Ready Set Succeed is a community-wide approach to the kindergarten transition. The approach will engage community partners, preschools, elementary schools, preschool and kindergarten educators and teaching teams, families, and 4-year-old children. Ready Set Succeed strategically provides tailored content to each key partner in a child’s life (families, educators, school administrators, and the broader community) to support a more culturally responsive transition to kindergarten.  With a  major focus on racial equity and elevating and amplifying the voices of Black families, Ready Set Succeed will change the ways families experience the transition from preschool to kindergarten in Flint.

The Flint Center for Educational Excellence in partnership with Harmony Research, LLC, American Institutes for Research (AIR), and HighScope Educational Research Foundation will co-create the new approach to kindergarten transitions and test the extent to which it changes policy, practice, and outcomes for schools, families, and children in Flint. 

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