Fricke, Loeb & Song, 2018) This study investigates whether actionable advice alone drives the results of text-message based parenting programs and whether additional...
Family Engagement in Uncertain Times
Parents share their experience of staying connected to school and community through Ready4K family engagement text messages.
Family Engagement from the Pros
Family engagement resources to reach families anywhere, anytime.
Ready for Grade 5 Families
By Françoise Lartigue, M.Ed., Ready4K senior content and curriculum specialist When I was in the throes of parenting toddler twins and a preschooler, bleary eyed and physically...
Case Study: Montana OPI Migrant Education Program and Ready4K
By Mary Westervelt, director of marketing Across the country, the US agricultural sector relies on migrant workers. Migrant families work everywhere from the dairy farms of...
When Behavioral Barriers are Too High or Low – How Timing Matters for Parenting Interventions
(Cortes, Fricke, Loeb, Song & York, 2019) This study compares the effects of an early childhood text-messaging program sent during the weekend to the same program sent on...
3 Components to Building Trusted Relationships with Your Families
Positive, trusted relationships with families are key to running your school. Improve your home-to-school relationships by focusing on these 3 things.
Benefits of Play (for Grown-Ups)
By Rebecca Honig, Ready4K director of content This blog post has ONE purpose: TO INSPIRE YOU TO PLAY. This blog post writer is going to try many tactics to get you to play. She’s...
Solving Families’ Back-to-School Jitters
These curated easy-to-use resources will help your families feel totally ready to return to school this fall.
Summertime Story Sparks
By Rebecca Honig and Françoise Lartigue, Ready4K content leaders I spent my summers at a camp on a farm in The Blue Ridge Mountains of North Carolina. The days were long in the...
Self-Care: Are Families Actually Doing It?
By Maya Sussman, Ready4K director of product “Last night I slept on a baseball…” A year ago today this line opened our call-to-action about taking Self-Care in Small Moments. We...
Summer Fun the Ready4K Way
By Françoise Lartigue, senior content and curriculum specialist It’s 10 in the morning but the sun is already hot. The little boy, who is supposed to be participating in my next...
Meet My Friends: Ready4K family workshops cast
By Rebecca Honig, director of content One of the things I've always loved about writing tips and activities for Ready4K is that I get to hang out with kids while I do it. Not in...
Transition Time Tips for Kids of All Ages
By April Hawkins, marketing manager, and Françoise Lartigue, content manager Last month, I left a demanding school leadership role to join Ready4K. This was a hard decision that...
Trauma-Informed: Everyone Needs Protectors
Ready4K trauma informed helps educational leaders support families through loss, change, injustice and trauma.
5 Literacy Skills Parents Love to Practice
By April Hawkins, marketing manager Literacy skills can be fun for parents and caregivers. I learned this firsthand when my spouse and I signed up to be foster parents. Before we...
Case Study: Supporting Kamehameha ‘Ohana Where They Are
By Mary Westervelt, director of marketing & communications Dr. Wai‘ale‘ale Sarsona has a mission: to increase access to early learning for families in Hawai'i. Like school...
Home Language Matters
By Françoise Lartigue, Ready4K content manager "Franchise Latrine." This was the name that appeared at the top of the first college assignment. And I almost turned it in. ...
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