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Taking a Closer Look at PreK-3

August 1, 2011 by Irene Sege

Photo: Kate Samp for Strategies for Children

What do Goldilocks and Humpty Dumpty have to do with the PreK-3 movement? To the early educators and kindergarten teachers in Santa Maria, CA, they symbolize the alignment that emerged from a series of joint meetings. Santa Maria, a low-income community, has a large Hispanic population, and the kindergarten teachers told their preschool colleagues that many immigrant children struggled with classic children’s stories and rhymes. So the early educators began to include