Kindergarten Readiness: Why Horizontal Enrichment Outperforms Academic Pushdown

Too many children enter kindergarten having been drilled on letters and numbers, yet they remain underprepared for the actual social and cognitive demands of school. This edWebinar will tackle the growing trend of “academic pushdown” in early childhood settings and will make the case for a powerful developmentally grounded alternative: horizontal enrichment. Grounded in decades of research from NAEYC, Harvard’s Center on the Developing Child, and Vygotsky’s cognitive theory, this session will reframe what kindergarten readiness actually means and what it takes to achieve it. Attendees will learn: Why early academic skill mastery does not predict sustained school success How exe