April 25, 2025 12:00 pm
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01:00 pm
The Ready for Kindergarten LIVE session will kick off with Cara Tyrell—a parenting coach, early childhood expert, and mom. She'll share insights from her own experience and coaching work, giving parents and early childhood educators practical tips on how to help kids get ready for kindergarten. In the second half hour, Red Bank Elementary’s Assistant Principal and South Carolina’s Assistant Principal of the Year Tomeka Love will share how schools and families can work together to help children be successful in kindergarten.
By the end of the session, participants will be able to:
- Name measurable indicators for comprehensive kindergarten readiness.
- Name executive functioning skills that support emotional intelligence needed for learning
- Describe a typical day in kindergarten, which balances academic instruction, play-based learning, and social-emotional development)
- List strategies that increase parental engagement, including collaborative learning activities
- Explain how and why “COVID Generation” children are struggling in school.
Tomeka Love
Red Bank Elementary School
Cara Tyrell
Core4Parenting
Yes, Ready for Kindergarten LIVE is a free, annual event for families, educators, and advocates of rising kindergartners. This virtual event features expert insights and practical resources to help ensure a smooth transition into kindergarten.
Yes, you’ll need to fill out our registration form to gain access to the event. Please fill in the registration form with some basic information to get started.
To receive SCDSS Endeavors (link - https://sc.newworldnow.com/credit) for a session, you must:
Attendance certificates are available for sessions of which you attended least 80%. If you need a certificate, please email your name and school to info@earlychildhoodsc.org.
Go to the Registry Login on SCEndeavors.org and enter your information. The system will look for your account and guide you through the steps to connect with it.
The information provided at registration will establish you as a user on the platform to create your login credentials and to receive continuing education credit. It will not be used for any other purposes.
Yes, the vFairs platform is compatible with any computer or mobile device and any browser.
The event will be on demand for a week on the vFairs platform; however, updates and changes to the platform are made periodically and the availability of this feature may change. Please note that continuing education credit is only awarded for attendance of the LIVE sessions.
Ready for Kindergarten LIVE is supported by the Preschool Development Grant Birth-Five HHS-2024-ACF-ECD-TP-0055 from the Office of Early Childhood Development within the Administration for Children and Families, a division of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. Neither the Administration for Children and Families nor any of its components operate, control, are responsible for, or necessarily endorse this event (including, without limitation, its content, technical infrastructure, and policies, and any services or tools provided). The opinions, findings, conclusions, and recommendations expressed are those of South Carolina First Steps and do not necessarily reflect the views of the Administration for Children and Families and the Office of Early Childhood Development.
