1. Together We Can Make a Difference:
Becoming A Ready School
© Debbie Pushor

2. All children are born ready to learn.

3. School Readiness “All children are born ready to learn,
BUT not all children come to school
ready to learn.”
Offord Centre for Child Studies
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4. What is school readiness to learn?
The child's ability to meet the task demands at school,
The child's ability to benefit from the educational activities provided by the school.
Offord Centre for Child Studies
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5. “schoolcentric” notion.
School Readiness
 School readiness is a
“schoolcentric” notion.
(Lawson, 2003)
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6. 1 in 4 children enter kindergarten without the skills
School Readiness
1 in 4 children enter kindergarten without the skills
they need to learn.
Offord Centre for Child Studies
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7. School Readiness
Educators who accept this schoolcentric thinking, then, are prepared to meet the needs of only 75% of the children whom they teach.
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8. School Readiness
Looking Outward
(Pushor & Ruitenberg, 2005)

9. Ready Schools
Looking Inward
(Pushor & Ruitenberg, 2005)

10. Ready Schools In ready schools, educators are student-ready –
interested in knowing, attending to,
and engaging with students,
their lives,
their families,
and their communities.
(Burke & Burke, 2005)

11. Ready Schools “If something doesn’t work for one child,
it doesn’t work.”
Vivian Paley

12. Ready Schools Being student-ready is not just
an early childhood notion.
How might ALL schools be
ready schools?
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13. A Ready School
READY or NOT?
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14. being accountable AND being responsible. Acting On What You Know
Noddings (2009) differentiates between:
being accountable
AND
being responsible.
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15. Parent Engagement Students Subject Matter Teacher Milieus
Joseph Schwab (1978) defined curriculum as being comprised of 4 commonplaces:
Students
Subject Matter
Teacher
Milieus
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16. Becoming a Ready School
Together We Can Make a Difference:
Becoming a Ready School
Debbie Pushor, PhD Professor
Department of Curriculum Studies
University of Saskatchewan
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